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Cocaine Bear (2023): Dir. Elizabeth Banks
Feat. Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Christian Convery…; An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after…
Scream (2022): Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Feat. Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega…; The fifth installment in the SCREAM series of slasher films, acting as a direct sequel to 2011's SCREAM 4, and the first to be made without the late…
Studio 666 (2022): Dir. BJ McDonnell
Feat. Dave Grohl, Whitney Cummings, Taylor Hawkins…; Rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock'n'roll history to record their 10th album in this horror–comedy that…
Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021): Dir. Jason Reitman
Feat. Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace…; The fourth Ghostbusters movie with much of the original cast reappearing alongside fresh young faces, directed and co–written by Jason Reitman…
Silent Night (2021): Dir. Camille Griffin
Feat. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis…; A grinch of a Christmas movie that on the surface looks like LOVE ACTUALLY but has a premise as black as coal. A bunch of…
Freaky (2020): Dir. Christopher Landon
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Katie Finneran…; Christopher Landon (HAPPY DEATH DAY) directs this big hearted and hilarious teen comedy slasher with loving nods to classics of the genre, especially…
How To Deter A Robber (2020): Dir. Maria Bissell
Feat. Vanessa Marano, Benjamin Papac, Abbie Cobb; Endearing horror comedy set in a desolate town in Northern Wisconsin at Christmas, where a stubborn young woman and her sweet but naive boyfriend…
Psycho Goreman (2020): Dir. Steven Kostanski
Feat. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Steven Vlahos; A nostalgia–soaked Creature Feature that is a commendably light–hearted yet ultra–violent slice of cosmic comedy/adventure about an…
Willy's Wonderland (2020): Dir. Kevin Lewis
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Ric Reitz; Nicolas Cage continues his late career "cult" movie run with this bonkers action–comedy–horror playing a quiet drifter who is tricked…
Witches, The (2020): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci…; Robert Zemeckis' re–imagining of Roald Dahl’s beloved story that tells the darkly humorous yet heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who,…
Come to Daddy (2019): Dir. Ant Timpson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Michael Smiley…; Wildly inventive horror–comedy from New Zealand producer and "Incredibly Strange" film festival honcho Ant Timpson in his directorial debut. A…
Dead Don't Die, The (2019): Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton…; Zom–com from indie favourite Jim Jarmusch, assembling a stunning ensemble cast and following the police force of a small town as they struggle…
Deerskin (Le Daim) (2019): Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Feat. Jean Dujardin, Adele Haenel, Albert Delpy; Quentin Dupieux, director of the cult hit RUBBER, returns with this buckwild surrealist comedy, following a man's all–consuming devotion for a…
Extra Ordinary (2019): Dir. Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
Feat. Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte…; A pleasingly off–kilter Irish supernatural comedy about a sweet–natured but lonely driving instructor who uses her paranormal talents to…
Girl on the Third Floor (2019): Dir. Travis Stevens
Feat. C.M. Punk, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Sarah Brooks; Wild black comedy with former WWE wrestler "CM Punk" as an ex–con with his own demons convincing his eight–month–pregnant wife to…
Happy Death Day 2U (2019): Dir. Christopher Landon
Feat. Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Suraj Sharma…; Sequel to the enormously likable 2017 slasher farce HAPPY DEATH DAY, with Jessica Rothe returning as Tree Gelbman, the college student who gets stuck…
Harpoon (2019): Dir. Rob Grant
Feat. Munro Chambers, Brett Gelman, Emily Tyra; Darkly humorous survival horror with three best friends stranded on a yacht, fighting to survive and struggling with sexual tensions and rivalries.…
Killer Sofa (My Lover, My Lazy Boy) (2019): Dir. Bernardo Rao
Feat. Jed Brophy, jordan rivers, Nathalie Morris…; Endearing Kiwi B–movie about a reclining chair that becomes smitten with a young woman and begins committing crimes of passion. It's up to a…
Little Monsters (2019): Dir. Abe Forsythe
Feat. Lupita Nyong'o, Alexander England, Kat Stewart; Horror comedy in which a zombie outbreak threatens the lives of some school children, and a school teacher forms a resistance team with the help of a…
Ready or Not (2019): Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Feat. Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Henry Czerny…; Outrageously violent horror comedy following the fate of a bride who discovers that her wealthy and eccentric in–laws have a terrifying and…
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019): Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone…; Satisfying sequel to the popular 2009 zombie comedy, bringing back the same likable makeshift family who face off against the walking dead.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018): Dir. Ari Sandel
Feat. Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Madison Iseman…; Following on from the popular 2015 big screen adaptation, two young boys accidentally unleash a cacophony of monsters and demons after they open an…
In Fabric (2018): Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Fatma Mohamed, Hayley Squires…; Utterly beguiling and sumptuous ghost story from singular British director Peter Strickland (DUKE OF BURGUNDY), following a possessed red dress as it…
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018): Dir. Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund
Feat. Thomas Lennon, Barbara Crampton, Udo Kier…; Deranged reboot of the Charles Band classic about puppets who get animated by an Egyptian spell and go on a murderous rampage.
