Scary Movie
Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans.
Starring: People who should have known better.
Scary Movie was meant to be the parody of the year, taking off the recent pop-horror films like the Screams, I Know What You Did Last Summers, Blair Witch Project, and The Sixth Sense to mention a few.
It begins with an almost scene for scene take-off of the beginning of Scream. Loosely following the general story of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, a group of teens are going about their daily lives trying to avoid getting killed, and remembering how they killed a man by accident last summer. Someone else knows what they did last summer and is pursuing them dressed in a black robe and a mask.
So, scene set, I expected a hilarious romp. Instead I got a stupid, puerile, nasty and insulting film. If you like ‘anal plugs’, scrotums and bad acting, this film has all of these elements in spades. It’s a pity that the TV advertisements are funny, because God knows this film is not.
And just in case you think I have not warned you enough, if you stay back after the credits you get to see “Doofy” have sex with a vacuum cleaner.
The less said about this film the better.
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