Dude Bro Party Massacre III is the rare horror satire that’s both funny and intensely studied, with its slasher sendup filtered through buff brotherhood, beer bongs, and the lifesaving power of blatantly homoerotic friendships. Assassination comedy is thoughtless, but this kind of compassionate comedy takes skill.
Filmmakers who embrace these repetitive plot expectancies and extend them to their goofiest degrees are showing off their deep wells of horror knowledge, and their willingness to laugh at what they love. Targeting subgenre tropes is a strong route to making a good horror-comedy. For every loving sendup like Ruben Fleischer’s 2009 horror-comedy Zombieland, there’s another braindead waste like 2014’s A Haunted House 2, seemingly built around the question, “What if Paranormal Activity had poop gags?”īut the knowing humor in Dude Bro Party Massacre III is a signal that the filmmakers are horror fans themselves. Horror-comedies are often judged more harshly than straight horror, because so many self-serious horror fans either believe comedy can’t be scary, or have suffered through Stan Helsing equivalents that don’t seem to come from a place of respect and appreciation for the films they’re attempting to skewer.
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It’s all in the title, except the way the Delta Bi frat’s booze-drenched story is also a brilliant take on well-documented horror tropes, made for an audience that’s both obsessively aware of sorority-house slashers, and ready for a loving analysis of why those movies are ridiculous.Ī title like Dude Bro Party Massacre III is easy to write off as a gimmick, heralding a movie that’s going to be crammed with shallow horror-trope gags, like a Scary Movie sequel. The main characters in this film are dudes. Dude Bro Party Massacre III is a faux-threequel that’s presented as if the audience is watching some sneaky Minnesota teen’s bootlegged VCR copy, recorded off a 4 a.m. Those who don’t won’t be hazed for missing either of the previous entries in the franchise - because they don’t exist. Fans of 5-Second Films’ viral videos on YouTube and at probably already know about their crowdfunded fraternity-slasher satire Dude Bro Party Massacre III.
Back in 2015, a renegade troupe of comedians and filmmakers dared to prove that horror-comedies can be more than the subgenre’s middling reputation suggests.
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