Comedy and horror map directly to the emotions of mirth and fear. Storytelling is about bringing emotions to the surface, everything else is supplemental. So, comedy and horror give young filmmakers very clear emotional targets.
I think random TH-cam video creators should tell random people how they should live their lives. I stopped watching this video after the intro. If the title was worded differently, I'd consider giving it a chance. It's like the saying goes: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." Do whatever you want and make whatever you want. Plenty of excellent filmmakers have made excellent dramas for their first films. If you're talented, you'll find a way. And you may fail at your first attempt, or second, or third, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try what you wanna do.
@NE-lu7tn Boy! You're just the coolest guy in the room! So cool you hipped us to your wisdom, so smart you judged a book by its cover! Wow. I wish I was as cool and smart as you.
@Stratmanable For someone mocking someone's intelligence, you should really question your own first. I didn't judge a book by its cover. I clearly stated that I turned it off after the intro. And considering that you don't know who I am and know absolutely nothing about me, it would be wise for you not to throw insults. Unlike most people watching this video and/or posting in the comments (and/or potentially making this video), I actually have 30+ film credits, including one of the biggest TV shows of this century, and one of the highest-grossing movies of the year in 2022. So feel free to choose insults and sarcasm, but considering that you don't even know who you're insulting, maybe you should try to be intelligent and read the comment at face value, coming from someone who actually makes a good living in the industry.
Fear and laughter are the most common reactions to surprising and eventful situations. When you get jumpscared by a friend, when you're riding a rollercoaster, break the law in a small way or do something you've never done before, you get a weird mix of those emotions that makes you feel alive. Directors like Hitchcock, Lynch, Kubrick, Lanthimos, Tarantino, Aster, Raimi, Östlund or Gilliam often mix these emotions in surprising ways, which makes their movies so entertaining and unpredictable.
I am just a local stage director of radio theatre productions. But I started out directing horror, mystery, comedy, and adventure, in that order. It wasnt until my 6th show that I worked up to drama ("Little Women"). This makes total sense to me!
Even the director of Lights Out started with a short horror film. He has a TH-cam channel called Ponysmasher. He explains in depth how he started from a low budget and moved upto directing Shazam.
I’m on my second draft on a novel and haven’t been enjoying myself as much as when I started. I’m gonna take this advice and see if the fun comes back!
One bit that I feel was overlooked here was the audience and marketing aspect/perspective. The deep introspective "I don't know what to feel" stories may be great oscar fodder. But. They are really hard to sell, to market and without word of mouth, you get audiences who very likely do not jive with the intent of the film. With horror and comedy, you have much, much simpler expectations to meet. Distributors know how to market them and audiences let their guards down because they know why to chose your film over the other options. And like with hypnosis, a willing participant is so much more easy to give suggestions to.
A lot of great ideas here but I personally feel like upbeat music during horrific scenes takes the edge off and makes it more watchable, not more terrifying. Same thing happens in some of Rob Zombie's movies
Totally agree with you. One of the worst beginner films I’ve ever seen is Spider-Man Lotus. Controversy aside, it’s extremely boring and self indulgent. Literally like 95% of the movie is just characters being melodramatic and sad. IN A SPIDER-MAN MOVIE! This is common among beginner directors (or artists in general), they don’t care about entertaining the audience. They only care about showing off how genius their dialogue is and how high brow their premise is. They take themselves way too seriously when they still suck! Filming a comedy kind of forces you to be goofy and get in touch with your inner child. Same thing with horror. Who doesn’t have experience trying to scare their friends or family members?
Title made me think of John Demme's "Something Wild" starting out as a romantic New York comedy then turn on a dime with Ray Liotta into a dramatic movie. His next movie "Married to the Mob" wasn't a great comedy but "Silence of the Lambs" went full blown horror. Comedy is funny because it has a grain of truth to it.
If someone makes a student film that isn’t a chamber drama about them whining over a girlfriend in their dorm room, they’re pretty much automatically a dove amongst the crows.
Funny enough I always classify Tarantino movies as comedy’s. I don’t get why people think they’re anything but. Pulp fiction is my favorite movie for many reasons but a major one is because of how damn funny it is
Very true how close horror and comedy are linked cause I honestly found the gore added to Home Alone to make it actually funny enough for me to laugh at where as the actual version wouldn’t. I like to call it splatstick comedy. Like stuff in Dead Alive and the goofier Evil Dead installments, or as in with the example used in this video, Tarantino’s gory but funny films.
