Who doesn’t love a good horror comedy? You get to laugh one minute and scream the next. When done right, gems such as Young Frankenstein, Scary Movie, or Gremlins can become instant classics for many generations. More recently, films such as Lisa Frankenstein, Young Monster, and The Monkey have been standouts for fans of the niche subgenre. Another new mockumentary worth mentioning is For Sale By Exorcist, which was directed by Melissa LaMartina and recently released by Epic Pictures’ horror label, Dread. The film synopsis reads: After a decade of flipping haunted houses across the country, resourceful realtor and certified exorcist Susan Price is on the hunt for her own forever home. But when the displaced spirits she’s evicted through the years come back to torment her, Susan must banish the dark forces before her forever home becomes her final resting place.Having co-produced horror comedies such as Out There Halloween Mega Tape and What Happens Next Will Scare You, as well as fronting a monster-obsessed band, Melissa is no stranger to intertwining horror and comedy. She explains, “The key to the blend is recognizing that they both depend on building tension and then releasing it. Obviously, that tension is released in very different ways (a kill versus a pratfall, for instance), but they’re operating with similar basic mechanisms. So the formula is really similar already, but the tone is typically different. In For Sale By Exorcist, achieving the blend came down to playing the comedy very straight—to the actors not...
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