Balancing horror and comedy elegantly is generally one of the single hardest things you can attempt to do in film. You’re fusing elements of two of the most infamously tricky ‘genres’ in the medium and playing off an oft-unconsciously understood interplay between the two, schadenfreude I suppose.
Osgood Perkins’ previous outing Longlegs was a similar exercise but from the opposite end, a cultish, satanic horror flick that consciously played many scenes as both genuinely discomforting and surface-level funny. Something Cage…
