SCARY MOVIE

'''Scary Movie''' (2000), an American film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, is a comedy-gross-out film spoof that parodies the horror and mystery genres. Several mid- and late-1990s movies are spoofed, including the more subtle horror film parody series ''Scream'' trilogy, ''The Sixth Sense'', ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', ''The Usual Suspects'', ''The Matrix'', and ''The Blair Witch Project'', while it also parodies many of the classic horror films, most notably ''Halloween''.
The tagline is ''"No mercy. No shame. No sequel."'', with the last reference being to the tendency of popular horror movies to become long-running franchises. However, in 2001, ''Scary Movie 2'' was released (with the appropriate tagline "We lied"). A second sequel, ''Scary Movie 3'', followed in 2003. ''Scary Movie 4'' was released on April 14, 2006. Also confirmed is that there will be a ''Scary Movie 5'', released in 2008. The franchise has also spawned similar films, ''Date Movie'' which parodied romantic comedies and ''Epic Movie'' which parodied superhero and adventure genres.

Contents

Synopsis

Parodies

Characters

Reception

See Also

External links

Synopsis

While ''Scary Movie'' parodies a number of films, the main plot spoofs the films ''Scream'' and ''I Know What You Did Last Summer''. Six friends - Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams), Buffy Gilmore (Shannon Elizabeth), Greg Phillipe (Lochlyn Munro), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), and Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) - are being stalked by a serial killer. The serial killer, who is dressed like the masked killer in the Scream trilogy, is after them because of an accident that they caused last Halloween. The movie opens with the stalking and death of Drew Decker (Carmen Electra).

Parodies

★ I Know What You Did Last Summer

★ I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

★ Scream

★ Scream 2

★ Scream 3

★ The Sixth Sense

★ The Matrix

★ The Usual Suspects

★ American Pie

★ The Blair Witch Project

★ Halloween

★ The Exorcist

Characters

★ 'Cindy Campbell' - Played by Anna Faris, she is the parody character of both Sidney Prescott from the Scream trilogy and Julie James from the I Know What You Did Last Summer trilogy. Her name is a spoof of Sidney, and also of Cindy Brady, and her surname is taken from Neve Campbell (the actress who played Sidney from Scream). Cindy is peppy, gullible, and very bubbly. Her father does business with the Escobar crime family ("Uncle Escobar," as Cindy knows him), dealing freebase and sometimes using it himself.

★ 'Bobby Prinze' - Played by Jon Abrahams, he is the parody character of Billy Loomis from Scream and shares many of the same interests and personality (such as brow-beating Cindy to lose her virginity towards him). He constantly gets blamed for being the killer of the movie. His name is taken from Bobby Brady ("Cindy and Bobby"), and also from Freddie Prinze Jr, who starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

★ 'Brenda Meeks' - Played by Regina Hall, Brenda is the parody character of Maureen Evans from Scream 2 (although she also partially parodies Hallie McDaniel who is also from Scream 2). She is shown to be a real "tough girl", with a bit of ghetto-ness, as depicted in her speech and actions. She is butchered by angry cinema patrons; her death scene parodies the death of Maureen in the cinema scene of Scream 2. Brenda's name is taken from: the character Brenda from Friday the 13th; and from Randy Meeks, a character from Scream and Scream 2. Brenda was temporarily resurrected for Scary Movie 3, only to be killed off again...this time by the girl from The Ring. This was after faking several almost-deaths, leading her to be ignored while she was killed for real. She was resurrected once again in Scary Movie 4 and lived through the entire movie.

★ 'Shorty Meeks' - Played by Marlon Wayans, Shorty is the parody character of Randy Meeks from the Scream trilogy. He is shown to drink, smoke weed and take many other drugs. He is also the brother of Brenda Meeks.

★ 'Ray Wilkins' - Played by Shawn Wayans, Ray is the parody character of Phil Stevens from Scream 2. He also parodies Stu Macher from Scream towards the end of the movie. He is shown to be extremely gay, openly flirting with various guys, although he dates Brenda Meeks (whom he loves to dress up in his football uniform). In the cinema scene, Ray is stabbed in the head with a penis, which parodies the death of Phil. However, later in the movie, he is shown to survive and is Bobby's accomplice, which is how he parodies Stu. He is killed when the real killer (Doofy) stabs him in the back. His name was taken from Ray Bronson, a character from the I Know What You Did Last Summer trilogy.

★ 'Buffy Gilmore' - Played by Shannon Elizabeth, Buffy is the parody character of both Tatum Riley from Scream and Helen from I Know What You Did Last Summer. She is dating Greg Phillipe. Her death is less than similar to either of the original characters' deaths. However, it is not confirmed that Buffy actually dies; rather, she is decapitated yet her head somehow remains alive (as a joke in the film). Her name is a double homage to the young-adult series ''Gilmore Girls'' and ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''.

★ 'Greg Phillipe' - Played by Lochlyn Munro, Greg is the parody character of Barry Cox from I Know What You Did Last Summer. Greg has the same basic personality as Barry, and his death is very similar to Barry's as well. His name is taken from Ryan Phillipe (who played Barry), and also from Greg Brady (goes with Cindy and Bobby). Greg has an extremely small penis, and tends to be vindictive towards women, Cindy in paticular.

★ 'Drew Decker' - Played by Carmen Electra, Drew is the parody character of Casey Becker from Scream. Her name is taken from the actress who played Casey, Drew Barrymore. Miss Decker's favorite horror movie is ''Kazaam''; when Ghostface claims that doesn't qualify, Drew simply tells him, "Well, you haven't seen Shaquille O'Neal act."

★ 'Special Officer Doofy Gilmore' - Played by Dave Sheridan, Doofy is the parody character of Dwight "Dewey" Riley from the Scream trilogy. He is also one of the three killers in this movie (the other two are Bobby and Ray). Doofy is short for Doofus, as he suffers from extreme mental retardation (which may or may not be faked) and erratic regularity ("I got a poopie. It was good"). As Buffy's 25-year-old brother, he still attends "Special Class" at B.A. Corpse High School. Buffy attends the same school, known as "Miss Teen She's-So-Fine", while Doofy himself is a "Special Police Officer" whom nobody takes seriously. He enjoys masturbating with his mom's vacuum cleaner.

★ 'Gail Hailstorm' - Played by Cheri Oteri, Gail is the parody character of Gale Weathers from the Scream trilogy. Gail actually commits the second murder in this movie, by gunning down a teenage boy who keeps making fun of her during a news broadcast. Ultimately, Gail and her long-suffering cameraman Kenny are slain by Ghostface in a sequence parodying ''The Blair Witch Project'', though she is shown to live at the end, when she picks up Doofy (ditching his retarded disguise) for a date.

Reception

The film was released on the 7th July, 2000 and grossed $42,346,669 in the opening weekend in the box-office. It went on to gross a total of $157,019,771 at the domestic box-office and a world-wide total of $278,019,771.

See Also

★ Date Movie

★ Date Movie 2

★ Epic Movie

★ Not Another Teen Movie

External links

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★ Scary Movie Trailer