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Scary Movie

Play trailer 1:30 Poster for Scary Movie R 2000 1h 28m Comedy Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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Defying the very notion of good taste, Scary Movie out-parodies the pop culture parodies with a no-holds barred assault on the most popular images and talked-about moments from recent films, television and commercials. The film boldly fires barbs at the classic scenes from Scream, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Blair Witch Project, then goes on to mock a whole myriad of teen movie clichés, no matter the genre.
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Scary Movie overloads on crudity and grossness to get its laughs.

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Paul Tatara CNN.com Oct 19, 2018
These gags are hardly the height of inspiration, but it could be that people laugh at them because they're not as pathetic as a character having a penis jabbed through his head like an ice pick. Go to Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian Oct 19, 2018
The Wayans brothers just want to make us laugh... And for the first 20 minutes, they do. After that the gag-rate plummets, and it's a long haul to the credits. Go to Full Review
Glenn Lovell San Jose Mercury News Oct 10, 2003
2.5/4
The kind of thing that leads to sleepless nights -- from severely bruised rib cages. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jun 5, 2026
1/4
...a pervasively (and perpetually) lackluster comedy... Go to Full Review
Sharai Bohannon Horror Movie Blog Jun 5, 2026
While Scary Movie doesn’t work as a film (for me), it does a couple of cool things that make me get why people keep returning to it. Go to Full Review
Brian Bisesi Horror Movie Club Podcast Apr 8, 2026
3.5/5
Scary Movie’s jokes can be hit, miss, or downright offensive; but enough of them land to make for an enjoyable watch. The movie shines brightest with the jokes that most resemble the absurdism of spoofs like Airplane and The Naked Gun. Go to Full Review
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Daniel B @DANIEL2004 13 hrs ago Envejeció horrible, pero la frase culminante de los 2000’s Wazaaaaa hace que le perdonemos todo. "Scary Movie" sigue siendo una auténtica delicia. Más allá de lo mal que ha envejecido en el plano visual, de un CGI sencillamente espantoso y de sus inmensas lagunas argumentales, la película conserva una frescura e hilaridad envidiables. No solo revolucionó el género de la parodia, sino que estableció la piedra angular del tipo de humor políticamente incorrecto y desacomplejado que definiría a la primera década de los 2000. Su magia reside en el enfoque: cuando el espectador decide no sobrepensar la coherencia global y abraza el metraje como una sucesión de bocetos humorísticos ligeramente conectados, la experiencia resulta absolutamente desternillante. Ciertamente, su mayor defecto es la ambición de abarcar más tramas de las que su endeble estructura puede sostener. See more Steve R @RT04499405 4 days ago Is it funny to take the same script from a horror movie and exaggerate the lines word for word so they seem comical? I guess for some it is. There are a few chuckles, but for the most part, you have to be high as Shorty for these "jokes" to land. See more Jessie Z @za2011 Oct 1, 2026 For the most part, this film still holds up and has some of the funniest scenes you’ll see in a movie. But what I really appreciated about the film was the mixture of the plots of “Scream” “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and “The Usual Suspects”. Found it to be very clever and moved the film along nicely. See more Huntin P @PaxVobiscum80 Sep 18, 2026 I cried laughing, when I saw this movie. It is so brazenly unoriginal, so eye-wateringly puerile, as to simultaneously demand it be consigned to the trash and embraced with alacrity. It is a paradox, worthless and hilarious. The Scary Movie franchise later fell under the control of those with far greater comedic talent than the Wayans', but this is where the plagiarism began. Plagiarism because this is more than an imitation of Scream (1996) - should I say less than? - it is a shameless rip-off of the source material. Not only Scream, for that matter. It's Scream as reconceived for someone with the intellectual ability of Jake Harper from Two & A Half Men. Throw in obvious references to I Know What You Did Last Summer, and to The Blair Witch Project, and take every opportunity for jokes about bodily functions. Voila! The emancipation of the dipsh*t. See more Jake F @jake222 Sep 16, 2026 It's starts out pretty funny as a parody but then it gets so foul in potty humor that I had to turn it off and wipe all of the Scary Movies from ever seeing it again. Now I have to do a bleach bath for my computer. What were they thinking. See more Bruce F @MoralMaster Sep 7, 2026 I think it still holds up lots of stereotypes and great time period comedy many references and brenda absolutely kills it love to see the Wayne's come together See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Defying the very notion of good taste, Scary Movie out-parodies the pop culture parodies with a no-holds barred assault on the most popular images and talked-about moments from recent films, television and commercials. The film boldly fires barbs at the classic scenes from Scream, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Blair Witch Project, then goes on to mock a whole myriad of teen movie clichés, no matter the genre.
Director
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Producer
Eric L. Gold, Lee R. Mayes, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans
Screenwriter
Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Buddy Johnson, Phil Beauman, Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Production Co
Wayan Bros. Entertainment, Miramax, Gold/Miller Productions, Dimension Films, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
Rating
R (Drug Use|Crude Sexual Material|Language|Violence)
Genre
Comedy, Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 7, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 20, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$157.0M
Runtime
1h 28m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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