10 Frightening Yet Funny Horror Movies Like SHAUN OF THE DEAD

Okay, Slaughterhouse Rulez has to be first on this list, not because it's a zombie comedy, because it isn't, but because it stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost alongside Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, and Michael Sheen. This is a horror comedy about an attack on a school by subterranean monsters that spring out of a nearby sinkhole. The students decide to fight the sinister beasts with whatever weapons they have at hand. Hijinks ensue.

Anna and the Apocalypse is a British horror comedy musical about a zombie apocalypse that happens at Christmas. It's also a coming-of-age story for Anna, a high school student who is about to graduate and wants to explore the world. It's based on writer Ryan McHenry's short film called, interestingly enough, Zombie Musical. This film has many different bona fides: it's from the same country, and it's got a much lighter touch than most zombie films, but it goes a little farther than Shaun's musical leanings, which end with tossing records as weapons at zombies. In Anna, the protagonists burst into song, which adds another layer of fun to the proceedings.

Life After Beth is a zombie rom-com, which means it definitely shares some thematic territory with Shaun of the Dead, a "zom-rom-com" parody of the Working Title romantic comedies. Ironically, Working Title is the film company that financed Shaun. Beth stars Aubrey Plaza, Dane de Haan, and an all-star list of comedy actors like Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser, Matthew Gray Gubler, and John C. Reilly. Jeff Baena directed it, and it is about what happens when a guy finds out that his recently deceased girlfriend has returned from the dead. Read more: Ben Wheatley's Next Project Is Zombie Satire Series Generation Z.

Matthias Hoene directed this British zombie comedy about a bank heist that the robbers try to pull off at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse to save their grandfather's retirement home. The police are called on the robbery, but luckily, the zombie horde eats the police. It's all pretty complicated, but the ZA starts because construction workers break into a catacomb beneath London and are bitten by zombies. The film features stars of British cinema, Honor Blackman, Alan Ford, and Georgina Hale.

Fido is a rollicking zombie horror comedy from Canada in a world where humans prevented the zombie apocalypse and now use zombies as menial servants. I don't know, but that doesn't sound like a great idea. True to form, even though the zombies are fitted with collars that prevent them from eating people, there is an accident and a zombie outbreak. Fido is the family zombie of the Robinsons. Their dad, Bill, has a zombie phobia, and their son, Timmy, looks up to Fido as a friend. The film stars Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly as Fido, Dylan Baker, K'Sun Ray, Henry Czerny, and Tim Blake Nelson. Read more: 12 Great Zombie Horror Comedy Movies That Bring Partytime To You.

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is an earlier film directed by Christopher Landon, who later made Happy Death Day, Freaky, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, and is now the director of the new Scream 7. If you missed this Scout epic, you missed zombie strippers, zombie cats, and zombies attacking the year's biggest party that the senior scouts were not invited to. Seriously, there are a lot of zombie cats. The scouts are actually rescued by a cocktail waitress, Denise. Yes, it's funny. It stars Tye Sheridan, David Koechner, and Sarah Dumont.

Black Sheep is a horror comedy from New Zealand about zombie sheep, and yes, it is as funny as it sounds. The sheep have been turned into violent carnivores by secret experiments, and humans whom the zombie sheep bite mutate into human-sheep hybrid monstrosities. The effects are handled by Wētā Workshop, who has worked on many of Peter Jackson's films, including The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It stars Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, and Peter Feeney and was directed by Jonathan King. Read more: Twilight of the Dead Will Bring George A. Romero's Living Dead Franchise To A Close.

My Name Is Bruce is a film directed by horror icon Bruce Campbell starring Bruce Campbell. He also produced the movie but didn't write it. Sorry. In it, a young Bruce Campbell fan, Jeff, mistakenly removes a medallion that keeps the Chinese God of the Dead, Guan Di, at bay, and things immediately go bad. Jeff pleads with Bruce to help him defeat the god, and Bruce agrees, believing this is just a movie. After finding out that this is real, Bruce leaves town. The film stars Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Taylor Sharpe, and Ted Raimi, who plays a triple role, including Bruce's agent, Miles Toddner, and an Italian sign painter who updates the town's population sign every time someone dies. Is this a zombie story? Maybe not, but Bruce Campbell is involved, so it belongs on this list. Because it's Bruce.

In Dead & Breakfast, the zombie menace comes from a black magic spell, Kumon Thong, but they still crave their usual food. This film has a really interesting cast and stars David Carradine, Portia de Rossi, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ever Carradine, Erik Palladino, Bianca Lawson, Jeremy Sisto, and Oz Perkins. A group of friends come to an abandoned bed and breakfast and are soon drawn into the zombie madness. As a director, Oz Perkins has made some great horror films, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan is well known for playing Negan on The Walking Dead. Did I mention that it's also a musical comedy?

Undead is an Australian comedy horror film that is the cross-pollination of zombies and alien abduction films. When there's a zombie outbreak, the last thing you need is an alien invasion, right? In this case, the zombie plague is started by a rain of meteorites in a small town, and aliens start to kill or abduct the town's citizens. Are the aliens part of the problem or part of the solution? Written and directed by The Spierig Brothers, it certainly is a zombie apocalypse curveball.