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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8213446"><p>I think humor and camp often compliment horror because of the contrast. Evil Dead II was funny as hell but also one of the scariest movies I had seen when it came out (and I think part of the reason was the comedy: both because of the contrast but because you feel like the shift in tones means you are in the hands of a psychopath director). Return of the Living Dead is another good example I think. That film is hysterical, but it scared me more than almost any other zombie movie, because despite the comedy a lot of the imagery reminds you of your own mortality (at least for me it had that effect). Obviously these are not films going for the kind of horror ravenloft was, but I think they illustrate the point about humor and tone in horror</p></blockquote><p></p>