horror comedy
Life Lessons I Learned from House II: The Second Story
Movies can be great teaching tools. Most of my generation was raised on TV. Not every picture can teach great lessons, of course, but horror has proven surprisingly good at it. The...
How ‘Dead Alive’ Beat ‘Shaun of the Dead’ to the Punch by 14 Years
Everyone remembers their favorite zombie comedy, the one about the guy with the stagnant life, a meek and ambitionless adult who needs to take action in a surprisingly sincere romantic comedy to save ...
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is Pure Madness [The Rabid Dog’s House]
The Rabid Dog’s House is a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where contributor Justin Steele uncovers hidden gems, lost classics, and overlooked indie offerings with a little bite. Flying...
5 Must See Short Films From Buried Alive Film Festival 2022
While most of the attention goes to features at film fests, short films are just as worthy of eyeballs. These tiny terrors can offer a glimpse into the minds of up and coming filmmakers from around th...
An Ideal Host Throws A Horror Comedy Party Worth Crashing [Chattanooga Film Festival 2021 Review]
All Liz (Nadia Collins) wants is to throw an amazing dinner party at her rural Australian farmhouse. An ideal host, old friends, and a new home combining to make an unforgettable day. Her fiancee Jack...
It Cuts Deep Never Even Scratches Horror Or Comedy [Nightstream Film Festival Review]
It Cuts Deep starts with the prototypical slasher film murder. Naughty teens decide to have sex instead of studying, and are promptly dispatched with a machete. Without explanation, we then jump cut t...
Spontaneous Will Totally Wreck Your Head [Review]
Spontaneous has notions of being this year’s Happy Death Day, with its caustic sense of humor and anti-heroine lead, but lands somewhere closer to Me and Earl and the Dying Girl only with consi...
Get The Hell Out is a Zombie Comedy That Succeeds at Satire And Splatter [TIFF Midnight Madness Review]
Within the first 90 seconds of I-Fan Wang’s Get the Hell Out, the President of Taiwan has lunged at the neck of a Parliament member’s throat and doused the legislators on the floor in arte...
Zombie Comedy, Yummy Is Far From Delicious [Fantasia Review]
As many undead hordes as have shuffled across screens in the past two decades, Lars Damoiseaux’s Yummy is likely the only one created with the assistance of the VAF, a Flemish arts grant usually...