Too Many Cooks(2014)
2014 · Casper Kelly · 11 min
"Too Many Cooks" is a humorous parody of US sitcoms of the 1970s and the 1980s, meanwhile what seems like an interminable opening theme, a mysterious killer makes his way and kills (preparing a lunch with their limbs) various members of the Cook Family.
Horror · Comedy · Science Fiction · Crime
7.7149 votes
TMDB score
1/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How scary is Too Many Cooks?
Too Many Cooks is less a horror movie than a horror-comedy prank that hijacks the format of old sitcom intro sequences and lets them spiral into something increasingly unhinged. It's built on repetition and absurd escalation rather than real dread, so any 'scares' come from surreal, off-kilter comic timing rather than tension. A killer shows up as part of the joke, but the tone stays gleefully weird and self-aware instead of frightening. This is for people who like strange, meme-y internet horror-comedy rather than anyone looking to be unsettled.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Too Many Cooks rates psychological 1/5, visceral 2/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 1/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 1 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 55 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 85 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 15 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A goofy, repetitive opening gag slowly curdles into something creepier, with sudden jolts of violence that build to a frantic, chaotic finish.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3.
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