List of comedy horror films
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This is a sortable list of comedy horror (or horror comedy) films,[1][2][3] this subgenre being a bundling of the two genres in which "horror-comedy places an emphasis on scares, while the comedy-horror film moves that emphasis into the realm of laughs."[4]
1920s - 1930s
| Year | Title | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Haunted Spooks | [5][6] |
| 1921 | The Haunted House | [6] |
| 1922 | The Ghost Breaker | |
| 1923 | Puritan Passions | |
| 1925 | Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde | |
| 1925 | The Monster | |
| 1926 | The Bat | |
| 1927 | The Cat and the Canary | |
| 1927 | The Gorilla | |
| 1929 | Seven Footprints to Satan | |
| 1930 | The Cat Creeps | |
| 1932 | The Old Dark House | |
| 1932 | Doctor X | [7] |
| 1933 | The Invisible Man | |
| 1939 | The Cat and the Canary | |
| 1939 | The Gorilla | [8] |
1940s
| Year | Title | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | The Ghost Breakers | |
| 1940 | You'll Find Out | [9] |
| 1941 | Hold That Ghost | |
| 1941 | King of the Zombies | |
| 1941 | Spooks Run Wild | [10] |
| 1942 | The Boogie Man Will Get You | [11] |
| 1944 | Zombies on Broadway | [12] |
| 1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace | |
| 1945 | Scared Stiff | |
| 1945 | Dead of Night | |
| 1945 | Spook Busters | [13] |
| 1948 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | [14] |
| 1949 | Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff |
1950s
1960s
| Year | Title | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | The Little Shop of Horrors | [18] |
| 1961 | Creature from the Haunted Sea | [19] |
| 1963 | The Evil Eye | |
| 1963 | The Old Dark House | [20] |
| 1963 | The Raven | [21] |
| 1964 | The Comedy of Terrors | [22] |
| 1965 | Bhoot Bungla | |
| 1965 | Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | [23] |
| 1965 | Monsters Crash the Pajama Party | |
| 1965 | Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters | |
| 1966 | Carry On Screaming! | [24] |
| 1966 | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken | |
| 1966 | Munster, Go Home! | |
| 1967 | The Fearless Vampire Killers | [25] |
| 1967 | Hillbillys in a Haunted House | [26] |
| 1968 | Spider Baby | [27] |
1970s
| Year | Title | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | |
| 1972 | Beware! The Blob | |
| 1972 | Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things | |
| 1972 | Dr. Phibes Rises Again | |
| 1972 | The Gore Gore Girls | [28] |
| 1972 | Please Don't Eat My Mother | [29] |
| 1972 | Private Parts | |
| 1972 | Tales from the Crypt | |
| 1972 | The Thing with Two Heads | |
| 1973 | Cannibal Girls | |
| 1973 | The House in Nightmare Park | [30] |
| 1973 | Theatre of Blood | |
| 1973 | The Vault of Horror | |
| 1973 | The Werewolf of Washington | [31] |
| 1974 | The Cars That Ate Paris | [32] |
| 1974 | Phantom of the Paradise | |
| 1974 | Young Frankenstein | [33] |
| 1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | [34] |
| 1977 | House | [35] |
| 1978 | Attack of the Killer Tomatoes | [36] |
| 1978 | Piranha | [37] |
| 1979 | The Cat and the Canary | |
| 1979 | Love at First Bite |
