Horror movie fans can get a kick out of some absurd concepts that get released on film. Although the horror genre is supposed to have you on the edge of your seat with eerie suspense, there are also some ridiculous horror plots that make some horror fans crack up and fall off one's seat with disbelief. Horror movies have progressed into creative premises that excite and terrify viewers. Fear is a difficult emotion to entertain, but fans of the genre would agree that popular films have done justice with classic movies such as The Shining starring Jack Nicholson, The Exorcist, A Nightmare On Elm Street, and the Friday the 13th franchise. Stephen King is infamously known for his inventive mind for horror and has contributed to the film industry immensely.
Another horror novelist worth mention is Wes Craven, a pioneer of slasher films who directly intended to mix horror with some humor. As has always been the case, many writers look to amuse and shock horror fans with new content, but they don't always get it right when it comes to scaring the daylights out of audiences. Some storylines are too incredibly ludicrous to not make people laugh out loud.
10 Man-Eating Furniture
In 1977, George Barry wrote, produced, and directed his only feature surrealist horror film, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. It was surprisingly popular and still stands out today as classic horror. A demon in love prepared a bed for love-making but the woman died in the middle of the act and his bloody tears of sorrow brought the bed to life. After that, anyone who laid on the bed was cursed to be swallowed by it.
Watching the film might feel absurd, as the people simply sink into the bed and disappear, with fake pools of blood. More silly still is the ending in which a man trapped in a painting tells a woman how to destroy the bed. A ritual that brings the demon's first love back to life is performed and she then has sex with a brother of one of the victims. The bed then bursts into flames.
9 Killer Insects
This is not a new concept as a horror premise, but it is definitely hilarious and too ridiculous to believe. Still, films such as The Mist in 2007, which featured Thomas Jane and Laurie Holden, portrayed a mysterious situation that made insects become giant and aggressive, leading a town to fight the huge bugs.
An even more comedic look at man-eating killer insects is in the 2002 sci-fi horror film Eight-Legged-Freaks. Viewers need only to look at the movie cover art to laugh at the entire concept. Enormous spiders attack as people run hysterically to safety. An ironic appearance in the film is Scarlett Johansson, who will play the lead role in the 2021 film Black Widow.
8 Sexual Cat Monsters
There is no exaggeration in the title, people transforming into cat-like beings to provocatively lure and cause havoc is a premise that has been used more than once in horror movies. Distributed by Universal Pictures in 1982, Cat People presented an interesting plot where certain "werecats" could turn into panthers and back into human form based on who they killed and who they had sex with.
The movie was centered more on murder, sex, and jealousy. Similarly, Stephen King's Sleepwalkers features werecat characters who fed on virgin women by luring them with telekinesis.
7 Freaky Body Transformations
Every human has a certain fear of sudden strange occurrences and features on the body. Growing an extra limb, for example, would cause absolute panic.
This outlandish plot can be seen in movies such as The Fly, starring Jeff Goldblum, who turns himself into a man-sized fly accidentally during an experiment, or in Thinner where a man is cursed by getting thinner and thinner every day.
6 Horror Clown Stories
Scary clown stories never go out of style. This is proven with the recent release and remake of IT in 2017, starring Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise, the evil child-eating clown. Killer Klowns From Outer Space really takes the cake for this whimsical premise, with its clowns who are not even from this world.
This plot truly plays on the irony of clowns, who are meant to be funny instead of being violent and scary. For a really funny but ghastly horror clown movie experience, check out the brutal 2016 slasher film Terrifier, which received a good response and is now being followed-up with Terrifier 2, set to release in 2021.
5 Cute Killer Animals
There is a very strange yet effective premise for horror movies that involve adorable animals that set out to kill. The entire concept is nonsensical and yet very amusing. Watching cute animals violently murder is a sick comedic premise, to say the least, and many film writers have taken to this story plot.
Black Sheep is a 2006 New Zealand film about killer sheep who eat people or turn them into were-sheep. The ridiculous use of this plot doesn't start or end with sheep. In Night Of The Lepus, a treatment for a rabbit infestation turns disastrous when the cute but pesky critters turn into giant mutated bloodthirsty bunnies.
4 Scary Man-Baby
There are many films that have reproduced the plot of serial killers who are troubled by childhood traumas. But in 1973, a soon to be cult classic was released titled, The Baby. In the film, a 21-year old man (played by David Manzy) behaves like an infant, making social worker Ann Gentry evaluate his mental state.
Things turn murderous when she realizes the entire family is insane and she has meddled too much. At the end of the film, it turns out the social worker has a mental impairment of her own and a ridiculous twist at the end that will have any viewer laughing out loud.
3 Possessed Vehicles Out To Kill
The idea of a possessed car bent on killing people is so far-reaching that it veers more toward comedy than horror. Famously known as a dark comedy horror is 1986 film Maximum Overdrive. It is the only film Stephen King directed himself and it stars Emilio Esteves from The Mighty Ducks and The Breakfast Club.
Another well-known film is 1983's Christine, directed by John Carpenter and based on Stephen King's novel. Christine is a red and white Plymouth Fury Chrysler with a mind of her own that kills at will, makes people commit suicide, seeks out revenge, and obsesses over its owner.
2 Bunny Costume Murderers
Bunny costumes are greatly associated with Easter celebrations and children's parties. That is not the case in some funny bunny-wearing murder films. Bunnyman is a film about a serial killer in a happy bunny costume. Masked killers in horror movies are very creepy when the actual mask is scary, not so much when it's a cute animal.
But as funny as the film is, it has a half-true origin, but some films took this premise and ran with it. A shockingly hilarious slasher horror titled Bunny The Killer Thing is a tormenting tale of a sex-crazed murderer in a bunny costume who chases and harasses his victims before killing them.
1 Edible Killers
There is no horror movie fan who wants to see a villain that is absolutely not scary in the least. Pastries and desserts coming to life and going on murder sprees would make any movie fan burst out laughing.
Take, for example, The Gingerdead Man, a 2006 slasher film about a witch who mixes a killer's ashes into a pastry batter and, after an electric shock to the killer gingerbread man, it comes to life. Amusingly, this animated cookie is able to drive a car and shoot a gun. Another popular food-killer film is Larry Cohen's 1985 release, The Stuff, starring Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Michael Moriarty. This film has a simple and laughable plot in which you eat "the stuff," which looks like a yogurt substance and you slowly get possessed by it and then turn into mush and die.
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