10 Campy 2000s Horror Movies That Make You Laugh Until You Scream

If you remember Project Greenlight, the series that promised a movie deal to filmmakers, you probably already know about Feast. It is the first film greenlit by the series creators Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. It is a horror film, an entertaining and meta-horror comedy directed by Jon Gulager, son of the legendary actor Clu Gulager. It stars Krista Allen, Balthazar Getty, and Henry Rollins, and the characters are given names like Heroine, Coach, and Bozo. So you know this one is a lot of cheese-filled fun.

Murder Party was written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier( Blue Ruin, Green Room) and is his most straightforward horror film. It's about a lonely man who finds a flyer for a "murder party" and decides to throw caution to the wind and attend. He's a sad guy whose cat takes his chair at home. He finds that the "party" is a trap set by art students. One says the flyer said it was a murder party, so what did this guy expect? It's funny and also has some solid gore.

Wes Craven's Cursed is his collaboration with Kevin Williamson, which was less successful than Scream. It is a campy delight in which you get to see Jesse Eisenberg become a werewolf. Many of the same ideas that made Scream the raging success are within Cursed. Do you need more encouragement to watch it?

Paul Verhoeven did make a horror film, no, it's not Showgirls, called Hollow Man. The film stars Kevin Bacon, in evil mode, Elizabeth Shue, and Josh Brolin. The film has the satirical edge that his other films, like Starship Troopers and, yes, Showgirls, have. Everything is so big. It has much in common with Leigh Whannel's The Invisible Man but has more of a comic edge.

Dracula 2000 is just as campy as you could expect, translating into lots of entertainment. You can watch Gerard Butler as a romantic Dracula, with Jonny Lee Miller looking extremely confused and Jennifer Esposito as a vamp. Christopher Plummer even shows up to join in the romp as Abraham Van Helsing. Is it terrifying? No, but it is pretty amusing.

Paul W.S. Anderson is revered these days for Event Horizon, which wasn't well received when it was released. Resident Evil is the hammy yet oddly entrancing video game adaptation. All of the films in the franchise star Milla Jovovich and have a pronounced tendency to find ways to show her either in scanty clothing or without clothes at all. The banter between the Umbrella Corporation agents/zombie fighters keeps things moving along. It's a movie that you can throw on anytime and enjoy.

Teeth is a comedy horror film that will probably scare the guys. Jess Weixler plays Dawn, who discovers she has a set of the mythical vagina dentata, a set of teeth in her nethers that will bite anyone who tries to force themselves on her or angers her. As you can imagine, the story leads the poor girl into encounters with men and boys who don't respect her wishes, and well, things get a little uncomfortable.

Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider, Satanic Hispanics) directed this occult horror comedy that stars Adrienne Barbeau. A group of passionate teens goes to an abandoned convent to vandalize it to impress a fraternity. Little do they know that a group of Satanists also chose the convent to perform a sacrificial ritual to summon Satan that same night. The hijinks continue as the Satanists grab the lone goth girl as a sacrifice.

Let's talk about campy. Valentine is a slasher horror film where the killer wears a cherub mask and always gets nosebleeds. The crowning achievement of this killer is that, like Cupid, the killer shoots people with arrows. The killer doesn't limit themselves to that type of attack but manages to shoot arrows at one of the characters until they fall out of a window and conveniently land in a dumpster.

All of the Blade films have elements of humor, but Blade: Trinity takes the cake for throwing caution to the wind and becoming a highly watchable vampire camp fest. The film includes Ryan Reynolds doing an early version of his Deadpool character, a Dracula who is annoyed by merchandise, Patton Oswalt as a weapons expert, and a vampire Pomeranian.