The horror genre exists to help viewers confront their darkest fears. Film can offer safe encounters with monsters, murderers, mutants, and other mostly fictional frighteners, but there is one real-life phobia fans cannot escape: going to the doctor. Fortunately, there are plenty of movies to help patients prepare for the dreaded annual check-up, and these ten horror comedies featuring doctors, nurses, surgeons and dentists are better than a dose of laughing gas.
The horror-comedy is a very difficult subgenre to pull off, but this list showcases the ways a well-placed gag can make confronting one's fears into a fun experience. These films about scalpel-wielding slashers, corrupt cosmetic surgeons, and evil orthodontists are as hysterical as they are horrific, and they are sure to make a real-life appointment seem like a walk in the park.
A Ride in This Ambulance Costs More Than an Arm and a Leg
Cult movie king...
The horror-comedy is a very difficult subgenre to pull off, but this list showcases the ways a well-placed gag can make confronting one's fears into a fun experience. These films about scalpel-wielding slashers, corrupt cosmetic surgeons, and evil orthodontists are as hysterical as they are horrific, and they are sure to make a real-life appointment seem like a walk in the park.
A Ride in This Ambulance Costs More Than an Arm and a Leg
Cult movie king...
- 1/7/2025
- by Claire Donner
- CBR
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