In the tradition of such genre parodies as AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN, and SPACEBALLS, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes on the teen horror flick with SCARY MOVIE, a campy, riotous send-up of everything from the SCREAM and HALLOWEEN franchises to I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, CARRIE, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. In a small town, a copycat is reenacting the SCREAM murders, and local reporter Gail Hailstorm will do just about anything to get the story. The six high school students who ran over a man on a sharp curve the year before think the killer is out for revenge, but sweet and innocent Cindy Campbell believes that the madman might just lurk a lot closer to home.

Cowritten by Shawn and Marlon Wayans (and four others), the script leaves no cliché unturned; in addition to the horror parodies, the film also spoofs such teen sex comedies as AMERICAN PIE and such hit films as THE SIXTH SENSE, THE MATRIX, and FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. The film never lets up in its striking re-creations of classic scenes, and it never passes up the chance for a joke, no matter how crude. The young, attractive cast looks like it just jumped out of DAWSON'S CREEK, playing everything up to the hilt--and beyond.

Keenen Ivory Wayans (I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA) directs this hysterical spoof of slasher films. Targeting, most specifically, HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY THE 13TH, SCREAM, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, and THE SIXTH SENSE, SCARY MOVIE also mocks other genre films such as THE MATRIX. After turning his attention to dramas for a series of movies, Wayans's return to comedies contains a seemingly endless onslaught of visual jokes.

Theatrical release: July 7, 2000.

The $19 million film grossed $42.5 million in its first weekend, the highest opening ever for an R-rated film as of July 2000.

Former IN LIVING COLOR star Kelly Coffield makes a cameo appearance in the film.
James Van Der Beek makes a cameo appearance in a scene spoofing DAWSON'S CREEK.

There is one last lewd joke at the very end for those patient enough to sit through the credits.

SCARY MOVIE marks star Anna Faris's feature-film debut.

Keenen Ivory Wayans makes a cameo appearance in the movie-theater scene in the trailer preceding SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.

Keenen's favorite scary movie is THE EXORCIST.

Despite the movie poster proclaiming that there would be no sequel, a follow-up is reportedly in the works.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35:1
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound- English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - French
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes: 1. "SCARY MOVIE: A Guide to the Culturally Challenged"
2. The Making Of SCARY MOVIE
Trailer
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Interactive Game - 1. "Chillin' with the Villain"
Text/ Photo Galleries:
Character Profiles
DVD-ROM Features:
Screenplay

Anna Faris: Comedic actress, THE HOT CHICK, SCARY MOVIE
Shawn Wayans: Actor/Screenwriter
Marlon Wayans: Actor/Screenwriter, SCARY MOVIE (2000)
Shannon Elizabeth: Actress/Model, AMERICAN PIE (2000)
Regina Hall: Actress
Jon Abrahams: Actor/"Outside Providence"
Carmen Electra: Star, BAYWATCH (1989)
Cheri Oteri: Actress, SNL
Lochlyn Munro: Actor/ SCARY MOVIE (2000), DRACULA 2000
Kurt Fuller: Actor
Dave Sheridan: actor, SCARY MOVIE

Keenen Ivory Wayans: Actor/Director/Screenwriter, SCARY MOVIE (2000)

Eric L. Gold: Producer
Lee R. Mayes: Producer

Lisa Suzanne Blum: co-producer, SCARY MOVIE

Shawn Wayans: Actor/Screenwriter
Marlon Wayans: Actor/Screenwriter, SCARY MOVIE (2000)
Buddy Johnson: Screenwriter
Phil Beauman: Screenwriter
Jason Friedberg: Screenwriter/director/producer
Aaron Seltzer: Screenwriter/director/producer

David Kitay: American Composer

Mark Helfrich: Editor, RED DRAGON (2002)

"...One of the year's happiest surprises....Exhilarating [as it] defies all respectable standards..."
"...[A] sense of slapdash, see-what-sticks, gross-out MOREness..." -- Rating: B
"...Hilarious fun....Busting with raunchy, gross-out humor....Keenan Ivory Wayans keeps it all fleet-footed and light..." -- 4 out of 5 stars
"...A delirious time....A bright, funny, and yes, totally raunchy surprise." -- 3 out of 5 stars - A Satisfying Rental
"...A hilarious skewering of the cliches of teen pix. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans has kept everything fast and light..."
"...SCARY MOVIE delivers the goods..."
"[N]o cliché is spared as every post-ironic horror movie worth the name gets put through the mangle at exhausting speed..."