Comedy Horror...

tomofson

Some classic and Comedy Horror movies and personal favourites of mine.

The Burbs (1989)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096734/?ref_=nv_sr_1

TerrorVision (1986)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096734/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Monster Squad (1987)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096734/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095444/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

Freaked (1993)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109838/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Feel free to tell me what you think of these movies, and suggest any other similar movies.:)

Basq

Shaun Of The Dead
Braindead (or Dead Alive)
Housebound

.. to name just three!

tomofson

Basq wrote: »

Shaun Of The Dead
Braindead (or Dead Alive)
Housebound

.. to name just three!

Shaun of the dead and braindead are brilliant dont know why I forgot to put them in OP

Haven't seen housebound

3rdDegree

Return Of The Living Dead

Tucker & Dale Vs Evil.

Aglomerado

3rdDegree wrote: »

Return Of The Living Dead

My favourite!

Also Killer Tomatoes Eat France

Banjaxed82

Bad taste

secondrowgal

From Dusk til Dawn. Love that film!

JaCrispy

Deleted User wrote: »

Tucker & Dale Vs Evil.

+1 best of this genre by far.

Also loved Club Dread.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331953/

tomofson

secondrowgal wrote: »

From Dusk til Dawn. Love that film!

I also love that film but I wouldn't class it as a comedy. Although it did have a few funny moments

Sad Professor

List threads are against charter, folks. I'm going to leave this be for the time being, but please explain your choices so we can get a bit of discussion going.

Skerries

The Evil Dead 2 + 3 - Has to be up at the top of the list for me
What we do in the Shadows - mockumentary style following ancient vampires house sharing in Australia
The Lost Boys ("Death by Stereo!")
Grabbers (set in Ireland where the only way to survive an alien attack is to get drunk )

tomofson

Sad Professor wrote: »

List threads are against charter, folks. I'm going to leave this be for the time being, but please explain your choices so we can get a bit of discussion going.

Apologies I was not aware of that...

Skerries

Skerries wrote: »

The Evil Dead 2 + 3
What we do in the Shadows
The Lost Boys ("Death by Stereo!")
Grabbers (set in Ireland where the only way to survive an alien attack is to get drunk )

Grabbers is fantastic. (And on Netflix!). Watched it without knowing anything else about it and the best way to describe it would be Fr. Ted meets Alien(s).

The director did another movie called Robot Overlords - while nowhere near as good, it is pretty interesting!

Sad Professor

tomofson wrote: »

Apologies I was not aware of that...

No worries. It's an unusual rule. It's just list threads tend to inspire other list threads and before you know the forum is filled with them. At least you're quoting/engaging with other user's posts, which most list thread starters don't do.

Flint Fredstone

I watched Krampus recently. Thought it was pretty enjoyable, something along the same lines as Gremlins.

I thought Drag Me to Hell was quite funny but probably not as intentionally as turns out.

Trollhunter is good too, not hilarious or anything but the humour translates well considering it's subtitled.

tomofson

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

I watched Krampus recently. Thought it was pretty enjoyable, something along the same lines as Gremlins.

I thought Drag Me to Hell was quite funny but probably not as intentionally as turns out.

Trollhunter is good too, not hilarious or anything but the humour translates well considering it's subtitled.

First I have heard of Krampus might end up giving it a watch, would you recommend???

Drag me to Hell wasn't the worse movie but I did find it sort of annoying. Wouldn't really say it was all that funny though.

I have heard of trollhunter to but to be honest never really sparked an interest...

Trollhunter is really quite good. I would recommend checking it out

Flint Fredstone

tomofson wrote: »

First I have heard of Krampus might end up giving it a watch, would you recommend???

Drag me to Hell wasn't the worse movie but I did find it sort of annoying. Wouldn't really say it was all that funny though.

I have heard of trollhunter to but to be honest never really sparked an interest...

I'd recommend Krampus yeah. It's sort of like Gremlins meets Christmas Vacation.
Don't expect anything amazing it's just a good popcorn flick where you don't need to engage your brain too much :pac:

tomofson

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

I'd recommend Krampus yeah. It's sort of like Gremlins meets Christmas Vacation.

