Been thinking about this a bit lately, though I'm sure someone has written about it and my deep thoughts are not original. There was something about the 80s and a certain kind of black comedy that came out of that era. I'm not sure any of the made any money, but a reasonable number of them were produced. Even in the more mainstream teen comedy genre there was a bit of a dark edge. Not gonna claim it was overall a great movie decade, but around the edges there were some interesting things going on.