Scary Movie

"Every line will be crossed."

2026 1h 36m EN

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6.4

MID

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24%

ROTTEN

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METACRITIC

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4.9

IMDB

★6.4TMDB · 2,004🥫24%Rotten Tomatoes●38Metacritic★4.9IMDB · 48,025

Comedy

Synopsis

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Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer, the Core Four are back in the killer's crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe.

“Every line will be crossed.”

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Cast

Anna Faris
Cindy
Regina Hall
Brenda
Marlon Wayans
Shorty / 'Joe' / 'Tiffany' / Count Brolock
Shawn Wayans
Ray
Olivia Rose Keegan
Sara
Cameron Scott Roberts
Jack
Savannah Lee Nassif
Tuesday
Sydney Park
DEI

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Michael Tiddes
Writers: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Languages: English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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Fun facts 🍿

1 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 7.7× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Scary Movie Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Michael Tiddes, shot by Terry Stacey. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Haim Mazar. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Jonathan Schwartz shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Anna Faris and Regina Hall and Marlon Wayans carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Michael Tiddes directs. Terry Stacey behind the camera. Haim Mazar scores. Jonathan Schwartz cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 7.7× over at the box office.
2Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
3Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish.
4Part of the "Scary Movie Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Michael Tiddes, shot by Terry Stacey. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Haim Mazar. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Jonathan Schwartz shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Anna Faris and Regina Hall and Marlon Wayans carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Every line will be crossed.".
10IMDB entry: tt32093575 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 25 themes, including "parody", "sequel", "slapstick comedy", "crude humor".
12Released under 23 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Terry Stacey
Original score: Haim Mazar
Editing: Jonathan Schwartz
Production design: Nicole Elespuru
Costume design: Ariyela Wald-Cohain
VFX supervisor: Matt Skuta
Runtime: 96 min · 1h 36m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $30,000,000
Box office: $231,886,052
Return: 773% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Scary Movie (2026)
Rotten Tomatoes: 24% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 38/100
IMDB rating: 4.9/10 · 48,025 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

2 nominations total

Part of

Scary Movie Collection

Scary Movie is a 2000 horror comedy spoof film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. It is an American dark comedy that heavily parodies the horror, slasher, and mystery genres. Several mid- and late-90s films and TV shows are spoofed, especially Scream, along with I Know What You Did Last Summer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, The Matrix, The Blair Witch Project, and Dawson's Creek. Scary Movie was followed by five sequels: Scary Movie 2 (2001), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Scary Movie 4 (2006), Scary Movie 5 (2013), and Scary Movie 6 (2026). Its title serves as an homage to the production title of Scream, which was also released through Dimension Films.

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zombiowski2026-06-03
★ 1/10
I am so disappointed. This piece of trashis unwatchable. Just a cacophony of loosely tied bits, gags, throwbacks to old movies just to cashgrab this one. This vaguely resembles a movie in it's form, not like the first three Scary Movies (the OG ones). It's a shame. A damn shame. It's Epic/Disaster/Date Movie or Meet the Spartans all over again. This makes Superhero Movie look like Citizen Kane.
CinemaSerf2026-06-06
★ 6/10
If you're a fan of the "Halloween", "I Know What you Did..." and "Scream" franchises, then you'll probably appreciate many of the parodies here - as well as it's comic critique on some of their more repetitious production techniques, as we watch "Ghostface" going on the rampage again. Marlon and Shawn Wayans act as the anchors as the story moves along quickly for a ninety minutes that pokes fun at the formulaic predictability of so many of the horror film genres; of the racist and sexist tropes that feature all too often and of the almost "Scooby Do" nature of the supernatural that usually confers the culprit(s) with a degree of invincibility and immortality. There are a few chuckle moments, but it's trying to do too much in too short a time and I didn't feel either Wayans nor Anna Faris's "Cindy" really shine. Dave Sheridan's "Doofy" is just plain annoying and though the writing is often quite clever, the assembled cast just don't really do enough with the premiss. It's not boring, and there's a fun skit on "Sinners" (2025) towards the end which I quite liked, but the remainder of this is short on scares and very long on dialogue.
Zeus2026-06-14
★ 1/10
1/10 stars rating. A total drop. Its not funny and the whole story line is trying so hard to imitates the originals .. but sadly even as a parody movie its just so boring and gross that cant even get pass half an hour of the movie time. There is not even a single moment where the punch line is originaly funny and yeah just waste of time. Its definitely a total drop.