Although Mel Brooks has been making comedy classics ever since the 1960s, he’s become more popular than ever before thanks to the recently announced reboots of some of his most famous films. A sequel series to Brooks’ spoof film A History of the World, Part 1 was released on Hulu, and development has begun on the long-anticipated follow-up to Spaceballs , as well as a new television series based on Young Frankenstein .
While these films were highly influential in the history of cinematic comedy, Brooks isn’t given enough credit for his underrated 1977 spoof High Anxiety , which served as an homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock . While it didn’t directly parody one franchise like Spaceballs did with Star Wars , High Anxiety incorporated plot e