One of the main movie genres comedy is enougheasily interbreed with other genres, such as detective, fantasy, adventure and horror. The comedy of horrors is a film in which comedy episodes organically combine with fragments of horrors, often to this subgenre carry parody films. The fact is that the original fear is as strong an emotion as joy. Horror films cause this powerful emotion.
After watching such a movie as a horror comedy,the viewer is satisfied in full, because he was amused and frightened, and in general these feelings are similar. And the development of this genre is favored by the introduction of 3D technology. Pay attention to announcements and posters: what is now in 3D format? Fantasy, fairy tales, horror movies, that is, those films where special effects are needed, and there is something to show. To shoot a comedy in a new-fashioned format is like throwing money away. But frightening is another matter: it's interesting that something from the screen crawls out, jumped out. And in this case the comedy of horrors is an ideal option: fun and entertaining. Nevertheless, regardless of the flexibility and infinity, the inexhaustibility of subjects and themes, a decent comedy of horrors to remove is not easy. Specificity of the genre requires ingenuity and high skill from the whole creative group: from the writer and director to the actors.
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The main component of the horror comedy isall familiar black humor, to which the lion's share of cynicism is added. Therefore, most often the whole comic effect consists of unbridled ridicule over death itself, physical and psychological handicaps, that is, those or other macabre themes. Often the excess of black humor brings the essence of the picture to the point of absurdity. Such black humor is characteristic of the mainstream directors of Hollywood: the Cohen brothers "Barton Fink", Robert Zemeckis "Death to her face," Quentin Tarantino's "Mad Dogs" and, of course, Tim Burton's "The Corpse of the Bride." The best comedies-horrors ridicule even sacred or untouchable themes, for example, the Edgar Wright film "Zombie by the Name of Sean." Comedy horror genre can be attributed many unrelated paintings, from the film R. Polanski's "Vampire's Ball" to the painting Nobuhiko Obayashi "House."
Comedy-horror, the list is almost endless
From the latest creations of cinema I want to highlight the following films, proudly called the "comedy of horrors":
- "Slaughter vacations" (2010). According to the story, a group of careless students (traditionally) will have to face representatives of a brutal village.
- "Welcome to Zombiland" (2009). The United States suffers from an invasion of bloodthirsty zombies, a group of survivors decides to make their amusement park an amusement park, at the same time and be drawn to the full.
- "A very scary movie" (1,2,3,4). Again, the plot is twisted around a motley company of students, pursued at least by a strange serial killer.
- "Night of the Living Fools" (2004). Three idiots perform the ritual Voodoo, returning home, fall into a car accident. When they wake up in the morgue, they realize that they are zombies.
- "My nanny is a vampire" (2010). The main characters have to fight with the vampires who captured their native school and city.
- "Faculty" (1998). A smart drive movie. The college is trying to capture aliens, students will have to unite and fight with their converted teachers - a dream, and only.
The following list will be irrelevant in the list: "Critters" all parts, "Planet of Fear" (2007), "Bloody Feast 2", "Evil Dead 3" (and 2 too), "Operation Dead Snow", "Zombie Strippers" .
