DVD Movie Rating for: Scary Movie

4 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Scary Movie

Six friends, including Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Buffy Gellar (Shannon Elizabeth, Brenda (Regina Hall), and Greg (Lochlyn Munro), are being stalked by a serial killer that is a mix between GhostFace of Scream and Ben Willis of I Know and I Still Know that wants them dead for a car accident that happened last Halloween. The friends are also being stalked by pesky reporter Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri). The body count begins when Drew Decker (Carmen Electra) is murdered and everybody is getting bumped off in a very stupid way.

DVD Production Details of: Scary Movie

Starring: Marlon Wayans, Anna Faris

Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Dimension Home Video

DVD Release Date: August 13, 2002
DVD Features:
Behind-the Scenes

Deleted Scenes

Chillin' with the Villain Game

DVD-ROM Features:

Screen Savers (50 images)

Screenplay Viewer

Interactive Charater Profiles

Scary Movie: Guide for the Culturally Challenged Pop up descriptions that explain cultural references and inside jokes as you are watching the film. Viewers can switch to a quiz mode and test themselves.

Widescreen anamorphic format

DVD Easter Eggs

Parrot Insults:
Go to set-up, go to Captions and Subtitles then highlight "Spanish". Press right...You should now see a cat, press Enter/OK and then you will be treated to the insaulting parrot again talking about a Parrot's Life.

Hidden Clips:
Go to the screen selection and cycle through it 7 times, you should hear a scream.(Buffy's one) and now you'll have access to 11 lost deleted clips form the movie.

Cast of the movie: Scary Movie

• Shawn Wayans .... Ray Wilkins
• Marlon Wayans .... Shorty Meeks
• Cheri Oteri .... Gail Hailstorm
• Shannon Elizabeth .... Buffy Gilmore
• Anna Faris .... Cindy Campbell
• Jon Abrahams .... Bobby Prinze
• Lochlyn Munro .... Greg Phillippe
• Regina Hall .... Brenda Meeks
• Dave Sheridan .... Deputy Doofy Gilmore
• Carmen Electra .... Drew Decker
• Kurt Fuller .... The Sheriff
• David L. Lander .... Principal Squiggy
• 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
• Rick Ducommun .... Cindy's Dad
• Lloyd Berry .... Homeless Man
• Matthew Paxman .... Annoying Guy
• Chris Robson .... KOMQ Reporter
• Susan Shears .... Female Reporter
• Peter Bryant .... Black TV Reporter
• Andrea Nemeth .... Heather
• Craig Bruhnanski .... Road Victim
• Dan Joffre .... Cameraman Kenny
• Kelly Coffield .... Teacher
• Reg Tupper .... Beauty Pageant MC
• Tanja Reichert .... Miss Congeniality
• Kendall Saunders .... Miss Thing
• Babe Dolan .... Grandma (as D.M. Babe Dolan)
• David Neale .... Policeman #1
• Nels Lennarson .... Policeman #2
• Nicola Crosbie .... Reporter #1
• Ian Bliss .... Reporter #2
• Chris Wilding .... Shorty's Roomate
• Trevor Roberts .... Dookie
• Glynis Davies .... Buffy's Mom
• Jayne Trcka .... Miss Mann
• Peter Hanlon .... Suicidal Teacher
• Ted Cole .... Older Man In Theater
• Doreen Ramus .... Old Lady In Theatre
• Lee R. Mayes .... Amistad II Captain
• Keenen Ivory Wayans .... Slave
• Mark Hoeppner .... Whipmaster
• Jessica Van der Veen .... Woman In Theatre
• Jim Shepard .... Young Man In Theatre
• Marissa Jaret Winokur .... Garage Victim
• Dexter Bell .... Shorty's Friend
• Ted Gill .... Store Clerk
• Art Hives .... Teacher (uncredited)
• Bruce Mahler .... Homey #2 (uncredited)
• Robin Miller (V) .... Student (uncredited)
• Geoff Redknap .... Puppeteer (uncredited)
• James Van Der Beek .... Dawson Leery (uncredited)

