Scary Movie

This article is about the spoof horror film, first in a series. For the genre, see horror film. For the film franchise, see Scary Movie (series). For the film codenamed "Scary Movie", see Scream (film).

Scary Movie
File:1800353571p.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Keenen Ivory Wayans
Written by	Shawn Wayans Marlon Wayans Buddy Johnson Phil Beauman Jason Friedberg Aaron Seltzer
Produced by	Eric L. Gold Lee R. Mayes Shawn Wayans Marlon Wayans Phil Beauman
Starring	Marlon Wayans Shawn Wayans Anna Faris Jon Abrahams Carmen Electra Shannon Elizabeth Kurt Fuller Regina Hall Lochlyn Munro Cheri Oteri Dave Sheridan
Cinematography	Francis Kenny
Edited by	Mark Helfrich
Music by	David Kitay
Distributed by	Dimension Films
Release dates	United States July 7, 2000 Australia August 31, 2000 New Zealand September 7, 2000 United Kingdom September 8, 2000
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$19 million (est.)
Box office	$278,019,771

Scary Movie is a 2000 comedy/spoof film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, as part of Wayans Bros. Entertainment. It is an American dark comedy which parodies the horror, slasher, and mystery genres. Several mid-and late-1990s films are spoofed, including The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, The Matrix, and The Blair Witch Project, with a significant portion of the film's plot being dedicated to the more subtle horror film parody series Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. In addition, the film parodies classic horror films, most notably Scream.

The tagline is "No mercy. No shame. No sequel.", with the last reference being to the tendency of popular horror movies to become long-running franchises. In 2001 a sequel Scary Movie 2 was released with the tagline "We lied". The film was followed by a series of sequels Scary Movie 3 (2003), and Scary Movie 4 (2006). The original title for the film Scream was "Scary Movie" which ironically was later used to parody it. Both films were released through Dimension Films.

Plot

An 18-year-old girl named Drew Decker is alone in her mansion one night when she receives a phone call from an unnamed man. The man says he is watching her, and then breaks into the house. Scared, Drew grabs a banana and runs outside brandishing it. He chases her and rips her clothes off. As Drew runs into the sprinklers that has been seet off, her father drives toward her and she calls to him to help her, but he doesn't notice her because her mother is giving him oral sex; he ends up running her over. The killer finishes her off.

The next day, a girl named Cindy Campbell meets up with her boyfriend Bobby and friends Brenda, Ray, Greg, and Buffy. News teams--which include reporter Gail Hailstorm--are there trying to interview Drew's classmates. Cindy points out that Drew's murder happened exactly one year after they accidentally killed a man during a wild car ride and dumped his body off the pier.

One night Cindy is attacked by the killer, but she calls the police and the killer escapes. Bobby soon arrives with the same gloves and knife as the killer, and is arrested. The next day, the group receives a warning note from someone who claims to know about the man they killed. Later on in the film, they are killed one by one: first Greg; then Buffy; then Ray. The killer attempts to kill Brenda in a theater, but fellow patrons beat her to it, upset about her rude behavior.

Cindy throws a house party; the killer appears and starts killing guests. Bobby is released from jail, turns up at the party, and he and Cindy have sex. Afterwards, the killer stabs Bobby and disappears. As Cindy tends to Bobby's wounds, Bobby shoots stoner Shorty and reveals that he was never actually stabbed. Then Ray arrives--alive and well, with a bandage on his head--and says that he and Bobby are copying the serial killer. When Cindy asks for a motive, Bobby says that they don't need one, because Scream had no plot, and other horror movies also lack logically coherent elements like plot or motive. Bobby sarcastically quips that he was driven to it by lack of sex and that he and Ray are homosexual lovers who will start a new life once they kill Cindy; they'll get away with it because they're merely copycatting the real killer.

To conceal their guilt, they decide to stab each other so that the authorities will believe them to be victims of the real killer. However, right after Ray has fatally stabbed Bobby, the real killer appears and stabs Ray; he collapses on top of Bobby in an incidental sexual position. The killer attacks Cindy, but she manages to subdue him. The police arrive and take Cindy to the police station, where they find out that Buffy's mentally challenged detective brother Doofy was actually faking his disability and is the actual killer. After Doofy escapes with Gail, the sheriff and Cindy find Doofy's disguise in the street. While reacting to this, Cindy is run over by a passing car.

As the credits roll, Shorty--parodying Randy Meeks' rules of survival in the Scream franchise--explains via videocassette that he didn't make it, but provides rules for surviving a so-called situation, which are actually instructions for surviving a snatch-and-run.

Cast

• Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell
• Jon Abrahams as Bobby Prinze
• Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks
• Shawn Wayans as Ray Wilkins
• Shannon Elizabeth as Buffy Gilmore
• Lochlyn Munro as Greg Phillipe
• Marlon Wayans as Shorty Meeks
• Cheri Oteri as Gail Hailstorm
• Dave Sheridan as Doofy Gilmore
• Carmen Electra as Drew Decker
• Rick Ducommun as Cindy's Dad
• Kurt Fuller as The Sheriff
• Jayne Trcka as Miss Mann
• Kelly Coffield Park as Teacher
• David L. Lander as Principal 'Squiggy' Squiggman
• Marissa Jaret Winokur as Tina, the Garage Victim

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 53% based on 108 reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4, saying it "delivers the goods."

Soundtrack

Main article: Scary Movie (soundtrack)

A soundtrack containing hip hop and alternative rock songs from the movie was released on July 4, 2000 by TVT Records.

See also

• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth — A spoof of horror movies
• Student Bodies — A spoof of horror movies
• Stan Helsing — A spoof of horror movies

External links

• Scary Movie at IMDb
• Scary Movie at AllMovie
• Scary Movie at Rotten Tomatoes
• Scary Movie at Metacritic
• Scary Movie at Box Office Mojo