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9 Hilarious Horror Comedies and Where to Stream Them

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There’s something special about horror comedies. Movies designed to not only scare you, but also make you laugh out loud can be difficult to pull off for writers and directors. It’s not an easy line to walk, but when it works, the results are pure gold.

Everything is so serious right now. From social media to the news, we’re inundated with statistics we don’t fully understand and grave predictions for the future that are enough to make you hide from the world even without “stay at home” orders from the government.

I don’t know about you, but I’m just a bit overwhelmed. And while I take the orders for self-isolation and quarantine very seriously, I could use a laugh. To that end, I thought I might suggest some of my favorite horror comedies along with where you can stream them right now.

Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil (Stream on Plex, PlutoTV, Crackle, and Tubi; Rent on Google Play, Fandango Now, Redbox, Vudu, Flix Fling, Amazon, and AppleTV)

Alan Tudyk (A Knight’s Tale) and Tyler Labine (Escape Room) star as Tucker and Dale, two good old boys just trying to enjoy their vacation and fix up their cabin. Unfortunately for them, a group of college students are in the same woods and they’ve mistaken the guys for murderous hillbillies.

What follows is an hilarious, gory farce that demands multiple viewings.

Housebound (Stream on Tubi; Rent on AppleTV)

This horror comedy from New Zealand doesn’t get nearly enough attention as far as I’m concerned. The film stars Morgana O’Reilly as Kylie, a young woman in trouble with the law, who finds herself remanded to house arrest in her mother’s home.

Her mother Miriam (Rima Te Wiata) is convinced her house is haunted and soon Kylie begins to wonder if she isn’t right.

Housebound has got it all. Chills, thrills, and a conclusion that will knock your socks off!

Black Sheep (Rent on Google Play and AppleTV)

No, I’m not talking about the film starring Chris Farley. Another entry from New Zealand, this film stars Nathan Meister as Henry. Henry grew up on a sheep farm, which was great for him until a tragic accident left him with a bad case of ovinophobia–fear of sheep.

All grown up, Henry returns to his family’s farm–now run by his brother–to face his fears once and for all. Unfortunately for him, his brother’s sheep have been genetically altered and after a run-in with one of the failed experiments, the farm’s livestock become blood-thirsty killing machines. Adding to the fear, if a human is bitten by the creatures, they turn into predatory were-sheep. I’m not kidding!

One of the taglines for the film reads “There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand…and they’re pissed off!” If you haven’t seen it, give it a watch. You’ll thank me later!

Happy Death Day (Stream on FX Now; Rent/Buy on Fandango Now, Amazon, Vudu, AppleTV, Google Play, and Redbox)

Poor Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) is having the worst birthday ever. Someone is trying to kill and worse than that, they’re succeeding. Every time she dies, she wakes up to start the day all over again!

She soon finds herself tracking down the killer in an attempt to free herself from the time loop from hell.

It’s Groundhog’s Day meets Scream. Also, you can pair this one up with its sequel Happy Death Day 2U and make it a fun double feature night on the couch.

The Babysitter (Stream on Netflix)

Young Cole (Judah Lewis) is constantly bullied at school and honestly doesn’t have a lot to look forward to at home except for the nights when his mom and dad go out and his favorite babysitter, Bee (Samara Weaving) comes to stay with him.

Bee is a total badass. She also happens to run a Satanic cult unbeknownst to Cole until he stays up past his bedtime one night and witnesses her and her friends sacrificing a teenager downstairs.

Soon Cole finds himself in a fight for survival as the cult members all do their best to make sure he can never tell their secrets. The film has an incredible cast including Robbie Amell, Hana Mae Lee, and Bella Thorne and will leave your sides sore from laughter by the time the credits roll.

Ready or Not (Stream on HBOMax; Rent on Amazon, Vudu, Redbox, AppleTV, Google Play and Fandango Now)

Speaking of Samara Weaving, if you haven’t seen Ready or Not, stop whatever you’re doing and rectify that immediately.

Weaving plays Grace, a young woman who just married into a very wealthy family, only to discover that as part of an age-old pact, she must play a game at midnight to appease the in-laws. Soon the entire family is out to kill her, and Grace will have to use every single instinct she possesses to survive until dawn.

Satanic Panic (Stream on Shudder; Rent on Vudu, Amazon, Redbox, Fandango Now, and AppleTV)

Chelsea Stardust’s feature debuts centers on a down-on-her-luck pizza delivery girl (Hayley Griffith) takes a big delivery out to a fancy neighborhood only to find herself on the run from a sect of ultra-rich Satanists on the search for a virgin sacrifice.

The film is gory comedy gold. If you watch for no other reason, see it for Ruby Modine’s over-the-top portrayal of an aggressive, foul-mouthed young woman who has her own reasons for trying to take out the cult and Jerry O’Connell’s brief appearance as a seriously creepy douchebag.

Shaun of the Dead (Stream on HBOMax; Rent on ROW8, Fandango Now, Google Play, Amazon, Vudu, and AppleTV)

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s zom-com is one of the best of its kind.

When an aimless TV salesman (Pegg) wakes to find the world is being taken over by zombies, he sets out to save his friends and his mother and ends up hiding out in his favorite pub.

Not only is the film hilarious, but it’s got one of the best soundtracks ever.

Little Monsters (Stream on Hulu)

Lupita Nyong’o (Us) stars as a school teacher on a field trip with her students and a washed-up musician as a chaperone. Things are going smoothly at the petting zoo until a zombie outbreak occurs and it’s up to Miss Caroline and Brad (Alexander England) to get the children to safety.

Josh Gad’s performance as a children’s TV show host who shows his true colors when the world goes sideways is incredible!

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

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“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s in ‘Presumed Innocent’

Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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