Comedy Horror

Horror comedy is a literary and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. The genre almost inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre; and in some respects could be considered a subset of it. Horror Comedy will often use satire on horror clichés as its main source of humour or take a story in a different perspective, like The Cabin in the Woods and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. The short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving is cited as "the first great comedy-horror story". The story made readers "laugh one moment and scream the next", and its premise was based on mischief typically found during the holiday Halloween.

Cabin In The Woods

Five teenagers head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods. They arrive to find they are quite isolated with no means of communicating with the outside world. When the cellar door flings itself open, they of course go down to investigate. They find an odd assortment of relics and curios, but when one of the women, Dana, reads from a diary written in Latin, she awakens a family of deadly zombie killers. However, there's far more going on than meets the eye.

Dracula Dead And Loving It

Dapper Count Dracula relocates from his Transylvanian castle to Victorian London with his slavish assistant, Renfield, in search of new blood. He finds it in a pair of beautiful young women, Mina and her best friend, Lucy. When Mina's straitlaced fiancé, Jonathan, notices his future bride's odd behaviour, he calls in his mentor, vampire hunter Van Helsing, to save the day.

Black Sheep

Sheep-fearing Henry returns to his brother's New Zealand farm, hoping his sibling will buy out his share of the property. However, what he finds are genetically altered sheep that prey on humans and turn their victims into undead, woolly killers. Shear madness ensues as Henry, an animal-rights activist and a farmhand set out to stop the rampaging animals.