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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
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
@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
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
@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).
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
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.
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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
@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?
@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
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
@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
@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
@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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* 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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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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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).
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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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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.
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Shaun of the dead being a RomCom with zombies is hardly a stretch #ghostbusters
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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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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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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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"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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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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@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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Army of Darkness is Evil Dead III. Why the redundancy?
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You know, because they're both in it... #ghostbusters
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