10 Goofy, But Must-Watch Horror Movies That Are A Blast

Horror movies are probably the only genre outside of comedies that can get away with being especially goofy. On paper, it might seem like a film meant to elicit fear and dread might be at odds with the idea of making the audience laugh or not taking itself too seriously, undercutting what should be a scary experience with humor. However, as the best horror comedies have proven, a dash of silliness can go a long way in making a given horror movie into an enduring classic.

Blending together ridiculous dialogue, over-the-top performances, and wacky supernatural monsters with some laughably unrealistic gore is one great direction goofy horror movies can go in. Other times, writing just as clever as the most celebrated comedies allows the absurdity of most horror movie premises to shine through as a strength rather than a weakness. From unintentionally hilarious horror films to carefully calculated B-movies, the genre is swimming in films that are must-watches simply due to how fun they are.

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Freaky

Body-swapping done right

The idea of changing bodies with someone else has a lot of horror to be mined that famous movies like Freaky Friday, abstained from. Enter Freaky, a creative slasher that puts a fun body-swapping spin on a very typical horror story. Thanks to an ancient artifact, a bloodthirsty serial killer ends up switching bodies with a skittish teen girl, causing chaos as the two try to find one another and avoid the situation.

Much of the comedy of Freaky comes from Vince Vaughn acting like a scared teen girl despite looking like a disheveled monster. Meanwhile, Kathryn Newton is able to steel her face enough to become a terrifyingly silent murderer on par with Michael Myers, no matter her unassuming appearance. Beyond the fun that comes with the clever concept, Freaky has some well-written punchlines that keep up the entertainment value at all times.

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Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Ridiculous good fun

The killer clown is a time-honored villain that has shown up in a great many horror films, from the Terrifier series to the famous adaptations of Stephen King’s IT. Few of these entries are able to simultaneously capture crippling coulrophobia with the good-hearted, humorous nature of clowns as a concept like Killer Klowns from Outer Space. The film centers on a small town that, true to the title, is invaded by an alien race of clown-like monsters eager to devour the populace alive in cotton candy cocoons.

The stunning practical creations of Killer Klowns from Outer Space are at once stunningly impressive and hilariously cheap-looking. From killer popcorn to murderous shadow puppets, the Killer Klowns have all sorts of creative circus-themed ways of slaying their prey, and the eerie liminal feel of the cinematography lends itself well to the nightmarish parade of fun. For equal parts terror and laughter, it’s hard to beat the plucky low-budget appeal of Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

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Malignant

Unbelievable gonzo gore in a creative package

James Wan might be something of a horror movie royal at this point in his illustrious filmmaking career, but even he is capable of delivering low-brow fun like Malignant. The story centers on a woman with a mysterious past who becomes the center of a series of killings, finding herself suddenly coming to with huge chunks of time missing from her memory. It isn’t long before she becomes prime suspect number one, and the fantastical truth behind the murders is dazzlingly absurd.

It turns out that the woman once had a parasitic evil twin named Gabriel who was cut out of her back and crammed into her skull, only for him to re-emerge years later and begin taking over his sister’s body to wreak havoc on her life. Seeing Gabriel peel himself from the back of his sister’s head and scurry around with a backwards body is hilarious and spooky at the same time. Malignant dances on the razor’s edge between silly and frightening with astounding grace.

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WolfCop

A hilarious hairy crimefighter with a chip on his shoulder

An underrated entry in the endangered subgenre of werewolf horror movies, WolfCop lays its mission statement of silliness right out on the table from its title alone. More of a combination of a horror movie and a traditional superhero movie, WolfCop tells the story of an alcoholic mall cop who is infected with the curse of lycanthropy, transforming him into a werewolf. Rather than bemoan his situation, he becomes WolfCop, using his new powers to take on murderous gangs and reptilian shapeshifters.

WolfCop doesn’t have any delusions of trying to be more than it is — A fun action-horror romp with an absurd premise. Concepts like the shadowy cabal of hidden cold-blooded humanoids or the idea that alcoholism somehow makes werewolves stronger are punchlines in and of themselves, and the surprisingly competent action choreography is almost a joke in and of itself when applied to such a goofy story. WolfCop deserves more credit as one of the better horror comedies to come out of the 2010s.

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The Substance

Award-winning over-the-top body horror

Despite breaking new ground as one of the few horror movies to ever be nominated for an Academy Award, The Substance is quite the spectacle of silliness. Although the film tackles some quite sensitive subject matter, it has reservations on presenting an outrageously cartoonish world to emphasize its points. The film centers on an aging starlet who begins undergoing treatment with the mysterious titular serum in order to create a younger, beautiful version of herself to maintain relevancy.

