As we wring out the last drops of horror subgenres to write about from our aching, parched corpses, we realised something dreadful: we’ve never done a horror-comedy list. Outrageous, right? Well, not as outrageously funny and entertaining as these comedy-horror movies (what a transition. I deserve a Pulitzer). Let’s take a look at some of the films that balance the spooky and the stupid with a masterful hand, and dive into some underrated comedy horror.
Feast
A raunchy sex comedy from the point of view of horror movie monsters – and a terrifying ordeal for everyone else – the gloriously tacky 2005 horror flick Feast is the horniest horror you’ll ever see (well, apart from these ones, but you know what I mean). Inventive, gory, and blending slapstick with grotesque sexual gags, it features an awesome turn from friend of the blog Henry Rollins, who had an amazing run of iconic horror performances in the noughties and twenty-tens. John Gulager, of Piranha 3DDD, directs, and yes, you’re getting just what you sign up for in the first of this horror sex comedy trilogy.
This gruesome indie horror-comedy brings together two of the most gleefully horrible senses of humour you can imagine – British and Australian – and marinades them in some hideous cannibalistic dressing. Small towns are good for two things in cinema: fish-out-of-water comedy and incestuous flesh-eating familial horror, both of which Two Heads Creek nails. Kathryn Wilder as the formidably snooty Annabelle is my favourite thing here, but the retro throwback visuals and commitment to real effects to deliver those perfectly-blended moments of cringe comedy and stomach-twisting horror are also a total delight.
The Day of the Beast
This 1995 Spanish cult classic asks a simple question: how far would you go to stop the Antichrist? For one Basque priest, there’s no end in sight, as he tries to commit as much sin as possible to avert the arrival of the anti-Man himself. Enormously silly and beautiful stylized, it’s a slightly trippy and totally bizarre plumbing of the depths of Spanish sin (and fake psychics).It’s has rightly earned it’s place amongst some of the most impressive horrors from Spain to make it to an international audience – the premise alone is enough to sell it, but the execution (metaphorically and literally) is the cherry on top.
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By Lou MacGregor
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