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Little Evil

Little Evil (2017) is a Netflix horror comedy written and directed by Eli Craig, starring Adam Scott, Evangeline Lilly, and Owen Atlas, about a new stepfather who suspects his 5-year-old stepson Lucas is the Antichrist.

Love at First Bite

Love at First Bite, also known as Dracula Sucks Again, is a 1979 American vampire comedy starring George Hamilton as a Dracula evicted from Transylvania and relocated to New York.

Lumberjack Man

Lumberjack Man (2015) is an American horror comedy directed by Josh Bear, released by After Dark Films in the '8 Films to Die For' series. A demon logger slaughters church camp staff, soaking pancakes in their blood; Michael Madsen co-stars.

Magic Cop (驱魔警察)

Magic Cop (驅魔警察, aka Mr. Vampire 5) is a 1990 Hong Kong supernatural action comedy directed by Stephen Tung Wai, starring Lam Ching-Ying as a Taoist ex-cop fighting a sorceress using reanimated corpses to smuggle drugs; it earned HK$3,645,216 in Hong Kong.

Matinee

Matinee is a 1993 American comedy-drama directed by Joe Dante, starring John Goodman as a B-movie producer premiering his monster film in Key West during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Mimics (film)

Mimics (2026 horror-comedy, also listed as Mimics 2025) is Kristoffer Polaha's directorial debut, starring Polaha as impressionist Sam Reinhold, who pacts with the evil ventriloquist puppet Fergus; released February 13, 2026, filmed in Reno, Nevada.

Mom and Dad (2017 film)

Mom and Dad (2017) is a horror-comedy written and directed by Brian Taylor, his first solo feature, starring Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair as parents driven by mass hysteria to kill their own children; premiered at TIFF 2017, released January 19, 2018.

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (我左眼见到鬼)

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (我左眼見到鬼), romanized Ngo joh ngan gin do gwai, is a 2002 Hong Kong romantic comedy directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, starring Sammi Cheng as a widow who sees ghosts with her left eye and Lau Ching-wan as a classmate's ghost; it earned HK$30 million and Golden Horse nominations.

My Name Is Bruce

My Name Is Bruce is a meta comedy-horror film directed by and starring Bruce Campbell as himself, kidnapped by an Oregon fan to fight the demon Guan-di; written by Mark Verheiden, produced with Mike Richardson for Dark Horse.

Night of the Creeps

Night of the Creeps is a 1986 Fred Dekker horror comedy, also known as Dimensione terrore in Italy, about alien slugs from a thawed 1959 corpse turning a college campus into zombies; a TriStar box office flop that became a cult film.

Night of the Zoopocalypse

Night of the Zoopocalypse is a 2025 animated horror-comedy based on a Clive Barker story, directed by Ricardo Curtis and Rodrigo Perez-Castro: a meteor virus zombifies Colepepper Zoo's animals, and a wolf and mountain lion lead survivors to stop it.

Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls

Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls is a 2023 American comedy-horror film by Andrew Bowser, adapting his viral YouTube occultist character; Sundance 2023 premiere, $610,467 budget, starring Jeffrey Combs and Olivia Taylor Dudley.

Out of the Dark (回魂夜)

Out of the Dark (回魂夜), known in Taiwan as 整鬼專家, is a 1995 Hong Kong horror-comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau, starring Stephen Chow and Karen Mok.

Penny Lane Is Dead

Penny Lane Is Dead (also Penny Lane is Dead) is a 2025 Australian Ozploitation horror film, Mia'Kate Russell's debut feature, set in 1986, about a spiked-cupcake prank at a beach house that turns bloody; premiered at Adelaide Film Festival and streams on Shudder.

Piercing

Piercing is a 2018 American psychological horror film by Nicolas Pesce, adapted from Ryū Murakami's 1994 novel, starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska; premiered at Sundance 2018, released in the US in 2019.

Popcorn (1991 film)

Popcorn (1991) is an American-Canadian horror comedy directed by Mark Herrier, also known as Phantom of the Cinema, about film students stalked by a masked killer during a horror-movie marathon, filmed in Jamaica with Jill Schoelen and Dee Wallace.

Ravenous (1999 film)

Ravenous is a 1999 black-comedy cannibal horror Western directed by Antonia Bird, written by Ted Griffin, starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle; set in 1847, inspired by the Donner Party and Wendigo legend, it flopped at the box office but became a cult film.

Ready or Not (2019 film)

Ready or Not (2019 film) is a black comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. It stars Samara Weaving as a bride hunted by her wealthy in-laws.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is a 2026 Searchlight horror-comedy sequel to Ready or Not (2019), directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, starring Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton, released March 20, 2026.

Renfield (film)

Renfield is a 2023 American horror comedy film directed by Chris McKay, starring Nicholas Hoult as Dracula's long-suffering servant and Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula, released by Universal Pictures.

Rubber (2010 film)

Rubber is a 2010 absurdist horror-comedy film by Quentin Dupieux about a sentient tire in the California desert that kills people by making their heads explode.

Rumours (2024 film)

Rumours (2024) is an absurdist comedy-horror film by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, premiered out of competition at Cannes, in which G7 leaders get lost in the woods facing undead bog people; stars Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance, and Alicia Vikander.

Scared Shitless

Scared Shitless (2024) is a Canadian horror-comedy directed by Vivieno Caldinelli, written by Brandon Cohen, starring Steven Ogg and Daniel Doheny as plumbers fighting a genetically engineered creature in apartment pipes; premiered at Fantasia 2024, US release October 3, 2025.

Screamboat

Screamboat (2025) is an American horror comedy directed by Steven LaMorte, starring David Howard Thornton as a murderous Steamboat Willie on a Staten Island Ferry, made after the 1928 cartoon entered the public domain.

Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British comedy-horror film directed by Edgar Wright, in which Shaun (Simon Pegg) and his flatmate survive a zombie outbreak.

Shiver Me Timbers (2025 film)

Shiver Me Timbers is a 2025 British comedy horror film, Paul Stephen Mann's feature debut, in which a Halley's comet meteor transforms Popeye into a killer; one of three 2025 Popeye horror films.

Sketch (2024 film)

Sketch is a 2024 American family fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Seth Worley, starring Tony Hale, about a girl whose monster drawings come to life.

Slaughterhouse Rulez

Slaughterhouse Rulez: 2018 British comedy horror film, Crispian Mills's directorial work and first release from Pegg and Frost's Stolen Picture; fracking at a boarding school unleashes monsters, grossing $730,762 worldwide.

Slay (2024 film)

Slay (2024) is a Tubi Original horror comedy directed by Jem Garrard, starring Drag Race queens Trinity the Tuck, Heidi N Closet, Crystal Methyd, and Cara Melle as performers besieged by vampires at a biker bar.

Slither (2006 film)

Slither (2006) is James Gunn's horror-comedy directorial debut about alien slugs invading Wheelsy, South Carolina, starring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, and Michael Rooker; a box-office flop that became a cult classic with an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score.