Relaxer (2018): Dir. Joel Potrykus
Feat. Joshua Burge, David Dastmalchian; Grungy downbeat comedy set in 1999 in a haze of Y2K paranoia, where a slacker is challenged by his older brother not to leave the couch until he has…
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018): Dir. Crispian Mills
Feat. Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield…; Entertaining Simon Pegg and Nick Frost produced horror comedy set at an illustrious British boarding school, where a nearby fracking site creates a…
Slice (2018): Dir. Austin Vesely
Feat. Zazie Beetz, Chance the Rapper; Enjoyable schlocky comedy, fashionably throwing back to 80's horror and following a pizza delivery boy who sets out to solve a murder mystery in his…
Get Out (2017): Dir. Jordan Peele
Feat. Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener…; A deliciously fresh and contemporary paranoid thriller that puts an ingenious and spirited African–American spin on the conspiracy template set…
Happy Death Day (2017): Dir. Christopher Landon
Feat. Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard; A plucky and successful stab at applying the GROUNDHOG DAY premise to the teen horror genre. Jessica Rothe is excellent as a self–centered…
Mom and Dad (2017): Dir. Brian Taylor
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair; Pitch–black horror–comedy featuring Nicolas Cage in a wonderfully crazed performance alongside an impressive Selma Blair as parents who…
One Cut of the Dead (Kamera wo tomeruna!) (2017): Dir. Shinichiro Ueda
Feat. Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama; Ridiculously fun and gleefully inventive movie–within–a–movie where the crew of a low–budget zombie film are terrorised by…
Tragedy Girls (2017): Dir. Tyler MacIntyre
Feat. Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Jack Quaid; Ultra–hip black comedy playing on slasher movie tropes, following two death obsessed and fame hungry girls who'll do anything for popularity on…
Greasy Strangler, The (2016): Dir. Jim Hosking
Feat. Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo; A good–dumb–fun excerise in bad taste about a creepy father–and–son team who run a disco walking tour and become rivals for…
Love Witch, The (2016): Dir. Anna Biller
Feat. Samantha Robinson, Laura Waddell, Gian Keys…; Writer–director Anna Biller who also produced, edited, costumed, set designed and scored this feminist sexploitation pastiche shot in 35mm as…
Aaaaaaaah! (2015): Dir. Steve Oram
Feat. Steve Oram, Julian Barratt, Lucy Honigman…; A twisted cult comedy which confronts the human condition by imagining what life would be like if humans were apes. Written and directed by Steve…
Ash vs Evil Dead (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Lucy Lawless; Triumphant resurrection of Sam Raimi's horror franchise with Bruce Campbell rightfully returning as the undead slaying hero Ash. 10 episodes on 2…
Deathgasm (2015): Dir. Jason Lei Howden
Feat. Milo Cawthorne, Kimberley Crossman, James Blake…; Bloody–minded Kiwi horror–comedy has two teenage metal fans stirring up trouble in small–town New Zealand when they accidentally…
Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015): Dir. Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon
Feat. Alec Owen, Paul Prado, Patton Oswalt…; Satirical slasher film which, despite it's title, is not a sequel, and which presents itself as a lost film dug up from the 1980's. A masked killer…
Goosebumps (2015): Dir. Rob Letterman
Feat. Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush…; Fantastical spin on the popular kidult horror series with Jack Black perfectly cast as horror maestro R.L. Stine whose imaginary demons come to life.
iZombie (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Rose McIver, David Anders, Malcolm Goodwin; The hunger for all things dead–but–still–living continues with his amusing twist on the genre, loosely adapted from a comic book…
Life in the Dead Zone (2015): Dir. Peter Tonks
Feat. Des Morgon, Gabe Page, Chester Dextar…; Shot in Christchurch following the 2011 earthquakes, this creative comedy–mockumentary presents a town overrun by zombies in the wave of a…
Nina Forever (2015): Dir. Chris Blaine, Ben Blaine
Feat. Fiona OShaughnessy, Cian Barry, Abigail Hardingham; Darkly funny horror in which a man embarking on a new relationship is taunted by his dead ex–girlfriend whenever he has sex.
