Scary Movie 4 (2006)
Scary Movie 4 is a 2006 comedy movie directed by David Zucker, with a running time of 1h 23m. It stars Anna Faris, Regina Hall and Craig Bierko.
Cindy Campbell moves into a house haunted by a small boy, and naturally alien tripods pick that exact moment to invade Earth. Anna Faris returns as the disaster-prone heroine, with Leslie Nielsen fumbling through as the President and Craig Bierko as her dockworker love interest. David Zucker directs this fourth round of scattershot spoofing, aiming at War of the Worlds, The Grudge, Saw, and The Village, plus whatever pop-culture target wanders into frame. The jokes come fast, land or miss, and rarely pause for breath. Silly, crude, and built entirely for people who saw the movies it mocks.
Quick answers
What is Scary Movie 4 about?
Cindy Campbell moves into a house haunted by a small boy, and naturally alien tripods pick that exact moment to invade Earth. Anna Faris returns as the disaster-prone heroine, with Leslie Nielsen fumbling through as the President and Craig Bierko as her dockworker love interest. David Zucker directs this fourth round of scattershot spoofing, aiming at War of the Worlds, The Grudge, Saw, and The Village, plus whatever pop-culture target wanders into frame. The jokes come fast, land or miss, and rarely pause for breath. Silly, crude, and built entirely for people who saw the movies it mocks.
When was Scary Movie 4 released?
Scary Movie 4 was released on 12 April 2006.
How long is Scary Movie 4?
Scary Movie 4 runs 1h 23m.
Who made Scary Movie 4?
Scary Movie 4 was directed by David Zucker.
Where can I watch Scary Movie 4?
Scary Movie 4 is available on DirecTV On Demand, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, fuboTV and Pluto TV.
Where to watch Scary Movie 4
Stream: DirecTV On Demand, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, fuboTV
Watch free: Pluto TV
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
Buy: Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell
- Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks
- Craig Bierko as Tom Ryan
- Bill Pullman as Henry Hale
- Anthony Anderson as Mahalik
- Leslie Nielsen as President Baxter Harris
- Molly Shannon as Marilyn
- Michael Madsen as Oliver
- Chris Elliott as Ezekiel
- Carmen Electra as Holly
- Shaquille O'Neal as Shaq
- Phil McGraw as Dr. Phil
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A few thoughts on Scary Movie 4
Leslie Nielsen's deadpan runs straight back to the Airplane! and Naked Gun comedies that invented this gag-a-second spoof style. For the same anything-goes crudeness carried into another medium, South Park brings its scattershot satire to television and to raucous games like The Stick of Truth, where the jokes fly just as fast and land just as cheap.
Straight-faced spoofs of the horror movies everyone just saw
Scary Movie 4 sends Cindy Campbell through parody versions of The Grudge, Saw, The Village, and an alien invasion, mining whatever horror hit was fresh in theaters. Poltergay works the same trick on haunted house movies, The Gingerdead Man and Slumber Party Massacre II spoof the slasher and creature-feature playbook, and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV pushes splatter-horror parody into full gross-out overdrive.
Sketch-style spoof movies mocking whatever's popular right now
Scary Movie 4 fires jokes at multiple targets per scene rather than following one straight story, in the tradition of pure send-up comedy. Amazon Women on the Moon and UHF work the same anthology-sketch structure across different targets, Don't Be a Menace to South Central spoofs the hood-drama genre beat for beat, and Fear of a Black Hat turns the mockumentary format on hip-hop mythology instead of horror.
Comedies that turn pop culture itself into the punchline
Scary Movie 4 exists purely to riff on whatever movies audiences just watched, treating pop culture as raw material. This Is the End has actual celebrities mocking their own public image mid-apocalypse, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story turns the celebrity biopic into absurdist parody, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay skewers post-9/11 paranoia through stoner comedy, and Phantom of the Paradise remixes gothic legend into a glam-rock send-up.
Every other Scary Movie for a full franchise marathon
Scary Movie 4 is the fourth round of scattershot spoofing in its franchise, still aiming at whatever horror hit theaters that year. Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, and Scary Movie 3 run the identical spoof-everything formula on the horror and thriller hits of their own era, and the franchise's 2026 revival picks the same scattershot approach back up for a new generation of movies to mock.