10 Horror Spoof Gems That Are Funnier Than Scary Movie and You Know It!

Описание: Horror and comedy were always made for each other — they run on the same fuel: timing, tension, and the perfect moment of release. The best horror parodies aren't lazy spoofs throwing cheap shots at better movies. They're films made by people who grew up on the same stuff we did, who memorized every Hammer Horror kill, who understood that the most loving tribute to a genre is a perfectly aimed joke.

This countdown covers the ten best horror parodies ever made — from 1967 all the way to 1995 — and the range is extraordinary. Roman Polanski's gorgeous, deeply weird European vampire comedy that predated everything and got butchered by American distributors who didn't think audiences would know it was funny. Mel Brooks taking on both Hitchcock and Hammer, with Hitchcock himself sending a case of wine in approval afterward. George Hamilton playing Dracula as a hopeless romantic in Communist-era New York with a tan so deep it defies the vampire mythology entirely. The 1981 film that parodied slasher clichés before the clichés were even fully established. A pre-ER George Clooney with a magnificent mullet doing product placement gags that wouldn't become mainstream comedy for another decade. Plus the deeply strange, stacked-cast cheerleader massacre spoofs of 1982 that nobody talks about anymore — and absolutely should.

00:00 – Intro
01:20 – #10. Hysterical (1983)
03:36 – #9. Wacko (1982)
05:59 – #8. Pandemonium (1982)
08:14 – #7. Student Bodies (1981)
10:38 – #6. Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
13:11 – #5. Murder by Death (1976)
15:03 – #4. Dracula Dead and Loving It (1995)
17:25 – #3. High Anxiety (1977)
19:51 – #2. Love at First Bite (1979)
22:16 – #1. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)