Scary Movie (Blu-ray)
This hilarious, must-see comedy smash places Carmen Electra (TV's Battlebots), Marlon Wayans (Senseless), Jon Abrahams (Boiler Room, The Faculty), and some of today's hottest young stars in a wickedly funny send-up of today's most popular horror movies! A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody! With Shannon Elizabeth, Shawn Wayans, and Cheri Oteri adding sidesplitting performances, there's nothing to fear in this scary movie...unless you're afraid of laughing too much.
"...will keep you laughing from start to finish." BBC Film Review
"...very funny and - at times - even witty in a crude, drunken frat-boy-with-an-epiphany kind of way." Ernest Hardy, Film.com
"Hilarious and outrageous!" Los Angeles Times
Editor's Note
In the tradition of such genre parodies as AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN, and SPACEBALLS, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes on the teen horror flick with SCARY MOVIE, a campy, riotous send-up of everything from the SCREAM and HALLOWEEN franchises to I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, CARRIE, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. In a small town, a copycat is reenacting the SCREAM murders, and local reporter Gail Hailstorm will do just about anything to get the story. The six high school students who ran over a man on a sharp curve the year before think the killer is out for revenge, but sweet and innocent Cindy Campbell believes that the madman might just lurk a lot closer to home.
Cowritten by Shawn and Marlon Wayans (and four others), the script leaves no cliché unturned; in addition to the horror parodies, the film also spoofs such teen sex comedies as AMERICAN PIE and such hit films as THE SIXTH SENSE, THE MATRIX, and FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. The film never lets up in its striking re-creations of classic scenes, and it never passes up the chance for a joke, no matter how crude. The young, attractive cast looks like it just jumped out of DAWSON'S CREEK, playing everything up to the hilt--and beyond.
Plot Summary
Keenen Ivory Wayans (I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA) directs this hysterical spoof of slasher films. Targeting, most specifically, HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY THE 13TH, SCREAM, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, and THE SIXTH SENSE, SCARY MOVIE also mocks other genre films such as THE MATRIX. After turning his attention to dramas for a series of movies, Wayans's return to comedies contains a seemingly endless onslaught of visual jokes.
Features Audio: English
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Release Information
Studio: Buena Vista
Release Date: 10/23/2007
Running Time: 88 minutes
Original Release Date: 2000
Catalog ID: 5539803
UPC: 00786936744040
Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Video: Color
Aspect Ratio
Widescreen 2.35:1
Cast & Crew Anna Faris
Carmen Electra
Dave Sheridan
Jon Abrahams
Marlon Wayans
Regina Hall
Shannon Elizabeth
Shawn Wayans
David Kitay - Original Music By
Francis Kenny - Cinematographer
Harvey Weinstein - Executive Producer
Keenen Ivory Wayans - Director
Lawrence F. Pevec - Art Director
Mark Helfrich - Editor
Marlon Wayans - Producer
Shawn Wayans, et. al. - Writer
Awards
Winner (2001)
MTV Award, James Van Der Beek, Best Cameo in a Movie
Nominee (2001)
MTV Award, Jon Abrahams, Anna Faris, Best Kiss
MTV Award, Anna Faris, Breakthrough Female Performance
Professional Reviews
Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...One of the year's happiest surprises....Exhilarating [as it] defies all respectable standards..." 07/2000 p.33
Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] sense of slapdash, see-what-sticks, gross-out MOREness..." -- Rating: B 07/21/2000 p.52
Total Film
"...Hilarious fun....Busting with raunchy, gross-out humor....Keenan Ivory Wayans keeps it all fleet-footed and light..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 10/01/2000 p.86
Premiere
"...A delirious time....A bright, funny, and yes, totally raunchy surprise." -- 3 out of 5 stars - A Satisfying Rental 01/01/2001 p.83
Los Angeles Times
"...A hilarious skewering of the cliches of teen pix. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans has kept everything fast and light..." 07/07/2000 p.C1
Chicago Sun-Times
"...SCARY MOVIE delivers the goods..." 07/07/2000 p.29
"...will keep you laughing from start to finish." BBC Film Review
"...very funny and - at times - even witty in a crude, drunken frat-boy-with-an-epiphany kind of way." Ernest Hardy, Film.com
"Hilarious and outrageous!" Los Angeles Times
Editor's Note
In the tradition of such genre parodies as AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN, and SPACEBALLS, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes on the teen horror flick with SCARY MOVIE, a campy, riotous send-up of everything from the SCREAM and HALLOWEEN franchises to I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, CARRIE, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. In a small town, a copycat is reenacting the SCREAM murders, and local reporter Gail Hailstorm will do just about anything to get the story. The six high school students who ran over a man on a sharp curve the year before think the killer is out for revenge, but sweet and innocent Cindy Campbell believes that the madman might just lurk a lot closer to home.
