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Originally Posted by neverending
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.
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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.