Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.
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If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.
The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.
If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well.
For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
'Scary Movie' was a different type of comedy than I'm used to. I've mostly done sitcoms, so working with David Zucker, who wrote the film and who directed the last two 'Scary Movie's and 'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun,' was a lot of help.
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