10 Hilarious Horror Films That Weren't Supposed To Be Funny

3. Resident Evil: Apocalypse

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If you’ve ever wondered how the world might react to a zombie outbreak, this sequel tells you: when surrounded by zombies, everyone will turn into a stereotype. There’ll be a token black guy performing gangsta shtick, “cool” heroes who leap from helicopters firing two guns simultaneously and a cackling Evil Genius who shoots his own people.

Also around are some disposable supporting characters who behave in really stupid ways including sneaking up on armed-to-the-teeth colleagues, hiding from zombies in a graveyard and tying up a zombified relative (using barbed wire!) because “she’s not well.” That qualifies the picture for so-bad-it’s-good status, but it’s the movie’s antagonist that makes you wonder if the filmmakers were playing with a full deck.

Looking like the offspring of Pinhead and Jesse Ventura, the Nemesis’s arsenal includes machine guns, grenade launchers and a gun like the one Jesse had in Predator, but while he proves adept at causing collateral damage, he’s never able to acquire his target.

During a lengthy chase with Milla Jovovich, doors become toothpicks, walls are demolished and entire buildings collapse, yet Jovovich doesn’t suffer so much as a scratch. Hope he didn’t cost six million dollars.

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'