Review of Scary Movie (2000) by Drlowdon — 23 May 2013

In the ten years since this movies release we have been subjected to endless sequels and spin offs of this original movie. The fact that the franchise managed to go downhill from here is quite frankly staggering.

It is all very well spoofing another movie (The Hot Shots movies were largely successful at doing this) but it needs to be done with some level of intelligence. Simply copying scenes from well known movies, in this case mainly Scream and adding in a few rude jokes is not clever or funny. In fact the writers of Scary Movie seem to have completely missed the point of Scream, which was itself already a send up of horror movie conventions.

Avoid at all costs.