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A parody film or spoof film is a subgenre of comedy film that parodies other film genres or films as pastiches,[1][2][3] works created by imitation of the style of many different films reassembled together. Although the subgenre is often overlooked by critics, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office.[4]

Examples[]

1900s[]

  • The Little Train Robbery (1905)

1910s[]

  • The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
  • Teddy at the Throttle (1917)

1920s[]

  • Mud and Sand (1922)
  • Three Ages (1923)
  • Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (1925)
  • Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925)

1930s[]

  • Free and Easy (1930)
  • Movie Crazy (1932)
  • Number Seventeen (1932)
  • Once in a Lifetime (1932)
  • Sons of the Desert (1933)
  • Babes in Toyland (1934)
  • Satan Met a Lady (1936)
  • The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)
  • Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

1940s[]

  • The Great Profile (1940)
  • You Nazty Spy! (1940)
  • A Chump at Oxford (1940)
  • Playmates (1941)
  • Hellzapoppin' (1941)
  • Crazy House (1943)
  • Along Came Jones (1945)
  • The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
  • Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
  • Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

1950s[]

1960s[]

  • Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
  • Carry On Cleo (1964)
  • A Shot in the Dark (1964)
  • Doctor Strangelove (1964)
  • Carry On Spying (1964)
  • The Great Race (1965) [5]
  • Carry On Cowboy (1965)
  • Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
  • For a Few Dollars Less (1966)
  • Carry On Screaming! (1966)
  • Our Man Flint (1966) [5]
  • Casino Royale (1967)
  • The Ambushers (1967)
  • The Dove (1968) [6]
  • Zuckerkandl (1968)

1970s[]

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1980s[]

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  • Galaxina (1980)[7]
  • Wholly Moses! (1980)
  • Airplane! (1980) [5]
  • Murder Can Hurt You (1980)
  • The Private Eyes (1980)
  • Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind (1980)
  • Under the Rainbow (1981)
  • Student Bodies (1981)
  • Saturday the 14th (1981) [8]
  • Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981) [8]
  • The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
  • Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [5]
  • Young Doctors in Love (1982) [8]
  • Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) [5]
  • Police Squad! (TV series) (1982)
  • Pandemonium (1982)
  • The King of Comedy (1982)
  • Wacko (1982)
  • Zapped! (1982)
  • The Man With Two Brains (1983)
  • Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
  • Bullshot (1983)
  • Agent 000 and the Deadly Curves (1983)
  • Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
  • Johnny Dangerously (1984)
  • Surf II: The End of the Trilogy (1984)
  • This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
  • Top Secret! (1984) [5]
  • The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984)
  • Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
  • Night of the Comet (1984)
  • Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985) [8]
  • When Nature Calls (1985)
  • Clue (1985) [5]
  • Radioactive Dreams (1985)
  • Eat and Run (1986)
  • Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
  • Reform School Girls (1986)
  • Three Amigos (1986)
  • Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
  • Fresno (1986)
  • Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
  • Spaceballs (1987)
  • Back to the Beach (1987) [8]
  • Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) [5]
  • Leonard Part 6 (1987) [9]
  • The Princess Bride (1987)
  • Dragnet (1987) [5]
  • Love at Stake (1987)
  • Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988) [8]
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) [5]
  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) [5]
  • Caddyshack II (1988)
  • Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
  • Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989)
  • UHF (1989) [5]
  • Disorganized Crime (1989)
  • Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
  • Transylvania Twist (1989)

1990s[]

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  • A Man Called Sarge (1990)
  • The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) [10]
  • Repossessed (1990)
  • Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (1990)
  • Mob Boss (1990)
  • Zapped Again! (1990)
  • The Freshman (1990)
  • If Looks Could Kill (1991)
  • The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) [5]
  • Hot Shots! (1991) [5]
  • Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1991)
  • Evil Toons (1992)
  • Carry On Columbus (1992)
  • Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
  • CB4 (1993)
  • The Naked Truth (1993)
  • Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) [5]
  • Fatal Instinct (1993)
  • Matinee (1993) [5]
  • Last Action Hero (1993)
  • Freaked (1993)
  • The Silence of the Hams (1994)
  • Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) [5]
  • Fear of a Black Hat (1994)
  • Blankman (1994)
  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
  • Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold (1995)
  • Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
  • The Cable Guy (1996)
  • Cannibal! The Musical (1996) [5]
  • Scream (1996)
  • Spy Hard (1996)
  • High School High (1996)
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
  • Mars Attacks! (1996)[5]
  • Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) [5]
  • Funny Games (1997)
  • Starship Troopers (1997)
  • George of the Jungle (1997)
  • Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
  • Wrongfully Accused (1998)
  • BASEketball (1998)
  • Plump Fiction (1998)
  • Liang Po Po: The Movie (1999)
  • Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) [5]
  • Bowfinger (1999)
  • Galaxy Quest (1999)
  • The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)
  • The Woman Chaser (1999)
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
  • The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

2000s[]

