A LOOK AT COMEDY HORROR FILMS. (In the Entertainment industry.)

Horror Comedy / Photo Credit: Weird

A LOOK AT COMEDY HORROR FILMS. (In the Entertainment industry.)  

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A look at Comedy Horror Films.

Comedy horror

Comedy horror is a literary and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horror has been described as able to be categorized under three types: "black comedy, parody and spoof."

In comedy horror film, gallows humor is a common element. While comedy horror films provide scares for audiences, they also provide something that dramatic horror films do not: "the permission to laugh at your fears, to whistle past the cinematic graveyard and feel secure in the knowledge that the monsters can't get you".

Comedy horror is a type of film in which the usual dark themes and "scare tactics" attributed to horror films are treated with a humorous approach. These films either use goofy horror clichés, such as in Scream, Young Frankenstein, Little Shop of Horrors, Haunted Mansion, and Scary Movie where campy styles are favored. Some are much more subtle and don't parody horror, such as An American Werewolf in London. Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore in such films are sometimes known as splatstick, a portmanteau of the words splatters and slapstick. It would be reasonable to put Ghostbusters in this category.

Comedy Horror examples: Haunted Spooks (1920, The Master (1925), The Cat Creeps (1930), The Ghost Breakers (1940), Spook Busters (1946), Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Raven (1963), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Young Frankenstein (1974), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978), Creepshow (1982), The Evil Dead (1981), Gremlins (1984), Re-Animator (1985), Critters (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Tremors (1990), Army of Darkness (1992), Braindead (1992), Jack Frost (1996), Scary Movie (2000), Club Dread (2004), I Sell the Dead (2008), Doghouse (2009), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Goosebumps (2015), Office Uprising (2018), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), etc.

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Horror Comedy / Photo Credit: Weird