The top two movies at the box office right now are clever, original horrors Backrooms and Obsession. This week, they’ll face competition from a long-running franchise that, if it continues, will parody them mercilessly in a year or so. The final trailer for Scary Movie is here, and it brings back most of the old gang, including the Wayans Family for the first time since 2001.
Franchise mainstays Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Jon Abrahams, Cheri Oteri, Dave Sheridan, plus Shawn and Marlon Wayans return, joined by Lochlyn Munro, Anthony Anderson, Chris Elliott, Damon Wayans Jr., Kim Wayans, Heidi Garnder, Felissa Rose, Olivia Rose Keegan, Cameron Scott Roberts, and Savannah Lee Nassif.
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House, Fifty Shades of Black) directs from a script by Marlon, Shawn, Keenen Ivory Wayans, and Rick Alvarez. Keenan is famously the creator of the Scary Movie franchise as well as In Living Color.
The Wayans’ have some big movies to take shots at, too, including Weapons and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. Some of the jokes already feel pretty dated, though, like the Get Out gags seen in this trailer.
SYNOPSIS: Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer (Ghostface), the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs, and no horror movie IP is safe. Marlon Wayans (Shorty), Shawn Wayans (Ray), Anna Faris (Cindy), and Regina Hall (Brenda) reunite in Scary Movie alongside returning favorites and fresh faces to slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final. Nothing is sacred. No trope survives. Every line gets crossed. The Wayans are back to cancel the Cancel Culture.
Scary Movie hits theaters on June 5th from Paramount.
