Live Poll: What Is Most Family Friendly of the Horror Comedy Genre

@toney_mathew most are going to go on here. 4 were already on here before you had suggested — Monster House — Corpse Bride — Coco — The Nightmare Before Christmas. “Pan’s Labyrinth” is not getting on here. It is R rated for the level of violence.

thanks for reminding me about “Casper”.

@Jessica done. 

@ACT_1 two are added. You might be surprised that one film pays homage to another film other than Abbott and Costello . The Gorilla

the list is finished.

@dgranger 

Add that homage to the other titles ??

The Gorilla (1939)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031387/reference

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031387/keywords 

Someone must have a list of  Gorilla movies??

https://www.imdb.com/find?s=kw&q=Gorilla

Displaying 200 results for "Gorilla"

https://www.imdb.com/find?q=Gorilla&s=kw&exact=true

Exact Matches : 638 titles

https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=gorilla

624 titles 

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dan_dassow
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http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2016/06/home-page-polls.html

http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2014/08/index-of-polls.html

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@ACT_1 I think you mis-understand. I have a book called “The Pictorial History of Horror Movies”. In both the book and the audio commentary track to The Cat and the Canary (1939) . Both had mentioned The Gorilla as not only one of the plays on Broadway in the 1920’s that combined horror, comedy, mystery, crime, and suspense. it was filmed as a Horror, comedy, mystery, suspense play and was considered as a step in the development of horror comedy genre. 
In the play, the gorilla is the name of a professional killer. But as play continues, a real gorilla escapes into the mansion. 

The funny part is that if you pay attention to the dialogue in “The Cat and the Canary”, Hope’s character critiques the most common clichés of these plays in 1910’s to 1920’s.

@dgranger 

Yes, I am getting a little bit dizzy here 

So, I need to watch  The Cat and the Canary (1939) and The Gorilla (1939) ??

The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Trivia

Horror/comedies were always popular. This film was such a success that Paramount almost immediately re-teamed Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard for a similar project and The Ghost Breakers (1940) was in theaters a little more than seven months later. The two films had many similar plot elements and similar settings.

The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Trivia

The play, "The Ghost Breaker," by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, was filmed twice as a silent film, in 1914 (directed by Cecil B. DeMille), and in 1922. Both silent versions are considered lost. The play was filmed a final time as "Scared Stiff (1953)," starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Bob Hope made a cameo appearance in the film.

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You gonna make a Gorilla List and Poll ??

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Armstrong5  commented on dgranger's post 4 hours ago

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@ACT_1 “So, I need to watch  The Cat and the Canary (1939) and The Gorilla (1939) ?? Only if you want too. I would suggest watching The trailer to “The Gorrilla”. In it you can see the film plays with disembodied ghost steps, doors opening by themselves and horror movie shadows.

I would say they are stepping stones between the major steps in the development of the genre in movies. But there is no denying that horror and crime plays were being done on stage in the 1920’s and movie studios, especially Carl Laemle of universal, were buying the film rights as fast as possible. In fact, stage plays plays an important part why it took so long for Dracula to get to the screen. (The novel was turned into a stage play to which Bram Stoker’s widow was still getting royalties from both the play and book. She was afraid making a movie would kill the sales of the book and tickets to the play. So she refused to sell the movie rights. That set the stage (no pun intended) for the making of Nosferatu as a means to get around the Stoker copyright. Dracula is based on a legend and you can’t copyright a legend. Then I think she had ether died or filed a law suit and lost, then she sold the film rights.)

@ACT_1 as far as list of films with gorillas in them, you do that list. It sounds like a good one. I suggest:

-“Gorillas in the Mist”

- all the Tarzan movies

- Sing!

- “Trading Places”

(the train scenes)

- I know their is one with Abbott and Costello that has the same gag of a female gorrilla falling in love with a man in a gorilla suit.

- the Greatest Show on Earth

 I’m doing this list about plays (non musical) that had suspense, horror, mystery or ghosts and that were turned into movies. I just hadn’t figure out the description yet. The two musicals listed are musical adaptions of non musical plays. Just remember when viewing the list, the entries after 35 are plays I mean to give a shout out in the description as just fine movie adaptions. The top 35 are for the poll. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls557856225/

@dgranger 

You are missing the comment page here for the List & Poll ??
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls557856225/

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Bram Stoker’s widow was still getting royalties from both the play and book. 

Well... 
she shudda taken a per cent of movie tickets sales across the USA and beyond
and often on TV later
not just the play theatre in NYC
Some people would rather watch a movie than read a book

Set up some bank account for the family
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I watched  The trailer to “The Gorrilla”.
OOOoooo Scary stuff!!
Read here about the Ritz Bros - not a great team in movies ??
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I do not do Lists for Polls
Others can do this
Maybe someone reading all this??

IF I started a list this would have to be first:

Gorilla at Large (1954)
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, 
apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047041/reference

Raymond Burr ... Cy Miller
George Barrows ... Goliath the Gorilla

and other Gorilla movies & TV

and later he became ...

Perry Mason
a master criminal defense attorney,
handling the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050051/reference

Perry Mason (TV Series)
The Case of the Grinning Gorilla (1965)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673289/reference

Perry must rescue her from a gorilla trapping her with her dead boss.

Janos Prohaska ... Gorilla

and other Gorilla movies & TV

and maybe this one...

Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043360/reference

Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) 
kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton).
However, an old native witch witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney,
who soon after finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla.
But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?

Lon Chaney Jr. ... Police Commissioner Taro (as Lon Chaney)
Raymond Burr ... Barney Chavez

Steve Calvert ... Gorilla
and other Gorilla movies

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130837/mediaviewer/rm3324991488/

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@ACT_1 no I did not make a comment page for that poll yet. I still have to write a description which will contain a shout out for the entries over the 35 entries that will be on the poll and remove the overs from the poll. I really want to include “Our Town” because of the cemetery scene with the dead talking to each other.

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I watched “The Gorilla” on YouTube. It is hilarious while the mystery and a few shocks come. Bela Lagosi being in the cast was the perfect [SPOILER] and you get to see him do a judo throw.

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For your gorilla poll

all the King Kong movies, especially “King Kong Skull Island”

the two “Mighty Joe Young” movies.

@dan_dassow the changes are done. Again thank you very very much.

Oh, and Young Frankenstein, of course

i have to watch my words here so I don’t kicked off for using offensive language.

There is good reason why “Young Frankenstein” and “Ghostbusters” (1984) weren’t. Even-though they were filmed before the PG-13 rating was created, they would have gotten the PG-13 today because of both had sex jokes that were more than just light sexual innuendo (“Young Frankenstein” had jokes about penis size in a bedroom scene) and had bed room scenes that suggested which sexual acts were occurring. (Ray getting oral sex from a ghost in “Ghostbusters”, rate and copulation in “Young Frankenstein”). 
at the risk of sounding like a prude here, remember I said “you would show a five year old without scaring him half to death?” with emphasis on “SHOW A FIVE YEAR OLD”! 
what is worst is that some parents had problems with the Librarian scene in “Ghostbusters” too as being too scary for kids.

if you think I’m kidding around read these two that said parents had some problems with the sex scenes in “Young Frankenstein” and “Ghostbusters” (1984).

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/young-frankenstein/user-reviews/adult

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/ghostbusters/user-reviews/adult