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Jessica Rothe and Rob Mello star in Happy Death Day (2017).

The most effective horror comedy movies serve up our greatest fears while also playing with them, making us question our own emotional responses to everything from witches to alien plants. Here are 25 of our very favorites.

Scott Beggs








Tech Decks were classroom nuisances, brah.

From slap bracelets to finger-sized skateboards, these are the distractions that filled teachers' desk drawers in the '90s.

Jake Rossen
The Ramones—Johnny, Joey, Marky, and Dee Dee—in 1979.

By stripping rock and roll down to its four-chord essentials, the Ramones helped pioneer the punk rock movement of the 1970s.

Scott Beggs