Were we supposed to laugh at the violent deaths?

Yes, it was weird. It always felt like a comedy but people were violently dying. Eventually it wanst interesting to root for anyone since everyone were dying.

I wish they wouldnt kill that sheriff woman, just for fun of it. Like she kept surviving, I thought she would survive that ER chase.

They're over-the-top to the point of being cartoonish. They're funny for the same reason it's funny when Road Runner drops a giant safe on Wile E. Coyote's head.

"Inspired by real events" to the degree that a bear once found a bag of cocaine and OD'd and died on the spot only killing itself. So what's your point?

I always laugh at violent deaths. They're hilarious.

I always felt this film would have worked MUCH better as a dark, depressing thriller like Cujo, and after seeing the film for myself, it just reinforced my gut instinct.

They tried to make it more of a crazy, ultra violent comedy-horror along the lines of Gremlins or Evil Dead 2, and it just didn't work for me.

At least SOME of the humor brought a smile to my face, which is more than can be said for the "comedy horror" The Dead Don't Die. The "comedy" was so poorly done in that one that I didn't even realize it was SUPPOSED to be funny until halfway thru the movie!