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  • 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
  • Scary Movie (2000)
  • Charlie's Angels (2000) [5]
  • Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
  • The Bogus Witch Project (2000)
  • The Tony Blair Witch Project (2000)
  • The Blair Thumb (2001)
  • Scary Movie 2 (2001) [8]
  • Not Another Teen Movie (2001) [8]
  • Shrek (2001)
  • Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
  • Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
  • Zoolander (2001) [5]
  • Wet Hot American Summer (2001)[5]
  • Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist (2002)[5]
  • The Master of Disguise (2002)
  • Undercover Brother (2002)[5]
  • Ali G Indahouse (2002)
  • Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) [5]
  • Scary Movie 3 (2003) [8]
  • Johnny English (2003)
  • Down with Love (2003) [5]
  • G-Sale (2003)
  • A Mighty Wind (2003)
  • George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
  • Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)
  • Shaun of the Dead (2004)
  • Freak Out (2004)
  • Starsky & Hutch (2004)
  • Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2010)
  • Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
  • Shrek 2 (2004)
  • Club Dread (2004) [8]
  • Team America: World Police (2004) [5]
  • The Producers (2005)
  • My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
  • Hoodwinked! (2005) [8]
  • Date Movie (2006) [9]
  • Scary Movie 4 (2006)
  • Another Gay Movie (2006)
  • 18 Fingers of Death! (2006)
  • Borat (2006)
  • Barnyard (2006)
  • Bikini Bloodbath (2006)
  • Man of the Year (2006)
  • Epic Movie (2007)[11]
  • Farce of the Penguins (2007)
  • Funny Games (2007)
  • Hot Fuzz (2007)
  • The Comebacks (2007)[11]
  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) [5]
  • The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie (2007)
  • Shrek the Third (2007)
  • Enchanted (2007)
  • Kill Buljo (2007)
  • Meet the Spartans (2008)[11]
  • Superhero Movie (2008)
  • Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (2008)
  • An American Carol (2008)
  • Disaster Movie (2008) [9]
  • Extreme Movie (2008)
  • Tropic Thunder (2008)
  • The World Is Hot Enough (2008)
  • A.R.O.G. (2008)
  • Black Dynamite (2009)
  • Brüno (2009)
  • Dance Flick (2009)
  • OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009) [8]
  • Transylmania (2009)
  • Stan Helsing (2009)
  • Spanish Movie (2009)
  • Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
  • Alien Trespass (2009)

2010s[]

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  • Thamizh Padam (2010)
  • MacGruber (2010)
  • Vampires Suck (2010)
  • Kick-Ass (2010)
  • The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010)
  • Shrek Forever After (2010)
  • Johnny English Reborn (2011)
  • Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011)
  • Breaking Wind (2012) [9]
  • 21 Jump Street (2012)
  • The Dictator (2012)
  • Hotel Transylvania (2012)
  • Movie 43 (2013)
  • iSteve (2013)
  • The Starving Games (2013) [9]
  • A Haunted House (2013)
  • Scary Movie 5 (2013)[12]
  • 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2013)
  • Inappropriate Comedy (2013)
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
  • This Is The End (2013)
  • The World's End (2013)
  • Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
  • A Haunted House 2 (2014)
  • 22 Jump Street (2014)
  • The Hungover Games (2014)
  • They Came Together (2014)
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
  • The Interview (2014)
  • Double Barrel (2015)
  • Chirakodinja Kinavukal (2015)
  • Superfast! (2015)
  • The Walking Deceased (2015)[13]
  • Tooken (2015)
  • Ridiculous 6 (2015)
  • Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
  • Deadpool (film) (2016)
  • Fifty Shades of Black (2016) [9]
  • Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016)
  • Meet the Blacks (2016)
  • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
  • Sausage Party (2016)
  • The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
  • Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
  • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
  • Deadpool 2 (2018)
  • Thamizh Padam 2.0 (2018)
  • Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
  • Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars (2018)
  • Holmes & Watson (2018)
  • Notzilla (2019)[14][15]
  • Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
  • Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)

2020s[]

  • Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

References[]

  1. ↑ "Postmodern Parody and Pastiche". {{cite web}}:
  2. ↑ Johnson, Andrew (30 August 2009). "Spoofs? Don't make us laugh". The Independent (London). https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/spoofs-dont-make-us-laugh-1779377.html. 
  3. ↑ Gilbey, Ryan (6 August 2009). "Spoofs: the films that ate Hollywood". The Guardian (London). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/aug/06/spoof-airplane-scary-movie. 
  4. ↑ Welkos, Robert W. (25 July 1998). "What Keeps Spoofs From Being Box-Office Jokes?". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jul/25/entertainment/ca-6833. 
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 5.26 5.27 5.28 5.29 5.30 5.31 5.32 5.33 5.34 5.35 5.36 5.37 5.38 5.39 The Top 100 Parody/Spoofs of All Time-Flickchart
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Oddball Films:What the F(ilm)?! 16: You Can't Handle the Spoof! - Fri. April 8th - 8PM
  7. ↑ Booker, Keith M (2010). Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. xxiv. 
  8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 The Best Parody/Spoofs of All Time-Flickchart
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Top 10 Worst Parody Movies-WatchMojo on YouTube
  10. ↑ The Top 100 Parody/Spoof>of All Time-Flickchart
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Lee, Aaron (27 January 2008). "Surely you can't be serious". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/27/entertainment/ca-spoof27. "Spoof films are routinely snubbed by Oscar and are even looked down upon by other comedies. But the genre's producers often just laugh all the way to the bank." 
  12. ↑ Scary Movie 5
  13. ↑ [1] Archived 25 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine THE WALKING DECEASED
  14. ↑ Gingold, Michael (July 2, 2020). ""Notzilla," Spoof of the Monsters is Coming This Summer; Info and Poster". Rue Morgue. Retrieved July 5, 2020. {{cite web}}:
  15. ↑ Millican, Josh (July 3, 2020). "Poster & First Look at Award-Winning Kaiju Comedy Notzilla Releasing August 18th". Dread Central. Retrieved July 5, 2020. {{cite web}}:
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