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Originally Posted by horcrux2007
The ones you mentored are pretty much the opposite of Drag Me to Hell. They're comedies with some horror aspects. It doesn't matter how much comedy is in the film as long as it's prevalent and more than just one instance. Hell, I found no horror in the movies you listed, so how could those possibly be horror comedies?
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It does matter how much comedy is in the film. If its a comedy the tone will reflect that throughout and the same goes for horror. If a movie having some comedy made it one then every movie would be a comedy. Those movies tone reflect comedy and horror. Those movies feature gruesome effects and depicts people in scary situations as do the others and three of them involve supernatural beings and all play up on horror tropes. Cabin in The Woods is another example of a horror comedy. That's why those movies are horror.
Drag Me To Hell has some scenes that might make people laugh but its tone reflects a horror movie throughout.
Just because a movie makes you laugh it doesn't make it a comedy. If I laughed during the scene where Regan throws up on the priests would that make The Exorcist a comedy?
If I laughed at Michael Myers under the sheet does that make Halloween a comedy?
I know I have a strict sense of what makes a horror comedy but to me its just logic.