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Comedy Film: Young Frankenstein
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Comedy horror is a type of horror film in which the usual dark themes are treated with a humorous approach. These films are either use goofy horror clichés such as in The Old Dark House, Young Frankenstein, Little Shop of Horrors, Haunted Mansion and Scary Movie where campy styles are favoured. Some are much more subtle and don't parody horror, such as Shaun of the Dead. Another style of comedy horror can ... rely on over the top violence and gore such as in Dead Alive (1992), Evil Dead (1981), and Club Dread.
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Comedy and Hammer films are not really two things that one would speak about in the same sentence. Hammer films are of course more readily associated with horror movies, but comedy believe it or not is something that Hammer was doing long before they resurrected the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy. The studio had its most lucrative success with a comedy film, On The Buses, based on the very popular television series. This was the first of three movies that Hammer made about the antics of Stan Butler and his grinning advisory Inspector Blake or Blakey. So it is quite fitting that this compilation begins with the music from this trio of saucy sidesplitters. On The Buses is first on the collection, and it is the title song ‘It’a A Great Life On The Buses’ that is included, performed by singing group Quinceharmon.
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A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films. Such films employ sarcasm, stereotyping, mockery of scenes from other films, and the obviousness of meaning in a character's actions. Examples of this form include Blazing Saddles (1974), Airplane! (1980), and Young Frankenstein (1974).
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Other films from this period in other genres incorporate elements of the screwball comedy. For example, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps features the gimmick of a young couple who find themselves handcuffed together and who eventually, almost in spite of themselves, fall in love with one another, and Woody Van Dyke's 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man portrays a witty, urbane couple who trade barbs as they solve mysteries together. Mnay of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the 1930s ... feature screwball comedy plots, notably The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935).
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