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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    I'm very, very disappoined that you didn't mention this. #ghostbusters
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/30/09

    @Wookie1972: PUTTTTIN ONDA RITTTTZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!! #ghostbusters
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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    And the ultimate horror comedy, "Arsenic and Old Lace"! (Too bad they couldn't actually get Karloff for the film. They did get him for the audioplay. It rocked.) #ghostbusters
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Gall Bladder Free Julius Seizure - Gall Bladder Free
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    Oh, please don't forget "Frankenhooker." ... OK, it was completely forgettable except the VHS box* had a button which, when pushed, would have a screechy voice yell "Wanna Date!" I almost had to sleep on the couch once for pushing it once too often

    * Yes, angels, movies used to come on cassettes full of tape - magnetic tape that encoded the image in electromagnetism. No, I'm not making this up. #ghostbusters
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    10/30/09

    @Julius Seizure - Canuck: Put that way, it does sound like mad science, doesn't it? #ghostbusters
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/30/09

    @Julius Seizure - Canuck: hey i got your back man, in fact my sister just gave me a new VCR for my birthday, and just today i dropped 20.00 on a huge bag of rockin VHS gems at the Goodwill. who wants to kick it 90's style!? #ghostbusters
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    My vote goes to Disney's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Hilarious animation and a savage social satire (which was Irving's intent), it preserves the feel and some of the language of the original short story and has a quite overpoweringly awful phantom.

    The moment where the dunderhead Ichabod looks directly into the Headless Horseman's empty collar and is blasted with a round of wicked laughter hits funny and scary right on the dividing line. #ghostbusters
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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    10/30/09

    @RollsRoyceRevenge: Not to mention a soundtrack with a rockin' cover of The Legend of The Headless Horseman sung by Thurl Ravenscroft (the voice of "Tony the Tiger"). Much harder edged than the gussied-up Bing Crosby version in the film and absolutely my favorite Disney tune.

    FOUND IT! Of course, the video is patched together, but the audio is the tune that haunted my childhood (and first got me interested in guitar).

    [www.youtube.com]
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    Image of SeeingI SeeingI
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    One of the best horror comedies of all time was "The Old Dark House," starring Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff, directed by James "Frankenstein" Whale. Seriously, check it out, it's a hoot.

    And I promise that at your next dinner, you'll be sneering "Have a potato" like Ernest Thesiger. Just watch the movie, you'll see. #ghostbusters
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    One of my favorite comedy scenes is from the original Dawn of the Dead.
    Where upon refueling an idling helicopter, our hero searches for his gun to dispatch an approaching zombie. Said zombie steps up on a curb, lifting the top of his head within range of the rotating blades, cutting off the top of his head and saving our hero, who slowly looks upwards at the rotating blades.
    -scene- #ghostbusters
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy

    Shaun of the dead being a RomCom with zombies is hardly a stretch #ghostbusters
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    Image of tbrunner tbrunner
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    I don't think any discussion of horror-comedy is complete without mentioning Transylvania 6-5000. #ghostbusters
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    I'm not sure it they meant to be funny, but this film is hilarious #ghostbusters
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    Image of limber limber
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    Oh, man, don't pimp "Breathers". That book was crap. #ghostbusters
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    Image of Doug Nelson Doug Nelson
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    Beetlejuice? The Frighteners? Fright Night? Death Becomes Her? Young Frankenstein? Friday the 13th Part 6 (the only one that counts for this)? Hocus Pocus (about as scary as the last one is funny, but still...)? Fearless Vampire Killers? Little Shop of Horrors (more the first one) and Bucket of Blood? Flesh for Frankenstein had its moments. Twilight Zone: The Movie? Return of the Living Dead (although part 2 had the best line "If you loved me you'd let me eat your bra-aains!" "Oh, all right.")? #ghostbusters
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    Image of jbq jbq
    10/29/09

    @Doug Nelson: Some amazing titles you list up there, Doug! It's like my top ten ever horror comedy list with only a few omissions. #ghostbusters
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    Image of Palmerlime Palmerlime
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    Night of the Creeps finally came out on DVD this week... #ghostbusters
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    House 2: The second story! That movie rules. And I hate to mention it because it sucked, but High Spirits falls into this category.

    C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the C.H.U.D! OK, I think that's all I've got for now.

    Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers! They Live! Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
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    Image of 10pound 10pound
    10/29/09

    @BlueBeard: I have to respectfully disagree and place House, the original, above the sequel. It had the William Kat, the Greatest American Hero, in it.
    And...having read your comment in its entirely ..... CHUD 2? Do you prefer this over the original Cannibal Humanoid Underground Dweller movie? I'm not hating but...seriously?
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    10/29/09

    @10pound: Wait, wasn't William Katt in the second one? I love that guy- how cool is it that he was in an episode of House and Heroes? He should have been a regular on Heroes, and the most powerful one of them all.

    If I remember correctly, House1 and CHUD 1 were both "serious" horror movies (like gremlins 1 tried to be) while the sequels whole-heartedly embraced the ridiculousness of the situation, thus being the appropriate choice for a horror-comedy discussion. #ghostbusters
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    10/29/09

    @BlueBeard: Yeah, wasn't HOUSE 2: THE SECOND STORY the one with John Ratzenberger as the superheroic plumber?

    "Now what you got there is your basic interdimensional rift. Yeah, I got something in my bag for that..."

    or something like that. That was an _inspired_ movie. #ghostbusters
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    10/29/09

    Don't forget the two Waxwork movies, especially the second one Waxwork II: Lost in Time, where the entire plot revolves around jumping through various scifi/horror movie dimensions in search of a second disembodied zombie hand to replace the one they shoved down a garbage disposal, after it killed the main character's girlfriend's abusive father. (don't ask)

    It also featured brief appearances by a young Bruce Campbell, Marina Sirtis, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Macnee, David Carradine, and Godzilla (as himself) #ghostbusters
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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    10/29/09

    @BlueBeard: It wasn't that Gremlins was trying to be a serious horror movie (witness the Time Machine Joke from the inventor's fair phone call) - it's that Gremlins 2 dissolved into pure and utter cartoonish camp. House definitely had a sense of humor, but at the same time, it got pretty intense. House2, not so much. #ghostbusters
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    10/30/09

    @MonkeyT: I think gremlins was an attempt at actual scariness, and to be honest, when I was a kid(I saw it in the theater) the blender and microwave scenes freaked me the hell out- more of a gross-out than a scare, but either way I saw it when I closed my eyes. Most horror movies have a laugh in them to break the tension, but that's not the same as a horror-comedy.

    @bluehinter: Waxwork II sounds like a movie I need to run out and rent- I remember the first one but never saw the second. This is such a fun thread, making me very nostalgic for the junk I used to watch- I feel like calling up my old buddies and going to their house to mix OJ with black cherry soda and play NES and watch late night horror movies for a chance at seeing boobies :D

    ...And that just reminded me of another one- something about a robotic security guard at a mall that went crazy and killed people. I can't remember any more than that- it may not have been a robot. #ghostbusters
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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    10/30/09

    @BlueBeard: Watch the Gremlins in the bar and tell me that they intended the film to be scary. While it meant to have legitimate tension and scares, its tongue was also firmly planted in its cheek. #ghostbusters
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    10/30/09

    @BlueBeard: Chopping Mall. #ghostbusters
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    10/30/09

    @Sproing: That's the one! This has become my favorite thread ever :) #ghostbusters
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    Image of Howard Blair Howard Blair
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    "Classic Sam Raimi films deserve their own category, especially the Evil Dead films and Army Of Darkness."

    Army of Darkness is Evil Dead III. Why the redundancy?
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    Allen_Richards promoted this comment Edited by Howard Blair at 10/29/09 7:18 PM Howard Blair was starred Howard Blair was unstarred
    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    10/29/09

    @Howard Blair: Too bad they couldn't keep the original title, MID-EVIL DEAD is such a fun play on the series... #ghostbusters
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    Image of brokenbulbs brokenbulbs
    10/29/09

    In reply to The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy
    Bill Pullman's in Lake Placid, not Paxton.
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    10/29/09

    @brokenbulbs: Stop trying to pretend they are 2 different people. #ghostbusters
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    Image of thexpert thexpert
    10/30/09

    @BlueBeard: But they're both in Braindead, the best movie ever!

    You know, because they're both in it... #ghostbusters
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    10/30/09

    @thexpert: They do that with special effects. I see how you could be confused. #ghostbusters
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    Image of metalkate metalkate
    10/30/09

    @BlueBeard: i can't enjoy this joke at all, because bill pullman is hot and bill paxton is an icky polygamist. #ghostbusters
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    BlueBeard promoted this comment metalkate was starred metalkate was unstarred
    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    10/30/09

    @metalkate: OK, fine, Darryl Zero is awesome and Bill Henrickson is terribly unsettling, but you shouldn't hold it against the man. #ghostbusters
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