It all boils down to the old and tired argument of “comedy+slasher vs pure slasher”.

After watching Burn, and generally enjoying it, I find the direction it and other new movies take don’t have that much personality as 2 and 3 movies had. One can easily take Evil Dead props from them and they would be good but generic horror spectacles. The inclusion of absurd humor was what made it stand out to me from other horrors, underlined by a pretty generic name laughing at them, and I feel like deviating from that formula makes the series lose it’s face, what made it unique.

But is there even a space in feature film industry for a comic horror? Not a couple of jokes and nods you see in many movies, incl. Burn, but the whole thing being a rollercoaster of self-conscious gags and scares? If there is one, I don’t think it would work for Hellraiser, or Predator, or Saw, but Evil Dead can be the single best franchise to try it once again.

In spite of that, we see modern movies doubling down on current horror trends, with just a couple of gags. It pays the bill, but doesn’t have as much energy as previous works that spawned it’s own fandom and niche. If they were just one-offs, they could’ve easily being forgotten after a year.

Is there a space and possibility for another banger that joins horror and comedy? Are there examples I haven’t yet seen? I want Lemmy moviegoers to share their opinions.