Format: Streaming video from Tubi TV on Fire!
I love horror movies, but there are two subgenres of horror that I tend to struggle with. I have a long history of being frustrated with anthology films, since they don’t really provide enough depth to genuinely care about the characters, and I stand by the idea that horror works best when we actually care about the characters. The second subgenre is horror/comedy. Most horror/comedies either aren’t scary, aren’t funny, or both. I actually love a good horror comedy, but the good ones are so rare that I’m always a little nervous going in. Deathgasm, though, had solid bona fides, so I was prepared to enjoy it.
The joy of Deathgasm is that it does exactly what you want a horror comedy to do. While it’s not particularly scary in the sense that you’ll sleep with the light on or something like that, there are plenty of gross out moments that feel like an homage to Dead Alive. It’s also genuinely funny in places. It gives us characters that we can like, and while there are moments where people act like idiots, most of them aren’t completely over the top. It’s funny in the way Shaun of the Dead or Slither was funny, and that’s a good thing.
