Horror and comedy share machinery: setup, timing, release. This tag collects reviews of horror comedies, the films that make you laugh and flinch on the same beat, and how the blend works when it works.
2010sJune 6, 2026
What We Do in the Shadows earns its 8.5 by finding a joke the vampire genre had somehow left lying on the ground for a century. What if immortal creatures of the night still had to argue about whose turn…
1990sJune 6, 2026
The tonal whiplash is the entire experience. From Dusk Till Dawn earns its 7 by being two completely different movies stapled together, and by the strange fact that the staple holds.
1960sJune 6, 2026
Roman Polanski's affectionate Hammer parody is more gorgeous gothic fairy tale than laugh-out-loud comedy. The Fearless Vampire Killers earns its 6.5 as a beautiful, uneven oddity, a horror comedy that is more interested in atmosphere than in jokes and lands…
2020sJune 6, 2026
Kidnappers grab a twelve-year-old ballerina who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire. The film's clever structure borrows from the heist movie.
2020sJune 6, 2026
Nicolas Cage's gloriously unhinged Dracula anchors a comedy about escaping a toxic boss, undercut by an overstuffed plot. Reframe Dracula's servant Renfield as a man in a toxic codependent relationship with his narcissistic boss, and play it as a workplace…
1980sJune 6, 2026
Judged as a complete film it is mediocre. Vamp earns its 5.5 as a stylish, uneven eighties horror comedy that is worth seeing almost entirely for one unforgettable element, Grace Jones as a vampire stripper who never speaks a word…
1990sJune 6, 2026
John Landis fuses the vampire film with the mob movie in a fun, tonally chaotic horror comedy. The film's premise is its strongest asset.
1980sMay 19, 2026
John Landis' 1981 horror-comedy. Rick Baker transformation effects won first Best Makeup Oscar.
1980sMay 19, 2026
William Ragsdale plays Charley Brewster. Fright Night operates as one of the most successful horror-comedy productions of the mid-1980s and a foundational text for the teen-protagonist-with-aging-mentor horror tradition.
2000sMay 15, 2026
Peter Sallis returned as the voice of Wallace, the cheese-obsessed inventor. Aardman Animations produced the film.
1980sMay 15, 2026
Gremlins is a Christmas horror comedy disguised as a family film. Steven Spielberg produced it through Amblin Entertainment.
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