5/13/2023 0 Comments Frankenstein underground![]() Before the genre was diluted, however, the parody film had a fruitful life due in large part to legendary funnyman Mel Brooks, who built a career mostly directing parodies from the 1970s through his last film in 1995, Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Attempting to make a parody now in the shadow of these films alongside the financial stranglehold on them feels impossible. The death of this particular brand of comedy should not be surprising after the beating it took in the 2000s following a string of increasingly stupid films like Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Meet the Spartans from filmmakers Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg that essentially turned movie parody into a series of unconnected references to pop culture. ![]()
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