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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  An American Werewolf in London (1981)
How the f*ck is this normally described as a horror comedy?
It's not funny. It's f*cking scary. From the Slaughtered Lamb pub and the "Stay off the moors" warnings to being hunted by an unseen assailant in the tunnels of the London Underground. Not to mention that f*cking dream sequence!
Just because Griffin Dunne turns up as a putrefying corpse to warn his mate to kill himself or he'll turn into a werewolf does not make this remotely funny. |
I don't think it's funny in the same way that
Shaun of the Dead is funny –
An American werewolf in London has black, absurdist humour. I find the scene in the cinema funny. David Naughton's naked shenanigans in the zoo, particularly stealing a small boy's balloons, is something I always laugh at.
I would describe it as a horror-comedy, with the emphasis on the horror. Something like
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is a comedy-horror, much more the former than the latter.