Haha, I cant not watch something after seeing it being compared to gremlins and christmas vacation in the same sentence...

kunst nugget

Evil Dead 2 is top of the pile for me. Physical comedy that is on a par with the likes of Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton (the possessed hand beating up Ash a particular highlight) mixed with genuine moments of dread and anguish. I must have seen the film over 30 times at this stage and know every piece of dialogue off by heart. An absolute classic.

s8n

deep throat

tomofson

kunst nugget wrote: »

Evil Dead 2 is top of the pile for me. Physical comedy that is on a par with the likes of Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton (the possessed hand beating up Ash a particular highlight) mixed with genuine moments of dread and anguish. I must have seen the film over 30 times at this stage and no every piece of dialogue off by heart. An absolute classic.

To be honest I was never a big fan of the evil dead, that may surprise you because of the other films I really liked. I just found the Evil Dead annoying and irritating for some reason...

Flint Fredstone

Forgot to mention The Visit too. It's not laugh out loud funny or anything just light hearted horror fun.

Does the Happening count? :pac:

conorhal

It's my guilty pleasure genre, mostly because it's a genre that produces a whole heap of crap that really shouldn't be as entertaining as they are, cult classics like Killer Klowns are actually dreadful as are most of the Troma movies I quite like such as Poultrygeist or Tromeo and Juliet.
The reality is that it's a tightrope genre that takes a heck of a lot of skill to get right without tipping into Ed Wood teritory.
When they hit the mark however they can be endlessly enjoyable. 'Tremors' is pure genius and Sam Raimi is master of the more slapstick end of the genre but for a more subtle take you could try Behind the Mask: The rise of Vernon Leslie, a dry sardonic look at a serial killer in training who wants to be the next Jason Voorhees. John Landis hit things note perfect with American Werewolf in London and the lesser apreciated Innocent Blood, but if it's the pulpier end of the genre that appeals to you, you might want to give Zombeavers or Wolfcop a go. I really enjoyed Zombieland and Planet Terror also.

tomofson

conorhal wrote: »

It's my guilty pleasure genre, mostly because it's a genre that produces a whole heap of crap that really shouldn't be as entertaining as they are, cult classics like Killer Klowns are actually dreadful as are most of the Troma movies I quite like such as Poultrygeist or Tromeo and Juliet.
The reality is that it's a tightrope genre that takes a heck of a lot of skill to get right without tipping into pulpy silliness.
When they hit the mark however they can be endlessly enjoyable. 'Tremors' is pure genius and Sam Raimi is master of the more slapstick end of the genre but for a more subtle take you could try Behind the Mask: The rise of Vernon Leslie, a dry sardonic look at a serial killer in training who wants to be the nest Jason Voorhees. John Landis hit things note perfect with American Werewolf in London and the lesser apreciated Innocent Blood, but if it's the pulpier end of the genre that appeals to you, you might want to give Zombeavers or Wolfcop a go...

Troma movies yes they are guilty pleasures of mine too, I really do love this Horror Comedy subgenre. A care free world of its own where anythings possible lol... Class of nuke em high and Toxic avenger are great troma movies.

Wolfcop is actually on my to watch list.

johnny_ultimate

Hausu (House) is the Great Masterwork of comedy horror cinema. A film that makes the Evil Dead series look positively restrained, Nobuhiko Obayash's film is an acid enhanced fever dream. Shot like a candy advertisement or JPop video, the sugary visuals make the descent into comedic nightmare a joy to experience. It can and does go anywhere in terms of jokes and light scares, from some legitimately creepy images to the most surreal punchlines (one involving a lot of bananas stands out). Nonsensical and yet oddly coherent, Hausu is the film Hollywood would only make if every studio executive suddenly became an anarchist after consuming some particularly potent mushrooms. It's ****ing great.

tomofson

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Hausu (House) is the Great Masterwork of comedy horror cinema. A film that makes the Evil Dead series look positively restrained, Nobuhiko Obayash's film is an acid enhanced fever dream. Shot like a candy advertisement or JPop video, the sugary visuals make the descent into comedic nightmare a joy to experience. It can and does go anywhere in terms of jokes and light scares, from some legitimately creepy images to the most surreal punchlines (one involving a lot of bananas stands out). Nonsensical and yet oddly coherent, Hausu is the film Hollywood would only make if every studio executive suddenly became an anarchist after consuming some particularly potent mushrooms. It's ****ing great.

