Movies in the Horror/Comedy genre
In The Dead Don’t Die, we get a glimpse of The Zombie Apocalypse according to hipster director Jim Jarmusch and, as one might expect, it doesn’t resemble what we have come to expect based on the movies of George A. Romero or the TV series ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-06-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Bill Murray, Austin Butler, Steve Buscemi, ...
Ready or Not can be described as the fusion of dark comedy with the Grand Guignol. Unafraid to venture into cinematic taboo territory for its shocks and laughs, the movie doesn’t have many sacred cows. It’s the kind of thing we might have ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-08-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Grisly Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Cast: Samara Weaving, Elyse Levesque, Nicky Guadagni, ...
It's great fun, but certainly not great art. From Dusk Till Dawn, a special effects blood-and-gore extravaganza from director Robert Rodriguez, follows in the footsteps of such cult classics as Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series, thumbing its nose at con...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-01-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, )
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, ...
Tremors is one of those rare motion pictures that fails during its theatrical run but finds new life on video. Examples of this can be found dotted throughout the VHS/DVD era of cinema (post-1983) but few are as dramatic as in this case. It's not ...
U.S. Release Date: 1990-01-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Ron Underwood
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, ...
What do you get when you cross George Romero with The Three Stooges by way of the director of A Simple Plan and The Gift? Something offbeat, to be sure. Something grotesque, without a doubt. Something... groovy. Evil Dead II can be seen as ...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-03-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, ...
Ash (Bruce Campbell) is a housewares salesman at an S-Mart department store before a venture to the house from The Evil Dead and The Evil Dead II sends him through a time tunnel into the Middle Ages. Suddenly, as the "Promised One" of prophesy, he i...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-02-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidz, Marcus Gilbert
If you're tired of conventional horror movies, try Bubba Ho-Tep, a cinematic oddity from director Don Coscarelli. Based on indisputable facts, the film finally reveals what really happened to Elvis and why so many people are reluctant to admit that...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-09-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Don Coscarelli
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Bob Ivy
Simply put, most horror films are not scary. There are exceptions, of course, but those are increasingly rare. I think the last horror movie that had me on edge may have been The Mist, and that was released two years ago. Nevertheless, the genre...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-10-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, ...
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon may be the best horror spoof no one has ever seen. Or at least, that was the case when Starz/Anchor Bay dumped the film into a small number of theaters during mid-March 2007 with little publicity and no ad...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Scott Glosserman
Cast: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Robert Englund, ...
The “so bad it’s good” tag often applied to co-called “cult classics” is as elusive a categorization as there is in cinema. Most of the time, it evolves organically from the failure of a movie. Planning campiness is more apt to result in...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-04-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Cast: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., ...