Research Update 9-11-10 (Comedy - Sub genre)

Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literacy and film genre, combining elements of comedy and horror fiction. The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre; and in some respects could be considered a subset of it.

As we all well know comedy is a popular demand from any generation with a purpose to provide humour especially in television and film. Horror is what unsettles the viewers bringing forth emotions of fear and disgust.

This enables us when we come across this sub genre to be intrigued in how it will be made possible to achieve this goal of laughter and fear.



Shaun of the dead is a popular romantic comedy horror film, directed by Edgar Wright and releashed in 2004. The trailer displays to the viewers that it contains the conventions of an comedy horror with the endless humour coming from actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost along with the gory zombies that appear throughout with missing limbs and disfigured faces.





Another example of a comedy horror is Lesbian vampire killers, a british film that was releashed in 2009 and directed by Phil Claydon.