Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Scary Movie 2 sends a group of hapless students into a foreboding mansion called Hell House, then mines haunted-house conventions for laughs as the chaos escalates. It signals a taste for horror-comedy that refuses to take scares seriously — the supernatural becomes raw material for absurdist gags rather than genuine dread. Fans tend to gravitate toward anything blending creepy atmospheres with comic timing: parody cinema, haunted-setting TV, ghost-centric games, or spooky fiction pitched at irreverent fun.
Scary Movie 2 is a 2001 American parody film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. It is the sequel to Scary Movie (2000) and the second installment in the Scary Movie film series. The film stars Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Shawn Wayans, and Marlon Wayans, as well as Tim Curry, Tori Spelling, Chris Elliott, Chris Masterson, Kathleen Robertson, David Cross, and James Woods. The film was the last in the series to feature the involvement of stars Marlon and Shawn Wayans, and director Keenen until Scary Movie (2026).
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Series
The Haunted House
Two siblings tackle spooky house mysteries with help from a centuries-old goblin, blending laughs and ghost-hunting.
Series
Ghosts
An inherited estate overrun by resident spirits turns every attempt at normal life into comedic supernatural mayhem.
Series
Ghost Stories
Displaced supernatural beings terrorise a school, and a ragtag group of young ghostbusters must deal with the fallout.
Series
Hell Girl
Revenge, injustice, and supernatural mechanics intertwine as a mysterious entity dispatches people to Hell on demand.
Series
Hammer House of Horror
Each self-contained episode cycles through a different horror flavour — witches, ghosts, voodoo — with varying tones and dread.
Series
It
A shape-shifting terror haunts a group of outcasts across decades, mixing genuine dread with a distinctly ensemble dynamic.
Game
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
A deceptively cute mansion hides increasingly horrifying creatures across 1000 rooms of escalating terror.
Game
Disney's The Haunted Mansion
You're tasked with laying 999 evil spirits to rest inside a house crammed wall-to-wall with supernatural residents.
Game
Content Warning
Film your friends doing scary things for internet fame — a comedic, group-oriented spin on haunted-location chaos.
Game
Haunt the House: Terrortown
A ghost haunts a town by possessing objects, turning spooky atmosphere into a playful puzzle-action setup.
Game
Haunting
A ghost named Polterguy terrorises household residents by animating objects — comedy-horror with a supernatural prankster at its core.
Game
Obscure: The Aftermath
Teenagers trapped in a monster-infested school must survive the night — survival-horror with a teen-ensemble structure.
Book
Ghost house
A dream mansion traps a family in escalating horror, echoing the haunted-house-as-trap premise directly.
Book
Scary School
Werewolves, zombies, and vampires-as-teachers fill a school year with absurd supernatural comedy and creature chaos.
Book
Trick or Trap
A Goosebumps tale of two friends navigating frights and tricks in a spooky Halloween setting.
Book
Diary of a haunting
A family forced into a new home discovers the house harbours something deeply wrong, told through diary entries.
Book
Inside a house that is haunted
A cumulative rhyme of haunted-house inhabitants startling each other — pure comic-spooky atmosphere in miniature.
Book
The TALE OF THE RESTLESS HOUSE (ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK 3)
Teens lure a target to a genuinely haunted house as a prank — the haunted-mansion-as-trap setup in teen fiction form.
Film
Scary Movie
Shares the same razor-sharp satire of horror conventions, with a stalking masked killer played entirely for laughs.
Film
A Haunted House
A demon-haunted home and a possessed partner become the backdrop for relentlessly comic chaos and ghost-busting misadventure.
Film
Scary Movie 4
Cindy faces both a haunted house mystery and an alien invasion, keeping the haunted-setting comedy energy running wild.
Film
A Haunted House 2
Malcolm's fresh start is immediately derailed by paranormal events, delivering the same comedic haunted-home spiral all over again.
Film
Scary Movie 7
An upcoming Wayans parody, confirmed to spoof the Backrooms and Obsession.
Film
Scary Movie 5
Security cameras and sinister paranormal activity collide with domestic comedy in a haunted-family setup.
Start with Scary Movie (2000), which shares the same cast and parody DNA, then try A Haunted House or Ghosts for more haunted-property comedy with a slightly different flavour.
Haunting and Content Warning both lean into comedy-horror energy — one has you play a ghost terrorising a household, the other has you filming friends in scary situations for online fame.
The haunted-house setting gives the humour a tight, contained structure — the Hell House setup keeps the absurdity escalating scene by scene, which is exactly what makes ensemble horror-parody work.