Hey I love that you used tarantino's and jordan peeles way of Comedy/Horror. But I think the GTA series pushes it a step forward with there uses of C/H. I think you should check that out.
Without even watching the video I know it's because Dramas are more in depth and and require more cohesive, detailed writing which simply isn't as crucial in comedy or horror. Comedies and horror can be absurd and senseless where it's expected and accepted by most.
First of all we must understand what comedy means: Tragedy. There is not such thing as "happy" comedy, Comedy is a series of events from tragedy, this is evident in the book 'Divine comedy' by dante. If we pay attention, Chaplin's comedy or any jim carrey comedy is based on inconveniences or personal tragedies. it's psychological in many ways
Although I think you have a lot of good points about the parallels of horror and comedy, its an interesting comparison that I don't see many people cover, some horror can use dark humor for a tonal dissonance that really works well. However I think your Thesis is... flawed and clickbaity. I will agree that many new film makers shoot too high, they try to create their magnum opus in their first year and this is disastrous for them. now, where I disagree is that genre inherently will change this, Yes making B-movies(which usually happen to be horror or comedy) is a great way to start your career, but both these genres can be as over ambitious as a drama, making people laugh can be hard, making people scared can be really hard. Its possible on a small budget and little experience(like a great example you shortly showed, I actually think evil dead 2 is Raimis best movie. and that was one of his earliest) but so many people go into making a horror movie trying to be John Carpenter.
Make the kind of film 📽️ you think you should make. I can't tell you how many cliche horror films people I know have made, and a few i worked on, that just blend in with the crowd
Do you think Skinamarink counts as transcendental horror? I think it might. I saw it, it felt slow, yet the atmosphere and anticipation was anxiety inducing. We, the audience don't even see the top half of the characters' bodies for the first half of the film. A lot of low to the ground shots. It was a really good, spooky film in my opinion.
As far as i know, Peter Jackson began making Gore movies before he made The Lord of the Rings, so if i could highlight one of his early movies, I would call Dead Alive "the goriest movies ever".
How would a horror movie typically have a cheaper budget than drama though? Drama essentially requires nothing, i think all your further points are true and very inneresting though, just genuinely wondering why comedy/horror is looked at as a "lower bar" than drama montetarily or qualitatively?
Horror can work with a limited cast, claustrophobic or cheap locations and mediocre actors as long as its concept and pacing is good. They're also pretty much guaranteed to make money with a lower budget. When you limit locations and cast in a drama, it might feel more like a stage play than a movie, which can still work wonderfully (12 Angry Men, Who's Afraid of Wirginia Woolf?), but it's not as versatile, you need to rely on exceptional actors and it can easily flop even with a low budget.
VFX were done by Corridor and Bunni Walker TH-cam channels. They did an amazing job indeed! Sharing the links if you wanna check it out: th-cam.com/video/ZgLqxSPIhR0/w-d-xo.html www.youtube.com/@bunniwalker
Actually I was wondering that, his voice noticably glitches out for a portion of the video and over all his meter sound like that of a modern voice cloning software
yep, Thesis(Filmmakers Should Start with Comedy and Horror), Body1(horror and comedy are similar), Body 2(both can be done on a low budget), Conclusion(????)
Umm..will you ever also mention female filmmakers and their visions and styles? Why do you (and every other "film youtuber" for that instance) only ever talk about the same 5 male filmmakers? It's getting boring. It is time to broaden our field of inspiration and the filmmakers we discuss, don't you think?
Japan does horror better and they do show the monsters. In contrast, Hollywood scripts are often too weak and rely on keeping the monsters hidden to create suspense and horror but this isn't a hard-and-fast rule.
Disagree. Ringu only shows Sadako in the last 5 minutes. As much as I love the early 2000's J-horror, it was a short-lived trend misunderstood and destroyed by the same people who created it. It took Japan just a few years to make terrible spin-offs of The Ring and Ju-On complete with anime-style fist fights.
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Comedy and horror map directly to the emotions of mirth and fear. Storytelling is about bringing emotions to the surface, everything else is supplemental. So, comedy and horror give young filmmakers very clear emotional targets.
I think filmmakers should start wherever they want
I think random TH-cam video creators should tell random people how they should live their lives.
I stopped watching this video after the intro. If the title was worded differently, I'd consider giving it a chance.
It's like the saying goes: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."
