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RE: Fave funny bits in horror films - 8/8/2011 9:13:30 AM

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I loved those really old horror movies prior to the 70's, where cheese was really cheesy. Movies like Attack of the 50 foot woman (not darryl hannah), The Crawling Eye, and one movie I cannot recall the name but the scene has remained in my mind as classic. It had tree people who walked very slowly (woodenly) and attacked humans. I remember this clearly because in one scene they wanted to have a bunch of tree people after a couple and they lacked the costumes to make a good tree crowd, so they had people in brown streaked paint carrying branches to look like trees.
Hilarious stuff.

Modern horror is too graphic for my taste. And too limiting.

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RE: Fave funny bits in horror films - 8/8/2011 12:35:46 PM

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The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre has quite a few laughs like a bit near the end of where the old guy who is the propietor has one of the women in a sack in his truck, and is whacking her with the stick while telling her not to worry.

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RE: Fave funny bits in horror films - 8/8/2011 2:03:33 PM

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If we're talking inadvertantly, rather than deliberately funny:

All of Razor Blade Smile (particularly whenever Eileen Daly has to deliver dialogue through a set of prosthetic vampire fangs apparently designed for somebody with a bigger mouth, or a greater ability to talk, or both)
Most of The Exorcist (you'd have to have a heart of stone not to piss yourself laughing at the pottymouth scenes)
Anthropophagous (anybody who wondered what sort of film Dario Argento would make if he'd been blinded and left brain damaged by a gunshot would to the head in his childhood should watch this, though I doubt even a blind, drooling Argento would come out with anything quite this bad)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (any film where the best bit is a close up of a splinter going into somebody's eye is in trouble, and the zombie vs shark wrestling match is funnier still)
Evil Tongue (anybody who wonder why Mindy Clarke didn't have much of a career after Return Of The Living Dead three should watch this: they'll soon realise that work dried up for the poor girl because people started pointing at her in the street and laughing after she did this heap of shit)
Altered State (the worst film Ken Russell has ever made: it ain't no Lair of the White Worm, put it that way)
Deadly Friend (I found this one a lot funnier than Wes Craven's "anybody who's ever paid to see one of my films before now is a retarded cunt who needs locking up" schtick in the fuckawful Scream. It has somebody's head crushed by a basketball...)
The Legend Of Hell House (a film where the big bad is the ghost of a man who was so insecure about being short that he had his legs cut off so he'd have an excuse to sit down all of the time)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (even funnier than the Mel Brooks or George Hamilton send ups: just check out those accents...)

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RE: Fave funny bits in horror films - 8/8/2011 3:25:07 PM

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I still have hot fantasies about gary oldman from BSD
I like most horror movies, but my brain just wont bring them up without prodding today

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RE: Fave funny bits in horror films - 8/8/2011 4:06:19 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Moonhead
If we're talking inadvertantly, rather than deliberately funny:

All of Razor Blade Smile (particularly whenever Eileen Daly has to deliver dialogue through a set of prosthetic vampire fangs apparently designed for somebody with a bigger mouth, or a greater ability to talk, or both)

She looked hot in her fetishware though! That was probably its raison d'etre. They probably couldn't afford proper teeth since it was made with a budget of about 50p and a stamp.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula (even funnier than the Mel Brooks or George Hamilton send ups: just check out those accents...)

Surely when it comes to comedy in horror nothing is better than Mel Brooks "Young Frankenstein" with Marty Feldman? Other stuff like Blazing Saddles is crap by comparison.

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RE: Fave funny bits in horror films - 8/8/2011 4:14:52 PM

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There was an awful horror movie spoof done in the early 1980s called "Student Bodies". Think "Scream" without the names or the cash-flow brought in by those names..... This movie was so bad it was funny- and the makers had to know it.

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RE: Fave funny bits in horror films - 8/8/2011 6:02:31 PM

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I rather like Bloodbath At The House Of Death, as far as deliberate send ups go.

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