Before long, the cracks in the treatment begin to form, and Demi Moore’s Elisabeth Sparkle ends up twisting herself to great lengths in an effort to maintain her commercial appeal. With scathing satire, unbelievable body horror, and a knowingly unrealistic world of nasty, glistening excess, The Substance is well-armed to be an informative, nauseating, and hilarious film all at once. No wonder the movie was able to break new ground for goofy horror movies with something to prove.

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The Frighteners

Flips between morbid and funny at the drop of a hat

These days, Peter Jackson’s movies are best known for his adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work, but once upon a time, Jackson was one of the most twisted horror directors around. Enter The Frighteners, one of his most particularly gruesome affairs. The movie stars Michael J. Fox as a scummy widower with the supernatural ability to see ghosts, which he uses to haunt people and then charge them a hefty sum to “exorcise” away.

However, things go south when a particularly angry specter with the ability to slay both the living and the dead rears its ugly head, Fox’s character is forced into a fight for his life. The main appeal of The Frighteners is its incredible special effects, and mix of practical imagery and early computer animation that produces a mix of incredible and laughably bad results. The film oscillates between humorous and incredibly bleak at a moment’s notice, making for an unpredictable thrill ride that’s still unmistakably silly the whole way through.

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Army Of Darkness

The peak of horror slapstick

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Few names are as revered in the horror comedy space as Sam Raimi. Known for his wild camera movement, cheesy sense of humor, and the cartoonish performances he’s able to coax out of his actors, Raimi is undefeated when it comes to goofy horror movies that are a rip-roaring good time. The pinnacle of his Evil Dead series in this regard is the third film, Army of Darkness, which sees the heroic but dim-witted Ash Williams flung back through time into the Middle Ages, where he has to lead a medieval society against an army of Deadite ghouls.

Army of Darkness leans even harder into the comedy than Evil Dead 2 did, becoming straight-up slapstick humor as if Tom & Jerry or The Three Stooges could show bloodshed. As Ash fights tiny, evil versions of himself, lumbering hag beasts, and prop skeletons straight out of a Halloween retail store, Bruce Campbell’s unrelenting charisma shines through every solitary frame. One has to hail to the king when considering the best goofy horror movies to ever entertain.

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House

An infamously absurd haunted house story

The best of Japanese horror cinema have long been revered staples in the genre, but the country is also great at producing scary movies with a solid sense of humor. By far the best example of this is 1977’s House, commonly known as Hausu by Western audiences. The story, as much as there can be said to be one, centers on a young girl who absconds with her friends on vacation to her estranged aunt’s beautiful house in the countryside, only to then be terrorized by the ancient evil of the location.

The dreamlike reality House conjures up is second-to-none, from the girls having descriptive names like Gorgeous or Kung Fu to the hilariously deranged Auntie. No other film is able to conjure over-the-top kills that compete with House‘s, transforming its victims into piles of bananas and eviscerating them with bloodthirsty haunted pianos. Bizarre editing, nonsensical dialogue, and audacious sequences of flashing lights leave House a revered classic for anyone who can appreciate absurdist humor in their horror movies.

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One Cut Of The Dead

An ode to horror filmmaking

Another more recent Japanese horror hit with a beastly sense of humor, One Cut of the Dead finds comedy not in a horror movie story, but the very concept of horror movie filmmaking. The film centers on a director intent on making a zombie movie only for his set to be attacked by actual zombies in real life. However, early on it’s revealed that this premise in itself is actually an in-universe movie, with the story then going back and explaining how the short film was made using only a single take.

This movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie sets a brilliant stage for One Cut of the Dead to perfectly capture the joyful chaos of working on a low-budget movie set. From the awkward performances and story beats being explained as filming mishaps to the hilarious ferocity with which one of the actors gets into character, One Cut of the Dead is a clever and subversive piece of zombie media. Finishing the film gives the viewer a whole new appreciation for long-takes.

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Willy’s Wonderland

Nicolas Cage at his ironic best

The upcoming Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel and the original adaptation have both managed to bring the animatronic terror of the beloved games to the big screen for the first time. However, the same concepts may have arguably been done better only a couple of years earlier with Willy’s Wonderland. The film posits Nicolas Cage as a totally silent protagonist who is hired to clean up an abandoned children’s entertainment center, whose live is put in grave peril when the old animatronic mascots come to life.

Rather than run and hide like the victims of the Five Nights at Freddy’s series, Cage’s character’s solution is to just simply beat the stuffing out of every creepy new character that comes stumbling his way. The film settles into a hilarious rhythm of Cage silently cleaning up, eviscerating the next ghoulish mascot that tries to kill him, and then taking a break to play some pinball while crushing back an energy drink. Without saying a word, Cage’s performance in Willy’s Wonderland is one of his funniest horror performances.

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