It’s all too easy for horror to tip over into comedy, so with this in mind, here are a few of our favourite unintentionally funny genre moments...
Horror movies are notoriously difficult things to get right, and cinema history is littered with films that are more frightening than funny. For every justly lauded classic like The Exorcist or Alien, there are dozens of largely forgotten, loveably ridiculous horror flicks that provide their own kind of entertainment.
This list, then, is devoted to a few of our favourite unintentionally funny horror moments. We’ve gone for films that at least attempt to be serious, rather than deliberately trashy – hence the absence of such oddities as Leprechaun or Trolls. Inevitably, there’ll be some classic moments we’ll have missed, so feel free to chime in with your own suggestions in the comments…
The Amityville Horror: James Brolin loses the plot
A mystifyingly popular 1979 movie that spawned a franchise of increasingly ridiculous sequels, a 2005 remake and two further follow-ups that are currently in the making, The Amityville Horror contains some of the most over-the-top and downright silly performances in any mainstream genre film.
George and Kathy Lutz (James Brolin and Margot Kidder) buy a haunted house in Amityville, which proceeds to drive George absolutely nuts. To illustrate this, George stops coming his hair, and takes to shrieking, “My God, I’m coming apart!” during thunderstorms.
It’s hard to choose just one moment that illustrates The Amityville Horror’s rather fraught acting, but the one below’s as good as any. It’s proof, at any rate, that you should never trust a man with a beard.
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