Parody film
A parody film or spoof film is a subgenre of comedy film that parodies other film genres or films as pastiches, 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.
Examples
1900s
- The Little Train Robbery
1910s
- Help! Help!
- The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
- Teddy at the Throttle
1920s
- Mud and Sand
- Three Ages
- The uncovered Wagon
- Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde
- Yes, Yes, Nanette
1930s
- Free and Easy
- Movie Crazy
- Once in a Lifetime
- Sons of the Desert
- Babes in Toyland
- Satan Met a Lady
- The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
- Ali Baba Goes to Town
1940s
- The Great Profile
- You Nazty Spy!
- A Chump at Oxford
- The Great Dictator
- Playmates
- Hellzapoppin'
- Along Came Jones
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- It's a Great Feeling
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1950s
- Sunset Boulevard
- Comin' Round the Mountain
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Singin' in the Rain
- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Beat the Devil
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
- The Court Jester
- Up in Smoke
- The Blob
1960s
- Creature from the Haunted Sea
- ’’The Pink Panther’’
- ’’It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’’
- Carry On Cleo
- A Shot in the Dark
- Doctor Strangelove
- Carry On Spying
- The Great Race
- Carry On Cowboy
- Help!
- Don't Lose Your Head
- For a Few Dollars Less
- Carry On Screaming!
- Our Man Flint
- Casino Royale
- The Ambushers
- ’’In Like Flint’’
- The Producers
- The Dove
- ’’Inspector Clouseau’’
- Zuckerkandl
1970s
- ’’Jacob and the Great Pie War’’
- ’’The Twelve Chairs’’
- Carry On Up the Jungle
- Carry On Henry
- ’’And Now for Something Completely Different’’
- Beware! The Blob
- Chitegu Chinte
- Carry On Dick
- Blazing Saddles
- Flesh Gordon
- Young Frankenstein
- The Groove Tube
- Dark Star
- Vampira
- Uptown Saturday Night
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Love and Death
- ’’The Return of the Pink Panther’’
- Once Upon a Girl
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
- The Black Bird
- Silent Movie
- Murder by Death
- Queen Kong
- ’’The Pink Panther Strikes Again’’
- The Big Bus
- High Anxiety
- The Kentucky Fried Movie
- American Raspberry
- Hardware Wars
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
- The Cheap Detective
- Carry On Emmannuelle
- ’’Revenge of the Pink Panther’’
- Piranha
- Life of Brian''
1980s
- Galaxina
- Wholly Moses!
- Airplane!
- Murder Can Hurt You
- The Private Eyes
- Caddyshack
- Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind
- History of the World, Part I
- Under the Rainbow
- Student Bodies
- Saturday the 14th
- Zorro, The Gay Blade
- The Creature Wasn't Nice
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- Young Doctors in Love
- '
- Police Squad!
- Pandemonium
- Trail of the Pink Panther
- The King of Comedy
- Wacko
- Zapped!
- The Man With Two Brains
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
- Bullshot
- Curse of the Pink Panther
- Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit
- Bloodbath at the House of Death
- Johnny Dangerously
- Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
- This Is Spinal Tap
- Top Secret!
- The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
- Voyage of the Rock Aliens
- Night of the Comet
- Chucky and Willie Wanker's Chocolate Starfish
- Rustlers' Rhapsody
- When Nature Calls
- Clue
- Radioactive Dreams
- Eat and Run
- Haunted Honeymoon
- ’’Class of Nuke ‘Em High’’
- Reform School Girls
- Three Amigos
- Whoops Apocalypse
- Fresno
- Hollywood Shuffle
- Spaceballs
- Back to the Beach
- Amazon Women on the Moon
- Leonard Part 6
- The Princess Bride
- Dragnet
- Evil Dead II
- Love at Stake
- Return of the Killer Tomatoes
- '
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space
- Caddyshack II
- Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders
- UHF
- Ricky 1
- Disorganized Crime
- Lobster Man from Mars
- Transylvania Twist
- Meet the Feebles
1990s
- A Man Called Sarge
- The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
- Repossessed
- Killer Tomatoes Strike Back
- Mob Boss
- Zapped Again!