Cooties (2014): Dir. Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion
Feat. Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill…; Splatter comedy set in a primary school where a cafeteria food virus turns the kiddies into killer zombies, and a group of misfit teachers must band…
Housebound (2014): Dir. Gerard Johnstone
Feat. Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru…; A home detainee is forced to move back into her old family house where she grapples with her neurotic mother and supernatural disturbances. A…
Life After Beth (2014): Dir. Jeff Baena
Feat. Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly…; Grieving over the death of his girlfriend, a young man gets a second chance when she returns from the dead in this zany and inventive…
Parasyte: Part One (2014): Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Shota Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto…; Based on a long running Manga, this horror–comedy offers up Cronenbergian thrills in a world under attack from parasitic worm–like…
Tusk (2014): Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment…; Gleefully ludicrous Kevin Smith directed horror comedy following the fate of an unfortunate podcaster who discovers his next guest has a bizarre…
Vampire Academy (2014): Dir. Mark Waters
Feat. Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Gabriel Byrne…; A half–human, half–vampire trains to be a guardian at an exclusive academy for the young and undead. Toothy vampire comedy pokes fun at…
What We Do in the Shadows (2014): Dir. Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
Feat. Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, Jonathan Brugh…; Follow the lives of Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav – three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life’s obstacles, like being…
Bad Milo! (2013): Dir. Jacob Vaughan
Feat. Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Mary Kay Place; A mild–mannered accountant with bowel problems discovers that a pint–sized demon has moved into his intestinal tract. Though this…
Cheap Thrills (2013): Dir. E.L. Katz
Feat. Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton…; A devilishly effective black comedy about a pair of old friends who enter into an increasingly bloody game of one–upmanship with a wealthy…
Disco Exorcist (2013): Dir. Richard Griffin
Feat. Shadow Faye, Andre Boudreau, Kevin Killavey; Outrageous horror comedy about a disco king and playboy whose one night stand turns bad when he enrages a black magic priestess. A fun throwback to…
Warm Bodies (2013): Dir. Jonathan Levine
Feat. Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry…; A young, sensitive zombie falls for a human girl in this savvy romantic comedy which turns the walking dead genre on its head.
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Jigoku de naze warui) (2013): Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Kunimura Jun, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Fumi Nikaido; Described by its creator as "an action film about the love of 35mm", this frenzied fanboy fiction from Shion Sono bears his trademark excess and…
American Mary (2012): Dir. Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Feat. Katherine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk; Macabre horror concerns a disenchanted delving into the world of underground surgeries with predictably nasty results.
Dead Sushi (2012): Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Rina Takeda; An innkeeper proficient in both karate and sushi making must fend off a hoard of flesh–eating California Rolls after one of her guests injects…
Fantastic Fear of Everything, A (2012): Dir. Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell
Feat. Simon Pegg, Paul Freeman, Amara Karan…; Comedic misfire with Pegg as a crime novelist who's intensive research makes him more than a little paranoid culminating in a fateful trip to the…
Fresh Meat (2012): Dir. Danny Mulheron
Feat. Temuera Morrison, Nicola Kawana, Hanna Tevita…; A cannibal comedy with a Maori twist, this spirited romp throws various genres into its gory blender when a gang of criminals accidentally invade the…
Grabbers (2012): Dir. Jon Wright
Feat. Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey; A very Irish sense of humour permeates throughout this daffy, if highly entertaining horror comedy, about a mutant strain of creatures who descend on…
Kill Zombie! (Zombibi) (2012): Dir. Martijn Smits, Erwin van den Eshof
Feat. Uriah Arnhem; This low hanging zombie comedy by way of Amsterdam imagines the Dutch city as a zombie infested urban jungle, in the middle of which an office worker…
Vamps (2012): Dir. Amy Heckerling
Feat. Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter, Sigourney Weaver…; Charming horror comedy from director Amy Heckerling (CLUELESS) re–teaming with actress Alicia Silverstone, who plays a vampire in New York City…
[REC] Genesis (REC 3) (2012): Dir. Paco Plaza
Feat. Leticia Dolera, Diego Martin, Javier Botet; A young couples wedding day is tragically interrupted by demonic contagion in the third installment of the Spanish horror series. Abandoning the…
Cabin in the Woods, The (2011): Dir. Drew Goddard
Feat. Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison…; Masterminded by Joss Whedon, this hilarious inside–out horror comedy promises the last word on the horror genre, although its cleverness is…
Fright Night (2011): Dir. Craig Gillespie
Feat. Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, David Tennant…; Colin Farrell vamps it up in this prosaic remake of the 80's cult horror, with Anton Yelchin the hapless teen convinced his neighbour is a vampire.…
Juan of the Dead (2011): Dir. Alejandro Brugués
Feat. Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina; A direct and surprisingly inspired Hispanic take on the SHAUN OF THE DEAD zom–com model that makes nifty use of its unique Cuban locale and…
Red State (2011): Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman…; Kevin Smith tries his hand at horror as three sex–obsessed teenagers are lured into a trap laid by religious fundamentalists. Subversive…
Strigoi (2011): Dir. Faye Jackson
Feat. Constantin Barbulescu, Camelia Maxim, Catalin Paraschiv; Slow–burning horror, laced with dean–pan humour, has residents of a Romanian village contending with an outbreak of communist vampires.
