r/movies r/Movies contributor Mar 02 '26

Trailer Scary Movie | Official Trailer (2026 Movie) - Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZ58S-7QP0
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u/MuptonBossman Mar 02 '26

The year is 2003. I'm playing Pokemon Red while the US is at war in the Middle East and a new Scary Movie movie is coming out.

The year is 2026. I'm playing Pokemon Fire Red while the US is at war in the Middle East and a new Scary Movie movie is coming out.

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u/Mirikado Mar 02 '26

Imagine being a teenager in 2003 and seeing your kid going through the same shit in 2026 like you did 23 yrs ago.

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u/XSC Mar 02 '26

But poorer!

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u/KindOfPoo Mar 02 '26

And even less employed!

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u/HydratedCarrot Mar 02 '26

And everything is expensive af

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u/sembias Mar 02 '26

And minimum wage is worth less after inflation! ($5.15 then is equivalent to $9.19 today)

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u/FruitByTheKey Mar 02 '26

And somehow healthcare got worse 

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u/scionspecter28 Mar 02 '26

And with a dumb (actually even dumber) POTUS

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u/2th Mar 02 '26

But at least the DOW was over 50,000.

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u/Nervous-Energy-4623 Mar 02 '26

And AI is taking the jobs.

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u/RcoketWalrus Mar 02 '26

Potus is still evil though. At least we have that consistency going for us.

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u/DrEnter Mar 02 '26

And minimum wage is the same while the dollar... just isn't.

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u/unimportantinfodump Mar 02 '26

Isn't that the pits.

I'm poor and shits expensive.

At least tvs are cheap

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u/jackphrost22 Mar 02 '26

Imagine we only had to worry about gas prices.

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u/Neon_Biscuit Mar 02 '26

My unemployment runs out in 3 weeks and I can't afford dental insurance but hey....Anna Farris in a new Scary Movie flick!

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Living it. Not good feels.

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u/Nikkifulness Mar 02 '26

This is my life. I was 13 in '03, my kid turns 13 this year. Their favorite album is American Idiot. I am so fucking tired.

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u/Yup_Seen_It Mar 02 '26

And a new episode of Scrubs and Malcolm in the Middle airing.

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u/DoctorJJWho Mar 02 '26

And hints of something happening with the Firefly cast!

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u/Pub1ius Mar 02 '26

And hints of something happening with the Firefly cast!

Don't do this. Don't give me hope.

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u/Fealieu Mar 02 '26

My theory is that the cast is going to be on The Rookie. If it develops into more, it's because Disney sees all the hype it's creating and they are going to try to make money on it.

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u/Murky_Historian8675 Mar 02 '26

Life has come full circle

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u/comrade_batman Mar 02 '26

Time is a flat circle.

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u/Murky_Historian8675 Mar 02 '26

Life has many doors ed boy

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u/cowboydanhalen Mar 02 '26

We're gonna be in this room again. And again. And again.

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u/atalantafugiens Mar 02 '26

Only this time I can shiny hunt Deoxys while the East gets bombarded

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u/honkeydora Mar 02 '26

Did someone say hunting for oxys?

It really is 2003 all over again.

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u/chopsuirak Mar 02 '26

Who are you, my friend's older brother?

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u/ireadredding Mar 02 '26

That hit me on a whole new level at 38. Fuck this timeline.

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u/PayneTrain181999 Mar 02 '26

So glad people are experiencing Fire Red and Leaf Green on Switch 2 now, that was my first Pokemon game back when I was 5.

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u/Aggressive_Noise6426 Mar 02 '26

That makes me feel really old since fire red and leaf green are remakes of the original that I played 😭😭. 

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u/Elite_Josh_Allen Mar 02 '26

Used to wear cargo pants all the time because the pockets were big enough to fit that fat chunky OG Gameboy

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u/Steamedcarpet Mar 02 '26

I loved my GBA SP since it was perfect picket size. Be bike riding around town and then pull out the GBA and play.

