Best horror comedies to watch with family

The lockdown has ended in some ways and yet most of us aren’t comfortable moving out yet. It is difficult to sit idle for the whole day in the confinement of the four walls. You may spend your time thinking about the pandemic or engage yourself in activities that help you relax.

Everyone has their own ways of relaxing and watching good movie figures on top of the list for many of us. For a change, instead of suggesting blockbuster action or romantic flicks, we thought of listing horror-comedies for you where ghosts made us laugh.

Best Horror comedies from Bollywood

Stree

Stree is a gripping story of a small-town Chanderi where the menfolk live in fear of an evil spirit named “Stree” who kidnaps men in the darkness of night. It is based on the urban legend of “Nale Ba” that went viral in Karnataka in the 1990s.

Star cast: Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurana, Flora Saini, Abhishek Banerjee, Atul Srivastava, Aakash Dabhade, Vijay Raaz, Nora Fatehi and Kriti Sanon (Guest appearance)

Golmaal Again

Golmaal Again is yet another entertaining movie directed by Rohit Shetty. The movie’s plot revolves around 5 orphans who grew up in an orphanage that was funded and managed by Jamnadas. The gang encounters some spiritual bodies and finds out the truth about the Jamnadas Orphanage where they were brought up.

Star cast: Parineeti Chopra, Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Kunal Khemu, Shreyas Talpade, Johnny Lever, Mukesh Tiwari

Bhootnath

Bhootnath is the story of a ghost who doesn’t want anyone to live in his house, directed by Vivek Sharma. Later, a family witnesses this unfriendly ghost who wants them to drive away from the house. However, the ghost befriends a little boy who changes his outlook forever.

Star cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Rajpal Yadav, Aman Siddiqui, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Shah Rukh Khan

Go Goa Gone

The story of the movie revolves around three friends who decide to visit an isolated island for a rave party. However, the craziness starts when an experimental drug is introduced at the party. By the next morning, they find themselves not only stranded but also surrounded and hunted by flesh-eating zombies. The movie was released in 2013 and directed by Krishna D.K, Raj Nidimoru.

Star cast : Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Vir Das, Anand Tiwari, Puja Gupta, Hardik Malaviya

Bhool Bhulaiya

Bhool Bhulaiyaa is a psychological thriller comedy horror film directed by Priyadarshan. The movie is a complete entertainer with power-packed performances from Vidya Balan and Akshay Kumar. It is an official remake of the 1993 Malayalam film, Manichitrathazhu.

Star cast: Akshay Kumar, Shiney Ahuja, Vidya Balan, Ameesha Patel, Paresh Rawal, Manoj Joshi, Asrani, Rajpal Yadav and Vikram Gokhale.

Bhootnath Returns

Bhootnath Returns is a sequel of Bhoothath, directed by Nitesh Tiwari. The movie revolves around a ghost who returns back from his world to prove something. Moreover, when he returns on earth, he has something more to do for his country.

Star cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani, Parth Bhalerao, Sanjay Mishra, Usha Nadkarni, Usha Jadhav

Chamatkar

Chamatkar is a horror comedy film directed by Rajiv Mehra. The movie is about Sunder (Shahrukh Khan) who loses everything and seeks refuge in a graveyard, where he befriends a ghost. Naseeruddin Shah played the ghost of a hardcore gangster Marco in the movie.

Star cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Urmila Matondkar, Malvika Tiwari, Shammi Kapoor, Deven Verma