Do whatever you want and make whatever you want. Plenty of excellent filmmakers have made excellent dramas for their first films. If you're talented, you'll find a way. And you may fail at your first attempt, or second, or third, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try what you wanna do.
you read the title read the title and took personal offense 😂
@NE-lu7tn Boy! You're just the coolest guy in the room!
So cool you hipped us to your wisdom, so smart you judged a book by its cover!
Wow. I wish I was as cool and smart as you.
@Stratmanable For someone mocking someone's intelligence, you should really question your own first. I didn't judge a book by its cover. I clearly stated that I turned it off after the intro.
And considering that you don't know who I am and know absolutely nothing about me, it would be wise for you not to throw insults. Unlike most people watching this video and/or posting in the comments (and/or potentially making this video), I actually have 30+ film credits, including one of the biggest TV shows of this century, and one of the highest-grossing movies of the year in 2022.
So feel free to choose insults and sarcasm, but considering that you don't even know who you're insulting, maybe you should try to be intelligent and read the comment at face value, coming from someone who actually makes a good living in the industry.
@@NE-lu7tnI call liar
Fear and laughter are the most common reactions to surprising and eventful situations. When you get jumpscared by a friend, when you're riding a rollercoaster, break the law in a small way or do something you've never done before, you get a weird mix of those emotions that makes you feel alive. Directors like Hitchcock, Lynch, Kubrick, Lanthimos, Tarantino, Aster, Raimi, Östlund or Gilliam often mix these emotions in surprising ways, which makes their movies so entertaining and unpredictable.
the pie shootout edit was a brilliant illustration!
One of the best film theory videos ive ever seen. Fantastic video!!
I am just a local stage director of radio theatre productions. But I started out directing horror, mystery, comedy, and adventure, in that order. It wasnt until my 6th show that I worked up to drama ("Little Women"). This makes total sense to me!
Even the director of Lights Out started with a short horror film. He has a TH-cam channel called Ponysmasher. He explains in depth how he started from a low budget and moved upto directing Shazam.
The end scene with Louie was perfect summation of the video 👏
This is an exceptional video. I cannot believe this has less than 1k views.
This is a real interesting and refreshing compared to a lot of the videos about movies I watch. Super high quality as well
AI voice
I’m on my second draft on a novel and haven’t been enjoying myself as much as when I started. I’m gonna take this advice and see if the fun comes back!
One bit that I feel was overlooked here was the audience and marketing aspect/perspective. The deep introspective "I don't know what to feel" stories may be great oscar fodder. But. They are really hard to sell, to market and without word of mouth, you get audiences who very likely do not jive with the intent of the film.
With horror and comedy, you have much, much simpler expectations to meet. Distributors know how to market them and audiences let their guards down because they know why to chose your film over the other options. And like with hypnosis, a willing participant is so much more easy to give suggestions to.
This a handy breakdown especially for when you're stuck. Thank you.
This video is great, very insightful and artfully put together.
A lot of great ideas here but I personally feel like upbeat music during horrific scenes takes the edge off and makes it more watchable, not more terrifying. Same thing happens in some of Rob Zombie's movies
Man you explained it so beautifully i used to think I'll never do comedy but this make me want to do experiment and not do serious drama right away
Great video! But I'd argue good comedy is very hard to pull off. Horror is more approacheable
How is this guy on 2.2k this was amazing
Thank you. This was a good wakeup call
Filmmakers should start wherever they want lmao
Actually, the Home Alone clip with the bricks killed the burglar was pretty damn funny.
I’m writing a drama and a comedy but for my advice is what ever works for you as long you know your story
I am always ready to get engaged in horror and comedy films. Ken Russell proved how great potential there is.
thank you for this! i really appreciate it and i’ll be referencing this often
That's why It Follows is so suspenseful
Hey man, I really like your videos! You have good takes and insights. There's a lot of video essay channels, but yours feels fresh. Keep em comin'
Great content! no doubts your channel will grow greatly
Totally agree with you. One of the worst beginner films I’ve ever seen is Spider-Man Lotus. Controversy aside, it’s extremely boring and self indulgent. Literally like 95% of the movie is just characters being melodramatic and sad. IN A SPIDER-MAN MOVIE!
This is common among beginner directors (or artists in general), they don’t care about entertaining the audience. They only care about showing off how genius their dialogue is and how high brow their premise is. They take themselves way too seriously when they still suck! Filming a comedy kind of forces you to be goofy and get in touch with your inner child. Same thing with horror. Who doesn’t have experience trying to scare their friends or family members?
