Scary Movie (2000)
Scary Movie is a 2000 comedy movie directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, with a running time of 1h 28m. It stars Anna Faris, Regina Hall and Marlon Wayans.
A group of high schoolers hits a man with their car, dumps the body, and swears to keep quiet. One year later a killer in a Ghostface mask starts picking them off one by one. Keenen Ivory Wayans directs a scattershot send-up of late-90s teen horror, aiming most of its jokes at Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer while grabbing gags from The Matrix, The Blair Witch Project, and anything else within reach. Anna Faris anchors the chaos as the perpetually terrified Cindy, surrounded by Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Regina Hall, and a cast that treats good taste as optional.
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What is Scary Movie about?
A group of high schoolers hits a man with their car, dumps the body, and swears to keep quiet. One year later a killer in a Ghostface mask starts picking them off one by one. Keenen Ivory Wayans directs a scattershot send-up of late-90s teen horror, aiming most of its jokes at Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer while grabbing gags from The Matrix, The Blair Witch Project, and anything else within reach. Anna Faris anchors the chaos as the perpetually terrified Cindy, surrounded by Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Regina Hall, and a cast that treats good taste as optional.
When was Scary Movie released?
Scary Movie was released on 7 July 2000.
How long is Scary Movie?
Scary Movie runs 1h 28m.
Who made Scary Movie?
Scary Movie was directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans.
Where can I watch Scary Movie?
Scary Movie is available on Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, fuboTV, Kanopy and Amazon.
Where to watch Scary Movie
Stream: Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, fuboTV
Watch free: Kanopy
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell
- Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks
- Marlon Wayans as Shorty Meeks
- Shawn Wayans as Ray Wilkins
- Jon Abrahams as Bobby Prinze
- Lochlyn Munro as Greg Phillippe
- Shannon Elizabeth as Buffy Gilmore
- Dave Sheridan as Doofy Gilmore
- Cheri Oteri as Gail Hailstorm
- Tanja Reichert as Miss Congeniality
- Carmen Electra as Drew Decker
- Kurt Fuller as The Sheriff
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A few thoughts on Scary Movie
Fans should start with Scream, the slasher this leans on hardest, for the real version of the joke it keeps telling. The Cabin in the Woods pushes the same self-aware horror-comedy further with an actual body count. For a game that turns Ghostface into a playable stalker, Dead by Daylight carries the parody into interactive dread.
Straight-up parody movies that roast an entire genre at once
Scary Movie built its whole premise on mocking Scream shot for shot, and this group works from the same playbook. UHF and The Kentucky Fried Movie treat an entire medium as one long punchline, Amazon Women on the Moon and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life stack sketch after sketch, and Not Another Teen Movie and Black Dynamite each dismantle a specific genre scene by scene.
Scary Movie's own sequels plus other slasher horror played for laughs
Cindy Campbell's story kept going well past the original Ghostface parody, and this set follows both directions. Scary Movie 2 and Scary Movie 3 push the franchise's spoofing into haunted houses and alien invasions, the 2026 Scary Movie returns to the same premise for a new audience, Dead by Daylight turns the killer-stalks-teens setup into an actual game, and Bhooth Bangla plays a haunted house for comedy instead of scares.
Raunchy genre comedies that turned cops and disasters into farce
Scary Movie's gross-out, anything-for-a-laugh energy carries straight into these R-rated comedies. 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street spoof the buddy-cop formula from the inside, The Other Guys does the same to the mismatched-detective genre, This Is the End turns a Hollywood apocalypse into a hangout comedy, and Project X pushes a house party as far past control as it can go.