Cowritten by Shawn and Marlon Wayans (and four others), the script leaves no cliché unturned; in addition to the horror parodies, the film also spoofs such teen sex comedies as AMERICAN PIE and such hit films as THE SIXTH SENSE, THE MATRIX, and FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. The film never lets up in its striking re-creations of classic scenes, and it never passes up the chance for a joke, no matter how crude. The young, attractive cast looks like it just jumped out of DAWSON'S CREEK, playing everything up to the hilt--and beyond.
Plot Summary
Keenen Ivory Wayans (I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA) directs this hysterical spoof of slasher films. Targeting, most specifically, HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY THE 13TH, SCREAM, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, and THE SIXTH SENSE, SCARY MOVIE also mocks other genre films such as THE MATRIX. After turning his attention to dramas for a series of movies, Wayans's return to comedies contains a seemingly endless onslaught of visual jokes.
Features Audio: English
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound
Technical Info
Release Information
Studio: Buena Vista
Release Date: 10/23/2007
Running Time: 88 minutes
Original Release Date: 2000
Catalog ID: 5539803
UPC: 00786936744040
Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Video: Color
Aspect Ratio
Widescreen 2.35:1
Cast & Crew Anna Faris
Carmen Electra
Dave Sheridan
Jon Abrahams
Marlon Wayans
Regina Hall
Shannon Elizabeth
Shawn Wayans
David Kitay - Original Music By
Francis Kenny - Cinematographer
Harvey Weinstein - Executive Producer
Keenen Ivory Wayans - Director
Lawrence F. Pevec - Art Director
Mark Helfrich - Editor
Marlon Wayans - Producer
Shawn Wayans, et. al. - Writer
Awards
Winner (2001)
MTV Award, James Van Der Beek, Best Cameo in a Movie
Nominee (2001)
MTV Award, Jon Abrahams, Anna Faris, Best Kiss
MTV Award, Anna Faris, Breakthrough Female Performance
Professional Reviews
Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...One of the year's happiest surprises....Exhilarating [as it] defies all respectable standards..." 07/2000 p.33
Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] sense of slapdash, see-what-sticks, gross-out MOREness..." -- Rating: B 07/21/2000 p.52
Total Film
"...Hilarious fun....Busting with raunchy, gross-out humor....Keenan Ivory Wayans keeps it all fleet-footed and light..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 10/01/2000 p.86
Premiere
"...A delirious time....A bright, funny, and yes, totally raunchy surprise." -- 3 out of 5 stars - A Satisfying Rental 01/01/2001 p.83
Los Angeles Times
"...A hilarious skewering of the cliches of teen pix. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans has kept everything fast and light..." 07/07/2000 p.C1
Chicago Sun-Times
"...SCARY MOVIE delivers the goods..." 07/07/2000 p.29
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Review
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
A raucous, satirical attack on slasher movies, teenage horror movies and "The Matrix." I saw the movie, I laughed, I took notes, and now I am at a loss to write the review. All of the usual critical categories and strategies collapse in the face of a film like this...The movie takes a shotgun approach to horror and slasher movies, but if it has a single target, that would be Kevin Williamson, screenwriter of "Scream" and co-inventor of the self-aware slasher subgenre. There is a sense in which "Scary Movie" is doing the same sort of self-referential humor as "Scream," since it is not only directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, co-written by Shawn and Marlon Wayans (among others), and starring several Wayanses, but makes fun of various Wayans trademarks, especially the obligatory homophobic jokes...The bottom line in reviewing a movie like this is, does it work? Is it funny? Yes, it is. - Roger Ebert
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