strange_complex: (Penny Dreadful)
strange_complex ([personal profile] strange_complex) wrote 2022-05-08 09:08 pm (UTC)

Agreed. Though I think we're here touching on something else which we haven't yet articulated above, which is that as well as the balance between the two mattering, it also matters that both the comedic and the horrific aspects in the story are any good at all. I think my overall dislike of horror-comedies stems from there being far too many crappy comedies out there clothing themselves in horror's colours to bad effect, and just feeling like an insult to the genre as a result. Maybe it's all too tempting to think that sending horror up will in and of itself be funny, when in reality horror is already a pretty self-aware genre which is quite capable of poking fun at itself, so a little more effort than that is needed? So, as you've shown, there are examples of both horror spliced with comedy and comedy spliced with horror that work. But in either case, both sides of the equation need to pull their weight, and I think too often the comedy-first examples fall down on that.

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