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 It's interesting how horror, comedy, and pornography can all blur into each other with relative ease. Like how comedy that's done badly can be deeply unsettling nightmare fuel, or certain kinds of slasher "horror" that are more sleazy and titillating than actually scary, or very weird fetish porn that makes people who don't have that fetish either laugh or go 'ewwww'. 

I think it might be that all three 'genres' are, more than anything else, trying to get the reader to have an emotional experience, and everything else comes secondary to that goal? Like, you can have comedy (and horror, and smut) without strong characters, a complicated plot, or a strong theme. 

So when the wrong notes get hit, and the reader has the wrong kind of emotional experience....