Teen Wolf (1985), An American Werewolf In London (1981), Fright Night (1985), Mr. Vampire (1985), Once Bitten (1985), Vamp (1986) and Love At First Bite (1979) were just some of the cocaine-fueled laughs at Universal monsters. Here’s a photo of Grace Jones at a vampire strip club, from Vamp.
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Shaun Of The Dead, Planet Terror, Jennifer’s Body and Zombieland all, to some extent, use the reanimated dead as a backdrop for character-focused comedies. (Okay, so the rom-com thing in the subhed is stretching it slightly — they don’t all feature love stories, exactly. But some of them do.) Zombie comedies that are less character-focused include the Nazi epic Dead Snow, the zombie slave masterpiece Fido, the zombie sheep masterpiece Black Sheep and the incredibly nasty Zombie Strippers. Plus Bruce La Bruce’s Otto, Or Up With The Dead People. Oh, and there’s also last year’s Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead. No, really. There’s also Jon Heder’s webseries Woke Up Dead.
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