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010): Dir. James Nguyen
Feat. Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore; Shoe–string trash homage to Hitchcock's THE BIRDS that follows a romantic couple whose small town that is attacked by birds.…
Burke and Hare (2010): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson…; An oddball comedic take on the infamous grave robbing duo, with Serkis and Pegg supported by a terrific ensemble of British comedic thesps. While…
Rare Exports - A Christmas Tale (2010): Dir. Jalmari Helander
Feat. Onni Tommita, Jorma Tommila; A wicked brew of 80s adventure movie and twisted horror comedy, centred on an archaeological discovery which may prove to be the remains of the real…
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010): Dir. Eli Craig
Feat. Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden; In a delicious reversal of urban legend and horror tropes, two hillbilly friends are mistaken for murderous backwoods rednecks by an archetypal group…
Diagnosis: Death (Diagnosis Death) (2009): Dir. Jason Stutter
Feat. Raybon Kan, Jessica Grace Smith, Bret McKenzie…; Stand–up comedian and writer Raybon Kan casts himself in this schlocky horror spoof as a terminal patient who becomes a human guinea pig at a…
Drag Me To Hell (2009): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver; Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots in this twisted tale of a loan officer (Lohman) who has three days to rid herself of a deadly curse placed upon…
Final Destination, The (Final Destination 4) (2009): Dir. David R. Ellis
Feat. Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano; Fourth installment in the hilariously creative FINAL DESTINATION franchise sees a teen save his friends from a deadly race–car accident after…
Haunted World of El Superbeasto, The (2009): Dir. Rob Zombie; Crude R–Rated animation from horror fanatic Rob Zombie (adapted from his own dirty comic) concerns the sex–addicted exploits of a washed…
I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2009): Dir. Stacey Edmonds, Doug Turner
Feat. Jai Koutrae, Stacey Edmonds, Az Jackson; Sloppy novelty horror in which a tormented cricket player returns 20 years later to hit his former teammates for six. Contains crude cricketing…
Jennifer's Body (2009): Dir. Karyn Kusama
Feat. Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons…; The screenwriter of JUNO brings her distinctive, know–it–all style to this high–school horror–comedy, in which the sultry…
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009): Dir. Phil Claydon
Feat. James Corden, Mathew Horne, MyAnna Buring…; Comedy duo Corden and Horne (stars of TV's GAVIN AND STACEY) make their big screen debut as a pair of spotty fools who must defend themselves and a…
Psychoville (TV Series) (2009): Dir. Matt Lipsey
Feat. Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Dawn French…; Blacky comic sitcom written by and starring The League of Gentlemen members Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, who each play numerous bizarre…
Revenant, The (2009): Dir. D. Kerry Prior
Feat. David Anders, Chris Wylde, Louise Griffiths; Gory buddy–comedy with an undead soldier and his best friend roaming the streets in a never–ending quest for blood. The darker brother of…
Smash Cut (2009): Dir. Lee Demarbe
Feat. David Hess, Sasha Grey, Michael Berryman…; Splatter comedy with Hess as horror hack who discovers a way to both gain notoriety and also to keep those pesky special effects costs down.…
Suck (2009): Dir. Rob Stefaniuk
Feat. Rob Stefaniuk, Malcolm McDowell, Jessica Pare…; Heady horror–comedy follows the career highs and lows of a struggling band who find unexpected (but fraught) success when one of their members…
Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (2009): Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Feat. Yukie Nakama, Eri Otoguro; Another enjoyable stock effort from the makers of TOKYO GORE POLICE et. al, this combines home–brewed splatter, ropey special effects, and…
Zombieland (2009): Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone…; Deftly funny splatter comedy set in a post–apocalyptic world overrun with – you guessed it – Zombies, has two drifters teaming up…
Baghead (2008): Dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Feat. Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, Ross Partridge…; The Duplass Brothers deliver on the promise of their debut, THE PUFFY CHAIR, with another no–frills charmer that effortlessly marries assured…
Cottage, The (2008): Dir. Paul Andrew Williams
Feat. Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith; Splattery horror–comedy in the vein of SHAUN OF THE DEAD follows two mismatched brothers on a bungled kidnapping attempt of a gangster’s…
