Carroll / Miller / Arnzen
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper’s assertion that ‘as laughter dulls the supernatural threat of undead predators, the social commentary the characters… Read More »Emily Taylor- The Social Commentary of ‘Addams Family Values’
The incongruity of horror and comedy that Carroll writes about, this idea that “horror and comedy are not exactly the same” because “we do not… Read More »Caroline Vandis — Comedic Relief in the Menu
As an acknowledged bias of mine, I have never found myself too attached to the horror genre in itself when comparing it to other film… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Miller, Horror Comedy, and Vampire’s Kiss
Particularly in Disney’s two-dimensional animated films, there is something strangely likable about the villains that draws to them. They are sarcastic and humorous while remaining… Read More »Maddie Cornetta – Disney Villains and Horror Comedy
I have never seen Rubber (2010) and truthfully do not know that I ever will, but, regardless, the premise is interesting in its playfulness towards… Read More »Isabel Burney — Rubber: Tired of Horror? Laugh at a Tire
Tim Burton’s Addams Family spinoff, Wednesday is punctuated with elements of comic amusement as well as horror given the presence of monsters such as the… Read More »Sairaa Bains: Noël Carroll and the Confluence of Horror and Comedy in Burton’s Wednesday
The thing that stood out to me the most from the start of the Cynthia Miller reading was the similarities she highlights between horror and… Read More »Horror, comedy and The Menu
In his article Horror and Humour, Carroll identified that while there are “striking coincidence(s)” (Carrol 146) between humor and horror, what separates them is the… Read More »Hana El Hilaly – Unlikable Heroes and Horror Comedy
What I am most gripped by in horror comedies is the subversion of the Horror genre’s filmic tropes. The genre of Horror, perhaps more than… Read More »Kevin Landers- Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Noël Carroll’s comments that “horror and humor seem like opposite mental states” and that it is “perplexing from a theoretical point of view” that any… Read More »Raya Milushev – ‘Get Out’ and comic relief