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I love movies from pretty much every sub-genre of horror, I like when directors and writers experiment. Shaun of the Dead, Re-Animator, Dead and Breakfast, Bubba Ho-Tep, Army of Darkness, and others really make me love the sub-genre especially because I dig comedy (and mixing it with gore and horror just tickles me even more). With the 1408 thing, if I was really scared I think I would make jokes to try and lighten the mood to take some of the pressure off me mentally. Anyway I love horror comedy and I love true horror films, don't generalize, chillax a bit, and you'll do fine here. Remember, it's your OPINION, some people don't want to share it with you but thanks for offering.

Yeah sorry if I seemed Irritable, I had just taken two vicodins like an hour before posting this.

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Originally Posted by Danielnogo (Post 616063)

Plenty, and the n00b title is usually used by people that are anal retentive bastards. Usually people that throw this title around try to be moderators when they really arent, telling you where specific post belong when it's not really any of your business. So yeah, superiority complex, maybe even a highschool attitude, I bet you loved to remind freshmen in highschool that they were freshmen, just to give yourself a little boost in morale.
But anyways, my intention wasn't to start an argument in this thread, I just wanted to know how many people agreed with me.
I'll download Evil Dead 2 and see if I like it.

Now I'm anal retentive. :confused: Looks like I struck a nOOb Nerve. :D
Oh yeah....I hated High School.... All I wanted to do was chase girls, Sk8 and play drums.
Maybe you should work on boosting your moral.....Danny Boy.

And remember, there's a difference between horror-comedy and comedy-horror.

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Originally Posted by jenna26 (Post 616059)

Evil Dead 2 is my favorite film of all time. :D

SMOOCHES!:D

Ok Daniel, first off...you started a thread with a good and valid topic and took it down yourself by flaming a senior member. You apologised, and thats good, but it should have been directed towards the person you jumped at.

As regards comedy in horror, if you are a genuine horror fan then you shouldnt be distinguishing quality horror, except from separating the good flicks from the bad.

Tell me, how many horror-comedies have you seen before "1408"? Or even, before 2000? I m assuming very few, since you sound like one of the new generation (HENCE the newbie/noob tag).

Here's a list from the top of my head to give you a starter :-

- Evil Dead 2

- Army of Darkness

- Bubba Ho Tep

- Re-Animator

- Return of the Living Dead

- Shaun of the Dead

- Dead Alive

- American Psycho

- From Dusk Till Dawn

- An American Werewolf in London

- The Monster Squad

- The Lost Boys

- Gremlins

- Waxwork

- Ghostbusters

- The Toxic Avenger

- The Frighteners

Watch some/all of em, and come back again. Lets hear your opinion in this thread then.

Oh btw, welcome to Horror fucking Dot Com!

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN -- pretty much the most effective horror comedy ever. Cooler than anything.

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Originally Posted by crabapple (Post 616116)

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN -- pretty much the most effective horror comedy ever. Cooler than anything.

See, now that I would call a comedy-horror, and a GREAT one. Another one I'd call a great comedy-horror is Young Frankenstein.

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Originally Posted by illdojo (Post 616093)

Haha... "Sk8"

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Originally Posted by massacre man (Post 616125)

Haha... "Sk8"

Yeah, I definitely am sorry for flaming you, you were just giving your opinion.
Honestly my parents sheltered me from most horror movies, so I've only been watching really serious horror movies for like 5 years maybe. And I have yet to see alot of the old classics. So I do have alot to learn about the genre. But arachnaphobia, c'mon the humor just killed it.

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Originally Posted by neverending (Post 616064)

I disagree with every one of your conclusions. I've watched every type of horror movies, including the bloodiest most gore ridden splatter fests, the most suspenseful high tension thriller, and horror comedies. I have enjoyed them all and none of them have given me any nightmares.

And people DO crack jokes in horrible situations in order to relieve tension- it's part of the survival instinct.

Most MODERN horror comedies are terrible. That's just my opinion- but some notable exceptions are The Evil Dead movies and Shaun of the Dead. The Scary Movie tyoe stuff isn't my cupof tea- I think those are just bad filmmaking. There are some great classic horror comedies like The Raven, the original Little Shop of Horrors and Comedy of Terrors.

Horror comedy is a hard genre to do well, so many of them ARE bad- but I'm not going to discount the entire genre, nor am I going to make any pompous generalizations about what type of people may or may not like them.

Welcome to Horror.com

Right on, brotha'.

Just watch An American Werewolf in London, or The Evil Dead, or Evil Dead 2, or Bride of Frankenstein...horror comedies can be an unbelievable source of entertainment.

Sometimes, in the case of 1408 (which I don't consider a horror comedy, but you do), the small doses of injected humor add a little bit of life into the picture. If we don't believe the character is a human being, we don't give two shits what happens to him. Backstory helps amplify his worth to us, and so does a little comic relief.