Parody film

A parody film is a comedy that parodies other film genres or films as pastiches,^[1][2][3] works created by imitation of the style of many different films reassembled together. Although the genre is often overlooked by critics, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office.^[4] Mockbusters are another type of genre for parody films and mixing of sci fi, horror, war, thriller films also known as black comedy film. It is known as sketch comedy film and crossover humor film.

Examples

1900s

• The Little Train Robbery (1905)

1910s

• Help! Help! (1912)
• The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
• Teddy at the Throttle (1917)

1920s

• Mud and Sand (1922)
• Three Ages (1923)
• Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (1925)
• Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925)

1930s

• I Want to Be a Boarder (1937)

1940s

• You Nazty Spy! (1940)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
• It's a Great Feeling (1949)

1950s

• Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
• Beat the Devil (1953)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
• The Court Jester (1956)

1960s

• Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
• Carry On Cleo (1964)
• Carry On Spying (1964)
• The Great Race (1965)
• Carry On Cowboy (1965)
• Help! (1965)
• Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
• For a Few Dollars Less (1966)
• Carry On Screaming! (1966)
• Our Man Flint (1966)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• The Ambushers (1967)
• The Producers (1968)
• The Dove (1968)
• Zuckerkandl (1968)

1970s

• Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
• Carry On Henry (1971)
• Carry On Dick (1974)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Flesh Gordon (1974)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• The Groove Tube (1974)
• Dark Star (1974)
• Vampira (1974)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
• Love and Death (1975)
• Once Upon a Girl (1975)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
• The Black Bird (1975)
• Silent Movie (1976)
• Murder By Death (1976)
• Queen Kong (1976)
• The Big Bus (1976)
• High Anxiety (1977)
• The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
• American Raspberry (1977)
• Hardware Wars (1977)
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
• The Cheap Detective (1978)
• Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
• Piranha (1978)
• Life of Brian (1979)

1980s

• Galaxina (1980)^[5]
• Wholly Moses! (1980)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Murder Can Hurt You (1980)
• The Private Eyes (1980)
• Caddyshack (1980)
• Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind (1980)
• History of the World, Part I (1981)
• Under the Rainbow (1981)
• Student Bodies (1981)
• Saturday the 14th (1981)
• Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
• The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
• Young Doctors in Love (1982)
• Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
• Police Squad! (TV series) (1982)
• Pandemonium (1982)
• Wacko (1982)
• Zapped! (1982)
• The Man With Two Brains (1983)
• Bullshot (1983)
• Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit (1983)
• Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
• Johnny Dangerously (1984)
• Surf II: The End of the Trilogy (1984)
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Top Secret! (1984)
• The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984)
• Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
• Night of the Comet (1984)
• Chucky and Willie Wanker's Chocolate Starfish (1984)
• Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
• When Nature Calls (1985)
• Clue (1985)
• Radioactive Dreams (1985)
• Eat and Run (1986)
• Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
• Reform School Girls (1986)
• Fresno (TV miniseries) (1986)
• Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Back to the Beach (1987)
• Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
• Leonard Part 6 (1987)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Dragnet (1987)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Love at Stake (1987)
• Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
• Caddyshack II (1988)
• Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989)
• UHF (1989)
• Ricky 1 (1989)
• Disorganized Crime (1989)
• Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
• Transylvania Twist (1989)

1990s

• A Man Called Sarge (1990)
• Repossessed (1990)
• Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (1990)
• Mob Boss (1990)
• Zapped Again! (1990)
• The Freshman (1990)
• If Looks Could Kill (1991)
• The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
• Hot Shots! (1991)
• Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1991)
• Evil Toons (1992)
• Carry On Columbus (1992)
• Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
• CB4 (1993)
• The Naked Truth (1993)
• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
• Fatal Instinct (1993)
• Last Action Hero (1993)
• Freaked (1993)
• The Silence of the Hams (1994)
• Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
• Blankman (1994)
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
• Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold (1995)
• Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
• Spy Hard (1996)
• High School High (1996)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
• Wrongfully Accused (1998)
• Plump Fiction (1998)
• Liang Po Po: The Movie (1999)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
• Bowfinger (1999)
• Galaxy Quest (1999)
• The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)
• The Woman Chaser (1999)

2000s

• 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
• Scary Movie (2000)
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
• The Bogus Witch Project (2000)
• Scary Movie 2 (2001)
• Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
• Shrek (2001)
• Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
• Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
• Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist (2002)
• The Master of Disguise (2002)
• Undercover Brother (2002)
• Reality Kills (2002)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
• Scary Movie 3 (2003)
• Johnny English (2003)
• Down with Love (2003)
• G-Sale (2003)
• A Mighty Wind (2003)
• George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
• Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Freak Out (2004)
• Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
• Shrek 2 (2004)
• Club Dread (2004)
• The Producers (2005)
• My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
• Date Movie (2006)
• Scary Movie 4 (2006)
• Another Gay Movie (2006)
• 18 Fingers of Death! (2006)
• Borat (2006)
• Bikini Bloodbath (2006)
• Man of the Year (2006)
• Epic Movie (2007)^[6]
• Farce of the Penguins (2007)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• The Comebacks (2007)^[6]
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
• Shrek the Third (2007)
• Enchanted (2007)
• Meet the Spartans (2008)^[6]
• Superhero Movie (2008)
• The Onion Movie (2008)
• Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (2008)
• An American Carol (2008)
• Disaster Movie (2008)
• Extreme Movie (2008)
• Tropic Thunder (2008)
• The World Is Hot Enough (2008)
• A.R.O.G. (2008)
• Black Dynamite (2009)
• Dance Flick (2009)
• Not Another Not Another Movie (2009)
• Transylmania (2009)
• Stan Helsing (2009)
• Land Of The Lost (2009)
• Spanish Movie (2009)
• Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
• Alien Trespass (2009)

2010s

• MacGruber (2010)
• Vampires Suck (2010)
• The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010)
• I Am Virgin (2010)
• Shrek Forever After (2010)
• Easy A (2010)
• Johnny English Reborn (2011)
• Puss in Boots (2011)
• Breaking Wind (2012)
• Movie 43 (2013)
• The Starving Games (2013)
• A Haunted House (2013)
• Scary Movie 5 (2013)^[7]
• 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2013)
• Inappropriate Comedy (2013)
• This Is The End (2013)
• The World's End (2013)
• Not Another Celebrity Movie (2013)
• Copa De Elite (2014)
• A Haunted House 2 (2014)
• The Hungover Games (2014)
• A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
• Superfast! (2015)
• The Walking Deceased (2015)^[8]
• Tooken (2015)
• Ridiculous 6 (2015)
• Fifty Shades of Black (2016)
• Meet the Blacks (2016)
• A Counted Room (2016)
• Sausage Party (2016)

References

1. "Postmodern Parody and Pastiche".
2. Johnson, Andrew (2009-08-30). "Spoofs? Don't make us laugh". The Independent (London). Retrieved 2011-05-06.
3. Gilbey, Ryan (2009-08-06). "Spoofs: the films that ate Hollywood". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2011-05-06.
4. Welkos, Robert W. (1998-07-25). "What Keeps Spoofs From Being Box-Office Jokes?". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
5. Booker, Keith M (2010). Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. xxiv.
6. Lee, Aaron (2008-01-27). "Surely you can't be serious". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-12-25. Spoof films are routinely snubbed by Oscar and are even looked down upon by other comedies. But the genre's producers often just laugh all the way to the bank.
7. Scary Movie 5
8. THE WALKING DECEASED