Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Comedy: 190 Films to Buy & Rent
Howling III (Howling III: The Marsupials) (1987)
- Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Barry Otto, Imogen Annesley
- Another sequel to the werewolf horror comedy THE HOWLING, with the same director as THE HOWLING II (1985), filmed on location in and around Sydney,…
Monster Squad, The (1987)
- Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Andre Gower, Stephen Macht, Stan Shaw…
- A group of savvy kids attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monstrous cohorts – all familiar faces from Universal horror…
Class of Nuke 'em High (Atomic High School) (1986)
- Dir. Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman
Feat. Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton
- One of the better Troma–trash productions in which pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after…
Island of the Alive (It's Alive 3) (1986)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Karen Black
- Eschewing the subtle creepiness of the first ALIVE movies, this goes for a more blackly comical tale of mutant babies, placed out of harm's way on a…
Night of the Creeps (1986)
- Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Tom Atkins…
- Good–humored horror about alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, and turning their hosts into rampaging zombies.
Vamp (1986)
- Dir. Richard Wenk
Feat. Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron…
- Campy, neon–hued sex comedy–horror from the 80's in which two students travel to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their…
Fright Night (1985)
- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall…
- Terrific vampire satire in which a boy becomes highly suspicious of his new neighbours, led by a suave Chris Sarandon.
The superb make–up…
Ghoulies / Ghoulies 2 (1985-1987)
- Dir. Luca Bercovici, Albert Band
Feat. Lisa Pelikan, Jack Nance, Royal Dano
- GREMLINS–inspired comic horrors from the mid–1980s in which a young couple unwittingly let loose half a dozen nasty little critters and…
Re-Animator (1985)
- Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
- Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…
Return of the Living Dead, The (1985)
- Dir. Dan O'Bannon
Feat. Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa
- Pretty–good parody of Romero's Living Dead films, though not quite the same as the real thing. Great thrash–metal soundtrack, though.