![]() ![]() Grew to encompass more types of movies, genres of entertainment, but that part of me which loved the overtly comical sensibilities of something like Monty Python or Mel Brooks didn’t ever really go away. Both genres dealt in the absurd, the extreme and the fringes of social acceptability in order to explore human nature in a far more biting way than most straight-forward pictures have the ability to do.Īs I grew older, my tastes altered. Both required careful timing, situational discomfort and a keen understanding of the intended audience. As countless others have realized, creating a scare was a lot like generating a laugh. The more I thought about the experience, the more I saw the similarities that horror and comedy tended to share. My mind was conflicted, repulsed by the gross but drawn in by the levity. I had seen Scream (1996) by then and Scream 2 (1997), so I was vaguely familiar with the melding of comedy and horror, but never had seen something so brazen as this. It’s references were totally lost on me- I didn’t even get the Evil Dead 2 (1987) connection for God’s sake. When it was all said and done, Idle Hands turned out to be the goriest movie I had ever seen up to that point. Sure, blood and gore wasn’t really my thing at the time, but, I figured how bad could that stuff be if it was packaged in a comedy? Its release predated my interest in horror by several years but the preview had looked funny, sort of like if Cheech and Chong had made a zombie flick. I didn’t know much about Idle Hands (1999) when it came out. I knew most of the Three Stooges’ schticks by heart, couldn’t get enough of anything Leslie Nielsen was in and was much more interested in what old movie Comedy Central was re-airing than anything on Nickelodeon or Disney. Sure, horror has my heart these days, but I can’t deny that for a huge portion of my young life I was a slapstick devotee. When it comes to the movies, comedy was my first love. ![]()
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