Theme: Carry on Spooking. Some of us are too scared to watch actual proper horror movies, but filmmakers around the world have been kind enough to provide us with a subgenre we can feel comfortable watching. The horror comedy transforms scares into laughs and makes them palatable for even the biggest wimp. Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein might seem like a somewhat anachronistic approach to parody in today's self-relexive, post-modern era but the laughs still come thick and fast. Gene Wilder plays a descendant of Victor Frankenstein and sets out follow in his footsteps. Fans of Universal's 1931 classic rendition of Mary Shelley's tale will get great pleasure from the onslaught of visual and verbal gags littered throughout. For a more modern take on the horror parody, this comedy horror double bill concludes with Shaun of the Dead, the British movie about a zombie invasion in suburbia which has already become something of a minor classic. Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg show off their fan boy credentials with countless references to classic horror movies, but there are plenty of great gags for the uninitiated to sink their rotting teeth into.
