“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” Combining comedy and horror seems like a natural mix. After all, what better way to lull teenagers into a temporary sense of security than with a gentle dose of humor before scaring them out of their wits? It’s the peanut-butter and chocolate of genres! Ever since Abbott and Costello met Frankenstein, creative folks have been trying to mash these disparate emotions together, but have met with wildly mixed results. For every Re-Animator or Shaun of the Dead, there are a dozen awful attempts to mix blood with yucks. And it’s dangerous territory to tread
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