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MonsterGuy95	Best Horror Comedies (Pre 1960)	Lead	[-]
May 3 12 4:47 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	1. A&C MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) 2. THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE (1930) 3. OLIVER THE EIGHT (1934) L&H Short 4. YOU'LL FIND OUT (1940) 5. A&C MEET THE KILLER, BORIS KARLOFF
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Frankensteinhead		#1	[-]
May 3 12 7:08 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I would add GHOST BREAKERS(1940) and, at the risk of stirring things up here, THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE OLD DARK HOUSE, and BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. For me, Whale created the horror comedy.
Victor Frankenstein		#2	[-]
May 3 12 7:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	House on Haunted Hill / The Tingler are pretty funny...
oglebee		#3	[-]
May 3 12 8:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Invisible Woman 1940 The Cat and the Canary 1939 Topper 1937 and the sequels 1937---
flashback		#4	[-]
May 3 12 10:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	what is the definition of horror comedies?i contend that bride of frankenstein, the invisible man and the old dark house are not horror comedies.also house on haunted hill and the tingler.they are straight up horror movies.
Frankensteinhead		#5	[-]
May 3 12 1:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	flashback wrote: what is the definition of horror comedies?i contend that bride of frankenstein, the invisible man and the old dark house are not horror comedies.also house on haunted hill and the tingler.they are straight up horror movies. A horror-comedy is a movie that contains elements of both genres. It frightens you one minute and then makes you laugh the next. Define straight up horror movie.
dracsback		#6	[-]
May 3 12 1:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN GHOST BREAKERS If you go more recent then I would add: THE GHOST AND MR CHICKEN AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON but you didn't so I'll stick with the first two. "I saw what I saw when I saw it!"
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Rick		#7	[-]
May 3 12 3:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If you're ranking them, I'd definitely slide THE GHOST BREAKERS in the second spot. And there's also SCARED STIFF, the Martin and Lewis remake. I'm not inordinately fond of it, and it's not a patch on the Hope movie, but it's probably worth a look. Hope's CAT AND THE CANARY doesn't quite make it for me, but it's a near thing. There are also near-horror comedies, such as Red Skelton's 3-film series as The Fox, particularly WHISTLING IN THE DARK. I certainly understand the opinion that INVISIBLE MAN, etc., might fit the description. Ol' Jimmy Whale liked a good joke. But, ultimately, I think all three of those films come down pretty solidly as horror films with comic elements. They all finish up with a scream, not a chuckle. Last Edited By: Rick May 3 12 3:08 PM. Edited 1 times.
oglebee		#8	[-]
May 4 12 8:35 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Man Who Could Work Miracles 1936 Certainly had some comedic elements, Wells is a lot of the screenplay, without Una O'Connor cackling like a frightened mental patient (somehow invoked as Whale's comic injection), obnoxious and entirely unnecessary. I'm not sure that 'comedic elements' are horror comedy as defined.
horrorfilmx		#9	[-]
May 4 12 11:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'd suggest that although A & C Meet Frankenstein gets the top spot The Ghost Breakers is actually a better movie.
Rapfred		#10	[-]
May 5 12 12:25 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959) "Bring on the multitudes with a multitude of fishes; feed them with the fishes for liver oil to nourish the Artist." -- Maxwell H. Brock, poet
Grant		#11	[-]
May 5 12 10:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Definitely. "What is not the infinite is graham crackers!" Even though it isn't highly thought of, always liked The Gorilla (' 39).
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