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Horror/Comedy goes on before Romero and in fact very little of what Romero does is really comic to me. Dawn Of The Dead slightly brushes it, but films like Night Of The Living Dead and Martin are pretty bleak, imo.
Comedy horror could go much further back for example, Abbot and Costello films (although these are more comedy than real horror) in Brtian we had Carry On Screaming which was a spoof on horror films, particularly Hammer which always had a sense of humour in itself, as did Hitchcock.
This could go as far back as Georges Melies' film House Of The Devil in the early 1900's. It's quite comical, very slapstick like most silent films, but it's use of ghosts and effects (Melies is often considered cinema's first special effects master) was considered quite scary for the time, which wasn't Melies' intention.
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