LIST

The Best Modern Horror Comedies

Q: What are the best horror comedies since 2010?

Standouts include The Cabin in the Woods (2011), What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Housebound (2014), Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010), The Menu (2022), M3GAN (2022), Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), and Final Destination Bloodlines (2025).

Q: What are the best classic horror comedies?

The all-time greats include Evil Dead II, Gremlins, An American Werewolf in London, Re-Animator, Tremors, Dead Alive, and Shaun of the Dead. This list focuses on horror comedies released in 2010 or later.

By Matt Oakes · October 31, 2026

Horror and comedy have always been closer cousins than either genre likes to admit. Both live and die on timing, both are after a physical reaction, and when a filmmaker nails the blend, a scream turns into a cackle mid-breath. The all-timers are already etched in stone: Evil Dead II, Gremlins, An American Werewolf in London, Re-Animator, Tremors, Dead Alive, and Shaun of the Dead.

This list is about what came after. Since 2010, horror-comedy has gotten weirder, meaner, and even more fun, from meta deconstructions and vampire mockumentaries to murderous robot dolls, Satanic babysitters, and fine dining gone very wrong. These are the modern horror comedies worth your time, pulled from my picks for the best horror of the 2010s and 2020s and presented in no particular order.

HOUSEBOUND (2014)

95%Critics 73%Audience

Housebound (2014)
New Zealand remains the king of horror-comedy, this time presenting a maybe-haunted-house story about a pissy jailbird under house arrest, contending with a possible possession and a definitely annoying mum.▶ Streaming on Prime Video and Tubi · Read the full review

M3GAN (2022)

93%Critics 78%Audience 6.3IMDb

A roboticist gives her orphaned niece a four-foot AI doll with a protection directive and no supervision. Malicious sentience isn’t fresh; what M3gan does well is approach it with an almost programmatic level of fun.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2014)

96%Critics 87%Audience 7.6IMDb

Flight of the Concord funnymen don their vampire garb in this sacrilegious send-up that makes killer use of mockumentary format.Rent or buy on Amazon · Read the full review · Taika Waititi’s Movies, Ranked

BODIES BODIES BODIES (2022)

85%Critics 69%Audience 6.1IMDb

Rich twenty-somethings play a party murder game during a hurricane blackout and someone actually dies. So many love triangles you’d need pins and yarn. Everyone’s as viable a suspect as in any tabletop game of Clue.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL (2010)

86%Critics 85%Audience

Hillbilly horror-comedy follows two misunderstood softies trying to relax for the weekend but come up against pretentious college tools who assume the worst. Bloody mishaps ensue.▶ Streaming on Peacock and Tubi

FRESH (2022)

82%Critics 80%Audience 6.7IMDb

A dating-app match sweeps a woman off to a weekend house, then reveals he sells human meat to wealthy clients and she is inventory. American Psycho and Martyrs on a meat-cute, giving new meaning to “eating butt.”▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (2011)

92%Critics 74%Audience

Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard deconstruct the horror genre in goofy style and changed the game in doing so. Partially responsible for the arthouse horror resurregence. Merman kill FTW.▶ Streaming on HBO Max and AMC+

WEREWOLVES WITHIN (2021)

86%Critics 80%Audience 6.0IMDb

A forest ranger and a mail carrier lock a Vermont town’s worth of feuding neighbors in one inn while something outside eats the generators. Clue with lycanthropy.▶ Streaming on Shudder · Read the full review

GRABBERS (2012)

67%Critics 52%Audience

In this small Irish town, locals will need to get very, very drunk in order to fend off a tentacled monster or else be swallowed whole, and sober, in this laugh-out-loud creature feature.▶ Streaming on Shudder and AMC+ · Read the full review

ABIGAIL (2024)

83%Critics 83%Audience

Kidnappers take a ballerina for ransom and lock themselves in a mansion with a centuries-old vampire. Blood-soaked vamp-ballet with a scenery-gobbling Dan Stevens. A damn good horror jaunt.Rent or buy on Amazon

SIGHTSEERS (2012)

86%Critics 62%Audience

An odd couple’s U.K. road trip turns into a serial killing spree in this sardonic anti-rom-com from horror auteur Ben Wheatley.▶ Streaming on AMC+ and The Roku Channel · Read the full review

88%Critics 76%Audience 7.1IMDb

A riotous dark satire that uses the upper echelon of the food world to skewer class warfare, with Ralph Fiennes delivering an icy tour-de-force as a mesmerizing, disturbed chef at the end of his rope. Full of twists and full-bellied laughs, consider it a dish that should be consumed immediately.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

THE FINAL GIRLS (2015)