Dance of the Dead (2008): Dir. Gregg Bishop
Feat. Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Zoe Myers…; Lean and mean zombie comedy about a plague of living dead who crash the high school prom and the dateless losers who appear to be the only ones who…
Dead Set (TV Series) (2008): Dir. Yann Demange
Feat. Jaime Winstone, Riz Ahmed, Warren Brown…; A bleak send–up of reality TV culture in which a production studio is attacked by zombies during the filming of a fictional "Big Brother" style…
I Sell the Dead (2008): Dir. Glenn McQuaid
Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman…; Bumptious horror–comedy of corpses with two beleaguered grave robbers having to contend with the troublesome undead and blood–lusting…
Make-Out With Violence (2008): Dir. Deagol Brothers
Feat. Eric Lehning, Cody DeVos; A genuinely odd zombie movie about twin brothers whose teenage girl crush mysteriously disappears one day, only to emerge in a vegetative state…
One Eyed Monster (2008): Dir. Adam Fields
Feat. Amber Benson, Ron Jeremy, Jason Graham; 'The world is screwed' in this horror comedy, where a cast and crew of a porno film must escape a shape–shifting alien who chooses to posses…
Otis (2008): Dir. Tony Krantz
Feat. Daniel Stern, Illeana Douglas, Bostin Christopher…; A cult favourite in the making, this outrageous black comedy is an assuredly twisted, dark and laugh–out–loud funny satire of vigilantism…
Trailer Park Of Terror (2008): Dir. Steven Goldmann
Feat. Nichole Hiltz, Matthew Del Negro, Trace Adkins; Yet another installment in the zombie–comedy genre sees a group of troubled high–school students get stranded in a trailer park occupied…
Zombie Strippers (2008): Dir. Jay Lee
Feat. Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson; No–brainer zombie comedy starring ex–porn star Jenna Jameson as a small–town stripper who catches a leaked government virus which…
Aaah Zombies! (Wasting Away) (2007): Dir. Matthew Kohnen
Feat. Matthew Davis, Julianna Robinson, MIchael Grant Terry…; After chowing down on experimental goo four friends find themselves zombiefied in this rather sweet horror–comedy. Latest entry in the…
Dead and Deader (2007): Dir. Patrick Dinhut
Feat. Dean Cain, Guy Torry, Susan Ward; A referential zombie comedy that is knowingly unoriginal, but serves its subgenre well by splatting the target more often than most in both laughs…
Murder Party (2007): Dir. Jeremy Saulnier
Feat. Alex Barnett, Macon Blair, Paul Goldblatt…; Fairly wretched horror comedy about a loner who crashes a Halloween party and finds himself at the mercy of a group of deranged NY artists determined…
My Name Is Bruce (2007): Dir. Bruce Campbell
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Ted Raimi…; Cult favourite B–grade actor Campbell is kidnapped by a misguided fan who expects him to save the world from very real monsters in this…
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman…; Johnny Depp is centre stage once again for dir. Tim Burton in this fiendish screen rendition of Stephen Sondheim's twisted musical about a…
Teeth (2007): Dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein
Feat. Jess Weixler; Squeamishly entertaining horror centred on a sweet high school virgin who discovers she has a set of mutant teeth between her legs, the perfect…
Black Sheep (2006): Dir. Jonathan King
Feat. Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney…; A slick splatter–comedy in the Kiwi tradition of BAD TASTE, about a herd of rabid, flesh–eating sheep run amok in rural New…
Fido (2006): Dir. Andrew Currie
Feat. Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss, K'Sun Ray; Day–glo zombie comedy takes the increasingly dog–eared genre to a new meta–level with its premise of zombies being domesticated as…
Hatchet (2006): Dir. Adam Green
Feat. Joel David Moore; Definitely not for the squeamish, this gloriously gruesome horror involves imbecilic young tourists getting stalked, lopped and hacked up by a…
Severance (2006): Dir. Christopher Smith
Feat. Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny; Bludgeoning horror–comedy that derives its slasher conventions and corporate politics from an ill–fated team building exercise in the…
Sheitan (2006): Dir. Kim Chapiron
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Roxane Mesquida; A gaggle of young hedonists on a bender expend their energies at a disco and are invited by pouting barmaid Mesquida (A MA SOUER) to her remote…
Slither (2006): Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker; The small American town of Wheelsy is visited by a slithery space squid, which sends a variety of parasitic slugs out to invade the bodies of the…
Tokyo Zombie (2005): Dir. Sakichi Sato
