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The Little Shop of Horrors
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) is Roger Corman's black-and-white horror comedy, shot in about two days on leftover A Bucket of Blood sets, about Seymour Krelborn and a bloodthirsty talking plant; basis of the 1982 Ashman-Menken musical and 1986 film.
The Man with Two Brains
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin as a brain surgeon in love with a disembodied brain.
The Monster Squad
The Monster Squad is a 1987 American horror comedy directed by Fred Dekker and co-written with Shane Black, in which kids battle Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman; a box-office flop that became a cult film.
The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House (1932) is a James Whale pre-Code Universal horror-comedy adapted from J.B. Priestley's Benighted, starring Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, and Gloria Stuart; once considered lost, it was rediscovered and restored in 4K.
The People Under the Stairs
The People Under the Stairs is Wes Craven's 1991 horror-comedy about boy burglar Fool trapped in his landlords' fortified LA mansion with imprisoned children under the stairs; a satirical, politically charged cult film being remade by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw.
The Quiet Family (조용한 가족)
The Quiet Family (조용한 가족, Jo-yonghan gajok) is Kim Jee-woon's 1998 South Korean black comedy horror debut: a family running a mountain lodge buries guests who keep dying; it ranked 6th at the 1998 Korean box office and was remade by Takashi Miike as The Happiness of the Katakuris.
The Raven (1963 film)
The Raven is a 1963 American comedy-horror film directed by Roger Corman, loosely adapted from Poe's 1845 poem and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff.
The Spooky Bunch (撞到正)
The Spooky Bunch (撞到正) is a 1980 Ann Hui horror comedy, written by Joyce Chan and produced by and starring Josephine Siao, about a Cantonese opera troupe haunted on Cheung Chau; Hui's second feature and part of her phantom trilogy.
Theatre of Blood
Theatre of Blood (US title Theater of Blood) is a 1973 British black comedy horror film directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Vincent Price as actor Edward Lionheart, who murders theatre critics using deaths copied from Shakespeare plays; adapted for the National Theatre in 2005.
Vampire's Kiss
Vampire's Kiss (1988) is a Robert Bierman black comedy-horror starring Nicolas Cage as literary agent Peter Loew, who believes he is becoming a vampire. Written by Joseph Minion, it flopped ($725,131 gross) yet became a cult classic and meme source.
Waxwork
Waxwork is a 1988 American horror comedy, the feature debut of writer-director Anthony Hickox, distributed by Vestron Pictures. Teens enter wax displays of evil figures; grossed $808,114; sequel Waxwork II (1992).
We're Going to Eat You
We're Going to Eat You (Diyu wu men) is Tsui Hark's 1980 Hong Kong horror-comedy-kung fu film about Agent 999 (Norman Chu) trapped in a cannibal island village hunting the criminal Rolex, produced by Seasonal Film Corporation.