Scary Movie film series

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Scary Movie series
Image:Scary Movie Trilogy.jpg
DVD Box cover for the first three films
Directed by Films: 1, 2
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Films: 3, 4, 5
David Zucker
Produced by Films: 1, 2
Marlon Wayans
Shawn Wayans
Films: 3, 4
Robert K. Weiss
Written by Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Shawn Wayans
Marlon Wayans
Craig Wayans
Buddy Johnson
Phil Beauman
Dave Polsky
Alyson Fouse
Greg Grabianski
Michael Anthony Snowden
Pat Proft
Craig Mazin
Jim Abrahams
Starring Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell
Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks
Distributed by Dimension Films (Through Miramax Films from 2000 to 2003 and The Weinstein Company - in North America only - from 2006 and on.)
Miramax Films (Through Buena Vista Distribution outside North America)
Release date(s) 2000 – present
Running time 338 minutes (as of 2007)
Country Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Language English
Gross revenue $817 million (as of 2007)

The Scary Movie series is a series of comedy films which mainly specialize in spoofing the current latest and most popular horror films. The two main actors and charters of the series are Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell and Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks. They are joined together in different movies by new or reccurring actors and characters.

The films are distributed by Dimension Films through two different studios: Miramax Films, as it was originally the studio's genre film label during executive producers Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein's run and produced the first three films, and The Weinstein Company, the brothers' newly formed studio, which currently produces the rest of the Scary Movie films after departing from Miramax and taking the Dimension Films label with them. Miramax/Disney retains international distribution rights.

The series has become highly popular, especially with teens who tend to enjoy the films’ rather crude humor. The fifth film is currently under pre-production and is slated for a 2008 release.

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[edit] Plots

[edit] Scary Movie

Further information: Scary Movie

Scary Movie is the first film in the series. In the beginning, the film was meant to be only “One film“ and not to become a franchise like other films, “No Mercy. No Shame. No Sequel.“. But, as it later turned out, Scary Movie 2 was released a year later with the appropriate tagline, “We Lied”.

The film is the only in the series to feature exposed male genitalia.

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[edit] Scary Movie 2

Further information: Scary Movie 2

Scary Movie 2 (July 6, 2001) is the 2nd in franchise.

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[edit] Scary Movie 3

Further information: Scary Movie 3

Scary Movie 3 (October 24, 2003) is the third film in the series. With $220,673,217 worldwide, it is second most successful/popular film in the series. The plot of the film is a spoof combination of The Ring and Signs with other film/celebrity spoofs thrown in. Michael Jackson planned to sue the filmmakers for parodying him in such a way that made him seem like a child molester. This was the first Scary Movie film to receive a PG-13 rating in the United States, as the first two were R-rated. This is because from this movie forward, the films are more toned down in content.

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The plot of the film intertwines parodies of several other films such as:

[edit] Scary Movie 4

Further information: Scary Movie 4

Scary Movie 4 April 14, 2006) is the 4th in the series. The film opened with $40 Million at the weekend box office, making it the third best opening in the series. With a $178,049,620 at the worldwide box office, Scary Movie 4 ranks as the third highest grossing Scary Movie.

This film’s main plot is a mix of The Grudge and Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds with major scenes spoofing Saw and The Village. Michael Jackson is again parodied, even more obviously than in Scary Movie 3, as a child molester.

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[edit] Scary Movie 5

Further information: Scary Movie 5

Scary Movie 5 is the proposed sequel of Scary Movie 4 slated for a 2008 release. The film will be directed by David Zucker. “It will be different than every other film in the series,” said the filmmakers.

[edit] Parodies

Please help improve this section by expanding it.
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Films currently believed to be spoofed are:

[edit] Running Gags

  • Each Scary Movie is most known for their spoofs on other films and one main spoof, the difference is that each character is much less bright or each have more comedic lines. Even in a commentary for Scary Movie 4 had the writers agreeing that its "like the movie, only every character is stupid".
  • So far, Cindy falls in-love with a different man in every movie. In Scary movie 3, she falls in love with a man named George, even though she had a boyfriend named Buddy. It is unknown if they broke-up.
  • In each movie, there is at least one or two people who get run over by a car or a bus. This was an important gag in Scary Movie, and appears twice in Scary Movie 2.
  • Michael Jackson is referred to in Scary Movie 3 and 4. Each one has him trying to have sex with a child, but his plans are foiled by the child's parent (Tom Logan encounters him in his child's bedroom and dangles him out of the window in Scary Movie 3 and Tom Ryan tells a bunch of children to run away from him during an alien attack in Scary Movie 4). He seems to die in Scary Movie 3, but appears in Scary Movie 4 unharmed (although in the unrated version, he is vaporized by an alien ray). He also appears in Date Movie, and is once again beaten by the parent (though he doesnt die in that movie, probably because it isn't completely connected to the Scary Movie series).
  • In Scary Movie 3 and 4, there is a parent/guardian of a child who is very incompetent of taking care of him/her, and the child is consciously left in very painful and/or humiliating points of life. It may be noted that Cindy took care of an elderly woman in Scary Movie 4, and in just the beginning, she hit her head on a table, got a bold spot due to a fan incident, was soaked in urine, knocked out by a powerful hidden, and clipped to a string when powerful weather was taking place.
  • Leslie Nielsen appears in Scary Movie 3 and 4, playing the part of President Harris, an incompetent president probably made to spoof President Bush. Both have Harris causing some kind of disaster that cause a riot. This includes beating up people thinking they're aliens (Scary Movie 3), and causing children to go insane and destroy everything in their path by ruining their hopes and telling them their families could have been killed then causing the entire UN to go insane with embarrassment by accidentally activating a modified alien death ray and causing their clothes to vanish, including himself (Scary Movie 4).
  • Mahalik and CJ often get into arguments about things that make no difference in arguing about (like how people turn up missing, and the difference between mice and rats). Each end with Mahalik beating CJ, who states that what Mahalik stated made complete sense, yet in a way that didn't make sense, they then do a handshake that always get CJ knocked over.
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The Scary Movie series
FilmsScary Movie • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5
Cast membersAnna Faris • Regina Hall • Leslie Nielsen • Marlon Wayans • Shawn Wayans • Charlie Sheen • Simon Rex • Anthony Anderson • Kevin Hart
Crew membersJim Abrahams • Craig Mazin • Pat Proft • Keenen Ivory Wayans • Robert K. Weiss • David Zucker • Jerry Zucker • Jason Friedberg • Aaron Seltzer
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