15 Greatest Horror Movie Comedies

George A. Romero and Stephen King come together to pay respect to the EC and DC Horror Comics of the ‘50s with a fantastic and funny anthology of five short films wrapped around by a better than usual framing story.

The five stories can be a little hit and miss for some with The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill and the schlocky Father’s Day letting down the whole for some viewers. The absolute highlight is the middle story - Something To Tide You Over with Leslie Nielsen’s character getting revenge on his young wife and her lover (Ted Danson). Nielsen is on wonderful form here.

The two other stories rounding out the five are more solid horror offerings with a tale about a germophobe sealing himself into his apartment only to be overrun by cockroaches and a tale of two professors and a box which reads ‘Danger: Do Not Open’. Altogether it’s a quite brilliant, campy and sometimes creepy anthology which wears its love for the genre on its sleeve. King and Romero prove a winning partnership and Tom Savini’s effects work is always fantastic.

Joe Hill, King’s author son, also cameos as the little boy reprimanded for reading horror comics by his father in the framing story.