![]() ![]() Rocky Horror Picture Show is a riff on B-movie horror and sci-fi movies. The film features cameos from Alice Cooper, Roseanne, Tom Arnold, and a mid– Jump Street Johnny Depp. In order to do that, he has to pull off some of the dumbest kills in the franchise. Freddy is trying to escape Springwood, where he has killed all the teens, by jumping into the brain of his long-lost offspring. In the near future of (checks notes) 2001, Brecken Meyer and some other wayward teens are menaced by Freddy Kruger. Freddy’s Dead was directed by Cry-Baby producer Rachel Talalay, and if you think of it as being equally indebted to John Waters as Wes Craven, you’ll have a better time. Freddy Kruger has become an all-out cartoon character after five increasingly ridiculous installments, and if you don’t like that, you need to talk to your therapist about why you’re hostile to joy. Sorry to all the haters that put this movie near the bottom of their Nightmare on Elm Street rankings, but this movie slaps. Watch here Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare Bruce Campbell was Sam Raimi’s hot friend in high school, and this movie is one excuse after another to throw things at him for being so hot and likeable. As Blank Check pointed out in their episode on the film, Evil Dead 2 is so much funnier when you remember that Sam Raimi is punishing Campbell just as much as the Deadites are fucking with Ash. ![]() Linda gets possessed, Ash is forced to fight his own possessed hand, and every time he thinks it couldn’t get worse, it does. Ash (Bruce Campbell) and his hapless girlfriend, Linda (Denise Bixler), go to a remote cabin and run afoul of a hell dimension. Evil Dead 2 is the perfect middle, the Goldilocks zone between jokes and scares. The Evil Dead series escalates in comedic tone - starting with the somewhat morose The Evil Dead and culminating in Army of Darkness, which is an action comedy that more closely resembles Xena than the horror films that preceded it. So here are the movies you can safely put on in the background of your next Halloween party. It’s low-stakes horror, perfect for scaredy-cats and the easily bummed out. The perfect horror comedy has the energy of a Simpsons “ Treehouse of Horror,” a sense that anyone can die but you shouldn’t really give a shit. That means no Scary Movies, no Hubie Halloween. Neither horror-with-jokes or horror-colored-comedies make it onto this list. Not once in Young Frankenstein do you think that Gene Wilder is going to bite it, even when the townspeople are rioting. Nobody is imperiled - nobody who is important to the plot anyway. It’s just using horror characters to tell jokes. What We Do in the Shadows isn’t really trying to scare you. Others, like the original What We Do in the Shadows film, are comedies about horror subjects. Horror movies with jokes usually involve the characters finding brief moments of levity in a more believable, less high-concept world. Killer clowns, zombie sheep, zombie romantic-comedy. Horror comedies tend to have an inherently absurd premise. Some movies, like Scream, are horror movies with jokes. ![]() That makes identifying the real genre spanners all the more difficult. So it makes sense that all but the most dour of horror movies have at least a few jokes in them. Many of the best horror-comedies are gross because the joke and the horror are coming from the same place: your disgusting, vulnerable body. The failings of the human body are absurd, disgusting, and dumb. But horror-comedy succeeds often not just because the genres have similar aims but because death is kinda funny. A laugh or a scream: Either way, your higher brain functions aren’t really supposed to be getting involved. People say comedy and horror are intrinsically linked because they both go for a visceral reaction. Photo: AJ Pics/Alamy/Janus Films/Courtesy Everett Collection/Myung Films/Universal ![]()
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