Film scholars Kat Ellinger (Diabolique, BFI) and Mike McPadden (Teen Movie Hell, Heavy Metal Movies) explore a century’s worth of movie comedies, from satire to slapstick, high farce to low shocks, Charlie Chaplin to National Lampoon, Ernst Lubitsch to Adam Sandler. Come bust a gut!
It’s Blood and (Busted) Guts in High School as we explore the serrated satire and macabre mirth of three blisteringly brilliant and infernally intertwined paeans to adolescent angst gone homicidal—George Axelrod’s Lord Love a Duck (1966), Renee Daalder’s Massacre at ...
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Mirth-o-phile movie freak co-hosts Kat Ellinger and Mike McPadden explore the comedy-horror connection, the punk DNA of the Three Stooges and working-class British sitcoms, and which of their severe accents is more amusing—southern England (Kat) or South Brooklyn (Mike).
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