Was actually going to watch that recently but for whatever reason decided not to.

kunst nugget

conorhal wrote: »

It's my guilty pleasure genre, mostly because it's a genre that produces a whole heap of crap that really shouldn't be as entertaining as they are, cult classics like Killer Klowns are actually dreadful as are most of the Troma movies I quite like such as Poultrygeist or Tromeo and Juliet.
The reality is that it's a tightrope genre that takes a heck of a lot of skill to get right without tipping into pulpy silliness.
When they hit the mark however they can be endlessly enjoyable. 'Tremors' is pure genius and Sam Raimi is master of the more slapstick end of the genre but for a more subtle take you could try Behind the Mask: The rise of Vernon Leslie, a dry sardonic look at a serial killer in training who wants to be the nest Jason Voorhees. John Landis hit things note perfect with American Werewolf in London and the lesser apreciated Innocent Blood, but if it's the pulpier end of the genre that appeals to you, you might want to give Zombeavers or Wolfcop a go...

Poultrygeist is terrible but brilliant at the same time - Zombeavers operates in the same territory but does it a bit slicker - which wouldn't be hard. I've seen Tromeo and Juliet but I can't remember anything about it.

Tremors is absolutely brilliant - Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward worked brilliantly off each other.

Braindead is the best of the Peter Jackson horror comedies and Housebound, another New Zealand film is top drawer.

Tucker and Dale is a great comedy full of brilliant set pieces throughout.

Has Zombieland been mentioned? A great movie with one of the best cameos ever.

Roar

Deleted User wrote: »

Tucker & Dale Vs Evil.

The first time I saw this the bee scene made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_C6okTm9c

tomofson

kunst nugget wrote: »

Has Zombieland been mentioned? A great movie with one of the best cameos ever.

Yes Zombieland (2009) is great, can't believe I left out so many greats in my OP, a good woody harrelson flick. Really is a great movie and has a strange feel good vibe to it...

faceman

Evil Dead 2 for sure. No film has ever equaled its blend of top comedy and horror. I felt Army of Darkness, while filled with one liners, was a weak follow up.

Drag Me To Hell was also fun and another Raimi formula for success. Pity he couldn't have done the same for the Spider-Man movies!

Bad Biology is bonkers. A horror comedy about essentially a penis and a vagina. Just watch it. Bonkers.

I enjoyed the original Fright Night too. Not a classic by any means but fun for its day.

I also love the woodchipper scene from Tucker & Dale - just the sheer WTF!?! reaction from the characters make it so perfect.

Black Sheep - a New Zealand black comedy horror about homicidal sheep is worth a watch.

kunst nugget

Deleted User wrote: »

I also love the woodchipper scene from Tucker & Dale - just the sheer WTF!?! reaction from the characters make it so perfect.

Black Sheep - a New Zealand black comedy horror about homicidal sheep is worth a watch.

I totally forgot about Black Sheep. That's well worth a watch.

conorhal

Roar wrote: »

The first time I saw this the bee scene made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_C6okTm9c

I honestly don't get the love for Tucker and Dale. The premise really grabbed me, a couple of hicks, through a series of misunderstandings, pick off a bunch of preppy horror movie teen fodder. The problem with the movie for me was that instead of an escalating series of gory misunderstandings it quickly became a very conventional rom com that never lived up to it's clever high concept premise. That was a damn funny scene though!

Fysh

Here are a few I haven't seen mentioned so far:

Idle Hands is probably going to be the pinnacle of Devon Sawa's career (probably best known for either being in the video to Eminem's or being in the original Final Destination); essentially a Satan-possessed-my-hand film whose protagonists are stoners. Seth Green and Elden Henson are great as the "supportive" best friends, and get most if not all the best lines. It probably edges more toward comedy than horror, but has some gruesome scenes and neat ideas along the way.

Similarly, Severance is almost certainly going to be the pinnacle of Danny Dyer; what could have been Yet Another Tourists Get Lost In The Woods Somewhere Scary film is elevated significantly beyond that by a clever script and willingness to avoid clichés (for example, there's a scene in a decrepit house at night where one of the female protagonists gets up to go to the loo - the camera and score sets up that there's a big spider crawling around which she'll scream at, but instead when she sees the spider she coos and picks it up to let it get out through the window...), and some very funny jokes.

I don't know if Father's Day will be the pinnacle of anyone's career, but it is sufficiently mental that it could be. Very much in the spirit of ridiculous B-movies, the plot revolves around a serial killer known as the "Father's Day Killer" and a group of people who are hunting him down. Early on it looks like it's going to be derivative/gross-out B-movie fare and nothing more, but every time it hit a point where I was thinking "Yeah, this is going to get boring soon" the film offers up either a great joke or a sufficiently weird swerve in the story that it kept my interest all the way through.

