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Zombie comedy

Index Zombie comedy

The zombie comedy, often called zom com or zomedy, is a film genre that aims to blend zombie horror motifs with slapstick comedy as well as dark comedy. [1]

66 relations: Abigail Breslin, An American Werewolf in London, Army of Darkness, Bio Zombie, Black comedy, Braindead (film), Buck Wild, Burying the Ex, C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D., Cannibalism in popular culture, Cockneys vs Zombies, Comedy horror, Dance of the Dead (film), Dawn of the Dead (1978 film), Day of the Dead, Dead & Breakfast, Dead Snow, Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead, Deadheads (film), Devon Sawa, Edgar Wright, Emma Stone, Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Fido (film), Film genre, First Platoon, George A. Romero, Go Goa Gone, Gordon Douglas (director), Gregg Bishop, Haitian Vodou, Horror fiction, Horror film, Idle Hands, Jean Yarbrough, Jesse Eisenberg, Juan of the Dead, King of the Zombies, Life After Beth, List of comedy horror films, Matthew Leutwyler, Motif (narrative), Mr. Vampire, MTV News, My Boyfriend's Back (1993 film), Night of the Creeps, Peter Jackson, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, Redneck Zombies, ..., RogerEbert.com, Sam Raimi, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, Seth Green, Shaun of the Dead, Slapstick, The Return of the Living Dead, Tokyo Zombie, Trip Ubusan: The Lolas vs. Zombies, Warm Bodies (film), Woody Harrelson, Zombie, Zombie eXs, Zombie Strippers, Zombieland, Zombies on Broadway. Expand index (16 more) »

Abigail Breslin

Abigail Kathleen Breslin (born April 14, 1996) is an American actress and singer.

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An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 horror comedy film written and directed by John Landis and starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter and Griffin Dunne.

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Army of Darkness

Army of Darkness (also known as Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness) is a 1992 American horror comedy film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi, co-produced by Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell and co-written by Ivan Raimi.

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Bio Zombie

Bio Zombie is a 1998 Hong Kong zombie comedy film, starring Jordan Chan.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Braindead (film)

Braindead (also known as Dead Alive in North America) is a 1992 New Zealand splatstick comedy horror film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Jackson, along with Fran Walsh and Stephen Sinclair.

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Buck Wild

Buck Wild is a zombie comedy horror film directed by Tyler Glodt, written by Glodt and producer Matthew Albrecht, and starring Albrecht, Jarrod Pistilli, Dru Lockwood, and Isaac Harrison as four friends who must faced zombies on their hunting trip in rural Texas.

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Burying the Ex

Burying the Ex is a 2014 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and written by Alan Trezza.

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C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.

C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. is a 1989 comedy horror film, directed by David K. Irving, written by M. Kane Jeeves and stars Brian Robbins, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Bianca Jagger, and Gerrit Graham in the title role.

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Cannibalism in popular culture

Cannibalism in popular culture is a recurring theme, especially within the horror genre, and has featured in a range of media that includes film, television, literature, music and video games.

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Cockneys vs Zombies

Cockneys vs Zombies is a 2012 British zombie comedy film directed by Matthias Hoene and written by James Moran and Lucas Roche.

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Comedy horror

Comedy horror is a literary and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction.

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Dance of the Dead (film)

Dance of the Dead is a 2008 American independent zombie comedy, directed by Gregg Bishop and written by Joe Ballarini.

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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)

Dawn of the Dead (also known internationally as Zombi or Zombie) is a 1978 American independent zombie horror film directed by George A. Romero.

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Day of the Dead

The Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, in particular the Central and South regions, and by people of Mexican ancestry living in other places, especially the United States.

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Dead & Breakfast

Dead & Breakfast is a 2004 musical horror/comedy film directed by Matthew Leutwyler starring Ever Carradine, Gina Philips, Erik Palladino, Bianca Lawson, Jeremy Sisto and Oz Perkins.

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Dead Snow

Dead Snow (Død snø) is a 2009 Norwegian zombie splatter film directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Jeppe Laursen, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Jenny Skavlan, and Lasse Valdal.

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Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead

Dead Snow: Red vs.

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Deadheads (film)

Deadheads is a 2011 American zombie comedy film co-directed, co-written, and co-produced by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce.

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Devon Sawa

Devon Edward Sawa (born September 7, 1978) is a Canadian actor.

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Edgar Wright

Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter and producer.

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Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress.

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Evil Dead

Evil Dead is an American horror film franchise created by Sam Raimi consisting of four feature films and a television series.