- The Freshman
- If Looks Could Kill
- ’’Life Stinks’’
- ’’’’
- '
- ’’Jungle Fever’’
- Hot Shots!
- Killer Tomatoes Eat France
- Evil Toons
- Carry On Columbus
- Loaded Weapon 1
- CB4
- The Naked Truth
- Hot Shots! Part Deux
- '
- Fatal Instinct
- ’’Son of the Pink Panther’’
- Matinee
- Last Action Hero
- Freaked
- The Silence of the Hams
- '
- Fear of a Black Hat
- ’’’’
- Blankman
- '
- Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
- The Cable Guy
- Cannibal! The Musical
- Spy Hard
- High School High
- Scream
- Mars Attacks!
- '
- ’’George of the Jungle’’
- Jane Austen's Mafia!
- Wrongfully Accused
- BASEketball
- Plump Fiction
- '
- '
- Bowfinger
- Galaxy Quest
- The Underground Comedy Movie
- The Woman Chaser
- '
- Fight Club
- Drop Dead Gorgeous
2000s
- '
- Scary Movie
- Charlie's Angels
- Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth
- The Bogus Witch Project
- Scary Movie 2
- Not Another Teen Movie
- Shrek
- Elvira's Haunted Hills
- Zoolander
- Wet Hot American Summer
- '
- The Master of Disguise
- Undercover Brother
- Ali G Indahouse
- Austin Powers in Goldmember
- Scary Movie 3
- Johnny English
- Down with Love
- G-Sale
- A Mighty Wind
- George of the Jungle 2
- Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
- Shaun of the Dead
- Freak Out
- Starsky & Hutch
- '
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Shrek 2
- Club Dread
- '
- The Producers
- My Big Fat Independent Movie
- Hoodwinked!
- Date Movie
- Scary Movie 4
- Another Gay Movie
- 18 Fingers of Death!
- Borat
- Bikini Bloodbath
- Man of the Year
- Epic Movie
- Farce of the Penguins
- Hot Fuzz
- The Comebacks
- '
- '
- Shrek the Third
- Enchanted
- Kill Buljo
- Meet the Spartans
- Superhero Movie
- The Onion Movie
- '
- An American Carol
- Disaster Movie
- Extreme Movie
- Tropic Thunder
- The World Is Hot Enough
- A.R.O.G.
- Black Dynamite
- Brüno
- Dance Flick
- '
- Transylmania
- Stan Helsing
- Spanish Movie
- Dark and Stormy Night
- Alien Trespass
2010s
- Thamizh Padam
- MacGruber
- Vampires Suck
- Kick-Ass
- Four Lions
- The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It
- I Am Virgin
- Shrek Forever After
- Johnny English Reborn
- Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
- Breaking Wind
- 21 Jump Street
- The Dictator
- Hotel Transylvania
- ’’Ted’’
- Movie 43
- iSteve
- The Starving Games
- A Haunted House
- Scary Movie 5
- 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Inappropriate Comedy
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
- This Is The End
- The World's End
- Kick-Ass 2
- Not Another Celebrity Movie
- Copa De Elite
- A Haunted House 2
- 22 Jump Street
- The Hungover Games
- They Came Together
- '
- The Interview
- A Million Ways to Die in the West
- Double Barrel
- Chirakodinja Kinavukal
- ’’Ted 2’’
- Superfast!
- The Walking Deceased
- Tooken
- Ridiculous 6
- Imaginary Movie
- Hotel Transylvania 2
- Deadpool
- Fifty Shades of Black
- '
- Meet the Blacks
- A Counted Room
- '
- Sausage Party
- Best Party Ever!
- I Had a Bloody Good Time at House Harker
- The Lego Batman Movie
- ’’Baby Driver’’
- '
- ’’Happy Death Day’’
- '
- Deadpool 2
- Thamizh Padam 2.0
- Johnny English Strikes Again
- '
- Snake Outta Compton
- Holmes & Watson
- Kung Fu League
- Notzilla
- Knives Out
- Jojo Rabbit
- ‘’Happy Death Day 2U’’
- Jay and Silent Bob Reboot''
2020s
- Meet the Blacks 2: The House Next Door
- ‘’Connected’’
- The Cyanide & Happiness Movie