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta…; An enormous garbage dump in Tokyo begins to spawl hoards of the walking dead, prompting two dumb–and–dumber garage workers to unleash…
Dead and Breakfast (2004): Dir. Matthew Leutwyler
Feat. Portia de Rossi, Jeremy Sisto, David Carradine; This reasonably hospitable reprise of zombie peril has six friends finding themselves trapped and hunted in and around a smalltown 'bed and…
Night of the Living Dorks (2004): Dir. Mathias Dinter
Feat. Tino Mewes, Manuel Cortez, Thomas Schmieder…; High school geek revenge flick meets living dead spoof when four geeky buddies accidentally become zombies – and reap the social benefts – in…
Satan's Little Helper (2004): Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Katheryn Winnick, Alexander Bricknel, Amanda Plummer; A Halloween–set black comedy about a nine–year–old boy who inadvertently teams up with a masked psychopath on his round of…
Shaun of the Dead (2004): Dir. Edgar Wright
Feat. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield…; The zombie movie genre collides with distinctively British "lad humour" in this playful and wildly entertaining parody. Centred around the…
Green Butchers, The (De grønne slagtere ) (2003): Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas; Grim comedy focused on two down–and–out butchers who discover they can make a killing out of their customer's oblivious cannibalistic…
Scary Movie 3 (2003): Dir. David Zucker
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Leslie Nielsen, Denise Richards; Further hit–and–miss spoofery of the horror movie genre, and popular culture in general from dir. Zucker and the Wayans clan. Targets…
Tutenstein (TV Series) (2003): Quirksome kids animation which begins when the Egyptian mummy of a 10–year old pharoah is struck by lightning in a museum and 'Tut' comes back…
Undead (2002): Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins; This brash splatter effort from Australia makes impressive, exhaustive use of special effects on a very low budget as it turns into an almost…
Happiness of the Katakuris (2001): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano…; A delirious confection from Japanese bad boy dir., Takashi Miike, this “zombie musical” is his most benevolent yet purely entertaining…
Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical (2001): Dir. Don Roy King
Feat. David Hasselhoff, Coleen Sexton, Andrea Rivette; The unlikely David Hasselhoff stars as Dr.Jekyll in his crazed alter–ego Mr.Hyde in this rock n roll adaptation of Robert Louis Steveson's…
Bad Girls From Valley High (A Fate Totally Worse Than Death) (2000): Dir. John T. Kretchmer
Feat. Christopher Lloyd; A good premise lifts this high–school comedy from out of the herd, with three socially ambitious girls having a curse placed on them which…
Scream 2 (1997): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…; Neve Campbell and friends get revisited by another round of cell–phone threats, masked stalkers and spotty, self–referential…
Killer Condom (Kondom des Grauens) (1996): Dir. Martin Walz
Feat. Udo Samel; Hysterical horror comedy is an eye–popping oddity even for the Troma stables; it combines crude but impressive phallic special effects (by H.R.…
Scream (1996): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich…; The horror genre gets a long overdue (if tongue–in–cheek) revamp but you needn't be an aficionado to experience the thrill of this…
Tremors 2 (Tremors 2 Aftershocks) (1996): Dir. S. S. Wilson
Feat. Fred Ward, Christopher Gartin, Helen Shaver…; Sequel to the outrageous tongue–in–cheek creature feature TREMORS (1990), with supersucking desert worms returning to terrorise the oil…
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995): Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Mel Brooks, Leslie Nielsen; Another blockbuster spoof, three years too late from the once funny Mel Brooks in which Leslie Nielsen does his NAKED GUN–in–a–cape…
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett; Eddie Murphy and the ever–dynamic Angela Bassett team up for horror specialist Wes Craven, who injects a mix of comedy and gothic romance into…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994): Dir. Kim Henkel
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey; The fourth movie in the loose Texas Chainsaw franchise, directed by the writer of the original cult classic (not that that makes a difference). This…
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes; Ingenious post–script to the tired NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. franchise in which castmembers of the previous films (playing themselves), too, become…
Addams Family Values (1993): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd; Not bad sequel focuses less on Gomez & Morticia, and gets more comic mileage from the rest of the gang.
