Genre: Horror, Comedy, Spoof, Slasher, Murder, Drugs, School / Campus, Teenage, Gay/Lesbian, Gore, Buddies, Surreal, Racy, Campy, Serial Killer, Black Comedy
Tagline: No mercy. No shame. No sequel.
Plot: In the tradition of such genre parodies as AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN, and SPACEBALLS, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes on the teen horror flick with SCARY MOVIE, a campy, riotous send-up of everything from the SCREAM and HALLOWEEN franchises to I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, CARRIE, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. In a small town, a copycat is reenacting the SCREAM murders, and local reporter Gail Hailstorm will do just about anything to get the story. The six high school students who ran over a man on a sharp curve the year before think the killer is out for revenge, but sweet and innocent Cindy Campbell believes that the madman might just lurk a lot closer to home.Cowritten by Shawn and Marlon Wayans (and four others), the script leaves no cliché unturned; in addition to the horror parodies, the film also spoofs such teen sex comedies as AMERICAN PIE and such hit films as THE SIXTH SENSE, THE MATRIX, and FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. The film never lets up in its striking re-creations of classic scenes, and it never passes up the chance for a joke, no matter how crude. The young, attractive cast looks like it just jumped out of DAWSON'S CREEK, playing everything up to the hilt--and
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 Despite a few very funny moments of brilliance ... the Wayans brothers fail terribly at making a parody that is worthy of making fun of its subject matter. Just like so many spoofs, Scary Movie will join Spy Hard, Wrongfully Accused, and Repossessed in the movie parody hall-of-shame.--Ted Geoghegan (Diabolical-Dominion.com)
Somebody ought to have told director Wayans that having a movie packed with tasteless, vulgar and body fluid humour doesn't equal funny since there's barely a laugh in sight. ... Probably the worst movie ever made to make more than one-hundred million atthe box office.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
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When Scary Movie's jokes hit, they can hit big. On the other hand, when they miss, they fall really, really flat, and said hit-to-miss ratio is about one-to-one.  --Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
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