Are You Ready For Horror Comedies?

One of my favorite horror movie blogs and blogger is final girl - the blog of Stacie Ponder.
She has a quirky whimsical out look on life, it seems, horror movies included.
Plus, she is a very talented writer - which unfortunately is not always a given.
Lately she did a retrospective of sorts about horror comedies that she didn’t realize were comedies as well has horror movies.
She had this to say about Motel Hell

Looking back, I can’t believe I didn’t get that this flick about a farmer making smoked meat out of humans was supposed to be a bit of a parody. Apparently I never saw the theatrical poster, which proclaims in bright white typeface “You might just die… laughing!” Nope, missed that one. What I did see, however, was the cover of Fangoria #9, featuring a huge picture of Motel Hell’s Farmer Vincent clutching a bloody chainsaw, wearing overalls and a bloody pig’s head. The feature article didn’t help matters, either: All I saw were pictures of a crazed farmer and his equally crazed sister wielding chainsaws, victims buried up to their necks in a macabre “garden”, and sundry meat products made from human flesh. Ha ha ha! Thanks to Fangoria and the fact that I was, oh, maybe nine or ten years old, I’d have to say that Motel Hell qualified as a straight-up nightmare-inducing horror movie for me. When I finally revisited it twenty years after its 1980 release, I was shocked — shocked– to find that it was essentially a comedy. What scared me on the first viewing had me laughing on the second and when I watch it this week on AMC, I’ll act like I knew it all along.

10 years old???? I saw Gone With The Wind at a similar age (yes, yes, Scarlet Oh Hara’s Gone With The Wind) With my folks at the drive in, and was screaming with absalout terror under the car seats…

For more of this retrospective go here