15 Horror Comedies You Should See Before You Die

It often makes you wonder about the tastes of modern audiences when horror comedies - a combination of the two most downright enjoyable genres in cinema - usually manage to both be a turn-off critics, and fail at the box office. If ever a genre had the potential for send-up, it€™s the one that spawned the immortal classics Unfriended, Ouija and Annabelle. Then again, it€™s entirely possible that a modern crowd just doesn€™t want to see horror being parodied. A decent horror comedy (or, failing that, Scary Movie 5) will make fun of all the genre conventions and spoof their weaknesses, and the people who€™re itching to see another Friday the 13th eboot don€™t want that. Or maybe they watched A Haunted House and Vampires Suck and wrote off the idea that horror can be funny. It can, but you won€™t find many laughs in those opportunistic would-be comedies, so let€™s not go there. As is usually the case, that cinematic effluent was given a wide release while a bunch of movies that actually worked were consigned to oblivion. To seek out the best in comedy horror, you have to fearlessly search through all those Netflix and DVD titles you€™ve never heard of. Or you could just check out the following. It€™s your dime.

15. Infestation (2009)

You€™ve probably never heard of this giant bug movie, and thanks to The Asylum et al, you€™re probably sick of creature features, but Infestation has several things going for it, including better than average monsters. A combination of practical and digital effects, these suckers can take over a city in a heartbeat, cocooning the inhabitants and storing them for food. Led by Cooper (Christopher Marquette), a slacker in the Chuck mould, a handful of survivors arm themselves and attempt to destroy the bugs€™ nest. A movie that never takes itself too seriously, Infestation asks such important questions as, €œCan you use a Taser against a giant bug?€ (Yes, but the bugs tend to explode). Packing more fun into its 92 minutes then you€™ve seen in a dozen Syfy films, Infestation is one big bug movie you need to check out.