Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house, and the family must join together to save themselves and their neighborhood.” A lot of people really hate this movie, which is kind of a shame. After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book describing the curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. (Paul Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jeffrey Tambor) Spoofįrom IMDB: “Primarily a spoof of the Friday the 13th series, but also takes shots at several other horror films. Director Edgar Wright got it, well, right. It offers up tons of laughs while simultaneously never spitting in the eye of the genre. This is used to simple comic effect throughout as the ‘heroes’ seem to have plenty of time to think about things before being attacked.” Though often mis-categorized as a spoof, this amazing zombie flick is a full-on homage to Romero himself. (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy) Satireįrom IMDB: “Hot on the heels of recent remake Dawn of the Dead comes Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s black comedy zombie satire, in which Shawn must save his friends, mum, and ex-girlfriend from the masses of lumbering dead by holding up at the local pub, the Winchester! Unlike recent zombie-fests, these dead-ites are pretty tame, lumbering monstrosities, much like the ones from the older zombie films.
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(Linda Blair, Leslie Nielsen, Ned Beatty) Spoofįrom IMDB: “Spoofmaster Leslie Neilsen appears in this outrageous, unofficial comedic sequel to ‘The Exorcist’ as Father Mayii, the exorcist pro who comes out of retirement when summoned by an idealistic priest, Father Brophy, to help out geeky suburban middle-age mom, Nancy Aglet (Blaire) who has recently been re-re-re-repossessed! But, two tacky popular televangelists, Ernest and Fanny Ray, hosting a local religious wacko program, figure they can cash in on Nancy’s dilemma and want to broadcast the exorcism.” This movie, as a definite spoof of the Exorcist as a whole, is very funny and features a top-of-his-game Neilsen. These slight differentiations help more easily separate the films below.
Parody, on the other hand, tends to take on a more literal, ‘poking fun at but with a sly nod to the source material’. Now, generally, a satirical flick tends to be more of an homage and a tongue and cheek attempt to grasp the genre but with a more, ‘what if this funny thing happened’ approach. See the difference? Though all of these horror films thrive on humor as their backbone, each one has a structure that falls into one of those categories above.
Spoof: a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored lampoon or parody. Satire: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.Ģ. There just so happens to be quite a difference between Spoofs (parody) and Satire.
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