I was thinking about the 4th spot on my Mt Rushmore next to Return of the Living Dead, TCM pt2 & Evil Dead 2, can't believe this slipped my mind, but it makes my mountain complete, thank you.
Friday the 13th Part 6 is the first entry that I've seen and still my favorite. It has kids in the camp, hilarious meta jokes, and Tom Mathews as the best Tommy Jarvis.
Horror comedies, or horror movies holding a mirror up to society with a wink and a nod, are like a good drink with more than one component. Everything has to be mixed just right for the taste to go down well. I think the eighties, and the nineties with the first three "Scream" movies (part 3's release got moved from 1999 to 2000), were the time for these. There was just something about the time and atmosphere for them to be digested by audiences. "Jason Lives" is an example where the humor/satire in the movie made the series seem fresh and new again for the viewer. It is just mixed so well. "Chainsaw 2" had what the audience needed, it just took folks getting over the fact that it came with the gore. Once again, another amazing entry in this series. Looking forward to next week's episode! Cheers!
I love horror comedies, especially some of the ones mentioned. Interestingly, I never saw Once Bitten as a horror comedy but rather as a straight-up comedy about a vampire. Loved this episode. Keep 'em coming!
Your childhood reaction to Jason Lives is exactly the same as my childhood reaction to The Gate (1987). The only films with horror elements that I'd seen previously were Gremlins, Jaws, and Ghostbusters. One night my folks rented The Gate for me. I was doing ok until the scene with the demonic version of his parents. The demon dad says something like "you've been bad", then his face falls apart and melts, and his demon mum's head falls off. I screamed like a banshee 😂 But I was hooked and finished watching it the next day when it was light and I knew what to expect. That started my love for horror and an addiction to being scared by films. The scene in Poltergeist where the guy is rubbing his face in the bathroom and his skin starts falling off was another one that freaked me out loads as a kid.
The dead tree outside the window in Poltergeist did that to me, because I had an old dead tree outside _my_ window, too. The clown scene freaked me out, too, though clowns never really scared me. And there was the guy eating the chicken that had maggots in it, then his face falls off in front of the mirror. (Man, that movie really was terrifying to kids lol)
My god, i still use the tag line from TCM2 "Bitch-Hog" to this day. Or say "Hog Bitch" when the proper time comes. I still love that movie, 37 yrs later. Choptops Dad: "What ya do now you Fudge Packers?!!" 😆😆. It has tons of great lines.
I love horror comedies I made some of my own horror comedies some good ones had a bit of a underground cult following on the internet. Texas chainsaw massacre 2,Friday the 13th part 6, House,House 2,Night of the creeps, Sleepaway camp 2 & 3 are my favs.
Trick Or Treat with Skippy in it is just the best and greatest movie ever!!! When napster came out, fastway trick or treat was the first song i downloaded!!!!!!! I was so excited to search for it and found it. I'll even watch this movie here on youtube from time to time too. Man i'm glad i found someone else who likes this movie. This is another one that is hard to find on any type of media.
It always bugged me how siskel and ebert would absolutely trash Friday the 13th sequels for their “misogyny and violence” yet they would completely shine Scorsese’s knob when It came to movies that featured mobsters beating their wives, spraying each others brains on the walls and a long, extremely detailed scene where dudes are bludgeoned to death with bats and buried partially alive.
Jason Lives, Dream Warriors and Texas Chainsaw 2 are my favorite films in their respective solo outings. I'm not even that big of a fan of serious horror movies. Almost every favorite horror movie I have has comedy in it. Maybe my all time best horror film is Idle Hands.
80’s horror is the best! Practical makeup and monster effects done in camera. Filmmakers working at the top of their game. The slasher genre becoming mainstream.
Haha, that's great. I had almost the same introduction to Friday the 13th. My older sister rented part 7 for me when I was like 8 years old. Scared the hell out of me but now at 41 years old....Jason has been my all time favorite horror character ever since. And seriously, what is up with the audio....was that purposely done to replicate 80s VHS mono sound?
Slaughter High(1986) produced by Dick Randall and Stephen Minasian(Pieces 1982) starring Caroline Munro(Maniac) with music composed by Harry Manfredini(Friday the 13th movies)
I can dig it man...F13th pt 6 is my introduction into the horror genre also...now every Jason Voorhees film...1-7, is coolness and the remake aka 12... 8, 9, 10 and 11 are take or leave to me...
