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Your Top 10 Horror/ Comedys

Started by RCMerchant, October 06, 2023, 05:44:12 PM

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RCMerchant

Horror films with comedy elements. I'm not counting stuff like PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) or ROBOT MONSTER (1953) which, though hilarious, were not intended to be so.

Mine- in no real order-

1. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
2. the EVIL DEAD II (1982)
3. SPIDER BABY (1964)
4. the COMEDY OF TERRORS (1964)
5. the FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (1967)
6. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985)
7. BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (1989)
8. DEAD ALIVE (1993)
9. MOTEL HELL (1980)
10. BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959)

Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
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Cult_Moody_Movies

In no real order:
1. The Evil Dead Trilogy
2. Ghostbusters (1984)
3. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
4. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
5. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)
6. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
7. Young Frankenstein (1974)
8. Gremlins (1984)
9. Terror Firmer (1999)
10. Tremors (1990)

claws

#2
I decided to split my list.

20th Century:

1. Evil Dead II (1987)
2. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
3. Dead Alive (1992)
4. Army of Darkness (1992)
5. Gremlins (1984)
6. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
7. The Lost Boys (1987)
8. Re-Animator (1985)
9. Tremors (1990)
10. The Frighteners (1996)

21st Century:

1. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
2. Zombieland (2009)
3. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
4. Ready or Not (2019)
5. Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
6. Warm Bodies (2013)
7. Odd Thomas (2013)
8. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)
9. Trick 'r Treat (2007)
10. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
Is it October yet?

Rev. Powell

Damn RC, your list is pretty close to mine. I had too many titles so I divided into two lists: General horror/comedy and zom-coms. In no order:

1.What We Do in the Shadows
2. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
3. Spider Baby
4.The Comedy of Terrors
5. The Fearless Vampire Killers
6. Day of the Beast
7. Young Frankenstein
8. Beetlejuice
9. Bubba Ho-Tep
10. Hausu

Zom-Coms (I had to stretch the definition of "zombie" a little, but I was so close to having ten here I figured why not?)
1. Zombieland
2. Return of the Living Dead
3. Shawn of the Dead
4. Evil Dead II
5. Fido
6. Dead-Alive
7. Re-Animator
8. Warm Bodies
9. Army of Darkness
10. Paranorman





I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

RCMerchant

#4
^ I wanted to also list YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
Also-

. ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN and DRACULA (both 1974)
. NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986)
. the other BRAIN DEAD (1990) with Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton.
. DEATH RACE 2000 (1975)
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Alex

#5
1) Tucker & Dale Vs Evil.
2) Shaun of the Dead.
3) Grabbers.
4) Army of Darkness.
5) Bubba Ho-Tep.
6) Zombieland.
7) Bad Taste.
8) Renfield.
9) Return of the Living Dead pt 2.
10) The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.

RCMerchant

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1976) seems like a comedy to me!

Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

M.10rda

As usual w/ such list challenges I'm rather confounded, because my definitions of "horror" and "comedy" are so fluid/flexible as to accommodate titles that seem inappropriately classified as "horror comedy". I've mentioned before that I think ERASERHEAD has 2 or 3 of the funniest moments in cinema history (and Mel Brooks would seem to agree) but it's also one of the most depressing films ever made. "Horror comedy"?

Ranking 'em also rankles my OCD-addled brain. I think FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS is a little bit better film than RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, maybe, but... as time goes by, I feel more strongly that ROTLD is probably the best "horror comedy" ever made, in that it's a damn good horror movie and also a ruthlessly black, bleak, still funny comedy. So it's #1? Ehh, why split the hair. I could just watch it again (and probably will later this month).

NIGHT OF THE CREEPS! Very funny moments and obviously much humor is intended, but also very dark moments and, in the director's cut, a maintained mood that is wry but melancholy. Ultimately I just like to think of it as a damn good film that mixes several genres well. What are labels anyway!