Gross-out film
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Gross-out films form a sub-genre of comedy movies in which the producers aim to "gross out" their audience with disgusting and disturbing material, such as sexual or "toilet" humor. Since the abolition of the Production Code and its replacement with the MPAA film rating system in the late 1960s, some filmmakers began to experiment with vulgar humor.
The first true "gross-out film" was 1972's Pink Flamingos and its infamous dog excrement eating scene, followed by 1974's sketch comedy sleeper The Groove Tube and 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House, which was a great success at the box office. Since the 1980s, gross-out films increased in number, and became the norm for comedy films. Some films of this genre could be aimed at teen audiences (such as Porky's or American Pie) or adult audiences (such as There's Something About Mary or Wedding Crashers).
[edit] Examples of the Gross-out Movie Genre
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- American Pie series
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Animal House (the first film labeled as "gross-out")
- The Aristocrats
- Austin Powers: Goldmember
- Bachelor Party
- Bad Santa
- Bad Taste
- BASEketball
- Blazing Saddles
- Boat Trip
- Braindead (US title: Dead Alive)
- Caddyshack
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
- Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
- Dirty Sanchez: The Movie
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
- Dumb and Dumber
- Eurotrip
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- Freddy Got Fingered
- The Girl Next Door
- Jackass: The Movie
- Jackass: Number Two
- Joe Dirt
- The Meaning of Life
- Meatballs
- The Naked Gun
- National Lampoon's Van Wilder
- The Nutty Professor (remake of 1963 film)
- Old School
- Pink Flamingos The original gross-out film.
- Porky's
- Risky Business
- Road Trip
- Scary Movie series
- Slackers
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Stripes
- Team America: World Police
- The Sweetest Thing
- There's Something About Mary
- Wedding Crashers
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