Comic-Horror Halloween movie recommendations
I’ll lump several in here in this post together. These should tell you if we have similar senses of humor when it comes to horror.
Idle Hands, 1999 featuring Devon Sawa, Seth Green and Jessica Alba. Boy’s hand become possesed and he must keep it busy to stop it from killing people. Great comic dialog in several parts.
8 Legged Freaks, 2002 A horror comedy a la radioactive waste meets natural creepy. Plus, the spiders make scuttly chittering sounds – hilarious! Stars David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer (rowr) and Scarlett Johansson.
Lake Placid, 1999 (Would appear that 1999 was a banner year for horror movies, hm?) A classic of horror comedy in the vein of all the big monster movies like Them. Giant aligator lives in lake and eats people. Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman and Oliver Platt (whom I love in almost everything he’s done).
Arachnophobia, 1990 Saw this the first time at the drive in. Talk about shit scared – wind blew in the window and brushed my hair over my arm. It’s got it’s funny moments courtesy of John Goodman but also reminds me of Hitchcock. You see the bad thing coming and the suspense builds. Features Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Julian Sands (mm, mm) and Harley Jane Kozak.
Black Sheep, 2006 from New Zealand. I can’t honestly say this was a great movie, or that I’d watch it again. But… violent sheep attacking the citizenry. Were-sheep, people! Were-sheep! How can you not watch that at least once? Zombie film level of gore.
There are a lot more that I’ll get chastised for leaving off, but I think a lot of folks have probably seen the ones I’m leaving off. Plus, since I really love this genre, this post would be really, really long.
Tags: comedy, horror, movies & television
Can’t believe I missed “Idle Hands” looks hilarious. Saw the others–Lake placid is the funiest, love Betty White. Correction, saw the trailer for Black Sheep, guess I’ll have to check it out.
Happy Halloween, Autumn–or is that redundant.
Saw them all, loved them all!!!
well i definitely like the song by Offspring!! looks like cute flick nicole. (happy to see it’s not a slasher movie)
well i definitely like the song by Offspring!! looks like cute flick nicole. (happy to see it’s not a slasher movie) okay i got to :31 in the spider flick. ditto for arachnophobia! geez nicole, this stuff freaks me out- gotta split!
LOL. Sorry, Lynn. It’s probably gonna be like this around here for another week or two. I’ll have to start putting “Lynn safe” tags on my trailers. :)
LC, you and I need to hang out. :)
cbullitt, Idle Hands was something we picked up out of boredom and lack of new movie choices at the time. None of the crew had seen the trailers or the movie in theaters. As so many of our choices like that do, it turned out to be well worth it. We can generally find some redeeming feature in most shit movies, though. Even in an utterly awful horror movie who’s name I can mercifully not remember, there was a ballet dancing undead Viking who spun through the hallways with axes out and said “dop.” No idea what that means, but we laughed hysterically. It was kind of that “I can’t believe this movie is this bad and OMG is that a freakin’ Viking spinning through the hotel hallway?”
Wasn’t there some pathetic movie where Michael Caine’s hand went all crazy and sort of scooched around over the sidewalk and shit killing people? Or was that one of my dreams?
Not a dream. The Hand. It’s really bad.
I dreamt my hand went all crazy and I started stabbing Michael Caine once. FACT.
How many “evil hand” movies are there then? I count Idle Hands, The Hand, and Evil Dead 2.
Body Parts with Jeff Fahey, again from 1999. Loses arm in accident, replaced with arm of serial killer. Arm makes him seek out and gather all the other body parts.
I think it is a recurring theme because it bothers us to think of our body rebelling against our control.
Of course the classic (I actually OWN this on DVD) is “The Thing With Two Heads.” Ray Milland! I know, it’s not exactly a disembodied part, but an “extra” head (Rosie O’Donnell), but still. I laugh my ass off every time. I’ve gotten other people to watch it. They either laugh like I do or I never see or hear from them again.
Why did I type in Rosie O’DONNELL? OMG. I meant Rosie Greer. They’re both weird, though.
Actually haven’t seen that one. Our screening movie is “Invasion!” (The only listing I could find in IMDB was for “Top of the Food Chain”, but it’s the same movie) Alien invasion movie that is modeled after the 1950s classics, but that doesn’t take itself seriously at all. Some classic lines. It generally takes a certain odd sense of humor to sit through this movie.
“Jesus says, Aye, there’s the rub.”
“I found the remains of a dead human body deceased in the lumpy bumpy parts of town outside of town.”
I also adore seeing the cameraman in the reflection of a glass door in one scene. But the “Jesus says” line…Christ (sorry) that line was used a lot after viewing w/ friends, I know that.
no need for “lynn safe” warning nicole, soon it will be all but a memory..
Aw. I’m sorry, Lynn. I’ll do my best to come up with something besides the spooky movie trailers. :)