Horror Comedy Special (Part 1)

For almost a century, every studio has jumped on the wagon to produce as many horror movies as possible, over-saturating the genre and causing widespread numbness to the effects of horror.  Then, some time in the 1980s, people built up an immunity.

Audiences still wanted to see horror movies, but if they weren't genuinely scary, there had to be another option.

Critics and scholars will point to different eras as the birth of horror-comedy, but there's only one that matters: the early 1980s.  In general, the '80s are responsible for the breakdown of 'classical' filmmaking, making way for the post-modern movement of the 1990s.  It was open season.