Scary Movie [MA]

Cindy and her friends accidentally killed a man and now, a year later, a psychotic masked figure is stalking them and killing them one by one. As her friends disappear in a haze of blood and guts, can Cindy work out who the killer is before he gets to her?

I’ll admit that taking the piss out of certain films and melding a few plots together is a fine idea…in theory. The downside to these sorts of films that make fun of other films is that many of them aren’t really clever. They may harbour some moments, but ultimately, spoof films like these only lend themselves to sex jokes, gay jokes, and gore humour. I laughed a couple of times, but ultimately, this is not my cup of tea. 

Cindy and her friends accidentally killed a man last Halloween and now, a year later, a psychotic masked figure is surreptitiously stalking and murdering them one by one. As her friends disappear in a haze of blood and guts, can Cindy work out who the killer is before he gets to her? 

There have been four Scary Movie films and, honestly, this is the best of the lot. That’s not really saying much as I would not even let the thought to add this to the collection wander into my mind. The humour is crude and the script is poor, but I will say that it does harbour a few unexpected clever surprises. 

As the title suggests, the film is taking the piss out of the most celebrated and popular scary movies. Scary Movie is a fusion of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer and samples other films such as The Blair Witch Project, The Matrix and Dawson’s Creek. Although the idea is rather clever and the script did harbour a few clever and witty delights, ultimately, Scary Movie was nothing more than 85 minutes of sex jokes, sex scenes, sexual references and innuendos, bad cross-dressing, gore, gay jokes, profanities, dope, and over-exaggerated performances. 

Starring Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Dave Sheridan, Jon Abrahams, Regina Hall, Shannon Elizabeth, Marlon Wayans, Sean Wayans, and Keenen Ivory Wayans, Scary Movie was a good idea that didn’t quite work. It wasn’t clever, but crude and obvious, and was filled with murder, gore, all types of sex humour, and drugs. A film you can watch once, but once is quite enough thank you.