76%Critics 71%Audience 6.5IMDb

Max and her friends are sucked into a slasher film (don’t ask how) and must use their knowledge of horror movies to survive and best their would-be killer. A funny, bloody, sweet meta socks-knocker. (And way better and smarter than similarly meta Happy Death Day.)▶ Streaming on The Roku Channel · Read the full review

LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024)

52%Critics 82%Audience

A grieving 1989 teen reanimates a Victorian corpse and starts fetching him missing body parts from the people who wronged her. Mostly charming, even as Diablo Cody cribs from a familiar deck.▶ Streaming on Peacock

CHEAP THRILLS (2013)

87%Critics 69%Audience

An antagonistic satire on American capitalism sees two lowly no-ones completing increasingly harmful dares at the behest of a rich benefactor. A sometimes mean-spirited and definitely pissed off black comedy that’ll kick you in the teeth.▶ Streaming on Tubi and Kanopy

JAKOB’S WIFE (2021)

85%Critics 61%Audience 5.5IMDb

A minister’s wife of thirty years gets bitten, and vampirism is the best thing that ever happened to her marriage. Goretastic and laugh out loud hilarious, a ’90s throwback openly in love with Nosferatu.▶ Streaming on Shudder and AMC+ · Read the full review

FRIGHT NIGHT (2011)

72%Critics 59%Audience

A sexy vampire next door (Colin Farrell in rare cheeseball form) wants to take a bite out of the suspicious neighbor in this tongue-in-cheek remake of the 1985 cult classic.▶ Streaming on Hulu and Peacock

FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES (2025)

92%Critics 86%Audience

Death works backward through a family tree from a tower-restaurant premonition two generations old.▶ Streaming on HBO Max

BETTER WATCH OUT (2016)

89%Critics 63%Audience

Santa will be adding some new names to the naughty list in this expectation-subverting Christmas bloodbath that coins the kill term “Home Alone-ing.” You’re curious now, aren’t you?▶ Streaming on Prime Video and Peacock

BLOODY HELL (2020)

91%Critics 80%Audience

A bank robbery hero flees his own fame to Finland and gets carved up by a family feeding something in their basement. Follows proudly in the grand tradition of Australian horror, irreverent about the genre while adding a worthwhile entry to it.▶ Streaming on Tubi and Pluto TV · Read the full review

THE BABYSITTER (2017)

70%Critics 62%Audience

Bee is the hot, cool, flirty babysitter every pre-teenage boy dreams of. Except when she brings her friends over. They might be into satanic worship.▶ Streaming on Netflix

BEAU IS AFRAID (2023)

67%Critics 71%Audience 6.6IMDb

A medicated man tries to get to his mother’s funeral and passes through a feral city, a smothering suburb, and a forest theatre troupe on the way. Aster stages it like Homer. A troubled guide through a decaying world.Rent or buy on Amazon · Read the full review

TRAGEDY GIRLS (2017)

85%Critics 61%Audience 6.0IMDb

A pair of social media-obsessed girls plot to up their status by murdering their peers in this delightfully sarcastic social satire that’s totally in it for the likes.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

TOTALLY KILLER (2023)

85%Critics 76%Audience

A modern teen time-travels to 1987 to stop the slasher who will kill her mother’s friends.▶ Streaming on Prime Video

DEATHGASM (2015)

89%Critics 66%Audience 6.3IMDb

Kiwi heavy metal horror-comedy plays a cursed song that accidentally summons demons. 🤘▶ Streaming on Hoopla · Read the full review

THE MONKEY (2025)

77%Critics 55%Audience 5.9IMDb

A wind-up toy monkey kills someone at random every time its drum gets struck, which Oz Perkins plays entirely for grisly slapstick. Not Longlegs eerie, but a full-tilt grindhouse descent with its own deranged drum.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

PIRANHA 3D (2010)

75%Critics 45%Audience

70’s sexploitation meets turn-of-the-century budget CGI in this tongue-in-cheek monster movie that unleashes bloodthirsty teeth-fish on bikini-clad spring breakers. A campy beer bong-able party movie if there ever was one. Spoiler alert: A piranha burps out a human penis.▶ Streaming on Plex

FAQ

What are the best horror comedies since 2010?

Standouts include The Cabin in the Woods (2011), What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Housebound (2014), Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010), The Menu (2022), M3GAN (2022), Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), and Final Destination Bloodlines (2025).

What are the best classic horror comedies?

The all-time greats include Evil Dead II, Gremlins, An American Werewolf in London, Re-Animator, Tremors, Dead Alive, and Shaun of the Dead. This list focuses on horror comedies released in 2010 or later.