This is a great video that's like a masterclass
The edit on this was something else
Title made me think of John Demme's "Something Wild" starting out as a romantic New York comedy then turn on a dime with Ray Liotta into a dramatic movie. His next movie "Married to the Mob" wasn't a great comedy but "Silence of the Lambs" went full blown horror.
Comedy is funny because it has a grain of truth to it.
Dude! You caught and kept me with the first 2.3 seconds... "the drums" with that overbeat slam on I... so BlueNote style. What a signature!
The Django and pie part's edit was crazy😂
awesome editing and design
there's a reason Fargo is my 3rd favorite movie
Home Alone with death and gore is just a deathtrap dungeon from old school D&D
If someone makes a student film that isn’t a chamber drama about them whining over a girlfriend in their dorm room, they’re pretty much automatically a dove amongst the crows.
why not both! my Movie The Instance comes out Oct 2nd 2025! and its a comedy horror!
Funny enough I always classify Tarantino movies as comedy’s. I don’t get why people think they’re anything but. Pulp fiction is my favorite movie for many reasons but a major one is because of how damn funny it is
I was thinking about that too starting my debut with comedy
LONG LIVE GENRE CINEMA
Very true how close horror and comedy are linked cause I honestly found the gore added to Home Alone to make it actually funny enough for me to laugh at where as the actual version wouldn’t. I like to call it splatstick comedy. Like stuff in Dead Alive and the goofier Evil Dead installments, or as in with the example used in this video, Tarantino’s gory but funny films.
I think video needs blood/gore warning but overall fantastic!
Start with focus on the writing and not so much filmmaking. Write great comedy and you can do anything.
Hey I love that you used tarantino's and jordan peeles way of Comedy/Horror. But I think the GTA series pushes it a step forward with there uses of C/H. I think you should check that out.
I'm not falling for that one
Nothing hardest to write than comedy AT ALL
💯. I did that. Only left it two times.
very good video!!!
Without even watching the video I know it's because Dramas are more in depth and and require more cohesive, detailed writing which simply isn't as crucial in comedy or horror. Comedies and horror can be absurd and senseless where it's expected and accepted by most.
Now go sum up every youtube video you can find 🫡
The connection is that you have to suspend your disbelief for both genres
For this reason I find most horror films comical to watch
Midsomer was crap. Now hereditary was brilliant.
True romance was best comedy horror 😂
First of all we must understand what comedy means: Tragedy.
There is not such thing as "happy" comedy, Comedy is a series of events from tragedy, this is evident in the book 'Divine comedy' by dante. If we pay attention, Chaplin's comedy or any jim carrey comedy is based on inconveniences or personal tragedies. it's psychological in many ways
Hey dude, i think the audio in this video is way louder on the left side than it is on the right. I feel like i lost hearing on one ear lol
good video! i am going to mention midsommar in mine now
15:43 this was jeepers creepers for me.
Horror comedies work using both elements
Although I think you have a lot of good points about the parallels of horror and comedy, its an interesting comparison that I don't see many people cover, some horror can use dark humor for a tonal dissonance that really works well. However I think your Thesis is... flawed and clickbaity. I will agree that many new film makers shoot too high, they try to create their magnum opus in their first year and this is disastrous for them. now, where I disagree is that genre inherently will change this, Yes making B-movies(which usually happen to be horror or comedy) is a great way to start your career, but both these genres can be as over ambitious as a drama, making people laugh can be hard, making people scared can be really hard. Its possible on a small budget and little experience(like a great example you shortly showed, I actually think evil dead 2 is Raimis best movie. and that was one of his earliest) but so many people go into making a horror movie trying to be John Carpenter.
i personally think the realistic version was hilarious
Make the kind of film 📽️ you think you should make. I can't tell you how many cliche horror films people I know have made, and a few i worked on, that just blend in with the crowd
well Jordan Peele started with comedy and now he’s making horror movies
Schindler list is literally a comedy. Watch it again.
Do you think Skinamarink counts as transcendental horror? I think it might. I saw it, it felt slow, yet the atmosphere and anticipation was anxiety inducing. We, the audience don't even see the top half of the characters' bodies for the first half of the film. A lot of low to the ground shots. It was a really good, spooky film in my opinion.
Where is that first clip with David Lynch from??
