Comedy horror is a literary, television and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. It has been described as having three types, black comedy, parody and spoof, and can either parody or subtly spoof horror cliches as its main source of humor or use those elements to take a story in a different direction.
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Place of OriginSource names a 1922 film directed by the American filmmaker D. W. Griffith as the pioneering comedy horror film but does not explicitly state a country of origin for the genre. Notable ExampleAbbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1 Defining TraitBlends scares with humor, giving audiences permission to laugh at their fears 1 Connections
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1. Comedy horror - Wikipedia
In film section, One Exciting Night paragraph
The pioneering comedy horror film was One Exciting Night (1922), written, directed and produced by D. W. Griffith.
In film section, Abbott and Costello paragraph
Charles Bramesco of Vulture.com identifies Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein as the first commercially successful comedy horror film.
In film section, gallows humor paragraph
the permission to laugh at your fears, to whistle past the cinematic graveyard and feel secure in the knowledge that the monsters can't get you
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