With this article, I'll be listing what I consider to be the best blends of Horror and Comedy, a bizarre blend as Horror's meant to scare you and Comedy is meant to make you feel good. I'll list some Honorable Mentions as there are several that disserve a nod, and then list the 5 films I consider to be the best.

Before I start though, I'd like to say that these are films I have seen. No doubt there are other films that would disserve an honorable mention, maybe even a spot on the top 5, but the issue is I haven't seen them. Films like Braindead and the more recent Teeth have gotten a lot of praise, but I've yet to view them, and hence why they won't make the list. Also, I know others might disagree with the order I have things, and if you have your own view of what's best, great, but this is what I view as the best.

So let's begin!

Honorable Mentions

Dance of the Dead
2008

The Zombie genre has been around since the 60's and every now and the entries within the genre have been very up and down. Here, we have a very good up. The film takes place in a small town during High School Prom. A local nuclear power plant is causing the dead to rise and when it comes to saving the survivors, all look to none other then the nerds and outcasts. This film has all the usual Zombie elements to please horror fans, and unlike some high school themed films, the teens in this film are actually enjoyable, and a good parody of Teen Nerdism.

This film duo would spawn off several films about small evil little monsters, most notable being Critters, Ghoulies and Troll. The first film is about an inventor who stops at a shop owned by a Chinese man who sells antiques. There, he finds a mogwai, a little furry creature. The owner refuses to sell it, but his grandson sells him behind his back. The inventor takes it home to his son and is named Gizmo, but is warned of the 3 rules: No Bright or Sunlight, Don't let them touch water and Never feed them after Midnight. The rules however, were failed to fallow. The sequel would take place in Manhatan years later, with Gizmo and the son. The first film would fallow the trend of darker humor and more adult like audiences, while the sequel would fallow a more slap stick way. Either way, you'll get a chuckel from these films.

Hocus Pocus
1993

Disney vary rarely dives into the Horror, but when they have, it hasn't always been bad. Take this film for instance. The story is bassed off the classic Salem Witch Trials, only the witches being truly evil. 3 Sisters steel away a girl and uses a potion to make her soul viable to consume so they can grow young, when her brother intervenes, he is turned into a cat, never allowed to die from anything forever. After they're tried and hanged, they are again resurected by a teenager 300 years later who is love struck and lights a forbidden candle. What really makes this story is the Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy and Beth Midler all as the witches. They do wonderfully to be both terrifing and a villian and at the same time make you laugh.

Ever wonder what would happen if Jaws happened on ground? This film asked that question and it was a fun film to be sure. In Perfection Valley, Nevada (an excluded valley from mountains and clifs) Val and Earl are fed up with there life and want to leave, but as they plan too, bizzare events occure. They eventully learn that there are giant worm like creatures that almost swim through the dirt and and hunting them. The film has spawned 3 DTD sequels/prequel and a TV series. Really, only the first sequel was worth while.

Abbott & Costello
Meet Frankenstein
1948

Everyone remembers Abbot and Costello from back in the day, the classic duo. They also remember legends of Horror like the 1930's Wolf Man, Dracula and Frankenstein. All 5 Collide in this film. Wilbur and Chick are both delivering a crate to a Museum of Horrors, but accidently brake it open. The crate contains the actual remains of Dracula, and when he awakens, he also brings the creature back to life who is also on display. To make matters worse, The Wolf Man has come to put an end to them, but with a new Moon coming, can't. The Invisible Man also has a comeo apperance and would lead to years later Abbot and Costello meet the Invisible Man.

Now that these films are done, we'll begin the actual list.

#5. Younge Frankenstein
1974

Plot: Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (he has it pronounced Fronk-on-stin) is a well respected Dr. and College Proffessor, although he struggles with his Fiance and his famouse grandfather, Victor Frankenstein. When his great grandfather passes away and leaves his estate to him, he meets up with his new assistants Igor (pronounced Eye-Gore), the lovely Igna and the orriginal caretaker Frau Blucker. Once there, he discovers his grandfather's work and tools, and relies he could actully continue the work. However, with unrest in the town by his arrival and Igor's mistake in retrieving a brain, things go horribly wrong.