Ironically, it's easier to produce the "serious" and "nothing happens" film than what you're suggesting first time filmmakers do😅
As far as i know, Peter Jackson began making Gore movies before he made The Lord of the Rings, so if i could highlight one of his early movies, I would call Dead Alive "the goriest movies ever".
is the sound of this video paned towards left or my headphone broken?
Guys, let me recommend a comedy horror movie for y’all. Chandramukhi (2005)
How would a horror movie typically have a cheaper budget than drama though? Drama essentially requires nothing, i think all your further points are true and very inneresting though, just genuinely wondering why comedy/horror is looked at as a "lower bar" than drama montetarily or qualitatively?
Horror can work with a limited cast, claustrophobic or cheap locations and mediocre actors as long as its concept and pacing is good. They're also pretty much guaranteed to make money with a lower budget. When you limit locations and cast in a drama, it might feel more like a stage play than a movie, which can still work wonderfully (12 Angry Men, Who's Afraid of Wirginia Woolf?), but it's not as versatile, you need to rely on exceptional actors and it can easily flop even with a low budget.
your making a fantastic points, but I'm seeing a sevear lack of dogs.
Trick question do whatever you want because art is subjective
You made home alone much funnier with those injuries
3:23 "imagine this scene with visible, painful injuries"
Bro says "it wouldn't be so funny", but next makes it even funnier omg especially 3:39
My film will bee A comedy/ musical
are you a filmaker ? how many films you made this far ?
I bet that matters somehow.
@@stupendoushorrendous8258 it does the guy is telling people how they should start their career.
What was that last song at the end
too bad i was cackling at the corridor digital hom,e alone edits thesis destroyed 😎
Those death scenes from Home Alone are your edits? Man if so they are GOOD
also my god I can't stand tarantino
no it was done by the vfx channel Corridor
VFX were done by Corridor and Bunni Walker TH-cam channels. They did an amazing job indeed! Sharing the links if you wanna check it out:
th-cam.com/video/ZgLqxSPIhR0/w-d-xo.html
www.youtube.com/@bunniwalker
@@noticiasinmundiciasyeah, I like maybe 2/3rd’s or less of his catalog,”-really can’t stand him personally, though.
I love horror but i'm not scary
I like comedies and I know they're a good way to start, but i'm not funny.
good
this video felt ai generated
why?
@@fastabst both the script and the vocal performance of the narrator gave me the uncanny valley feeling
@@gingersndragons Im 90% sure the vocals are AI, I dont know about the script. but still seems like an odd choice
Are you AI?
Actually I was wondering that, his voice noticably glitches out for a portion of the video and over all his meter sound like that of a modern voice cloning software
yeah
Nah the running scene in Get Out is hilarious regardless of the music.
Na it wasn't funny till he added the music because it was never ment to be funny
I am glad Orson Welles didn’t follow this advice
What's the movie at [11:22]
Once upon a time in Hollywood
great video but not mentioning evil dead in a video about low budget comedy and horror movies is a bit of a sin
Evil Dead definitely shows up in this lol, you just weren't paying attention
My left ear enjoyed this video.
is this an AI fucking voicing this
What a convoluted mess of an "essay". So did he ever explain why Filmmakers Should Start with Comedy and Horror?
yep, Thesis(Filmmakers Should Start with Comedy and Horror), Body1(horror and comedy are similar), Body 2(both can be done on a low budget), Conclusion(????)
15:41 Peele says this but then does exactly that in NOPE. He shows the fucking alien??
I didn't find those films scary or funny.
Anybody know the movie @ 14:12 ?
@@johndimelu1247 "Hana-bi" by Takeshi Kitano
yeaaaaaaaaaaaa
and if they don't?
This video kinda feels like its saying that making comedy or horror is easier than drama....
This is not the case
Umm..will you ever also mention female filmmakers and their visions and styles? Why do you (and every other "film youtuber" for that instance) only ever talk about the same 5 male filmmakers? It's getting boring. It is time to broaden our field of inspiration and the filmmakers we discuss, don't you think?
Japan does horror better and they do show the monsters. In contrast, Hollywood scripts are often too weak and rely on keeping the monsters hidden to create suspense and horror but this isn't a hard-and-fast rule.
Disagree. Ringu only shows Sadako in the last 5 minutes. As much as I love the early 2000's J-horror, it was a short-lived trend misunderstood and destroyed by the same people who created it. It took Japan just a few years to make terrible spin-offs of The Ring and Ju-On complete with anime-style fist fights.
You should stop thinking of comedy and drama as two seperate things.