Scary Movie (2000)

Director:

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Writers (WGA):

Shawn Wayans (written by) &
Marlon Wayans (written by) ...

Release Date:

7 July 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

A killer comedy.

Plot:

A year after disposing the body of a man they accidently killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.

Plot Keywords:

Serial Killer | Masked Killer | Crude Humor | Decapitation | Transgender

Awards:

7 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Carmen Electra	...	Drew Decker
Dave Sheridan	...	The Killer / Doofy Gilmore
Frank B. Moore	...	Not Drew's Boyfriend
Giacomo Baessato	...	Trick or Treater #1
Kyle Graham	...	Trick or Treater #2
Leanne Santos	...	Trick or Treater #3
Mark McConchie	...	Drew's Dad
Karen Kruper	...	Drew's Mom
Anna Faris	...	Cindy Campbell
Jon Abrahams	...	Bobby Prinze
Rick Ducommun	...	Cindy's Dad
Regina Hall	...	Brenda Meeks
Marlon Wayans	...	Shorty Meeks
Shannon Elizabeth	...	Buffy Gilmore
Lloyd Berry	...	Homeless Man

Also Known As:

Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th (USA) (working title)
Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong crude sexual humor, language, drug use and violence.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (British Columbia) | Canada:18A (Alberta) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Manitoba) (extended version) | Malaysia:U (heavily edited) | Iceland:16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Brazil:16 | Chile:18 | Colombia:12 | Finland:K-14 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Ireland:18 | Italy:VM14 | Japan:PG-12 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Mexico:B (original rating) | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | Singapore:R(A) (original rating) | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Steveston, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Dimension Films

Trivia:

The script for Scary Movie is actually a combination of two scripts Dimension Films bought in 1998: "Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell On Friday The 13th" written by the Wayans brothers and Phil Beauman; and "Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween" by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. The latter was the working title for this project.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the flashback scene Greg stands up through the sun roof of the car. He is then seen being hit by trees as they pass him and his bottle of Jack Daniels is seen falling out of his hand and flying away. After they have hit the man and they're standing outside the car he is then seen with the bottle of Jack Daniels again.

Quotes:

[the killer attacks Heather, while Gail watches, recording]
Heather: Gail, help me!
Gail Hailstorm: Sorry, kid, but it's sweeps!

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

Soundtrack:

I Want Cha

It's funny!

This movie isn't exactly an example of great taste but still you can't help laughing at it.

It's one of those movies that is humor filled, with means that you are being bombarded constantly with jokes, of which some are just too lame for words, while others will make you laugh surely. Really a movie with hits and misses but luckily in this case the movie its hits make it worthwhile.

Because it spoofs so many movie, the movie isn't really being a one-joke movie. Its plot line provides the movie with plenty of opportunities to let spoof-sequences fill up the movie. It lets the story flow rather well and keeps the pace high but pleasant. Even though it's all quite silly and very childish, it's a movie that entertains and that was of course also exactly what this movie got made for. It's a spoof in the same trend as the Naked Gun movies for instance, which on its own also aren't exactly great movies but hilarious and entertaining ones nevertheless.

You can say that this movie got made at the right time. Horror movies were starting to regain their popularity again at the time and the Scary Movie-series perfectly exploits this. It makes these movie very profitable ones and it also adds to the popularity of both the modern horror and comedy genre. I sort of feel that the Scary Movie movies are also somewhat responsible for the many horror remakes of classic movies. These movies showed, by spoofing them, how popular and still well known these classic movies were by the young movie goers and therefore also profitable and interesting to do for the big studios.

This movie is simply good and fun for what it is!

6/10