An entertaining horror movie comes from the compelling narrative and strong main characters, and adding a touch of comedy can elevate the terror beyond their initial potential. Entertaining horror-comedy movies need standout characters, good gags, and solid scares. Audiences love a good story, even if the same plot has been made before. While the Scary Movie premises are all based on other horror movies, this franchise's numerous entries are considered cult classic movies because they're entertaining and funny. a593x

The director of The Final Girlshas shared details of the slasher comedy's unmade sequel, The Final Girls 2. The 2015 movie starred Taissa Farmiga as Max Cartwright, whose late mother (Malin Åkerman) was the star of a popular 1980s slasher movie about the summer camp killer Billy Murphy. When she and her friends get trapped inside the movie, Max bonds with the character played by her mom and is tempted to find a way to bring her back to the real world. The movie's ending leaves the door open for a sequel, though none has materialized in the eight years since its release.

The time-traveling slasher story of Totally Killer has already played out in another comedy-horror flick that debuted eight years ago. Directed by Nahnatchka Khan, the filmmaker behind Ali Wong's 2019 Netflix hit Always Be My Maybe, and produced under the Blumhouse Television banner, Totally Killer is a straight-to-streaming riff on 1980s slashers. The movie stars Kiernan Shipka as Jamie Hughes, a present-day teen whose mom, Pam (Julie Bowen), is murdered on Halloween. It turns out that Pam's fate was a long time coming: as a teenager she was the only one of her friends to evade the Sweet 16 Killer on Halloween night in 1987.

The new horror movie Totally Killer is called out by director Todd Strauss-Schulson for copying his 2015 meta-slasher The Final Girls. Produced by Jason Blum, Totally Killer stars Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka as a young woman who, following the death of her mother at the hands of a serial killer, finds herself flung back in time to 1987 where she must team up with her mom’s younger self to stop the future murderer. Though this new spin on slashers has not yet been released, the film is already at the center of controversy, as its plot bears a striking similarity to that of a previous horror movie, 2015’s The Final Girls.

Nina Dobrev recently returned to screens with Love Hard, but what horror movies has the Vampire Diaries star appeared in? Since her career began in the mid-‘00s, Nina Dobrev has been no stranger to the horror genre. The actor received her big break by starring in The Vampire Diaries, a supernatural soap so enduringly popular that its spinoff The Originals received a spinoff, Legacies.

Starting in the late-2000s, horror movies set in the 1980s have continued to grow increasingly popular among fans of the genre. From reboots to remakes, slashers are in the midst of their own renaissance and cult classics that defined a sub-genre are being revamped for a modern audience. Nearly every year a new horror movie or television series features the 1980s and, even more specifically, 1984. There are numerous reasons to include this setting, but one undeniable fact is that the 1980s was, by far, the best decade for horror films.

Nina Dobrev is a talented actress best known for her work on shows like The Vampire Diaries, Degrassi: The Next Generation, and the recently canceled CBS sitcom, FAM. Hailing from Canada, the Bulgarian actress has made quite the splash in Hollywood since landing the role of doppelganger Elena Gilbert on The CW's epic vampire series.

With mainstream blockbusters starting to blur together, there doesn’t seem to be much variety at the box office as of late. If it’s not a superhero film, it’s a generic horror film looking to make a quick buck. The horror genre is big business, but that doesn’t mean it needs to involve a big budget or big names. The independent film industry is thriving right now because of how much creative control the directors have. They’re allowed to take the risks they want and come out with more original material - even if it’s considered controversial.

The Final Girls is the horror-comedy film from director Todd Strauss-Schulson (A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas). The unique concept focuses on Max (Taissa Farmiga of American Horror Story) whose mother was a scream queen back in the '80s and who died before her daughter could really know her.