Out of the Dark is an erotic comedy horror

Comedy horror

Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary and film genre, combining elements of comedy and horror fiction. The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre; and in some respects could be considered a subset of it.The short story "The Legend...

 film released in 1989

1989 in film

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 starring Karen Witter

Karen Witter

Karen Rachel Witter is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1982 issue, and her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. Witter later appeared on the cover of the March 1983 issue with fellow Playmates Kimberly McArthur and Kelly Tough...

. The film is notable for being Divine's last movie.

Plot

"Suite Nothings" is a sleazy L.A. phone-sex hot-line voiced by failed models. Among them is Bobo, a psychotic killer who dresses in an clown costume. He holds a murderous vendetta against his fellow hot-line workers.

Home Video Release

"Out of the Dark" was released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1989 by RCA/Columbia Pictures home video. Sony Pictures released the film on a manufactured-on-demand DVD-R of the film on March 1, 2011. The film ran on FearNet in 2009.

Cast

• Karen Black
  Karen Black
  Karen Black is an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, Rhinoceros, The Day of the Locust, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot...
  
   as Ruth Wilson
• Bud Cort
  Bud Cort
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   as Doug Stringer
• Geoffrey Lewis as Dennis
• Tracey Walter
  Tracey Walter
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   as Lt. Frank Meyers
• Divine as Det. Langella
• Cameron Dye
  Cameron Dye
  Cameron Dye is an American actor. He played "Fred" in the movie Valley Girl.Dye was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dye's family moved around the United States and in the mid-1970s he attended Sylvania High School in Sylvania, Ohio. Later, Dye moved to California and attended Mills High School in...
  
   as Kevin Silvers
• Lainie Kazan
  Lainie Kazan
  Lainie Kazan is an American actress and singer.-Personal life:Kazan was born Lanie Levine in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish father who worked as a bookie and a Turkish Sephardic Jewish mother, Carole, whom Kazan has described as "neurotic, fragile and...
  
   as Hooker Nancy
• Karen Witter
  Karen Witter
  Karen Rachel Witter is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1982 issue, and her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. Witter later appeared on the cover of the March 1983 issue with fellow Playmates Kimberly McArthur and Kelly Tough...
  
   as Jo Ann
• Karen Mayo-Chandler
  Karen Mayo-Chandler
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   as Barbara
• Tab Hunter
  Tab Hunter
  Tab Hunter is an American actor, singer, former teen idol and author who has starred in over forty major films.-Background:...
  
   as Driver
• Paul Bartel
  Paul Bartel
  Paul Bartel was an American actor, writer and director. Bartel was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy Eating Raoul, which he wrote, starred in and directed.-Life and career:...
  
  as Hotel Clerk