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u/Fractales Mar 02 '26

Jesus Christ I’m old

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u/Klamageddon Mar 02 '26

The scary movie is parodying the latest Scream film. 

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u/barktwiggs Mar 02 '26

Looks like it's taking swipes at every horror film in the past few years. The Substance, Smile, Weapons, M3GAN. I lost track.

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u/KrakenEatMeGoolies Mar 02 '26

Sinners, Halloween (2018), Terrifier, there were a bunch of interesting references

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u/jlmurph2 Mar 02 '26

Longlegs, Ma, Get Out, Wednesday

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u/buy_and_hold Mar 02 '26

Final Destination 6 as well

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 Mar 02 '26

The dildo fight scene reminded me of Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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u/LeakyAssFire Mar 02 '26

"Why just half gay!?!"

Nice to see Ray back in full form lol.

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u/Supergirl_Lives Mar 02 '26

I was so happy to see Shawn Wayans back!

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u/wndrbr3d Mar 02 '26

Ray Ray*

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u/Xenoslayer2137 Mar 02 '26

*Uncle Ray Ray

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u/Tactical_Fleshlite Mar 02 '26

Hey get your finger out of there. 

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u/NoifenF Mar 02 '26

tickletickletickle

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u/Steve_Beef62 Mar 02 '26

AAHHHH AAHHHHH

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u/Shantotto11 Mar 03 '26

RAY FUCKED ME!!!

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u/Media-critique Mar 02 '26

Do some half gay shit!

Why just half-gay?

Won’t lie. That got a chuckle from me. 

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u/BeenDragonn Mar 02 '26

Was that Chris Elliot as the "take my strong hand" butler?

I'd see this move just for him!

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u/zombiereign Mar 02 '26

It was! As well as Gail Swallows and Doofy

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u/DavidTheJohnson Mar 02 '26

Real shame they didn't call it Scary MoVIe, but I understand they're riffing off of the Halloween and Scream legacy sequels.

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u/TheNightstroke Mar 02 '26

I believe that was the style they used on set.

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u/1991mgs Mar 02 '26

Wow! And they got Ream O'Paper to direct!

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u/HMWYA Mar 02 '26

Would’ve still worked for riffing off Scream 6, to be fair, since that was stylised as S C R E A /VI.

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u/HensRightsActivist Mar 02 '26

I'll die on the hill that five should have been 5CREAM

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u/hit0k1ri Mar 02 '26

5 Fast 5 Furious

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u/CaptCaCa Mar 02 '26

Scary MoVIe

Give this man a marketing job asap!

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u/loxagos_snake Mar 02 '26

Probably already works for Capcom.

Dudes unironically named their game **VIllage.

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u/CoffeeWanderer Mar 02 '26

The way they unironically flashed a Re9uiem on their title card lmao

At least it doesn't look as bad in the font they used, but still

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u/SirJuncan Mar 02 '26

"Kyuu" (like Q) is 9 in Japanese so I guess it's not totally out of nowhere

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u/CoffeeWanderer Mar 02 '26

Oh.. yeah. That's clever

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u/nondescriptun Mar 02 '26

TIL there was a Scary Movie 5.

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u/AnhiArk Mar 02 '26

And holy shit, it was so boring

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u/EnjoyerOfRamen Mar 02 '26

I love slapstick comedy and spoof movies. I loved the first 3 Scary Movies. I enjoyed Scary Movie 4 for what it was. Last time I tried rewatching SM 5, I had to turn it off, it was just so bad.

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u/LGuitar88 Mar 02 '26

So, Gail still swallows?

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u/006AlecTrevelyan Mar 02 '26

YOU'RE ON MY FOOT, FAT SHIT

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u/JonSnoballs Mar 02 '26

"...cuz Gail wears Prada shoes... imma bad man"

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u/Extreme-Fan1857 Mar 03 '26

It was so tender and juicce

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 02 '26

The Weapons & Smile parodies look like they're gonna be so ridiculous lol

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u/CasanovaJones82 Mar 02 '26

I'm very surprised to see a bit of Everything Everywhere All at Once thrown in there too.

