Scary Movie 3 (2003)
Scary Movie 3 is a 2003 comedy movie directed by David Zucker, with a running time of 1h 24m. It stars Anna Faris, Regina Hall and Simon Rex.
The spoof machine turns its aim on the horror hits of the early 2000s, splicing The Ring, Signs, and 8 Mile into one gleefully dumb pileup. Anna Faris returns as Cindy Campbell, a news anchor tangled in cursed videotapes, crop circles, and an alien invasion the President can barely handle. David Zucker of Airplane! takes over the franchise and swaps gross-out shock for rapid-fire sight gags and deadpan absurdity. Leslie Nielsen plays a hapless commander in chief, Charlie Sheen a haunted farmer. The plot is a coat rack, and the jokes are the whole point.
Quick answers
What is Scary Movie 3 about?
The spoof machine turns its aim on the horror hits of the early 2000s, splicing The Ring, Signs, and 8 Mile into one gleefully dumb pileup. Anna Faris returns as Cindy Campbell, a news anchor tangled in cursed videotapes, crop circles, and an alien invasion the President can barely handle. David Zucker of Airplane! takes over the franchise and swaps gross-out shock for rapid-fire sight gags and deadpan absurdity. Leslie Nielsen plays a hapless commander in chief, Charlie Sheen a haunted farmer. The plot is a coat rack, and the jokes are the whole point.
When was Scary Movie 3 released?
Scary Movie 3 was released on 24 October 2003.
How long is Scary Movie 3?
Scary Movie 3 runs 1h 24m.
Who made Scary Movie 3?
Scary Movie 3 was directed by David Zucker.
Where can I watch Scary Movie 3?
Scary Movie 3 is available on DirecTV On Demand, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, fuboTV and Kanopy.
Where to watch Scary Movie 3
Stream: DirecTV On Demand, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, fuboTV
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play, Spectrum On Demand
Buy: Amazon, Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell
- Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks
- Simon Rex as George
- Anthony Anderson as Mahalik
- Charlie Sheen as Tom
- Leslie Nielsen as President Baxter Harris
- Kevin Hart as CJ
- Jeremy Piven as Ross Giggins
- Pamela Anderson as Becca
- Jenny McCarthy as Kate
- Denise Richards as Annie
- Elaine Klimaszewski as Elaine
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A few thoughts on Scary Movie 3
The same anything-for-a-laugh spirit runs through South Park: The Stick of Truth, a crude, joke-dense RPG that spoofs fantasy wholesale. Tenacious D delivers comedy in album form with straight-faced rock bombast, and The Simpsons remains the gold standard for pop-culture parody done with actual wit.
More spoofs from inside the same franchise
Scary Movie 3 keeps Anna Faris's Cindy Campbell stumbling through a new wave of horror cliches, and the rest of the franchise mines the same formula from different angles. Scary Movie set the template by spoofing slasher and Scream-era horror, Scary Movie 2 pushed the gags into haunted-house territory, Scary Movie 5 spoofed the found-footage boom, and the newest Scary Movie revives the joke for whatever scares audiences now.
Sketch-style parody movies with no plot, just jokes
Scary Movie 3 treats plot as a coat rack for rapid-fire gags, splicing horror hits into one gleeful pileup. The Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon build entire films the same way, stringing sketches together with barely a story holding them up. UHF, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, The Onion Movie and Black Dynamite spoof music videos, biopics, news broadcasts and blaxploitation with the same deadpan absurdity.
Sci-fi comedies that don't take the apocalypse seriously
Scary Movie 3 spoofs Signs by turning an alien invasion into a running joke about crop circles and a panicking president. This Is the End plays the actual apocalypse for laughs among celebrities holed up in a mansion. Paul turns a fugitive alien into a foul-mouthed road-trip buddy, Attack the Block sends estate kids up against invaders for laughs, and Bugonia treats an alien-abduction conspiracy as pitch-black farce.
Games and shows that spoof their own genre's cliches
Scary Movie 3 exists purely to mock the horror and sci-fi tropes of its moment, and that same spoof instinct shows up well outside movies. South Park: The Stick of Truth and Undertale send up RPG and fantasy cliches from the inside, Portal and Portal 2 turn a test-chamber setup into deadpan comedy, and The Simpsons, Robot Chicken and Cunk on Life keep parodying whatever pop culture takes itself too seriously.