Nowadays, the horror comedy genre doesn’t feel as fresh as it did when pioneering filmmakers like Sam Raimi and John Landis brought it to the mainstream in the 1970s and ‘80s. And in a post-Scream world, the thought of characters openly discussing how to survive a horror movie doesn’t feel nearly as groundbreaking as it once did. For all those reasons and more, a contemporary horror comedy has to get a lot right to land with moviegoers.
