Oct 1, 2026 · 37 min · 13 segments
After a little travel talk (someone's going to Europe!), Olivia and Shauna get ready for Spooky Season by talking about the marriage of their two favorite cinematic genres: comedy and horror. They go…
Well, as spooky as a gluten intolerance is, we are both big fans of horror at the Pop Culture Junkie podcast.
And if you're anything like us, you are too.
And with spooky season and Halloween rapidly approaching, we wanted to again look at some of our favorite scary movies.
And we are no stranger to a spooky episode, but this time we actually wanted to look at a genre that brings together our two loves.
We're talking horror and we're talking comedy.
Horror comedies are nothing new.
We first saw them in 1948.
The film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein brought the popular comedy duo face-to-face with a universal movie monster like Dracula, The Wolfman, and of course, Frankenstein's monster, all for laughs.
That movie really did open the door for more films poking fun at specific horror movies and their conventions.
Think movies like The Comedy of Terrors, Young Frankenstein, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
That's spooky.
So, Shauna, what was your first introduction to the horror comedy genre? What sticks out in your mind? That is a
great question because now that you've named, like, it makes so much sense.
When I think horror comedy, my favorite of all time is, like, the Evil Dead franchise and Shaun of the Dead.
Okay.
But now that you've made me start thinking about it more, like, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein and, like, those kind of early, like... comedy horrors I think we could also throw in like Elvira Mistress of the Dark and then also like the Munsters honestly the Addams Family like they're all kind of like live in that horror genre or like spooky genre but like they're comedies at heart that's that's interesting that you know if we really broaden it out like that but yeah I mean I love horror comedies I guess scary movie as a millennial is definitely like the classic that we all think of of laughing but then it's also it's making fun of scary movies yes not actually scary itself so i think that's like an important distinction like there's some horror comedies that are still scary and there's some horror comedies that are just comedies
Well, as spooky as a gluten intolerance is, we are both big fans of horror at the Pop Culture Junkie podcast.
And if you're anything like us, you are too.
And with spooky season and Halloween rapidly approaching, we wanted to again look at some of our favorite scary movies.
And we are no stranger to a spooky episode, but this time we actually wanted to look at a genre that brings together our two loves.
We're talking horror and we're talking comedy.
Horror comedies are nothing new.
We first saw them in 1948.
The film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein brought the popular comedy duo face-to-face with a universal movie monster like Dracula, The Wolfman, and of course, Frankenstein's monster, all for laughs.
That movie really did open the door for more films poking fun at specific horror movies and their conventions.
Think movies like The Comedy of Terrors, Young Frankenstein, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
That's spooky.
So, Shauna, what was your first introduction to the horror comedy genre? What sticks out in your mind? That is a
great question because now that you've named, like, it makes so much sense.
When I think horror comedy, my favorite of all time is, like, the Evil Dead franchise and Shaun of the Dead.
Okay.
But now that you've made me start thinking about it more, like, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein and, like, those kind of early, like... comedy horrors I think we could also throw in like Elvira Mistress of the Dark and then also like the Munsters honestly the Addams Family like they're all kind of like live in that horror genre or like spooky genre but like they're comedies at heart that's that's interesting that you know if we really broaden it out like that but yeah I mean I love horror comedies I guess scary movie as a millennial is definitely like the classic that we all think of of laughing but then it's also it's making fun of scary movies yes not actually scary itself so i think that's like an important distinction like there's some horror comedies that are still scary and there's some horror comedies that are just comedies
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