6 Movie Directors Who Went From Comedy to Horror

6 Movie Directors Who Went From Comedy to Horror




It's always cool when someone goes against the sort of genre they're most well-known for operating in, and then succeeds at that, pretty much eclipsing many of their earlier efforts. There are two different tropes on TV Tropes that define this pretty well: "Tom Hanks Syndrome" (whose earlier roles were comedies, before he transitioned to generally more serious roles, like those in Philadelphia and Saving Private Ryan), and "Leslie Nielsen Syndrome" (who did the opposite, having mostly non-comedic roles earlier on in his acting career before becoming a comedy legend for roles in films like Airplane and The Naked Gun). So, it can obviously be observed with actors, and actors going both those ways, but it applies to directors, too.


It's always cool when someone goes against the sort of genre they're most well-known for operating in, and then succeeds at that, pretty much eclipsing many of their earlier efforts. There are two different tropes on TV Tropes that define this pretty well: "Tom Hanks Syndrome" (whose earlier roles were comedies, before he transitioned to generally more serious roles, like those in Philadelphia and Saving Private Ryan), and "Leslie Nielsen Syndrome" (who did the opposite, having mostly non-comedic roles earlier on in his acting career before becoming a comedy legend for roles in films like Airplane and The Naked Gun). So, it can obviously be observed with actors, and actors going both those ways, but it applies to directors, too.

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