Scary Movie

Scary Movie turned the late-90s horror boom into a punching bag, and the joke kept paying off. The 2000 original, steered by the Wayans family, mashed up the slasher revival and teen-scream clichés into a crude, gag-a-minute parody that became a surprise box-office hit. This collection runs the whole sequence.

From there the series widened its targets and changed hands creatively, with later entries spoofing whatever was big at the multiplex: alien-invasion blockbusters, found-footage horror, supernatural possession. The humor is broad, scattershot and proudly lowbrow, and the hit-to-miss ratio thins out as the sequels pile up. Still, the franchise's instinct is sharp: each film works as a running scoreboard of what mainstream audiences were actually scared of, year by year. That a new chapter is still arriving says the formula has not run out of fresh horror trends to mock.

The Scary Movie franchise spans 7 films in the CrossBinge catalog.