Jessica Rothe stars as mildly unpleasant sorority girl Tree, who meets her maker in the form of a masked killer. Happy Death DayВ (2017)Д«lumhouse took a swing at a horror-themed Groundhog Day for this low budget gamble, and it paid off. The film has grown from basically nothing into a cult classic, so if you havenвЂ™t gotten around to it yet, nowвЂ™s as good a time as any. Read more: 31 Best Streaming Horror MoviesДЄs the bodies pile up, the laughs get bigger and the stereotypes get battered more than the hapless kids вЂ“ solidifying Tucker and DaleвЂ™s place in the genre as atypical characters in the wrong bloody place at the very wrong bloody time. When he admonishes his cursing pack with the iconic line вЂњweвЂ™re WEREWOLVES, not SWEARWOLVESвЂќ itвЂ™s time to stick a fork in us, because weвЂ™re absolutely done.ДЄn inevitable comedy of errors ensues when sweet but broke-ass Tucker (Whedon-favourite Alan Tudyk) and Dale ( ReaperвЂ™s Tyler Labine) retire to their recently-acquired holiday cabin in the woods to do some drinkinвЂ™ and fishinвЂ™, only to be mistaken for typically-crazy Texas Chainsaw hillbillies by a group of visiting teens. Rhys Darby nearly steals the whole show with his turn as the leader of an antagonistic and hapless band of local werewolves. Read more: Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement Look Back on What We Do in the Shadows New Zealand made two straight home runs in 2014 with Housebound and What We Do in the Shadows, the mockumentary establishing what vampires might get up to if they had to share a house in modern and rather mundane circumstances вЂ“ but what else could be a bigger treat than a horror-comedy from Taika Waititi ( Thor: Ragnarok) and Flight of the ConchordsвЂ Jemaine Clement? Jemaine says he grew up living for this genre and you can feel it throughout, with much irreverence clear from the opening scene. If you love it, youвЂ™ll really, really love it and even if you hate it, you may still have to admit that it takes some absolutely huge narrative chances вЂ“ something we rarely see these days. This is a love-it-or-hate-it kind of movie. ItвЂ™s pretty hard to nail down the plot, but a masked killer called Cinderhella is knocking people off at Grizzly Lake High School and itвЂ™s up to our sardonic heroine, the Daria-esque Riley, to get to the bottom of where вЂ“ or when вЂ“ the killer is hiding, as the film jumps precariously from genre to genre, practically daring you to keep up. Read more: The Best Horror Movies on HBO Go The filmвЂ™s use of fast-moving action and pop culture references is all very deliberate вЂ“ that type of thing was huge in the late 90s, where some of the film is set and where a lot of the film finds its jokes in the present. A big, gooey hot mess of time travel, horror tropes and apocalyptic fantasy and itвЂ™s both very easy and very hard to love all at once. The laughs and scares keep coming in equal measure as Kylie, who is a refreshingly flawed female character (hard as nails and sympathetic, but also massively unpleasant) picks apart the history of the house and investigates the mounting incidents inside it, with truly unexpected results. Read more: The Best Horror Movies on Netflix The house, however, is a little different than she remembers вЂ“ way spookier and definitely a lot more confusing. Despite a lovely, quiet upbringing, sheвЂ™s determined to break as many rules as possible when she heads off into the real world, but she soon finds herself back in her childhood home with her timid mum and dad, put under house detention by the courts. The main character, Kylie, is a screw up. Either way, please add any you think might be missing in the comments so we can all seek them out. Some of the following youвЂ™ve maybe seen, some you maybe havenвЂ™t, and some you couldвЂ™ve seen, hated and now feel a bit narked that weвЂ™re crowing over them. WeвЂ™ve had a bumper crop over the last decade or so. Old enough to join Edgar Wright in making their own horror-comedies and they are! ItвЂ™s happening. Okay, now for the good news: people that grew up watching all those same 80s horror-comedies we grew up with вЂ“ stuff like An American Werewolf in London, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Class Of Nuke вЂEm High, and The Lost Boys вЂ“ are all super old, just like us. We could be the parents of Shaun of the Dead-aged kids and in a few years these fictional children will finally go off to university and maybe we can finally get some goddamn peace and quiet around here. Their parents are probably starting to piss them off. TheyвЂ™re feeling weird feelings about each other that they canвЂ™t explain. Kids who were born the day Shaun came out are in high school.

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