Four horror comedies to watch

Do you love jump-scares, gore and blood but also like the odd joke sprinkled in? Is gallows humour your kind of funny? Then look no further than the horror-comedy genre, where the unthinkable meets the hilarious for a mix that will leave everyone happy! With Renfield landing on Netflix this week, we are looking at horror comedies you can find on the streamer’s library.

Little Evil

Being a step-parent is challenging. You try to bond with your partner’s child and bring it into your new life together as a friend and a new parent but sometimes things don’t go the way want them. Especially if said child is the Antichrist.

The always-welcome Adam Scott stars as Gary, a man who married the woman of his dreams and is prepared to take on the challenge of being a stepdad. Gary desperately tries to bond with his stepson but notices the kid behaving weirdly. Being possessed by demons, speaking in tongues, that sort of thing. When he discovers that the boy was conceived as part of a ritual of a demonic cult, it slowly dawns on Gary that he might just be raising the son of Satan.

With some help from his stepdads’ support group, Gary decides to save the world and his family!

Little Evil riffs off The Omen heavily, blending humour with horror and ending up being a surprisingly heartwarming film!

Shaun of the Dead

Not everyone in life has a sense of direction. Not everyone subscribes to the #grindsetmindset attitude. Some stumble upon it accidentally. Others come to terms with their feelings late in life. Others find themselves in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

While definitely not the first, 2004’s Shaun of the Dead kickstarted the modern comedy horror genre, setting a lot of the tropes found in later films of the same kind.

Simon Pegg plays Shaun a man stuck at a dead-end job, with a stagnant love life and no future in sight. As his girlfriend finally decides to break up with him, Shaun’s world crumbles.

Literally.

Shaun finds himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse that threatens to destroy all life on Earth. Shaun sees this as an opportunity to prove himself so he decides to rescue his girlfriend, his mother, and his friends and seek refuge in their favourite pub, The Winchester.

The Babysitter & The Babysitter: Killer Queen

Did you ever had a babysitter growing up? Was she good looking? Did you maybe have a crush on her? What would you do if you found out that she sacrificed someone in your living room to the Devil?

And you are next.

Netflix dropped The Babysitter as a Halloween film back in 2017 and it has since become a classic. It tells the story of Bee, a seemingly perfect, all-American high school girl that takes a job babysitting 12-year-old boy Lucas. Lucas can’t get enough of her and one night decides to stay up beyond his bedtime to spy on her, witnessing Bee murdering a fellow student in cold blood along with a group of friends, all of them part of a satanic cult.

The film is funny, fast-paced, packed with references to classic horror movies and filled with action sequences that are over-the-top hilarious. Sprinkle in some witty dialogue, and quips and you have yourself a great film for a spooky night in!

Netflix followed the film’s success with Killer Queen, a direct sequel to The Babysitter, starring Jennie Ortega. In it Lucas struggles to convince people that the cult existed but everyone thinks he is insane. When strange occurrences take place once more, Lucas has to gear up to face his fears. And zombies. Mostly zombies.

Renfield

We did the zombie apocalypse film parody, we did the evil child film parody and we did the slasher film parody. What are we missing? Ah yes, the vampire parody!

In Renfield, Nicholas Hoult stars as the titular character, who is of course the servant of the one and only Count Dracula. Tired after years of mistreatment and abuse, Renfield decides to break the master-servant bond and end their toxic relationship. Kinda hard to say “no” to the Prince of Darkness though.