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This hilarious, must-see comedy smash places Carmen Electra (TV's Battlebots), Marlon Wayans (Senseless), Jon Abrahams (Boiler Room, The Faculty), and some of today's hottest young stars in a wickedly funny send-up of today's most popular horror movies! A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody! With Shannon Elizabeth, Shawn Wayans, and Cheri Oteri adding sidesplitting performances, there's nothing to fear in this scary movie...unless you're afraid of laughing too much.
"...will keep you laughing from start to finish." BBC Film Review
"...very funny and - at times - even witty in a crude, drunken frat-boy-with-an-epiphany kind of way." Ernest Hardy, Film.com
"Hilarious and outrageous!" Los Angeles Times
Editor's Note
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 beyond.
Plot Summary
Keenen Ivory Wayans (I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA) directs this hysterical spoof of slasher films. Targeting, most specifically, HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY THE 13TH, SCREAM, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, and THE SIXTH SENSE, SCARY MOVIE also mocks other genre films such as THE MATRIX. After turning his attention to dramas for a series of movies, Wayans's return to comedies contains a seemingly endless onslaught of visual jokes.
| Features | Audio: English | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 10/23/2007 |
| Running Time: 88 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 5539803 | | UPC: 00786936744040 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Winner (2001) | | | MTV Award, James Van Der Beek, Best Cameo in a Movie | |
Nominee (2001) | | | MTV Award, Jon Abrahams, Anna Faris, Best Kiss | | | MTV Award, Anna Faris, Breakthrough Female Performance |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...One of the year's happiest surprises....Exhilarating [as it] defies all respectable standards..." 07/??/2000 p.33Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] sense of slapdash, see-what-sticks, gross-out MOREness..." -- Rating: B 07/21/2000 p.52 Total Film
"...Hilarious fun....Busting with raunchy, gross-out humor....Keenan Ivory Wayans keeps it all fleet-footed and light..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 10/01/2000 p.86 Premiere
"...A delirious time....A bright, funny, and yes, totally raunchy surprise." -- 3 out of 5 stars - A Satisfying Rental 01/01/2001 p.83 Los Angeles Times
"...A hilarious skewering of the cliches of teen pix. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans has kept everything fast and light..." 07/07/2000 p.C1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...SCARY MOVIE delivers the goods..." 07/07/2000 p.29 Uncut
"[N]o cliché is spared as every post-ironic horror movie worth the name gets put through the mangle at exhausting speed..." 08/01/2001 p.142 ReelViews 8 of 10
Scary Movie, from the demented and very funny minds of the Wayans Brothers, becomes the latest motion picture to risk censure in the name of laughter - and gets away with it. Featuring scenes that make American Pie, There's Something About Mary, and Me, Myself and Irene seem almost tame, Scary Movie combines the raunchiness of '90s teen comedies with the single-movie spoof approach of Mel Brooks and the rapid-fire barrage of gags and jokes used in Airplane and The Naked Gun...Scary Movie proves to be the kind of film that will shock the faint-of-heart and leave just about everyone else laughing until tears run down their cheeks...Wayans gets away with several instances of humor that only a black filmmaker could apply without being called a racist...For example, he gleefully parodies the image of blacks as being loud, obnoxious theater-goers in a way that no white director would ever attempt. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
A raucous, satirical attack on slasher movies, teenage horror movies and "The Matrix." I saw the movie, I laughed, I took notes, and now I am at a loss to write the review. All of the usual critical categories and strategies collapse in the face of a film like this...The movie takes a shotgun approach to horror and slasher movies, but if it has a single target, that would be Kevin Williamson, screenwriter of "Scream" and co-inventor of the self-aware slasher subgenre. There is a sense in which "Scary Movie" is doing the same sort of self-referential humor as "Scream," since it is not only directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, co-written by Shawn and Marlon Wayans (among others), and starring several Wayanses, but makes fun of various Wayans trademarks, especially the obligatory homophobic jokes...The bottom line in reviewing a movie like this is, does it work? Is it funny? Yes, it is. - Roger Ebert
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