Don't touch that dial.

You're tuned in to the Dread Podcast Network.

You are now listening to Postmortem with Mick Garrus,

where the most influential voices in horror cinema

will spill their guts to the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

Now here's your host, Mick Garrus.

From Nice Guy Productions World Headquarters

overlooking the glamorous San Fernando Valley,

I'm Mick Garrus, and this is Postmortem.

We've talked about horror comedy before, and we will again,

but the time is right to address it one more time.

Balancing fear with laughs is a delicate act, and more often than not,

horror comedies are neither funny nor frightening.

There are exceptions, of course, and they stand out clearly

and have become favorites among genre fans.

But for most, the makers seem to feel that spoofing a horror classic

is enough to trigger laughter.

That to parody Michael Myers or Freddie Krueger

or Norman Bates or King Kong or Ghostface

to just have them show up and repeat their antics

to the accompaniment of a laugh track

or psycho-inspired shrieking violins means big, knowing, winking, yucks.

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