Horror comedy is a genre of film that uses hohhor to build suspence, and comedy to add a sense of comic relief. Horror comedy often crosses over with black comedy as they both use dark and scary themes to create humour. Washington Irving's "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" is seen as the first good horror comedy and made people laugh one minute and scream the next. Horror comedy also comes under Gallows humor, like black comedy.
One popular Horror comedy is lesbian vampire killers. The basic plot is that of a vampire horror, with women being enslaved to the vampires by an ancient curse. However the film plays on the way that men see lesbians as sexy women and the lesbian vampires are seen as being desirable women. On their eighteenth birthday, every girl will turn into a lesbian vampire killer and the two main characters must fight their way through it. The film also consyains actors well known for doing comedy films.
The settings for horror comedy are often very similar to the settings in horror films. They are usually spooky houses or deserted forests, however sometimes they are in more populated areas to express humans being the enemy. They also have lots or bad weather to set the mood and give more opportunities for things to go wrong. Storms and rain are the most common weather types in horror flms as they can cut off phone signals and create disasters. Most of the locations have a dark and tragic histpry, giving them another lair of scariness.
High and low angles are used often as they can connote fear and powerof characters within the scenes. They often use a mix of shot lengths as long, flowing takes can show a building of tension as the samera doesn't leave the character. However short takes going quickly can show a sence of chaos and show panic that the characters re feeling. POV shots are good as you feel close to the character and relate to them, making you feel the the fear that they do.
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