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Top 15 Horror Comedies!
Jun. 14th, 2011 08:43 pmI've never been terribly big on being scared by movies. But movies will generally benefit from a good atmosphere and a sense of fun, so what better genre to do both those things than the horror comedy?
15 Severance (2006)
I love Christopher Smith's work, but I'm a bigger fan of his recent movies "Triangle" and "Black Death". Still, this movie was good fun and was the first movie to get me to notice him as a director. It's becoming clearer as time goes on that he pulled off quite an exceptional feat in pulling such a good performance out of Danny Dyer. Laura Harris comes in as the American actress to raise the film's international success and does a pretty cool job. (Some may remember Laura Harris for her role in "The Faculty", a horror-comedy which narrowly missed a place on this list.)
The thing that annoyed me about Severance was it's use of the whistle-and-bang method (whereby scary sounds ending with a loud sound are used to make the audience jump). This method is ridiculously effective on me in the sense that it always makes me jump, however it's horribly annoying because it takes my attention away from the thing that's actually supposed to be scaring me on screen. Thankfully, the use of this in Severance is pretty sparing and often turns out to be a red herring. It's mainly to keep the audience guessing and is rarely used explicitly for things that are genuinely scary.
It's the story of a team-building exercise with administrators from an arms dealing company. I really don't think I need to add anything to that. None of the characters is really in the business of using arms. They just sell them. Tim McInnerny is particularly awesome in his role and is really showing his versatility in his career these days, coming a long way since his role of Captain Darling from Blackadder. Things get quite horrible in places, but it never turns into torture porn. There's one scene which I'll just call "the scene with the plane" that is absolutely hilarious and guarantees this movie a place on the list.
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15 Severance (2006)
I love Christopher Smith's work, but I'm a bigger fan of his recent movies "Triangle" and "Black Death". Still, this movie was good fun and was the first movie to get me to notice him as a director. It's becoming clearer as time goes on that he pulled off quite an exceptional feat in pulling such a good performance out of Danny Dyer. Laura Harris comes in as the American actress to raise the film's international success and does a pretty cool job. (Some may remember Laura Harris for her role in "The Faculty", a horror-comedy which narrowly missed a place on this list.)
The thing that annoyed me about Severance was it's use of the whistle-and-bang method (whereby scary sounds ending with a loud sound are used to make the audience jump). This method is ridiculously effective on me in the sense that it always makes me jump, however it's horribly annoying because it takes my attention away from the thing that's actually supposed to be scaring me on screen. Thankfully, the use of this in Severance is pretty sparing and often turns out to be a red herring. It's mainly to keep the audience guessing and is rarely used explicitly for things that are genuinely scary.
It's the story of a team-building exercise with administrators from an arms dealing company. I really don't think I need to add anything to that. None of the characters is really in the business of using arms. They just sell them. Tim McInnerny is particularly awesome in his role and is really showing his versatility in his career these days, coming a long way since his role of Captain Darling from Blackadder. Things get quite horrible in places, but it never turns into torture porn. There's one scene which I'll just call "the scene with the plane" that is absolutely hilarious and guarantees this movie a place on the list.
( Read more... )
Honourable Mentions
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Cross-posted to
candycorncomm (X-post part one)
(X-post part two)
