Unfunny intentional horror comedies

[GL]

After completing Killer Pad, and knowing that it was intended to be a horror comedy, as well as how I feel about certain other films in this category, is there any intentional horror comedies that you don't find all that funny?

[vexer]

Well Killer Pad dosen't sound too bad as I tend to go for extremely low-brow humor, but british horror comedies like Severance and Shaun Of The Dead don't do that much for me, those films both had great kill scenes, but I didn't laugh at them very much-though that's probably cause for the most part I just don't understand British humor, I don't like Monty Python at all either.

[GL]

It's not so much low-brow as it is just insanely stupid and moronic. If I'm a person who enjoys all those "Parody Movies" and such, and I found the comedy lame in this one, then it's really got some issues.

Here's just a small list of stuff that proves this point:

-The main guy's refusal to understand Spanish means that they continually misinterpret the local's warnings to leave as him merely asking for a brand of hot sauce, despite subtitles consistently pointing out otherwise.

-A person in the home is Satanically possessed, spins his head around on his neck several times before ripping out his heart, devouring it and then spitting it out at them, vomiting blood all over the room and then jumping out the window (of a third story room) and all they think about is cleaning it up in time to have the party later that evening and warranting nothing else in terms of behavior.

-When they arrive home from a day out and find the house in total disarray, food spilled on the floor, furniture knocked over and trash strewn about the place, they proclaim it to be the work of a group of homeless 'squatters' living in the basement, despite the fact that they earlier noticed that in the basement was a portal to Hell and it warranted no further investigation nor their attempt to leave upon the discovery.

-The theme with wanting revenge on the squatters is played out until the very end of the film, including after the Satanic minions had made their presence felt, which includes torturing the man who they think is the leader, who is instead the very one who is trying to warn them away the whole time, as they continually think his cries of warning are still him trying to score a bottle of hot-sauce.

-The guys are so hard-up and horny that they see three women in a hot tub, with their skin melted completely off and is almost down to the bone, yet they still insist on hitting on the girls, actually enter the tub to get closer to them, and after having intimate contact with them for several minutes, realize only after brushes of skin fall off onto them that they are indeed dead.

-Upon discovering a cache of bodies left dead by the Satanic minions, the guy's main concern is upon noticing that Joey Lawrence attended the party without attempting to clean up the remains, hide the bodies from others since they are discovered in a main area of the house or attempting to call the police.

-The minions are stopped because they play KISS' "Rock N Roll All Night" in order to banish them back to Hell.

That is merely a small sampling of the kinds of idiocy enacted in here, there's so much more it hurts me to have to type out more.

[vexer]

I was actually laughing when I read over all those scenes! I gotta check that film out, at least it's gotta be funnier then the overrated Severance.

[GL]

Well, then the only thing I can say furthermore on the matter is enjoy, since I found it to be a case of just way too much stupidity for me to think that there should've been a case of simple Darwinism in removing those morons from the face of the Earth. They were just beyond brain-dead stupid, and I can't handle that in my horror films, no matter how funny it was supposed to be.

And Severance is coming up in a week or so, I'll give it a shot then.

[vexer]

Oh yeah I just of another unfunny horror comedy with stupid characters that you'd probably hate more then this one-Phantom Brother, hardly a single laugh in that film.

[GL]

I've never heard of that one, it's an urban horror film, right?

[vexer]

Nope, it's an obscure slasher from the 80s.

[GL]

Oh, what's it about?

[vexer]

It had something to do with the main characters brother being in a nasty accident and killing off the crew of a low-budget movie or something like that.

[GL]

Hmm, sounds like a dime-a-dozen slasher actually but since it's a horror film, I'll probably give it a go sometime.

[vexer]

OK, keep in mind it's only availible on VHS and it's sorta pricey.

[phantasmzombie]

Fido. Really, really stupid.

[GL]

Fido was supposed to be a comedy? That's news to me.

I also don't see the humor in Return of the Living Dead. Great zombie film, the humor in that one just isn't funny to me.

[phantasmzombie]

I thought Return of the Living Dead was funny.

"You think this is a fuckin' costume? This is a way of life. " Priceless

[GL]

Well, I don't really know how to respond to that one.

[GL]

Well, after watching Severance, I have to say it wasn't that funny at all. In fact, remove one character completely and this could've easily been a straight-forward slasher with a few brief moments of levity to break up the tension, even though some of it was pretty funny. Just, as a fall-down funny horror-comedy, it wasn't all that great. I will agree that some of the stalking and kill-scenes were top-notch, but outside of the effeminate Yes Man who everyone kept telling to shut up, nothing else here was really all that primed for comedy.

[vexer]

Glad someone else agrees, Killer Pad looks a hell of alot more funny then Severance was.

[GL]

Killer Pad was just an insult to watch, the sheer moronicness of the characters was just too much to sit through. Severance was at least a good film when it wasn't being funny.

[vexer]

Well stupid characters usually make me laugh my ass off, so I don't really see that as a problem.