Attempts to reduce some of the campy comedy and bring 007 back to his espionage roots with Mr. Dalton had mixed box-office results.

His 2006 film Dasepo Naughty Girls was a campy and playful musical comedy, with a candy-colored palette and mildly racy content.

Mr. Egoyan directs these scenes for a slightly ghoulish, campy comedy.

American Gothic," she said, "offers just a few meager possibilities for unintentional campy comedy.

"Angel" resembles the "Batman" movies in the hero's crusade against evil and the series's balance between campy comedy and adventure.

As Audry and Josh, Adrienne Shelly and Robert Burke never push their characters into campy comedy.

"There could have been a great campy comedy in this, but I couldn't have done it."

Its campy comedy notwithstanding, the stories were usually effective little chillers, mixing horror and humor in equal doses.

"SCALPEL," a campy musical comedy about plastic surgery.