What if you encourage the laughter and underplay the scares?
Bruce Campbell said that horror and comedy are the only genres where crowd reaction is encouraged. This would suggest that horror combined with comedy is instant cinematic gold. The trick is the balancing the two. Not all horror comedies can nail that. Horror legends like Wes Craven abandon their skills to favor the comedy. Some of these features are too black with their comedy to allow you to laugh. Suspense may just be abandoned. This genre is a challenge, and if you are an aspiring auteur, you should at least appreciate the effort to take on this task.
Off the Wall Features
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
CatBusRuss compares his favorite tale of a quest for vengeance in the 19th Century, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, to novelist Josh Nealis’s favorite film based on the premise, “The Count of Monte Cristo” (2002).
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Arnold (1973)
Lord Arnold could not get his wife to divorce him to allow him to marry his mistress. Marriage being “till death do us part”, the moment he dies, he marries a flight attendant. The new missus will live a life of luxury, as long as she takes constant care of his corpse.
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Bad Taste (1987)
Peter Jackson’s directorial debut is a no-budget horror-comedy that took him three years to make. The film is about four kiwis trying to stop an intergalactic plan to turn humans into the latest fast food sensation.