Hilariously Scary

Have you ever seen something that was a lot more funny than it was horrifying?

Because that's how I felt about Pony.shed at least. XD

Fluttershy: "HEY HEY HEY! WHAT DID I TELL YOU GUYS ABOUT COMING IN MY SHED?!

I have. It was the 1999 version of The Haunting.

I can still remember it. The trailers for it on the telly made it look like it would be the ultimate scary movie. So much so that my mom prohibited me from seeing it, much to my chagrin. Later on, when it came out on video, I watched it with my friend Max at his house, and we had opposite reactions. The movie made us laugh when we should have shook with fear, groan with annoyance when we should have laughed, and gag when we should have gone "Aww."

edited 9th May '14 4:33:56 PM by Demetrios

Oh yeah, that reminds me of an old infamous movie series I heard about because of this ridiculous Live-Action Earth Bound movie project I saw on youtube years ago.

It was called Evil Dead. How's that like? XD

The live action film adaptation of Avatar The Last Airbender. It's So Bad Its Horrible

@Inkling Dragon: LOL. XD True, there were so many things they did wrong or differently it was just terrible. :p

I remember Anime News Network had this weird webcomic called Anime News Nina and they made fun of it once. XD

Villain: The Last Airbender movie was... profitable! Profitable enough to make a sequel!

By the way, with the sense of fun instead of scary, Moonside from Earth Bound was totally this in the form of Best Level Ever. Although sleeping in the hotel and one of the guys in the museum is kind of creepy. o.O

Museum NPC: Whose bones are on display here? The answer is... your bones. My bones. Bone. Bone. Bone.

Then there's the last level with Giygas but I think everyone might know that already. (It Was His Sled)

Speaking of The Evil Dead, Ash's possessed hand smashing plates on his head in the second movie was too reminiscent of The Three Stooges to be scary.

That was the point.

Eraser Head is pretty funny if you're in the right mood.

Well, The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock is pretty hilarious.

My mom was traumatised by The Birds.

I don't think the plot was funny, but the effects were.

The effects are what traumatised her.

Oh... D: I feel bad now.

The Darth Maul-esque Monster Clown thing in Insidious had me laughing myself silly for some reason. . .

edited 10th May '14 9:38:52 AM by carbon-mantis

The thing about the original Evil Dead trilogy is that each one was deliberately more comedic and less scary than the last: The first one was meant as totally straight horror, the second one had some humor in it but was overall still supposed to be scary, and the third one is pretty much entirely a comedy.

Imprint, Takashi Miike's Masters Of Horror episode: A lot of the Surreal Horror aspects worked here - for instance, there's a character who is very short and has a chicken-shaped haircut, and frequently, when she speaks the camera focuses on her hair instead of her face, so it just seems like there's this chicken made of hair saying her lines; On paper that sounds like it would be funny, but somehow it just adds to the unsettling weirdness ^note I just now realized another reason for this is probably that her scenes are flashbacks from the POV of another character - if I interacted with such a person I'd be too distracted by her hair to focus on her face too. However, I can't get too detailed without being spoilery, but The Reveal involved some intended Body Horror that instead made me think of the Sponge Monkeys (of rathergood.com and Quiznos commercials fame).

edited 11th May '14 11:54:28 PM by MikeK

Comedy and action.

Every single "horror" movie MST 3 K riffed on.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Here was me as a kid, watching the trailer: "All right, that looks awesomely scary! "

And here was me as an adult, watching the movie: "-.- There's no way this movie was meant to be taken seriously."