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Even if you don't care for the old crap, humor me.
While this isn't the only example, it is the best and most noted one. Taking your franchise monsters, THE iconic monsters of that time, and still today, and throwing them into a movie with one of the top comic acts of the day, while not compromising the horror one bit, is unique. A&C did their schtick, yet the monsters didn't come out of it looking like jokes. Bela did that well enough on his own in later years.
So, try to figure how this would work today. Take our icons, at their most horrifying... Leatherface, Myers, Jason, etc.. If that's going too far back, I don't know, Jigsaw? Not much in the way of iconic characters to work with in recent times. Who's the hot comedy going today? As a result of being clueless, I'll throw out Adam Sandler and that Borat guy. I have no idea. So anyway, Is it even possible to pair them up with say, Jigsaw, and not have the whole thing come out as a really rotten joke?
Remember, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the wolfman were that generation's iconic, serious, 'scary' figures. They were the straight men in this.
You could argue Raimi and Big Chin pulled this off with Evil Dead 2 and AOD, but these weren't iconic monsters, nor was Bruce a top comic. But they worked well. Return of the Living Dead is something similar I suppose, too. It did fairly well at balancing the comic and horror.
Freddy and Jason were pretty much comedy acts themselves at certain points. Myers just went flat bad.
There's probably little point to this, but I thought about it, and figured I'd share. Do you think it's possible today? Throwing together the hottest comedy with the scariest horror, and not producing a giant puke ball?