Fysh

Fysh wrote: »

Here are a few I haven't seen mentioned so far:

Idle Hands is probably going to be the pinnacle of Devon Sawa's career (probably best known for either being in the video to Eminem's or being in the original Final Destination); essentially a Satan-possessed-my-hand film whose protagonists are stoners. Seth Green and Elden Henson are great as the "supportive" best friends, and get most if not all the best lines. It probably edges more toward comedy than horror, but has some gruesome scenes and neat ideas along the way.

Similarly, Severance is almost certainly going to be the pinnacle of Danny Dyer; what could have been Yet Another Tourists Get Lost In The Woods Somewhere Scary film is elevated significantly beyond that by a clever script and willingness to avoid clichés (for example, there's a scene in a decrepit house at night where one of the female protagonists gets up to go to the loo - the camera and score sets up that there's a big spider crawling around which she'll scream at, but instead when she sees the spider she coos and picks it up to let it get out through the window...), and some very funny jokes.

I don't know if Father's Day will be the pinnacle of anyone's career, but it is sufficiently mental that it could be. Very much in the spirit of ridiculous B-movies, the plot revolves around a serial killer known as the "Father's Day Killer" and a group of people who are hunting him down. Early on it looks like it's going to be derivative/gross-out B-movie fare and nothing more, but every time it hit a point where I was thinking "Yeah, this is going to get boring soon" the film offers up either a great joke or a sufficiently weird swerve in the story that it kept my interest all the way through.

Idle Hands and Severance are absolutely wonderful! Had totally forgotten about them!

Arne_Saknussem

Return of the Living Dead: Mentioned already but an all time classic.

Re-animator:Another classic.

Street Trash: Completely ****ed up' melt-movie, unlike anything you've seen before! Writer stated he "wrote it to democratically offend every group on the planet".

The Stuff: 80s B-movie about an evil dessert with Paul Sorvino hamming it up big time.

Aglomerado

Bad meat is a terrible film but it has some hilarious bits in it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034010/

TerrorFirmer

Watched Deathgasm the other day, really great schlock in the same vein as stuff like Braindead and Black Sheep.

Freaks of Nature is another brilliant recent one.

Owryan

I watched and enjoyed Tucker and Dale but have never felt the urge for a rewatch.

On the other hand I ve always loved the 'Burbs and have watched it too many times.

Tremors and maybe Tremors two are also enjoyable horror/comedy. Likewise I think Slither (with Nathan Fillion) is worth mentioning

smash

A scout's guide to zombie apocalypse was a good one to just turn off your brain and enjoy a movie.

quickbeam

Severance is a great shout - Danny Dyer - who knew?

Dog Soldiers is also great - though maybe a little less comedy and a little more horror? But there's a "fetch" scene that took me total by surprise and had me laughing out loud.

rawn

Planet Terror. A.k.a the movie where Rose McGowan has a machine gun for a leg. Brilliant stuff

smash

smash wrote: »

A scout's guide to zombie apocalypse was a good one to just turn off your brain and enjoy a movie.

You just reminded me of Cockneys Vs Zombies. Absolutely wonderful movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q96po6oa11w

Skerries

quickbeam wrote: »

Dog Soldiers is also great - though maybe a little less comedy and a little more horror? But there's a "fetch" scene that took me total by surprise and had me laughing out loud.

god yes! I loved that film
I went to see it in the cinema at the time and thought it was the right mix of funny and horror

"little pigs, little pigs we're here to nick your video!"

Liam McPoyle

Don't think it's been mentioned.

Cabin in the Woods I thought was absolutely brilliant.

I went to see it knowing zero about it and was blown away.

It is a genre fans wet dream and is up there with Tucker and Dale for being my favourite comedy horror.

All too often films of this nature try to be too clever but CITW nails it completely.

From the Evil Dead setting, the various monsters, the kills and the gloomy ending, everything works fantastically well.

Love it.

bmwguy

What we do in the shadows Is awesome and it's on Netflix. More comedy than horror. It is about vampires though. Very original and funny.

rawn

Saul T Nutzz wrote: »

Don't think it's been mentioned.

Cabin in the Woods I thought was absolutely brilliant.


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LOVED this. Same as yourself, zero expectations going in, and it was the most fun I've had in a cinema in a long time, really entertaining.

kunst nugget

bmwguy wrote: »

What we do in the shadows Is awesome and it's on Netflix. More comedy than horror. It is about vampires though. Very original and funny.

Totally forgot about this! Absolutely genius movie. Remember, we're werewolves not swear wolves!