Scariest comedy?

MakeEmLaugh

What do you think is the scariest comedy out there? When I say comedy, I mean the kind of film you'd see in the 'Comedy' section in a DVD store, not something like Evil Dead II, which is normally classed as a horror.

I'm going with Beetlejuice. If the opening bars of Danny Elfman's score don't freak you out at least a little, you have no soul.

Please, no crappy jokes about an Adam Sandler movie, or some such thing.

Birneybau

Evil Dead 2.

Groovy.

Well durr.

MiloYossarian

Seems like a bit of an oxymoran. What's the funniest Micheal Hanke film.

American Pie scared the sh!t out of me.

dark crystal

An American Werewolf in London.

Quite rare to find a film where you can be chuckling one minute ("I will not be threatened by a walking meatloaf!") and horrified the next (Zombie monster SS guards murdering a family in cold blood)

Great film.

JohnFalstaff

Kubrick's films often straddle the divide between horror and comedy - Dr. Strangelove being a good example. Clockwork Orange is another interesting one, so many scenes in that film are played for laughs that ultimately only serve to highlight the true terror.

johnny_ultimate

It's a very unusual question, but Hausu is the best horror-comedy I've seen. It's like Evil Dead II but with the quirk turned up past eleven. After opening with a lighthearted, bubblegum-glo first act, the film proceeds to get weirder and weirder, until the film ultimately descents into good old-fashioned bat**** insanity. Cartoonishly grotesque and weird, the director is well aware of the film's inherent absurdity and never forgets to encourage the audience to laugh even when the images on screen are theoretically terrifying.

MakeEmLaugh

Heard of Hausu, but have never seen it. Must check it out.

I still think An American Werewolf in London and Evil Dead II are more horrors than comedies (though John Landis had obviously worked primarily in the comedy genre prior to Werewolf).

Thanks for ignoring my request for no crappy jokes with the American Pie reference, by the way.

blue note

The gremlins films were great and had a couple of frights and laughs in them.

Fysh

Severance is probably the best recent horror-comedy i've seen that fits your requirement, with Zombieland getting a nod although it's rarely played as a straight- up scary zombie film. Cabin Fever was also pretty good as a horror that didn't take itself too seriously. Last year's Fase 7 was a great apocalyptic narrative that didn't let the seriousness of the wider events interfere with some wonderful comic moments.

I like my pitch-black humour though, so i'd say that the likes of Excision or Killer Joe from this year fit the bill.

westies4ever

Shaun of the dead - hands down one of the funniest and scariest I've seen.

paddy kerins

I'd say Cabin in the Woods would be one of the great recent ones

HavingCrack

Not a 'scary' film really (fairly bloody in parts though) but definately a very, very dark comedy would have to be In Bruges.

areyawell

Leprechaun (film) from 1993 - Hilarious

Manchegan

Slither (2006)