“What are the best Horror Comedy Movies Of All-Time?” We looked at 178 of the top Horror Comedies and ranked them so we could answer that very question!

The top 31 films, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Horror Comedy” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 125+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

Happy Scrolling!

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Top 31 Best Horror Comedy Movies

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31 .) Army of Darkness

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Inverse
• Ranker

A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home.

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30 .) Cabin in the Woods

Lists It Appears On:

• Gemr
• Inverse
• Screen Rant

Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

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29 .) Fido (2006)

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Ranker
• Thought Co.

Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, “Fido” will rip your heart out.

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28 .) Ghostbusters II

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Forbes
• Ranker

Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement to aid her and hopefully save New York City from a new paranormal threat.

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27 .) Krampus

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Horror Media

A horror comedy based on the ancient legend about a pagan creature who punishes children on Christmas.

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26 .) Life After Beth

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Bustle

Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down…

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25 .) Little Shop of Horrors

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Gemr
• Paste Magazine

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik’s, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper.

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24 .) Night of the Comet (1984)

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Paste Magazine
• Verbicide Magazine

Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous “think tank,” karate chop their way through flesh-eating zombies, and, of course, find time to go to the mall.

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23 .) Rubber

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Inverse
• Screen Rant

In the California desert, the adventures of a telepathic killer-tire, mysteriously attracted by a very pretty girl, as witnessed by incredulous onlookers.

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22 .) The Frighteners

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Bustle
• Screen Rant

Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his “special” gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

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21 .) Warm Bodies

Lists It Appears On:

• Bustle
• Gemr
• IFC

After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

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20 .) Fright Night (1985)

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Bustle
• Complex
• The Cinemaholic

Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige, is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent, famed for portraying a ghoul hunter. Unfortunately for the would-be vampire slayers, Dandrige has set his sights on Charley’s girlfriend.

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19 .) House (1986)

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• NYPL
• Paste Magazine
• Thought Co.

Roger Cobb is a author who has just separated from his wife. He moves into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little things at first, but as they become more frequent, Cobb becomes aware that the house resents his presence.

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18 .) Scary Movie (2000)

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Horror Media
• Ranker
• Thought Co.

Following on the heels of popular teen-scream horror movies, with uproarious comedy and biting satire. Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Shannon Elizabeth and Carmen Electra pitch in to skewer some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Matrix, American Pie and The Blair Witch Project.

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17 .) The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Lists It Appears On:

• Complex
• Ranker
• The Cinemaholic
• Thought Co.

When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!

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16 .) Slither (2006)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Inverse
• Screen Rant
• Thought Co.

A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

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15 .) The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Complex
• Forbes
• Horror Media
• IFC
• Refinery 29

Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

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14 .) Dead Alive (1992)

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Complex
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• Refinery 29
• Screen Rant
• Thought Co.

When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove’s mother, she’s transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.

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13 .) Gremlins (1984)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Complex
• Forbes
• IFC
• Paste Magazine
• Thought Co.

When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.

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12 .) Re-Animator (1985)

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Complex
• Inverse
• Ranker
• Screen Rant
• The Cinemaholic
• Verbicide Magazine

A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

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11 .) Scream (1996)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Complex
• Horror Media
• IFC
• Inverse
• Ranker
• Refinery 29

A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the ‘rules’ of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.

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10 .) Tremors (1990)

Lists It Appears On:

• Box Office Mojo
• Forbes
• Gemr
• IFC
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• Thought Co.

Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town — despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who’s picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what’s responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.

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9 .) An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Complex
• IFC
• Inverse
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• The Cinemaholic

Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

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8 .) Ghostbusters (1984)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Complex
• Forbes
• Inverse
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• Thought Co.

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting “ghostbusters” who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.

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7 .) What We Do In The Shadows (2014)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Bustle
• Gemr
• Inverse
• Paste Magazine
• Refinery 29
• Screen Rant
• The Cinemaholic

Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

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6 .) Young Frankenstein (1974)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Bustle
• Gemr
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• Refinery 29
• The Cinemaholic
• Thought Co.

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

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5 .) Beetlejuice (1988)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Bustle
• Forbes
• Gemr
• Horror Media
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• Refinery 29
• The Cinemaholic

Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he’s got a diabolical agenda of his own.

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4 .) Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Bustle
• Gemr
• Inverse
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• Refinery 29
• Screen Rant

Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo’s West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.

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3 .) Zombieland

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Forbes
• Gemr
• Horror Media
• IFC
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• Refinery 29

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

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2 .) Evil Dead 2 (1987)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Complex
• Forbes
• Inverse
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• Screen Rant
• The Cinemaholic
• Thought Co.