Photo Gallery of the movie: Scary Movie

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Reviews of the movie: Scary Movie

If you've seen Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, then you know the entire plot of Scary Movie. That's okay, though, because this is a parody, and it helps to know the story in order to be able to get the jokes. No, the biggest surprise here is not the story as much as the amount of full-frontal male nudity. Really, in addition to all the dick jokes (and the ass jokes and fart jokes), there's a couple of shots of the male member, one of which is erect and used as a weapon. Scary Movie somehow ended up with an R rating, which in a sense is groundbreaking; perhaps our ratings board is loosening up after all.

But is it funny? That's the most important question, and the answer to that is yes. In the vein of Airplane!, with a dash of the Farrelly brothers, Scary Movie keeps throwing jokes at you one after another. The law of averages says some of them have to hit, and enough of them do to keep the movie entertaining. Unlike the makers of Airplane!, however, the Wayans brothers aren't making this movie out of a love of the genre, and unlike the Farrelly brothers, they don't make fun of retarded people with any sort of respect, so the humor throughout feels a lot uglier. Still, there are enough funny scenes in Scary Movie to make the viewing experience worthwhile. Special credit must go to Lochlyn Munro as Greg, the over-the-top jock, who steals the movie up until the time he's gotta die

One of the funniest spoofs ever
Scary Movie is now (it was a little while ago it was Me, Myself & Irene) my favorite comedy of the year. This film gives another word to the spoof/comedy genre, and even though it doesn't make a breakthrough like Airplane!, it is still very, very funny. Sure it's not for everyone, but for those who have seen all the scary movies parodied in this film (example- Scream, Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project, Halloween, The Shining, etc) and can enjoy a good comedy, this film is definitely for you.

But the plot is unexplainable, but the jokes are. The spoof follows in the Wayans bros. tradition (this film is directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans, written by Shawn and Marlon Wayans, produced by all three, and starring all three) of they're last spoof- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Jokes include a guy who acts very gay but isn't (Shawn Wayans) a pot head (Marlon Wayans) and some other characters (Carmen Electra's cameo is my favorite). Also, the references to movies but not parodies are still funny. Very sick, very crude, very funny. The funniest film of the year. A+

Scary Movie was directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans, was co-written by Shawn and Marlon Wayans, and features the latter two brothers in leading roles. Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie), Jon Abrahams (Outside Providence) and Anna Faris (Lost In Translation, The Hot Chick) round out the main cast.

The film takes the basic plot line of Scream (whose original title was, strangely enough, Scary Movie) and adds in a whole lot of lewd jokes and spoofs of miscellaneous non-horror related late 90s popular culture items like The Matrix, Dawson's Creek and Carmen Electra.

The film was the result of two separate scripts which made fun of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer etc, being combined together. Dimension Films, the genre-focused Miramax subsidiary which produced both the Scream and Scary Movie series purchased both scripts and combined them to make Scary Movie.

The two scripts were named (deep breath): "Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell On Friday The 13th" (which the Wayans brothers co-wrote with some other guy) and "Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween". All the writers of both scripts are credited on Scary Movie.

Scary Movie opened in 2000 to a spectacular $42 million opening weekend gross, finally resting on a $156 million total. The original Scream film made just over $100 million. Scary Movie's massive success ensured a sequel (despite promises on the poster stating otherwise), again from the Wayans, which made "only" $71 million, a relative disappointment.

But Dimension films persevered and made Scary Movie 3 (not involving any Wayans this time), which harkened back to the first film's success with a $110 million gross.

Scary Movie 3 was directed by David Zucker, who along with his brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams, invented the spoof style appropriated by Scary Movie with such films as Flying High and The Naked Gun. Zucker is now prepping Scary Movie 4.