When well known Comedy Director Mel Brooks failed to get rights to remake the 1931 classic, he instead thought up the next best idea, make a comedic sequel to it. And that's what he did. One huge part of this is easily the acting, as Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Fieldman and Cloris Leachman all play there parts wonderfully. Some jokes could have got repetitive and old, like references to Igor's Eyes and Inspector Kemp's accent, but they manage to make it funny from beginning to end. Other jokes you would never think of at all, like the creature doing a music number and dancing. This also I think might be the only film with Gene Hackman and Peter Boyle in a scene together. Mel Brooks would try again with horror when he parodied Dracula in Dracula: Dead and Loving it, but it would not meet the same success.

Favorite scene:
Inga: There must have been someone else here.
Frederick: It would seem that way, and there's the only other door.
Igor: Wait master…it might be dangerous….you go first.

#4. Beetlejuice
1988

Plot: Adam and Barbara live a happy life in there small town house. Sadly for them, that life is cut short, along with there lives. Now ghosts, they must face a new challenge when a bizarre new family starts to move in and re-model and change there house. There daughter Lydia however can see them and bond together. However, when she fails to help them change things, they turn to outside help, a self-proclaimed free lance bio exorcist, with whom all you need is to say there name 3 times. Sadly, they would make the biggest mistake ever by saying his name 3 times: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!

This one you might remember from my Scaries for Kiddies article a few months back. The brain child of well known Gothic Director Tim Burton, this film marked his second stab into Directing. Knowing that he had a limited budget Burton decided to go a B-Movie route and make more corny and cheesy, a decision which would make this one of his most well known pieces of work to date, along with Batman and Edward Scissor Hands. What also builds upon this film is some great acting by such names as Alec Baldwin, Wynona Rider and the man who made the film, Michael Keaton.

Favorite Scene:
Adam: What I mean is…can you be scary?
Beetlejuice: Oh! He wants to know if I can be scary…
*Jerk off Motion*
Beetlejuice: What do you think of this?
*Face explodes open, scaring Adam and Barbara, then goes back*
Beetlejuice: You like it?

#3. Ghostbusters
1984

Plot: Parapsychologists Peter, Ray and Egon have just made the biggest discovery ever: concrete finding of a ghost. Unfortunately, they've just been let go by the university that funded them. With Equipment they've invented to capture and contain ghosts, they decide to go on there own as a business. Aside from 1 customer (The lovely Dana who witness bizarre creatures in her kitchen), the business at first is slow. It quickly starts to pick up as more sittings happen, so much they hire help with Winston as the work loads are too much. However, they soon start to notice that all the ghost sittings could be leading to something more horrifying, and to make it all worse, Walter Peck of the Environment Protection agency is not liking there work and wants it stopped.

The greatness of this film isn't hard to see. For a cast, we have some comedy icons with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, not to mention other good actors with Sigourny Weaver, Ernie Hudson and Rick Moranis. The SFX for the time are actually quit impressive, between the ghosts and the Ion guns used to catch them. The creeps in the film also are wide ranged; some are comedic while others are generally scary. The film also has a few non-comedic parts that go very dark and even scary at times (example: Winston and Ray in the car talking about Judgment Day) with out stopping the comedy of the film. The film would produce a sequel, but despite the few things that made it good, never lived up as it felt like it just recycled a lot of the first film. After years of speculation and talk, Ghostbusters 3 is set to begin production this year.

Favorite Scene:
Ray: Gozar the Gozarian? Good Evening. As a Duly Designated representative of the city, county and state of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity, and return forthwith to your place of origin, or the nearest convenient parallel dimension.
Peter: That ought to do it, thanks very much Ray.

#2. Shaun of the Dead
2004

Plot: Shaun should be living it up: he has a loving mother in Barbara, a good job, lives with 2 longtime friends for roommates with Pete and Ed and has a loving girlfriend in Liz. But he isn't, he struggles with his stepfather Phillip with whom he never really bonded with. His coworkers at his job give him no respect at all. Pete is fed up with Ed who never works and is always lazy, and is tired of Shaun defending him. To top it all off, Liz has had enough of Shaun's no where life style as she's tired of them just drinking at the Winchester every night. One night, after everything boils over, Shaun just drinks his troubles away. The next mourning, he discovers that a lot has changed over night, manly in that the dead is now walking.

