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Spotlight on... Screwball Comedies

November gloom got you down in the dumps? Dig yourself out of the doldrums with a screwball comedy. Characterized by snappy dialogue, wacky characters, and fast-paced plots, screwballs are one of the most popular comedy genres.

Try a classic or a contemporary from our collection!

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Night of the living dead (1968)
People hide from carnivorous walking corpses revived by radiation fallout.

      
Night of the living dead (1990)
Seven strangers are trapped in a farmhouse while zombie cannibals wage a relentless attack.

      
Nosferatu: a symphony of horror (1922)
A Transylvanian vampire travels to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats.

      
Reign of fire (2002)
Dragons emerge from the earth in London and try to establish dominance over the planet.

      
Rodan (1956)
A village is besieged by giant caterpillars whose underground home houses a pterodactyl.

      
Rosemary's baby (1968)
A young husband sells his unborn child's soul to the devil to advance his career.

      
Shadow of the vampire (2000)
A director seems to have made a devil’s bargain with his star, whose performance as a vampire is a little too authentic.

      
Silent Hill (2006)
The desolate town of Silent Hill is inhabited by horrific creatures and enveloped in a living darkness.

      
Stephen King’s It (1990)
Seven youths have to defeat a demonic creature named Pennywise who dresses as a clown and terrorizes a 1960s town in Maine.

      
The 7th voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Sinbad must travel to an island of monsters to rescue a princess that has been shrunken by an evil wizard.

      
The beast from 20,000 fathoms (1953)
An arctic nuclear blast causes a carnivorous dinosaur to thaw out and threaten North America.

      
The bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Baron von Frankenstein is blackmailed into reviving his monster and building it a mate.

      
The cave (2005)
Bloodthirsty creatures await divers who have become trapped in an underwater cave network.

      
The company of wolves (1984)
Granny warns Rosaleen about the beasts that lurk within men, but she is drawn to a seductive young huntsman with a secret.

      
The creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Archeologists in the Amazon encounters an unfriendly creature that is half man/half fish.

      
The descent (2005)
Friends trapped in a cave are pursued by a strange breed of predators.

      
The fly (1958)
A scientist accidentally exchanges body parts with that of a fly.

      
The fly (1986)
A scientist's genes and molecules are accidentally fused with those of a fly.

      
The host (2006)
A mutant emerges from Seoul’s Han River and carries off a little girl.

      
The last man on Earth (1964)
The only survivor of a plague that wipes out the entire population fights to live when the victims come back to life, thirsting for his blood.



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