More like Scary Movie 5
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Scary Movie 5 drops a newly formed family into the haunted-house setup — security cameras, an evil dead demon, paranormal dread — and deflates every beat for laughs. The taste it signals is horror played for absurdity: audiences who enjoy this want the genre's furniture without the genuine fear, replaced instead by comic escalation and self-aware mayhem. Across media that points toward parody sequels, haunted-setting comedies, jump-scare games played for spectacle, and ghost-family stories that wink at their own spookiness.
About Scary Movie 5
Scary Movie 5 is a 2013 American parody film directed by Malcolm D. Lee and written by David Zucker and Pat Proft. It is the standalone sequel to Scary Movie 4 (2006) and the fifth installment in the Scary Movie film series. It is the second and last film in the series to be distributed by The Weinstein Company, as well as the only one not to involve Miramax Films. The film stars Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Erica Ash, Katrina Bowden, Terry Crews, Heather Locklear, J. P. Manoux, Mac Miller, Jerry O'Connell, Molly Shannon, Snoop Dogg, Kate Walsh and Katt Williams. The film is the only installment of the franchise not to feature Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks.
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Series like Scary Movie 5
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Haunted Hotel
A ghost sharing a hotel with the living turns supernatural cohabitation into warm domestic comedy.
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Supernatural
Two brothers raised by their father to fight paranormal evil after losing their mother to a demonic force.
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Scare Tactics
Real people get pranked with staged alien abductions and hauntings, turning paranormal dread into live-action comedy.
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Ghosted
A skeptic and a true believer are thrown together to investigate unexplained paranormal occurrences in Los Angeles.
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The Haunted House
Two siblings tackle ghosts and spooky mysteries with help from a 102-year-old goblin in their haunted building.
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A Haunting
Dramatised true haunting stories explore how tragedy and violent histories leave terrifying psychic impressions on places.
Games like Scary Movie 5
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Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Horror follows you home as something worse than animatronics lurks in the shadows of your own house.
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Content Warning
You film friends doing scary things for internet fame, turning supernatural encounter into participatory comedy performance.
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Five Nights at Freddy's 3
A shuttered pizza horror attraction tries to revive its past, with something genuinely unsettling still lurking inside.
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Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
Cute exterior gives way to genuinely hideous creatures as 1000 haunted rooms escalate from playful to terrifying.
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Five Nights at Freddy's
Friendly animatronic entertainers become dangerous stalkers by night in a family pizza restaurant that hides dark secrets.
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Trick & Treat
A young witch and her maid go trick-or-treating, mixing Halloween whimsy with light spooky adventure.
Books to read after Scary Movie 5
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Trick or Trap
A fear-prone kid and his best friend navigate a younger sibling who weaponises every Halloween scare available.
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The Haunted
A family moves into a new home and immediately faces a cascade of supernatural events they cannot explain.
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Scooby Doo! A Haunted Halloween
Scooby and the gang investigate Halloween sabotage, blending comic mystery-solving with seasonal spooky atmosphere.
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Ghost Dad
Kids who love their ghost dad find the supernatural less frightening than comforting within a family setting.
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Haunted
A sceptic investigates strange happenings at a historic estate others insist is genuinely haunted.
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Vampire mom
A mother's transformation into something monstrous flips the safe family setting into a nightmare scenario.
More films like Scary Movie 5
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A Haunted House
A demon moves into a dream home and possession derails domestic life, played for laughs rather than terror.
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Scary Movie
The same horror-parody formula returns with a slasher targeting familiar faces and no horror IP left unspoofed.
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Scary Movie 7
A forthcoming installment confirmed to parody Backrooms and Obsession, keeping the franchise's comedic horror spirit alive.
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Scary Movie 4
A haunted house and alien invasion collide in the same comic horror register, with Cindy solving supernatural mysteries.
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Scary Movie 2
Students descend on a mansion called Hell House and murderous high jinks ensue.
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A Haunted House 2
Malcolm's fresh start is derailed again by bizarre paranormal events in a new dream home — same joke, new haunting.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after Scary Movie 5?
Fans often enjoy A Haunted House and its sequel, which share the same paranormal-parody setup of a couple terrorised by a demon at home, or the original Scary Movie series — entries like Scary Movie 4 carry the same irreverent tone.
What TV shows are like Scary Movie 5?
Scare Tactics delivers laugh-out-loud paranormal comedy through real-world pranks, while Ghosted pairs a sceptic and a true believer on supernatural cases — both keep the horror-comedy blend without taking scares seriously.
What games are like Scary Movie 5?
Five Nights at Freddy's and Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion both lean into the campy, over-the-top haunted-location premise — absurd monsters in domestic or familiar settings, much like the film's security-camera demon conceit.