No doubt it was the baleful influence of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but the comedy-gore combination served crime films well until, I suspect, Andrew Dominik's Chopper took it all a bit too far in at the end of the decade.
They have no cause to feel let down, or embarrassed; as a director, Carlyle keeps on top of the story's increasingly deranged twists and turns, even if the Tarantino-esque mix of gore and comedy clashes oddly with more studied moments of localism.
The nine-night festival featuring 53 horror films -- from gore to comedy to documentary -- began in 2006 with a few dozen shorts, a handful of features and modest goals.
Capcom's senior director of communications compared Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat by asking if the interviewer preferred the "precision and depth" of Street Fighter or the "gore and comedy" of Mortal Kombat; he also stated that the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat rivalry was considered similar to the Coke and Pepsi rivalry in the 1990s.
Japan's grotesque horror comedies, combining spurting prosthetic gore and computer-generated mutations, are a specialty of the New York Asian Film Festival.
Ruiz borrows operatic imagery from classic Hollywood melodramas and ramps up its lurid allure with looming shadows, shrieking color, Grand Guignol gore, and outrageous comedy (including a dental exam shown from inside the mouth looking outward).
From Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Comedy Central: "In Washington, the Gores and Liebermans made another public appearance, this time at an area restaurant.
The middle section pitches us into the whirlpool, presenting a swirl of horrific gore and bubbling black comedy.
MTV has shown a particular interest in the genre, successfully introducing "Teen Wolf" this summer and now, having covered the sensitive adolescent angle, adding the gross-out comedy and extreme latex-and-cornstarch gore of "Death Valley".
There are generous doses of blood, gore, drug use and comedy with a brief scene of nudity just for good measure.
(Lee) * 'SLITHER' (R, 96 minutes) A horror film about an extraterrestrial monster with a hunger for flesh that slaloms from yucks to yuks, slip-sliding from horror to comedy and back again on its gore-slicked foundation.
