
Nielsen was a slapstick hero who delivered comedy gold in my preteen years - then, as my tastes became more sophisticated, he was a hero for my teenage, college and 20-something years. This being a site dedicated to paranormal, I wanted to focus on the genre parodies Nielsen starred in, Repossessed
Repossessed is the 1990 spoof of The Exorcist
hasn't aged well (the Pee-Wee Herman joke was lame, and besides P-dubs is cool again - and the Jesse "The Body" Ventura cameo is just creepy now) and it comes nowhere near the genius of Airplane!
In 1995, Nielsen teamed with Mel Brooks for Dracula: Dead and Loving It, a parody of vampire the Hammer
Leslie Nielsen's appearances in the Scary Movie franchise allowed him to play the elder statesman of spoof and pass along most of the action to younger performers. As dreadful as the Nielsen-less Scary Movie 2 was, SM3 & SM4 were much improved. Nielsen as President Baxter Harris provided some of the brightest spots, but really, it was just comforting to see him doing his thing alongside Anna Faris and Charlie Sheen.