The Plagues And Pleasures Of Horror Comedy
Breaking down horror s most misunderstood sub-genre.
By Stephanie Crawford · @scrawfish · April 23, 2021, 2:04 PM CDT Alan Tudyk and Taylor Labine in TUCKER AND DALE VS EVIL.
Much like its parent genres, the “horror comedy” has endured huge swaths of time as a beleaguered label despite constantly proving that there are throbbing veins of gold in those haunted hills. Unlike prototypical horror films, however, ones purely concerned with foolery and ghoulery are much easier to dismiss. Horror has functioned as an effective cloak for commentary on everything from bigotry to the dissolution of the family unit to environmentalism and beyond since its inception, but you try to tell someone about