Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Spoof: 182 Films to Buy & Rent
- Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
- Dir. Michael O'Donoghue
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher…
- Notorious spoof of the Italian schockumentaries is the brain child of Saturday Night Live's oddball genius Michael O'Donoghue.
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- Cheap Detective, The (1978)
- Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan…
- Neil Simon's spoof of Bogart detective movies, with Falk fitting comfortably into his raincoat. A mixed bag, but worthwhile for those…
- Flying High (Airplane!) (1978)
- Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges…
- Side–splittingly funny lampoon of the Airport / Disaster movie genre, voted the best comedy of all time in 1999 by EMPIRE magazine.
- Rutles, The (All You Need is Cash) (1978)
- Dir. Gary Weis, Eric Idle
Feat. Michael Palin, John Belushi, Bianca Jagger…
- The mock–Beatles twist and "rut" in a spot–on piss–take of the Fab Four, led by Monty Python’s Eric Idle and making a…
- High Anxiety (1977)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman…
- Mel Brooks' affectionate tribute to Alfred Hitchcock threads a story by lampooning famous scenes from the Master's films including THE BIRDS,…
- Soap (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Billy Crystal, Katherine Helmond, Robert Mulligan…
- Still the best satire of the television soap opera, this initially controversial series enveloped its line–up of characters in plots involving…
- Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It, The (1977)
- Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. John Cleese, Arthur Lowe, Stratford Johns…
- Fans of John Cleese will delight in this dapper detective parody starring the tall one as the bungling descendant of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Lowe…
- Big Bus, The (1976)
- Dir. James Frawley
Feat. Ned Beatty, Stockard Channing, Rene Auberjonois…
- One of the first and best of the 'Disaster Movie' spoofs – set aboard a nuclear–powered bus which loses its brakes somewhere along the…
- Mastermind (1976)
- Dir. Alex March
Feat. Zero Mostel, Bradford Dillman
- Plenty of slapstick and movie in–jokes as Zero Mostel plays the fool in this enjoyably bizarre Charlie Chan detective spoof. Released in 1976.
- Peeper (1976)
- Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn…
- Patchy noir send–up with Caine as a poor man's Phillip Marlowe struggling to find a missing woman, with his biggest obstacle being himself.