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Scary Movie (2026) | Official trailer
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- Title
- Scary Movie | Official Trailer (2026 Movie) - Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall
- Authors
- Paramount Pictures
- Duration
- 2:05
- Published
- Mar 2 2026
This legitimately looks... terrible? I've seen most (maybe all? It's been a while) of the Scary Movies early on and I get that they were never clever but opening with a they/them joke in the year of our lord 2026 made me cringe.
Can't wait for people to start making tired "jokes" we've already all been hearing for the last 15 years under the guise of "it was in Scary Movie, it's funny and totally not offensive!"
So this seems like it's all nostalgia (in me) talking but I absolutely adored how bad the jokes were in this and this trailer did get me somewhat hyped.
The only thing I didn't like was the tagline "all lines will be crossed" because that seems like they aren't in the joke on how bad-good this whole thing is. If they're being edgy for the sake of being edgy instead of being some sort of self-parody/social commentary on cancel culture/edgy stand-up "cancellations"... I don't know man, I think they don't understand what makes a piece of shit gold.
You're playing early 00s Eminem for god's sake. Please realize what you're making.
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (two of the six writers of the original Scary Movie, who thankfully fucked off from the industry 11 years ago and aren't involved in this) kinda killed the entire parody film genre for me by releasing shitty film after shitty film.
I mean this doesn't look anywhere near as bad as Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans or Vampires Suck did, but I didn't find the trailer particularly funny. The reception is definitely positive on YouTube, but I think this is coming from people who are praying this will be on the same level as the first two.
My only hope for this film is that they brought the Wayans brothers back as writers. If they're confident enough in it that they've dropped the "6" and framed it as a full reboot, maybe it'll be good.
Also hoping this isn't all the "funny" moments we'll see, because they were not that good, and producers have a very bad habit of cramming all the funny moments into a trailer and leaving no surprises. The worst example of this I can think of is a parody B-movie I watched a few years ago called FDR American Badass. Don't let the trailer fool you, the movie was so bad that when I brought it over for a film night, we didn't even make it thirty minutes in before we had to switch it off...
Definitely a meta commentary on franchise films doing this like Halloween (2018) and Scream (2022)
I think once YouTube took off and people could parody a movie instantly these types of films lost their appeal.
I was trying to find a video that broke this down a better way but I can’t find it anymore so I’ll paraphrase it. Friedberg and Selzer were actually always more interested in making dramas they kind of just fell into the parody stuff and kept making it because it was easy money and also the only thing that they could get off the ground. But they had this Liberace biopic they had written which apparently was really really good and was attracting a lot of top tier talent like Johnny Depp who really wanted to do the film. But funding for it never finalized and the film was shelved and they went on to make Disaster Movie.
Kind of sad tbh
Hm. I'd been wondering why I was seeing so many clips from the original Scary Movies on Instagram making it seem funnier than it was recently.
They were probably trying to drum up some Gen Z virality for this.
I mean I don't know what to think about this.
I feel like if they were going to make a new Scary Movie, they'd be satirizing more recent tropes of horror since the last Scary Movie as opposed to sticking with the Scream guy. I get it that M3gan and Sinners is in there, and I'm sure there are others, but if it were me making the decisions I'd be making fun of the "takes itself too seriously" genre of recent horror like Longlegs, Hereditary, It Follows, etc. but it doesn't seem like they're making many stabs at those.
Leading with the laziest, most overplayed pronoun joke is a wild choice...