{"id":14561,"date":"2026-06-05T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=14561"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:15:33","slug":"scary-movie-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2026\/06\/05\/scary-movie-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary Movie (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Scary Movie<\/strong> (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount\/Comedy-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 96 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (crude sexual content, graphic nudity, strong violence, drug content and language throughout)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Michael Tiddes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans and Rick Alvarez\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Haim Mazar\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Terry Stacey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 5, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Dave Sheridan, Cheri Oteri, Lochlyn Munro, Olivia Rose Keegan, Savannah Lee Nassif, Cameron Scott Roberts, Sydney Park, Gregg Wayans, Ruby Snowber, Benny Zielke, Kim Wayans, Damon Wayans Jr., Heidi Gardner, Chris Elliot, John Abrahams.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: **<\/p>\n

\u00a0After months of ballyhoo (the first trailer dropped with Scream 7), the new Scary Movie<\/strong> has finally landed in cinemas. It marks the much-anticipated return of the Wayans Brothers (and other Wayans family members) to the franchise they launched more than a quarter-century ago with a very funny mash-up of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. The verdict? I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s not good.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Scary Movie<\/strong>, number 6 for those who aren\u2019t keeping track, is definitely an improvement over 2 and 5, but that isn\u2019t saying much as both are dreadful. Spoofs, as you well know, are hit or miss and this one sadly misses more than it hits. I laughed two or three times, but I mostly sat in silence waiting for something hilarious to happen. A few gags land (the animated K-Pop Demons scene is funny); way too many don\u2019t. So what\u2019s the problem? I\u2019ll explain.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I understand that woke culture is a prime target for parody. It\u2019s gotten out of hand. There\u2019s definitely humor to be mined from it. Scary Movie<\/strong> leans too heavily into it with all the gags about racism, political polarization, pronouns and LGBTQ+ matters. Marlon Wayans, in a statement of intent, says that the goal of the movie is to \u201ccancel cancel culture\u201d. Fine, that\u2019s all well and good, but that\u2019s NOT what Scary Movie<\/strong> is supposed to be about. Look at the title. It\u2019s supposed to be lampooning the horror genre and its various tropes. It works best when it sticks to the supposed point. The rest of it is just noise, no color attached.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I know plot isn\u2019t of primary concern when it comes to spoofs. Still, it\u2019s nice to have a strong storyline to hang the sight gags and one-liners on. The first Scary Movie did it brilliantly. The Wayanses successfully combined two of the most popular horror movies of the time (Scream and IKWYDLS) into a seamless story. They don\u2019t repeat that feat with this Scary Movie<\/strong>. It has a semblance of a plot, but it goes off course so often, you forget all about it. Again, plot isn\u2019t the most important thing here, but the screenplay by four Wayanses and an Alvarez should have been more focused.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One of the characters in Scary Movie <\/strong>uses the term \u201crebootiquel\u201d when self-referencing the movie they\u2019re all in. It basically means a movie that\u2019s both a reboot and legacy sequel (e.g. Scream 7). The plot, such as it is, involves OG characters and new ones like Sara (Keegan, Gotham Knights), the estranged daughter of original final girl Cindy Campbell (Faris). She\u2019s been away for a while, but is forced to come home after younger sister Tuesday (Nassif, Julie and the Phantoms) is attacked by Ghostface. Her still-traumatized mother now lives as a paranoid recluse a la Jamie Lee Curtis in the recent Halloween rebootiquels. Best friend Brenda Meeks (Hall), miraculously back from the dead (again), is the mother of two teenagers, twins Dei (Park, Wish Upon) and Brad (Gregg, nephew of Marlon and Shawn). Speaking of M & S Wayans, they too return as stoner Shorty (marking his 25th<\/sup> year as a high school senior) and quite possibly gay Ray. ANYWAY, Ghostface is back and he has a few scores to settle. What better way than going after the children of his original victims.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Now that I\u2019ve given you a basic plot description, let me tell you some of the titles Scary Movie <\/strong>goofs on during its 96-minute run time. It takes aim at Scream 5 & 6, Halloween 2018, Sinners, Weapons, Smile, Drop, Get Out, The Substance, Nosferatu and Terrifier 3. Director Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House 1 & 2) also manages to get in a shot at the recent biopic Michael. Here\u2019s what I don\u2019t get. Why didn\u2019t the makers reference the Conjuring Universe? Any of those is an ideal target.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Scary Movie<\/strong> is amusing at best which really isn\u2019t very good. I did, however, laugh at the opening sequence which features a riotous cameo by One Battle After Another\u2019s Teyana Taylor. I also laughed at the final scene, a direct and funny reference to Halloween 2018. It\u2019s what comes in between that doesn\u2019t always work. A lot of it (and I mean A LOT) just falls flat. You could almost hear the thud with some of the failed gags.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There\u2019s another reason why Scary Movie<\/strong> ultimately fails. Theaters have been running the trailers (green and red band ones) ad nauseam for four months. As per usual, they showed many of the funnier bits. Well, they would have been funny had not the studio included them in the trailers. The only surprise is that the subway scene isn\u2019t the opening one. It happens about an hour into the movie, not that it matters since you\u2019ve already seen it like a dozen times.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I think it\u2019s time to drive a stake through the heart of the Scary Movie<\/strong> franchise. It\u2019s a valiant effort on the part of the Wayanses, but this is comedy that tries too hard to be edgy and offensive. It begs you at laugh at it by pushing every button it can think of. Instead, it reeks of desperation. To its credit, it\u2019s nowhere near as bad any of the Friedberg-Seltzer spoofs, but that\u2019s not exactly an incredible feat. Hell, a toothache is funnier (and less painful) than the likes of Disaster Movie. This is the only praise I can award this Scary Movie<\/strong>.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scary Movie (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount\/Comedy-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 96 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (crude sexual content, graphic nudity, strong violence, drug content and language throughout)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Michael Tiddes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans and Rick Alvarez\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Haim Mazar\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Terry Stacey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 5, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-now-playing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Scary-Movie-6-POSTER.jpg?fit=620%2C917&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14565,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions\/14565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}