Parody film

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)
• 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)
• The Great Dictator (1940) [5]
• Playmates (1941)
• Hellzapoppin' (1941)
• Crazy House (1943)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• It's a Great Feeling (1949)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

1950s

• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
• Beat the Devil (1953)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
• The Court Jester (1956)
• Up in Smoke (1957)
• The Blob (1958)

1960s

• Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
• Carry On Cleo (1964)
• A Shot in the Dark (1964 film) (1964)
• Doctor Strangelove (1964)
• Carry On Spying (1964)
• The Great Race (1965) [6]
• Carry On Cowboy (1965)
• Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
• For a Few Dollars Less (1966)
• Carry On Screaming! (1966)
• Our Man Flint (1966) [7]
• Casino Royale (1967)
• The Ambushers (1967)
• The Producers (1967)
• The Dove (1968) [8]
• Zuckerkandl (1968)

1970s

• Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
• Carry On Henry (1971)
• Beware! The Blob (1972)
• Carry On Dick (1974)
• Blazing Saddles (1974) [9]
• Flesh Gordon (1974)
• Young Frankenstein (1974) [10]
• The Groove Tube (1974)
• Dark Star (1974)
• Vampira (1974)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) [11]
• Love and Death (1975)
• Once Upon a Girl (1975)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) [12]
• The Black Bird (1975)
• Silent Movie (1976) [13]
• Murder by Death (1976) [14]
• Queen Kong (1976)
• The Big Bus (1976)
• High Anxiety (1977) [15]
• The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) [16]
• American Raspberry (1977)
• Hardware Wars (1978) [17]
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
• The Cheap Detective (1978)
• Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
• Piranha (1978) [18]
• Life of Brian (1979) [19]

1980s

• Galaxina (1980)[20]
• Wholly Moses! (1980)
• Airplane! (1980) [21]
• Murder Can Hurt You (1980)
• The Private Eyes (1980)
• Caddyshack (1980)
• Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind (1980)
• History of the World, Part I (1981) [22]
• Under the Rainbow (1981)
• Student Bodies (1981)
• Saturday the 14th (1981) [23]
• Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981) [24]
• The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [25]
• Young Doctors in Love (1982) [26]
• Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) [27]
• Police Squad! (TV series) (1982)
• Pandemonium (1982)
• The King of Comedy (1982 film) (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) [28]
• The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984)
• Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
• Night of the Comet (1984)
• Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985) [29]
• When Nature Calls (1985)
• Clue (1985) [30]
• Radioactive Dreams (1985)
• Eat and Run (1986)
• Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
• Reform School Girls (1986)
• Three Amigos (1986)
• Whoops Apocalypse (film) (1986)
• Fresno (1986)
• Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Back to the Beach (1987) [31]
• Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) [32]
• Leonard Part 6 (1987) [33]
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Dragnet (1987) [34]
• Love at Stake (1987)
• Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988) [35]
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) [36]
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) [37]
• Caddyshack II (1988)
• Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989)
• UHF (1989) [38]
• Disorganized Crime (1989)
• Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
• Transylvania Twist (1989)
• Meet the Feebles (1989)

1990s

• A Man Called Sarge (1990)
• The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) [39]
• 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) [40]
• Hot Shots! (1991) [41]
• 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) [42]
• Fatal Instinct (1993)
• Matinee (1993) [43]
• Last Action Hero (1993)
• Freaked (1993)
• The Silence of the Hams (1994)
• Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) [44]
• 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) [45]
• Spy Hard (1996)
• High School High (1996)
• Scream (1996 film) (1996)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)[46]
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) [47]
• 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) [48]
• Bowfinger (1999)
• Galaxy Quest (1999)
• The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)
• The Woman Chaser (1999)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
• Fight Club (film) (1999)
• Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

2000s

• 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
• Scary Movie (2000)
• Charlie's Angels (2000) [49]
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
• The Bogus Witch Project (2000)
• Scary Movie 2 (2001) [50]
• Not Another Teen Movie (2001) [51]
• Shrek (2001)
• Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
• Zoolander (2001) [52]
• Wet Hot American Summer (2001)[53]
• Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist (2002)[54]
• The Master of Disguise (2002)
• Undercover Brother (2002)[55]
• Ali G Indahouse (2002)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) [56]
• Scary Movie 3 (2003) [57]
• Johnny English (2003)
• Down with Love (2003) [58]
• 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) [59]
• Team America: World Police (2004) [60]
• The Producers (2005)
• My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
• Hoodwinked! (2005) [61]
• Date Movie (2006) [62]
• Scary Movie 4 (2006)
• Another Gay Movie (2006)
• 18 Fingers of Death! (2006)
• Borat (2006)
• Bikini Bloodbath (2006)
• Man of the Year (2006)
• Epic Movie (2007)[63]
• Farce of the Penguins (2007)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• The Comebacks (2007)[63]
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) [64]
• The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie (2007)
• Shrek the Third (2007)
• Enchanted (2007)
• Kill Buljo (2007)
• Meet the Spartans (2008)[63]
• Superhero Movie (2008)
• The Onion Movie (2008) [65]
• Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (2008)
• An American Carol (2008)
• Disaster Movie (2008) [66]
• 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) [67]
• Transylmania (2009)
• Stan Helsing (2009)
• Spanish Movie (2009)
• Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
• Alien Trespass (2009)

2010s

• Thamizh Padam (2010)
• MacGruber (2010)
• Vampires Suck (2010)
• Kick-Ass (2010)
• Four Lions (2010)
• The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010)
• Shrek Forever After (2010)
• Yogi Bear (film) (2010)
• Johnny English Reborn (2011)
• Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011)
• Breaking Wind (2012) [68]
• 21 Jump Street (film) (2012)
• The Dictator (2012 film) (2012)
• Hotel Transylvania (2012)
• Movie 43 (2013)
• iSteve (2013)
• The Starving Games (2013) [69]
• A Haunted House (2013)
• Scary Movie 5 (2013)[70]
• 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)
• A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
• Double Barrel (2015)
• Chirakodinja Kinavukal (2015)
• Superfast! (2015)
• The Walking Deceased (2015)[71]
• Tooken (2015)
• Ridiculous 6 (2015)
• Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
• Deadpool (film) (2016)
• Fifty Shades of Black (2016) [72]
• 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)[73][74]
• Knives Out (2019)
• Jojo Rabbit (2019)
• Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
• Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)

2020s

• Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
• The Cyanide & Happiness Movie (2021)

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