Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Scary Movie (2026) brings back Cindy Campbell, Ray, Shorty, and Brenda — the group who once escaped a masked killer — only for that same killer to resurface twenty-six years later. Directed by Michael Tiddes and written by the Wayans family, it's the sixth entry in the franchise and a spiritual sequel to the first two films. Horror parody fans will find familiar company: gleeful genre skewering where the comedy and the threat arrive at the same time.
Scary Movie is a 2026 American parody film directed by Michael Tiddes and written by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans, and Rick Alvarez. It is the sixth installment in the Scary Movie film series and has been referred to as the spiritual sequel to the first two films. It stars Marlon, Shawn, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall. The plot follows Cindy Campbell and her friends Ray Wilkins and siblings Shorty and Brenda Meeks reunited when the same masked killer from the original film resurfaces.
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Series
Scare Tactics
Unsuspecting people are plunged into staged paranormal scenarios, mining horror conventions for comedy with a knowing wink.
Series
It
Seven outcast kids battle a shape-shifting killer in 1960, then reunite thirty years later to face it again.
Series
Horror's Greatest
A documentary series that digs into horror classics and hidden gems — ideal for viewers who love dissecting genre tropes.
Series
Boogiepop Phantom
Urban rumours of a figure who takes people in the dark creates the same horror-mythology-as-gossip atmosphere running through slasher franchises.
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Dead End: Paranormal Park
Two teens and a talking pug team up to battle demons at a haunted theme park and maybe save the world.
Series
Scream: The TV Series
A viral video triggers a murder spree among the teenagers of Lakewood, stretching the slasher format into serialised TV drama.
Game
Content Warning
You film your friends doing scary things for internet fame — horror as comedy content, played knowingly for laughs.
Game
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
The terror follows you home as you defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear and the other animatronic horrors lurking in the dark.
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SEPTEMBER 1999
A free VHS-style first-person found-footage horror game that runs for exactly five and a half minutes.
Game
Last Year
A group of classmates survive against a player-controlled killer — the multiplayer structure maps onto slasher-film group dynamics.
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Trapped Dead
Friends navigate a zombie outbreak in a tactical survival scenario, applying horror-film tropes to strategic co-op gameplay.
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Five Nights at Freddy's 3
Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed, determined owners revive it as a horror attraction — with one animatronic still lurking.
Book
The Scream of the Haunted Mask
A Halloween mask calls out to Carly Beth at night — and ugly green masks don't like to be ignored.
Book
Trick or Trap
Two fearful kids are tormented by a younger sister's pranks — horror-adjacent comedy built on who's scaring whom.
Book
Murder for Halloween
A Halloween anthology of short crime and horror fiction captures the same holiday-horror atmosphere the franchise occupies.
Book
Scooby Doo! A Haunted Halloween
A mystery investigation saves a Halloween celebration from a saboteur — genre-savvy spooky fun with comedy underpinning the stakes.
Book
April Fool's Day
College kids on a remote island find April Fool's Day pranks turning lethal, blending slasher body-count with dark comedy.
Book
Horrorween
A small town under the shadow of a death figure for untold ages captures the same horror-mythology atmosphere the masked-killer franchise feeds on.
Film
Scary Movie
A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves stalked by a masked killer while no scary-movie trope escapes the satire.
Film
Scary Movie 7
The next instalment confirmed to parody the Backrooms and Obsession, keeping the franchise's pop-culture target practice going.
Film
Scary Movie 5
A happy couple discovers their family is being stalked by an evil presence captured on their own security cameras.
Film
Scary Movie 4
Cindy faces both a ghostly boy and alien invaders, escalating the absurdist multi-franchise parody the series is known for.
Film
Killer Movie
A masked killer starts picking off a reality-TV crew in this slasher-movie satire starring a spoiled celebutante.
Film
Scream VI
The four Woodsboro survivors start fresh in New York, only to face a new Ghostface hunting them down.
The original Scary Movie (2000) is the perfect companion — it launched the whole franchise and skewers the same slasher tropes, while Scream VI delivers the straight-faced horror that the series has always been riffing on.
Content Warning nails the same chaotic, self-aware horror comedy energy — you and friends film each other doing terrifying things for internet fame, treating horror as spectacle rather than something to be genuinely scared of.
April Fool's Day captures a similar blend of horror clichés and dark comedy, following college kids on a remote island where pranks turn deadly — the same self-aware slasher setup that made Scary Movie a hit.