Jason Lives would be an awesome first horror movie. Mine was The Howling I too was 3 and freaked out but I was frozen with terror at the metamorphosis scene and couldn't look away so my dad had to turn it off.
the first claim made "a comedy with just a little horror in it, not a good idea" this is exactly what ghostbusters was. that film had no problem being awesome nor making money.
as i've gotten older, i gravitate towards horror that have comedy in them. at the end of the day, i just want to have fun and be entertained. also, having watched horror for over 40 years now, it's nearly impossible to really scare me. if i'm looking to be scared, i'm almost guaranteed to be disappointed. also, Bad Taste by Peter Jackson is an absolute blast
5:21 Should probably mention that it was supposed to be called "Goblins." Studio politics is why it ended up with the title 'Troll 2'. 5:50 Ackchyually, House 2 came out in 1987, but it takes place in 1986. Evil Dead 2 came out in 1987, but it takes place in 1982 (but none of knew that until Ash Vs. Evil Dead made the timeline coherent and canon). 6:40 One word: "Duel" 8:14 It always irritates me when people do that in movies. We all learn not to do that when we're, like, five years old. 10:02 Wait. So she came home and THEN rented it? Don't you mean that came home after having rented it? 14:06 To the tune of Oingo Boingo's 'No One Lives Forever', no less. 14:46 "I'm the lord of the harvest." 15:01 "Minds." Plural. [cue The Nostalgia Critic's "be disturbed" quip] 16:51 Thank you! Also, we notice details (lookin' at you, Sam Raimi, with your overuse of pointlessly flopped scenes even though you know we notice them as you pointed out in the commentary to Evil Dead 2).
I had a friend. Foreign exchange student who I thought would find the humor in house. He didn’t. In fact I ended terrorizing him. Deer hunting was big where I grew up and we went to see a friend just as her father splashed water into a deer carcass to wash out its guts then I showed him a creek where we got leeches and ticks and he got to my house before me stripping his clothes immediately screaming they are sticking my blood. I was also visiting my dad in a city. So I was callous about both
My Mt Rushmore is TCM pt2, Evil Dead 2, Return of the Living Dead & American Werewolf in London. The first time I watched Evil Dead 2 I thought it was stupid, the second time I watched it I realized I was stupid, I was expecting something different the first time I watched it due to it's name, so I guessed I watched it with bias because of that. Thankfully I came to my senses...
the stuff and sleepaway camp (there were more than 1 of the latter) were awesome. some of these i'm writing down though as i've not seen them, i wasn't alive during the entirety of the 80's.
my horror intro as a child was evil dead 2 around roughly 1988 when i was 7 (no older siblings, but cool enough parents to let me watch them), but of the top 5 for me as a youth, all the fridays, mostly friday part 6, for sure i've seen friday 6 more than the others.
my horror intro as a child was evil dead 2 around roughly 1988 when i was 7 (no older siblings, but cool enough parents to let me watch them), but of the top 5 for me as a youth, all the fridays, mostly friday part 6, for sure i've seen friday 6 more than the others.
Once Bitten, The Stuff, Vamp, Critters, Brain Damage, And Re-Animator Just To Name A Few Horror Comedies. P.S. JOBLO Can You Cover Invasion Of The Body Snatchers From 1978.
I’ve been looking for a film for at least 30 years but only saw the first 20 mins and don’t know the title. Can anyone help It starts with an old style house and a party indoors, some people get into an elevator and there’s someone hiding at the top with a paper bag on their head and then it cut out. It looked scary when I was a kid and have wanted to know what it was for years 😂
I LOVE Fri 13 jason lives.. it makes me sick that siskel and ebert complain about slasher movies and miss how this movie is comic gold.. I mean the two boys complaining are wonderful 🙂
This guy has no clue. People who laugh in a movie theater after getting scared are laughing at themselves and each other. They're laughing at the fact that they allowed themselves to jump and actually get scared at "just a movie." Plus laughter is a nervous reaction for some people. They're NOT laughing AT the movie, genius. So saying "that's why horror and comedy go with each other" is a huge asspull. Sorry you can't convince true horror fans to accept that BS.
Something went TERRIBLY wrong in the 1980s TIMELINE of HORROR in 1986/1987. The hardcore 1978-1983 FAN-guys were OUT! Movies got TOO SLICK and TOO JOKEY . (And I am a 1969-1974 Horror-Fan-Guy ; THUS YOU can ONLY IMAGINE what I thought of late 1980s horror comedies!) DISCUSS. (And you 1978-1983 guys PLEASE watch my back on this !)
I think the dream warriors was pinnacle Freddy. Just my opinion, after that each sequel got more campy and goofy until new nightmare made him scary again. That godawful revenge of Michael myers where the two goofy cops are arriving on the scene and there’s like.. clown music playing as if it’s their theme song… 🤦🏻♂️