Freaked (1993): Dir. Tom Stern, Alex Winter
Feat. Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves; A film–school–renegade comedy from actor, Alex 'Bill and Ted' Winter. He becomes an unwilling participant in a freak–show that uses…
Untold Story, The (1993): Dir. Herman Yau
Feat. Danny Lee, Anthony Wong; Outrageous gross–out thriller that may put you off Chinese food for life – based on the "Eight Immortals Restaurant murders" that took…
Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3) (1992): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz; Raimi's third 'Evil Dead' movie is an out–and–out Pythonesque comic–fantasy in which the hero, Ash, confronts simpleton locals and…
Braindead (Dead Alive) (1992): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody; Local prodigy's magnum opus may well be the last word in zombie film. What begins as a nervous romance for naive young Lionel soon turns into a…
Addams Family, The (1991): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd…; Huston, Julia and Lloyd star in this glossy update of the '60s TV series. Inventive, blackly comic and lavishly gothic production design.
Battle Heater (Kotatsu) (1990): Dir. Geroge Iida
Feat. Pappara Kawai, Akira Imoto; A maniacal low–budget doozie about a man–eating Kotatsu heater, this adds its own spirited splash to the horror mini–genre of…
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover; This commendable sequel sees the little critters take the mayhem to gargantuan proportions, attempting to take over the entire city of New York.
Re-Animator 2 (Bride Of Re-Animator) (1990): Dir. Brian Yuzna
Feat. Jeffrey Combs; Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West and friends return for a gory homage to Bride of Frankenstein, but its a pale shadow of both films, with noticeably…
Society (1990): Dir. Brian Yuzna
Feat. Billy Warlock, Connie Danese, Ben Slack; Perverse hallucinations plague a young man in this sqeaumish satire of social mores in LA. The finale is an outrageous orgy of slimy…
Tremors (1990): Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross; Exciting tongue–in–cheek horror flick in the tradition of 50s 'Creature Features' has Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward among the desert yokels…
Cutting Class (1989): Dir. Rospo Pallenberg
Feat. Brad Pitt, Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen…; Late–80s, high–school set slasher that (semi–)parodies the genre is best known for featuring a young Brad Pitt. While mediocre as a…
Return of the Swamp Thing, The (1989): Feat. Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Dick Durock; Everyone's favourite muck–encrusted plant–man is back in a sequel so bad, it's better than the original! The campy…
Beetlejuice (1988): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin…; A deceased couple return as ghosts and discover their home has been occupied by an obnoxious family, so decide to enlist the services of…
Brain Damage (1988): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry; Outrageous splatter comedy doubles as a drug–addiction parable about a parasitic monster that feeds off the acquaintances of its human host.…
Child's Play (1988): Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent…; 'Chucky', the possessed cabbage–patch kid, goes on a murderous rampage in this clever consumerist parable. Tightly scripted and imaginatively…
Elvira (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) (1988): Dir. James Signorelli
Feat. Cassandra Peterson, Jeff Conaway, Edie McClurg…; High camp fun with real–life cult horror movie host Elvira, in her first acting role. Canny blend of tongue–in–cheek innuendo and…
Fright Night Part 2 (1988): Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
Feat. Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind…; William Ragsdale returns as Charley Brewster, now a college freshman who is tormented by the undead sister of the vampire from the first film. While…
Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988): Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Michael Kenworthy, Thor Van Lingen, Jason Hogan; Yet another unnecessary sequel, this time to the popular spoof of Romero's Living Dead films.
Vampire's Kiss (1988): Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals; Nicolas Cage gives a wildly uninhibited performance as a psychotic yuppie who thinks he's been bitten by a vampire. From the pen that wrote the…
Bad Taste (1987): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Peter Jackson; New Zealand's entry into the splatter comedy genre, shot on consecutive Sundays over a four year period, is among the best ever made. Outrageously…
Howling III (Howling III: The Marsupials) (1987): Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Barry Otto, Imogen Annesley; Another sequel to the werewolf horror comedy THE HOWLING, with the same director as THE HOWLING II (1985), filmed on location in and around Sydney,…
Monster Squad, The (1987): Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Andre Gower, Stephen Macht, Stan Shaw…; A group of savvy kids attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monstrous cohorts – all familiar faces from Universal horror…
Class of Nuke 'em High (Atomic High School) (1986): Dir. Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman
Feat. Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton; One of the better Troma–trash productions in which pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after…
Island of the Alive (It's Alive 3) (1986): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Karen Black; Eschewing the subtle creepiness of the first ALIVE movies, this goes for a more blackly comical tale of mutant babies, placed out of harm's way on a…
Night of the Creeps (1986): Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Tom Atkins…; Good–humored horror about alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, and turning their hosts into rampaging zombies.
