It's possible to be funny and make a horror film that deconstructs itself — I'm thinking not of The Monster Squad, probably The Cabin in the Woods» closest
spiritual analogue (and even as I say that, I
feel bad — while Fred Dekker is an idiot, he's our idiot), but of
genuine genre masterpieces like John Landis's An American Werewolf in London, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn, and Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead.