A parody film is a subgenre of the comedy film that parodies other film genres or films as pastiches,[1][2][3] works created by imitation of the style of many different films reassembled together. Although the subgenre is often overlooked by critics, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office.[4] Mockbusters are another type of genre for parody films and the mixing of sci-fi, horror, war, thriller films also known as black comedy film. It is known as a sketch comedy film or a crossover humor film.
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Examples[edit]
1900s[edit]
- The Little Train Robbery (1905)
1910s[edit]
- Help! Help! (1912)
- The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
- Teddy at the Throttle (1917)
1920s[edit]
- Mud and Sand (1922)
- Three Ages (1923)
- Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (1925)
- Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925)
1930s[edit]
- I Want to Be a Boarder (1937)
1940s[edit]
- You Nazty Spy! (1940)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
- It's a Great Feeling (1949)
1950s[edit]
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
- Beat the Devil (1953)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
- The Court Jester (1956)
1960s[edit]
- Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
- Carry On Cleo (1964)
- Carry On Spying (1964)
- The Great Race (1965)
- Carry On Cowboy (1965)
- Help! (1965)
- Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
- For a Few Dollars Less (1966)
- Carry On Screaming! (1966)
- Our Man Flint (1966)
- Casino Royale (1967)
- The Ambushers (1967)
- The Producers (1968)
- The Dove (1968)
- Zuckerkandl (1968)
1970s[edit]
- Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
- Carry On Henry (1971)
- Carry On Dick (1974)
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Flesh Gordon (1974)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- The Groove Tube (1974)
- Dark Star (1974)
- Vampira (1974)
- Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
- Love and Death (1975)
- Once Upon a Girl (1975)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
- The Black Bird (1975)
- Silent Movie (1976)
- Murder By Death (1976)
- Queen Kong (1976)
- The Big Bus (1976)
- High Anxiety (1977)
- The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
- American Raspberry (1977)
- Hardware Wars (1977)
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
- The Cheap Detective (1978)
- Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
- Piranha (1978)
- Life of Brian (1979)
1980s[edit]
- Galaxina (1980)[5]
- Wholly Moses! (1980)
- Airplane! (1980)
- Murder Can Hurt You (1980)
- The Private Eyes (1980)
- Caddyshack (1980)
- Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind (1980)
- History of the World, Part I (1981)
- Under the Rainbow (1981)
- Student Bodies (1981)
- Saturday the 14th (1981)
- Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
- The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
- Young Doctors in Love (1982)
- Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
- Police Squad! (TV series) (1982)
- Pandemonium (1982)
- Wacko (1982)
- Zapped! (1982)
- The Man With Two Brains (1983)
- Bullshot (1983)
- Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit (1983)
- Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
- Johnny Dangerously (1984)
- Surf II: The End of the Trilogy (1984)
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- Top Secret! (1984)
- The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984)
- Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
- Night of the Comet (1984)
- Chucky and Willie Wanker's Chocolate Starfish (1984)
- Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
- When Nature Calls (1985)
- Clue (1985)
- Radioactive Dreams (1985)
- Eat and Run (1986)
- Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
- Reform School Girls (1986)
- Fresno (1986)
- Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
- Spaceballs (1987)
- Back to the Beach (1987)
- Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
- Leonard Part 6 (1987)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- Dragnet (1987)
- Evil Dead II (1987)
- Love at Stake (1987)
- Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
- Caddyshack II (1988)
- Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989)
- UHF (1989)
- Ricky 1 (1989)
- Disorganized Crime (1989)
- Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
- Transylvania Twist (1989)
1990s[edit]
- A Man Called Sarge (1990)
- Repossessed (1990)
- Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (1990)
- Mob Boss (1990)
- Zapped Again! (1990)
- The Freshman (1990)
- If Looks Could Kill (1991)
- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
- Hot Shots! (1991)
- Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1991)
- Evil Toons (1992)
- Carry On Columbus (1992)
- Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
- CB4 (1993)
- The Naked Truth (1993)
- Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
- Fatal Instinct (1993)
- Last Action Hero (1993)
- Freaked (1993)
- The Silence of the Hams (1994)
- Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
- Blankman (1994)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
- Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold (1995)
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
- Spy Hard (1996)
- High School High (1996)
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
- Wrongfully Accused (1998)
- Plump Fiction (1998)
- Liang Po Po: The Movie (1999)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- Bowfinger (1999)
- Galaxy Quest (1999)
- The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)
- The Woman Chaser (1999)
2000s[edit]
- 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
- Scary Movie (2000)
- Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
- The Bogus Witch Project (2000)
- Scary Movie 2 (2001)
- Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
- Shrek (2001)
- Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
- Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
- Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist (2002)
- The Master of Disguise (2002)
- Undercover Brother (2002)
- Reality Kills (2002)
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- Scary Movie 3 (2003)
- Johnny English (2003)
- Down with Love (2003)
- G-Sale (2003)
- A Mighty Wind (2003)
- George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
- Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Freak Out (2004)
- Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- Club Dread (2004)
- Team America: World Police (2004)
- The Producers (2005)
- My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
- Date Movie (2006)
- Scary Movie 4 (2006)
- Another Gay Movie (2006)
- 18 Fingers of Death! (2006)
- Borat (2006)
- Bikini Bloodbath (2006)
- Man of the Year (2006)
- Epic Movie (2007)[6]
- Farce of the Penguins (2007)
- Hot Fuzz (2007)
- The Comebacks (2007)[6]
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
- Shrek the Third (2007)
- Enchanted (2007)
- Meet the Spartans (2008)[6]
- Superhero Movie (2008)
- The Onion Movie (2008)
- Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (2008)
- An American Carol (2008)
- Disaster Movie (2008)
- Extreme Movie (2008)
- Tropic Thunder (2008)
- The World Is Hot Enough (2008)
- A.R.O.G. (2008)
- Black Dynamite (2009)
- Dance Flick (2009)
- Not Another Not Another Movie (2009)
- Transylmania (2009)
- Stan Helsing (2009)
- Land of the Lost (2009)
- Spanish Movie (2009)
- Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
- Alien Trespass (2009)
2010s[edit]
- MacGruber (2010)
- Vampires Suck (2010)
- The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010)
- I Am Virgin (2010)
- Shrek Forever After (2010)
- Johnny English Reborn (2011)
- Breaking Wind (2012)
- Movie 43 (2013)
- The Starving Games (2013)
- A Haunted House (2013)
- Scary Movie 5 (2013)[7]
- 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2013)
- Inappropriate Comedy (2013)
- This Is The End (2013)
- The World's End (2013)
- Not Another Celebrity Movie (2013)
- Copa De Elite (2014)
- A Haunted House 2 (2014)
- The Hungover Games (2014)
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
- Superfast! (2015)
- The Walking Deceased (2015)[8]
- Tooken (2015)
- Ridiculous 6 (2015)
- Imaginary Movie (2015)
- Fifty Shades of Black (2016)
- Meet the Blacks (2016)
- A Counted Room (2016)
- Sausage Party (2016)
- Who the F#@K Took My Daughter? (2016)
References[edit]
- ^ "Postmodern Parody and Pastiche".
- ^ Johnson, Andrew (30 August 2009). "Spoofs? Don't make us laugh". The Independent. London. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
- ^ Gilbey, Ryan (6 August 2009). "Spoofs: the films that ate Hollywood". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
- ^ Welkos, Robert W. (25 July 1998). "What Keeps Spoofs From Being Box-Office Jokes?". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ Booker, Keith M (2010). Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. xxiv.
- ^ a b c Lee, Aaron (27 January 2008). "Surely you can't be serious". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-12-25.
Spoof films are routinely snubbed by Oscar and are even looked down upon by other comedies. But the genre's producers often just laugh all the way to the bank.
- ^ Scary Movie 5
- ^ THE WALKING DECEASED
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