Vamp (1986): Dir. Richard Wenk
Feat. Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron…; Campy, neon–hued sex comedy–horror from the 80's in which two students travel to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their…
Fright Night (1985): Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall…; Terrific vampire satire in which a boy becomes highly suspicious of his new neighbours, led by a suave Chris Sarandon. The superb make–up…
Ghoulies / Ghoulies 2 (1985-1987): Dir. Luca Bercovici, Albert Band
Feat. Lisa Pelikan, Jack Nance, Royal Dano; GREMLINS–inspired comic horrors from the mid–1980s in which a young couple unwittingly let loose half a dozen nasty little critters and…
Re-Animator (1985): Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton; Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…
Return of the Living Dead, The (1985): Dir. Dan O'Bannon
Feat. Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa; Pretty–good parody of Romero's Living Dead films, though not quite the same as the real thing. Great thrash–metal soundtrack, though.
Toxic Avenger, The (1985): Dir. Michael Herz, Sam Weil
Feat. Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Prichard; A nerd becomes super–powered after falling into a vat of radioactive waste, and proceeds to clean up crime in one of the most notorious yet…
Troll (1985): Dir. John Buechler, Drago Floyd
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack…; Barrel–scrapingly hilarious, this GREMLINS knock–off sees a hairy troll turning an apartment block into a "garden of ancient evil", by…
Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984): Dir. Ray Cameron
Feat. Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price…; Horror comedy about six scientists investigating a creepy manor, where a mysterious massacre killed 18 guests in a single night many years…
Gremlins (1984): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Hoyt Axton, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates…; Comedy–horror gold just mild enough for the kids, about a boy's new pet that spawns a legion of furry, unruly monsters.
Creepshow (1982): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeam, Fritz Weaver; Well–spun compendium of five tales captures the intended spirit and ghoulishness of 1950s EC horror comics in an affectionate homage.
Last Horror Film, The (1982): Dir. David Winters
Feat. Caroline Munro, Joe Spinell, Filomena Spagnuolo…; Horror comedy filmed on location at the Cannes Film Festival, where a New York City taxi driver is trying to fulfill his dream of directing a film…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982): Dir. Terry Hughes
Feat. Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal; TV movie of the 1979 Broadway hit, originally staged by Harold Prince, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Set in London in 1846, where Barber…
Full Moon High (1981): Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Adam Arkin, Ed McMahon, Elizabeth Hartman…; Wry horror–comedy with Adam Arkin as a jocular teen whose good time in Transylvannia is marred by his transformation into a werewolf. Change of…
Fade to Black (1980): Dir. Vernon Zimmerman
Feat. Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford; Film buffs should appreciate this inventive black–comedy about a weirdo movie addict who kills people in the style of his various film heroes.
Motel Hell (1980): Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons; Comedy black enough to convert one to vegetarianism about rednecks who use a special kinda meat for 'Farmer Vincent's Fritters'! The duelling…
Ninth Configuration, The (Twinkle, Twinkle, ) (1980): Dir. William Peter Blatty
Feat. Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller…; Psychological thriller set in the 70's written, produced and directed by William Peter Blatty (THE EXORCIST). Having returned from Vietnam, a marine…
Homebodies (1974): Dir. Larry Yust
Feat. Douglas Fowley, Ruth McDevitt, Frances Fuller; A blackly humourous yarn about a group of retired tenants who are willing to go to extremes to prevent eviction. Inventive genre pic belies its low…
Young Frankenstein (1974): Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr…; One of Mel Brooks' best is this on–target parody of Mary Shelley's gothic legend and especially James Whale's classic 1930s film versions.…
Multiple Maniacs (1970): Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce…; John Waters' second film is this gloriously gory send–up of both mainstream and counter–culture. Populated by a cast of beloved Waters…
Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The (1966): Dir. Alan Rafkin
Feat. Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond…; A pretty darned funny Don Knotts vehicle that has the rubber–faced comedian as a timid typesetter who hasn't a chance of becoming a reporter…
Addams Family, The (TV Series) (1964-1966): Feat. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy…; Macabre 1960s sitcom about a family whose gothic lifestyle and trappings make for a mordant contrast with 'apple–pie' America. 22 episodes…
Munsters, The (TV Series) (1964-1965): Dir. Various
Feat. Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis…; Memorable TV–comedy set around a ghoulish–looking, but otherwise normal family – who are mystified as to why everyone reacts so…
Ghost on the Loose (1943): Dir. William Beaudine
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Leo Gorcey; At the 'Ed Wood' end of the horror–comedy canon, this has Lugosi haunting the suburban house of some newlyweds. Also stars screen…
Black Cat, The (1941): Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford…; A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Cat and the Canary, The (1939): Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard; Bob Hope lends his charm to this playful remake of 1927 expressionist silent film about siblings who inherit an uncle's fortune but must first prove…

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