The Plagues And Pleasures Of Horror Comedy
Breaking down horror s most misunderstood sub-genre.
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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
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[Editor’s Note: The below piece was originally published on October 23, 2018. It has been expanded from the 100 greatest horror movies of all time to the 120 greatest as of April 10, 2021.]
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