Are you a fan of funny, scary movies? How about scary, funny movies? Does it matter which comes first? Certainly, movies like Re-Animator are meant to scare us, but they can turn out to be a laugh-out-loud riot. Meanwhile, Young Frankenstein definitely falls on the comedy side of scary, funny movies.
From funny zombies to vampires suffering from teen angst to mummies terrorizing nursing homes to a guy who chops off his own hand because it went bad, this list has a little bit of everything.
Before Sarah Michelle Gellar, we had Kristy Swanson as the cheerleader-turned-vampire-slayer going up against a vampire so fearsome he made made Bela Lugosi look tame: Pee Wee Herman. Perhaps not as funny as some other movies that could have slipped on this list (should I mention Re-Animator again?), Buffy makes the number 10 spot because of the legacy she left. It's also a pretty funny flick.
9. Scream
A slasher film that makes fun of slasher films, Scream successfully walks that path between spoof and scary and ends up as a very entertaining flick. One of Wes Craven's best, this scary, funny movie is now the gold standard of how to bring a light-hearted edge to a horror flick.
8. Beetlejuice
"I've seen the Exorcist about a hundred and sixty-seven times and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it." Need I say more? While definitely on the comedic side of scary, funny movies, Beetlejuice is a classic, and one of Michael Keaton's funniest performances. (Okay, maybe a close second to his character in Night Shift.) If you haven't seen this one, put it on your Netflix queue. It's not going to scare you, but you'll definitely learn the folly of saying "Beetlejuice" three times in a row.
7. Fright Night
Boy meets girl. Boy takes girl back to his place. Girl starts getting in the mood to get down and funky. Boy becomes to preoccupied with his bloodsucking neighbors to notice. A classic tale! Fright Night is just one of those cheesy teenager movies that works.
How do you put the cool back into vampires? Make Kiefer Sutherland a creature of the night. Let's face it, we all wanted to be Kiefer back in the day, even if his acting chops were never up to par with his father's. The Lost Boys had it all, cool vampires, great quotes, and the Corey & Corey duo that makes any comedy great.
Where do you put this? The scary side of scary, funny movies? Is any zombie movie ever really scary? Perhaps not those slower-than-a-baby's-crawl zombies, but these dead guys can move. Heck, if you'd just dug your way out of your grave, you'd be moving pretty fast too. One word to sum it all up? Brains...
4. Bubba Ho-Tep
The idea of calling anything an instant classic is pretty stupid and makes me wonder if the person actually knows what the word "classic" means. But if I were forced to pick one movie can call it an instant classic under pain of death -- like one of those zombies in Return of the Living Dead is after me or I'm threatened with sitting next to Pee Wee Herman in a movie theatre -- I'd have to go with Bubba Ho-Tep. It has just about everything you want in a movie: John F. Kennedy played by Ozzie Davis, mummies terrorizing a nursing home and Bruce Campbell as an old, fat Elvis who gets a handjob by Ella Joyce. Perhaps the only thing funnier is Bruce Campbell's commentary on it.
It's creepy, it's scary, it's the psychopath-who's-funny long before Dexter. It's Christian Bale. And not the scary Christian Bale who yells at his mother and is mean to people on the set of his latest movie. The creepy one who stalks the city streets as an uptight yuppie who wants to become the next serial killer but isn't quite up to the task.
2. Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead? Good question. But we've already got a funny zombie flick, and Hot Fuzz is one of those few rare gems where we already know the schtick from Shaun of the Dead and yet it still cracks us up just as much. Besides, the one thing that is needed on a list of scary, funny movies is a buddy cop flick, right? Hot Fuzz pretty much set the gold standard for the funny, scary, buddy cop bromance category.
1. Evil Dead 2
Where would this list be without the film that put Bruce Campbell on the map? The source of such memorable quotes as "I'll swallow your soul" and "Is that an eye in your mouth or are you just happy to see me?" Okay, Bruce doesn't say that last one, but the eye-in-the-mouth scene is vintage Sam Raimi. Forget everything you think you know about Army of Darkness, this is the funniest of the trilogy.
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