Most serious horror films push themselves so close to the point of parody that it only seems natural to go one step further and add overt comedy into the mix, whether it's through man-eating plants, goading Frankenstein's monster into doing a song and dance number, or finding fun and creative ways to kill zombies.
Directed by Larry Cohen
Creature Film - Rated PG - 90 Minutes - 1974
Horror journeyman Larry Cohen made his first foray into the genre with this low-budget cult favorite about a murderous mutant baby on a suburban rampage. The story opens with a delivery-room massacre as a newborn child answers the doctor's slap by tearing him to pieces -- along with a few other medical personnel -- before fleeing the hospital for whereabouts unknown. A taskforce is formed to hunt it down, and its parents butt heads over how to handle their malevolent offspring. (Available on the Criterion Channel)