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.

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1 .) Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Lists It Appears On:

• Babble Top
• Box Office Mojo
• Bustle
• Complex
• Forbes
• Gemr
• Horror Media
• IFC
• Inverse
• Paste Magazine
• Ranker
• Refinery 29
• Screen Rant
• The Cinemaholic
• Thought Co.

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

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The 125+ Additional Best Comedy Horror Movies Of All-Time

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#	Movies	Lists
32	A Haunted House	Horror Media
–	–	Box Office Mojo
33	Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)	Paste Magazine
–	–	Complex
34	Arachnophobia	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Forbes
35	Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2007)	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Thought Co.
36	Bubba Ho-Tep	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Inverse
37	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Ranker
–	–	Box Office Mojo
38	Critters (1985)	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Thought Co.
39	Eight Legged Freaks (2002)	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Thought Co.
40	Evil Dead	IFC
–	–	Box Office Mojo
41	Feast (2006)	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Thought Co.
42	Hatchet (2007)	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Thought Co.
43	Housebound	Refinery 29
–	–	Inverse
44	Night of the Creeps (1986)	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Complex
45	Return of the Living Dead	Paste Magazine
–	–	Box Office Mojo
46	The Addams Family	Ranker
–	–	Bustle
47	The Final Girls	Screen Rant
–	–	Refinery 29
48	The Monster Squad (1987)	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Complex
49	The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)	Babble Top
–	–	The Cinemaholic
50	The Toxic Avenger	Ranker
–	–	IFC
51	This Is the End	Horror Media
–	–	Ranker
52	Tragedy Girls (2017)	Box Office Mojo
–	–	Refinery 29
53	A Haunted House 2	Box Office Mojo
54	A Million Little Things	TV Guide
55	An American Werewolf in Paris	Box Office Mojo
56	Bad Taste (1987)	The Cinemaholic
57	Baghead	Box Office Mojo
58	Basket Case (1982)	The Cinemaholic
59	Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007)	Film Keeday
60	Bhoot Bungla (1965)	Film Keeday
61	Bhoothnath Returns (2014)	Film Keeday
62	Black Sheep (2007)	Box Office Mojo
63	Blood Fest	Box Office Mojo
64	Boo! A Madea Halloween	Box Office Mojo
65	Bordello of Blood	Box Office Mojo
66	Botched (2008)	Thought Co.
67	Bride of Chucky	Box Office Mojo
68	Cabin Fever	Paste Magazine
69	Casper	Bustle
70	Cemetary Man	Box Office Mojo
71	Chamatkar (1992)	Film Keeday
72	Class of Nuke ‘Em High (1986)	Verbicide Magazine
73	Club Dread	Box Office Mojo
74	Creepshow (1982)	Complex
75	Critters 2: The Main Course	Box Office Mojo
76	Dark Shadows	Box Office Mojo
77	Dead Alive (or) Braindead (1992)	The Cinemaholic
78	Dead End (2003)	Thought Co.
79	Dead Sushi (Deddo Sushi)	NYPL
80	Death Becomes Her	Ranker
81	Decoys	Box Office Mojo
82	Def by Temptation	Box Office Mojo
83	Demons (1985)	The Cinemaholic
84	Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde	Box Office Mojo
85	Dracula: Dead and Loving It	Box Office Mojo
86	Drag Me To Hell	Inverse
87	Dylan Dog: Dead of Night	Box Office Mojo
88	Edward Scissorhands	Bustle
89	Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust	Box Office Mojo
90	Fright Night (2011)	Box Office Mojo
91	Fright Night II	Box Office Mojo
92	Game of Thrones	TV Guide
93	Ghostbusters (2016)	Box Office Mojo
94	Go Goa Gone (2013)	Film Keeday
95	Golmaal Again (2017)	Film Keeday
96	Goosebumps	Box Office Mojo
97	Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween	Box Office Mojo
98	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Box Office Mojo
99	Haunted Honeymoon	Box Office Mojo
100	Hausu	Inverse
101	Heathers	Bustle
102	Helldriver (Herudoraibā)	NYPL
103	Hello Brother (1999)	Film Keeday
104	Hocus Pocus	Bustle
105	Hot Fuzz	Ranker
106	House II	Box Office Mojo
107	Hum Tum Aur Ghost (2010)	Film Keeday
108	I Know What You Did Last Summer	Refinery 29
109	Idle Hands	Box Office Mojo
110	Innocent Blood	Box Office Mojo
111	Jennifer’s Body	Box Office Mojo
112	John Dies at the End	Screen Rant
113	Khilona Bana Khalnayak (1993)	Film Keeday
114	Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)	Thought Co.
115	Knights of Badassdom	Box Office Mojo
116	Lake Placid	Box Office Mojo
117	Leprechaun 3	Screen Rant
118	Lifetime Gross	Box Office Mojo
119	Mars Attacks!	Ranker
120	Meatball Machine (Mitoboru Mashin)	NYPL
121	Mom and Dad	Refinery 29
122	Monster Beach Party	Box Office Mojo
123	My Boyfriend’s Back	Box Office Mojo
124	My Name Is Bruce	Box Office Mojo
125	Nanu Ki Jaanu (2018)	Film Keeday
126	National Lampoon’s Class Reunion	Box Office Mojo
127	Nightmare Before Christmas	Bustle
128	Once Bitten	Box Office Mojo
129	Pandemonium	Paste Magazine
130	Paranorman	Bustle
131	Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck	Inverse
132	Parents	Box Office Mojo
133	Piercing	Ranker
134	Piranha 3D	Screen Rant
135	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	Box Office Mojo
136	Psycho Beach Party	Box Office Mojo
137	Range 15	Box Office Mojo
138	Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale	Inverse
139	Repossessed	Box Office Mojo
140	Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)	Thought Co.
141	Return of the Living Dead 2	Box Office Mojo
142	Santa’s Slay (2005)	Thought Co.
143	Scary Movie 2	Box Office Mojo
144	Scary Movie 3	Box Office Mojo
145	Scary Movie 4	Box Office Mojo
146	Scary Movie 5	Box Office Mojo
147	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	Box Office Mojo
148	Scream 2	Screen Rant
149	Scream Queens	TV Guide
150	Seed of Chucky	Box Office Mojo
151	Sharknado	Horror Media
152	Snakes on a Plane	Box Office Mojo
153	Stree (2018)	Film Keeday
154	Student Bodies	Box Office Mojo
155	Teen Wolf	Box Office Mojo
156	Teen Wolf Too	Box Office Mojo
157	Teeth	Box Office Mojo
158	The ‘burbs	Inverse
159	The Cottage (2008)	Thought Co.
160	The Fearless Vampire Killers	Inverse
161	The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, remade in 1986)	Verbicide Magazine
162	The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra	Box Office Mojo
163	The Love Witch	Box Office Mojo
164	The Selling of Scarry Manor	Gemr
165	The Slumber Party Massacre	Paste Magazine
166	The Stuff (1985)	Verbicide Magazine
167	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)	The Cinemaholic
168	The Toxic Avenger Part II	Box Office Mojo
169	The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie	Box Office Mojo
170	The Voices	Refinery 29
171	Transylmania	Box Office Mojo
172	Trolljegeren	Inverse
173	Twilight Zone	TV Guide
174	Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween	Box Office Mojo
175	Under Wraps	Bustle
176	Vamp	Box Office Mojo
177	Vampire in Brooklyn	Box Office Mojo
178	Vampires Suck	Box Office Mojo

