Ready or Not Is That Rare Horror-Comedy with Real Laughs
Horror comedies are hard. Ready or Not proves they don’t have to be.
Happy Death Day (2017)
Happy Death Day is a welcome example of refreshingly unpretentious B-movie filmmaking from Blumhouse.
Bad Milo (2013)
Bad Milo has everything it needs to be a modern cult horror-comedy classic, from an eclectic, impressive cast (Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Kumail Nanjiani, Peter Stormare) to a perfectly silly conceit: a monster living in the rectum of sadsack Duncan (Marino) that emerges in a homicidal rage whenever he’s overcome with stress. Why, then, does…
Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)
“What relationship? You kill them; I bury them in the football field! This is not your basic boy-meets-girl!” The gradual shift of the Prom Night series into Nightmare on Elm Street is complete here; Mary Lou even comes complete with retractable blade-nails. Except this time she murders not to avenge her unjust death (Prom Night…
Severance (2006)
Severance is a good office comedy, a decent slasher, and an excellent, enjoyable film when those two halves mesh. An example of this: A motley collection of office workers from a weapon manufacturing company have gathered in a remote lodge for a team-building exercise. They’ve begun to share scary stories about the “true nature” of…
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