Horror-comedies are a tricky beast to tame. Go too far in one direction, and you risk losing the scares; lean too much into the other, and the humour falls flat. Werewolves Within, directed by Josh Ruben, finds that sweet spot—delivering a blend of small-town paranoia, quirky comedy, and just enough bite to keep things interesting.
Tag: Horror Comedy
Cemetery Man (1994) – Review
“Hell, at a certain point in life, you realize you know more dead people than living” and it is with this sentiment we get an insightful look into the protagonist of Michele Soavi’s “Dellamorte Dellamore” – or Cemetery Man as it is also known – a film that masterfully blends dark humour, existential musings and…
The Black Cat (1941) – Review
The 1930s and 1940s were a Golden Age of “Old Dark House” stories with such offerings as The Cat and the Canary and Horror Island populating theatres, but when you blend that “Old Dark House” setting with one of the works by the greatest Gothic writers of all time, Edgar Allan Poe, you are pretty…
Tremors: Three Decades of Graboid Fun
Back in 1990 Ron Underwood and a few of friends thought to bring back the old monster genre made popular in the 50s, the one that dealt with giant ants and the like, but even though their little movie was about subterranean worm-like creatures it didn’t quite set the box office on fire, yet it…
The Ghost Breakers (1940) – Review
With the success of 1939’s The Cat and the Canary, Paramount Pictures were quick to re-team Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard for another go and what better way to ensure success than star them in another horror-comedy, one with both a spooky local and nefarious villains for our leads to run from.