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19 Best Comedy Horror Film Sources/Lists

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Source	Article
Babble Top	15 Horror Comedies To Watch Before Halloween
Box Office Mojo	Horror Comedy Movies at the Box Office
Bustle	The 17 Funniest Halloween Movies That Provide Laughs Instead Of
Complex	The 15 Best Horror-Comedies Of All Time
Film Keeday	Top 11 Best Bollywood Horror Comedy Movies for Fun and Chills
Forbes	Top 10 Best Comedy Horror Movies Of All Time
Gemr	The 11 Best Horror Comedy Movies You Have to See
Horror Media	Best Horror Comedy Movies of All Time
IFC	The 10 Best Horror Comedies
Inverse	The 20 Greatest Horror Comedies Of All Time
NYPL	4 Japanese Comedy-Horror Films You Should Watch In 2015
Paste Magazine	20 Horror Comedies You Need to Watch :: Comedy :: Lists
Ranker	Comedy Horror Movies | List of the Best Comedy Horror Films
Refinery 29	Best Horror Comedies, Scary Funny Movies Like Get Out
Screen Rant	15 Funniest Ever Horror Comedies
The Cinemaholic	15 Best Horror Comedy Movies of All Time
Thought Co.	The Top 25 Horror Comedy Movies
TV Guide	The Bloody Funniest Horror Comedies Ever Made
Verbicide Magazine	10 of the Funniest Horror-Comedy Movies of All Time