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Evil Dead II

Evil Dead II (also known in publicity materials as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn) is a 1987 American horror comedy film directed by Sam Raimi and a parody sequel to the 1981 horror film The Evil Dead.

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Fido (film)

Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton.

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Film genre

A film genre is a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film (namely, serious, comic, etc.). Most theories of film genre are borrowed from literary genre criticism.

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First Platoon

First Platoon is an upcoming post-apocalyptic zombie comedy film which is in pre-production.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.

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Go Goa Gone

Go Goa Gone is a 2013 Indian zombie comedy film directed by Raj and D.K..

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Gordon Douglas (director)

Gordon Douglas (December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures.

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Gregg Bishop

Gregg Bishop is an American film director, producer and writer.

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Haitian Vodou

Haitian Vodou (also written as Vaudou; known commonly as Voodoo, sometimes as Vodun, Vodoun, Vodu, or Vaudoux) is a syncretic religion practiced chiefly in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Idle Hands

Idle Hands is a 1999 American horror comedy film directed by Rodman Flender, written by Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer, and starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, and Vivica A. Fox.

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Jean Yarbrough

Jean Yarbrough (August 22, 1901 – August 2, 1975) was an American film director.

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Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American actor, author, and playwright.

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Juan of the Dead

Juan of the Dead (Juan de los Muertos) is a Spanish-Cuban comedy zombie film written and directed by Alejandro Brugués.

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King of the Zombies

King of the Zombies is a 1941 American horror comedy film directed by Jean Yarbrough and stars Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, and Mantan Moreland.

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Life After Beth

Life After Beth is a 2014 American comedy horror film written and directed by Jeff Baena.

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List of comedy horror films

This is a chronological list of comedy horror films.

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Matthew Leutwyler

Matthew Steven Leutwyler (born July 23, 1969) is an American writer, director, producer.

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Motif (narrative)

In narrative, a motif is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.

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Mr. Vampire

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MTV News

MTV News is the news production division of MTV.

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My Boyfriend's Back (1993 film)

My Boyfriend's Back is a 1993 American romantic horror comedy film directed by Bob Balaban which tells the story of Johnny Dingle (Andrew Lowery), a teenage boy who returns from the dead as a zombie to meet Missy McCloud (Traci Lind), the girl he's in love with, for a date.

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Night of the Creeps

Night of the Creeps is a 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Fred Dekker, starring Tom Atkins, Jason Lively, Steve Marshall and Jill Whitlow.

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Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is a 2006 black comedy musical-horror film from Troma Entertainment, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and co-directed by former long-time Troma editor Gabriel Friedman from a screenplay by Friedman and Daniel Bova.

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Redneck Zombies

Redneck Zombies is a 1987 American horror comedy trash film directed by Pericles Lewnes and released by Troma Entertainment.

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RogerEbert.com

RogerEbert.com is an American website that archives film reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays.

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Sam Raimi

Samuel M. Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American filmmaker, actor, and producer famous for creating the cult horror ''Evil Dead'' series, as well as directing the original ''Spider-Man'' trilogy (2002–07), the 1990 superhero film Darkman, and the 2013 Disney fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful.

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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a 2015 American zombie horror comedy film directed by Christopher B. Landon and written by Landon, Carrie Evans, Emi Mochizuki and Lona Williams.

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Seth Green

Seth Benjamin Green (born Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green; February 8, 1974) is an American actor, voice artist, comedian, producer, writer and director.

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Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 comedy horror film directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost.

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Slapstick

Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.

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The Return of the Living Dead

The Return of the Living Dead is a 1985 American horror comedy film written and directed by Dan O'Bannon, and starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, and Don Calfa.

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Tokyo Zombie

is a manga written in 1999 by Yusaku Hanakuma.

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Trip Ubusan: The Lolas vs. Zombies

Trip Ubusan: The Lolas vs.

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Warm Bodies (film)

Warm Bodies is a 2013 American paranormal romantic comedy horror film based on Isaac Marion's novel of the same name.

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Woody Harrelson

Woodrow "Woody" Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor, comedian, activist, and playwright.

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Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.

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Zombie eXs

Zombie eXs is a 2013 American zombie comedy film written Jean Cohen and George Smith, directed by George Smith, starring Aex Hammel-Shaver, Scott Keebler and Madison Hart and distributed by Alternative Cinema/Bloody Earth Films.

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Zombie Strippers

Zombie Strippers is a 2008 American zombie comedy.

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Zombieland

Zombieland is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic horror comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

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Zombies on Broadway

Zombies on Broadway (or Loonies on Broadway in the UK) is a 1945 American horror comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_comedy

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