In the mid 2000's, we had a ton of Zombie films coming out, so much that it was getting dull. With so much, it was only natural that it would be parodied, but thankfully it would be done right. In the hands of British writers/filmmakers Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, this film would not only mix horror with comedy, but mix it with a unique style of comedy I don't think any of us would expect, romantic comedy. Really, throughout the film, we watch as Shaun and Liz struggle with there feelings and how they want to spend there lives together, and are almost hoping they can resolve it. This film also does something most films don't do; it takes a realistic approach to zombie films. When Shaun and Ed first see a zombie, the mistaken her for a drunken woman, it isn't until they accidentally impale her that they would suddenly relies that something is not right at all.

Favorite Scene:
Ed: Hey Shaun, look who it is!
*Zombie Pete walks into the room*
Shaun: Fuck a doodle doo!

And now, what is the #1 film to ever blend Horror and comedy? Some of you might have guessed it. Here is film #1 and it damn well disserves it!

#1. Army of Darkness
1993

Plot: In Evil Dead 1, Ash, his girlfriend and there friends go to a secluded cabin in the woods. Unknown to them, an evil and ancient book discovered by an archeologist was stored there and summons evil from the surrounding woods. The evil would take the kids 1 by 1 until Ash was the only one left.

In Evil Dead 2, the film begins retelling the events of the first film, only with Ash and his Girlfriend being the ones who arrive. After his lover is possessed and has to kill her, he must seek help of some travelers who come. They too are killed off by the evil and Ash himself is nearly devoured by the forest under its possession, but thankfully escapes through a time portal.

In the third and final film, Army of Darkness, Ash is now in the dark ages of England and is captured by Lord Arthur who suspects him of being allied with Duke Henry the Red, who is also captured after a battle between the 2 kingdoms. Back at the castle, he is assaulted and embarrassed by several people, including Sheila who blames him for her brother's death in battle. However, after surviving a pit full of Demons with his Shotgun and Chainsaw and frees Henry, the people take him in as a hero. They then inform him that he must retrieve the Necronomicon in order to be returned to his time, which is in a cursed part of the land. On the way there, he encounters several dangers, and accidently awakens an army of the damned, led by an evil version of him.

The first Evil Dead film wanted to take a break from the standard "Masked Slasher" horror film which, at the time, was becoming standard, so they instead went in the rout of possession. Using cheap tricks and B-Movie style, it became memorable for having some brutal scenes of blood and violence (it had a rape scene where a girl is violated by tree roots). Its sequel would delve more into the B-Movie style and have more comedic elements. So what was Sam Raimi to do for a third film? Go Balls to the Fucking Wall with it! The film doesn’t hold back on the make up and SFX and doesn’t try to hide anything, the Army is clearly skeletons done by claymation or by wires, but your enjoying yourself too much to think "Damn this is cheesy". But what really makes this film is 1 man. Bruce Cambell. No actor could ever do Ash and pull off the one liners like this man, NONE! Sure, there have been classic lines by the action hero's before getting a kiss, but I can't see anyone saying "Get me some sugar Baby…" and pull it off like Bruce. Other jokes like the 3 Stooges style gags with the Skeleton hands in the graveyard couldn't have worked with out Bruce. He made this movie; he is with out a doubt the king of B-Movie

Favorite Scene. This one was tough cause so many scenes in this film is awesome, and while I was tempted to go with the "Give me some Sugar Baby" line, there was one other I thought went above them all: Evil Sheila: You found me beautiful once. Ash: Honey…you got real ugly.

So there you have it. The 5 greatest Horror-Comedy films ever, as I view them. Sure, if I see one someday that is better then one on the list, this will of seemed irrelevant. But until then, I say these are the best you can get. So check them out, and scream, from either fear or laughter.