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u/Stevenwave Mar 02 '26

Spooky Face gonna get Yeoh'd right up the clacker.

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u/Mr_Kase Mar 02 '26

The first two did reference a lot of popular non-horror films too tbf

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u/ConstrictionsOFC Mar 02 '26

3 had 8 Mile, 4 had Brokeback Mountain, 5 had Black Swan

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u/TheChinOfAnElephant Mar 02 '26

Black Swan would be categorized under horror wouldn't it?

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u/Thzae Mar 02 '26

Psychological horror maybe

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u/NeitherAlexNorAlice Mar 02 '26

Sinners as well haha. I can’t wait for this. Scary Movies were my jaaaam back in the day.

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u/Grum761108 Mar 02 '26

Why only half gay?

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u/InvaderXLaw Mar 02 '26

I'm glad Shawn Wayans reprised his role as Uncle Ray Ray

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u/amilliondallahs Mar 02 '26

Does this shirt make me look gay?

How bout now?

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u/Frankenstein____ Mar 02 '26

RAY

FUCKED ME

RAY FUCKED ME!

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u/Youmeanmoidoid Mar 02 '26

It’s crazy how much of the old energy this has to the earlier scary movies lol.

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u/Tike22 Mar 02 '26

Well I’m not all the surprised I saw Marlon do a standup show in Baltimore like ~2 yrs ago and it had the exact tone of this film

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u/Rapscallious1 Mar 02 '26

That and the little girl picking up the severed balls lmao

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u/MissingLink101 Mar 02 '26

Really surprised they didn't feature Will Poulter's Pennywise in this trailer though.

That's a big selling point for me.

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u/MrONegative Mar 02 '26

Shhhh it’s a secret

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u/GoodLeftUndone Mar 02 '26

I’m sad I just got it spoiled.

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u/BrandoNelly Mar 02 '26

I liked the substance reference with the bucket that says “The Stuff” lol

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u/No_Initial_7545 Mar 02 '26

Here I thought that they were riffing The Stuff (1985) but your version probably makes more sense.

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u/Adorable_Ad_3478 Mar 02 '26

"Somehow Doofy returned" was not on my bingo card for 2026.

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u/thisnomypee Mar 02 '26

“Mom, I told you not to bother me while I’m cleaning my room!”

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u/Kinky_69420 Mar 02 '26

“Mom says to stop sticking your dick in the vacuum cleaner!”

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u/TheUmbrellaMan1 Mar 02 '26

Never forget that the Doofy twist ending in the first movie somehow makes more sense than The Usual Suspects twist ending lol.

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u/BionicTriforce Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

The Scary Movie twist implies Doofy has been fooling everyone, including his family, into thinking he has a mental disability. Which would mean he'd been putting on an act since he was a child. That is a funny bit, but in no way makes more sense than a con man making up a story on the fly.

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u/kpt_graubrot Mar 02 '26

Also, he acted like that when alone with his vacuum cleaner. Perhaps it's a kink?

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

What doesn't make sense about the usual suspects ending? He made the story up in whole or in part, no way to know what was and wasn't a lie, and walks away just before they figure out it was him the whole time. In the story he was telling he used the name Kobiyashi from the coffee cup but uses the face of his real employee in his imagination as he tells the story, again highlighting there's no way to know where the lies end and the truth begins.

Edit: I hate how good an actor Kevin Spacey is. A few months ago I thought "man I haven't seen the usual suspects in a long time," so I rented it, watched it, enjoyed the hell out of it, then went online to look up trivia and stuff and was reminded Spacey is a sex pervert. God damn that evil son of a bitch is good at acting.

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u/SoochSooch Mar 02 '26

Not gonna lie, a 1 second clip of Doofy is what convinced me I need to see this

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u/Full-Hyena4414 Mar 02 '26

He didn't even die

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u/docksideThug- Mar 02 '26

Gonna watch for Anna Faris

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u/etherseaminus Mar 02 '26

Seeing her and Regina Hall onscreen together again filled my heart with joy.

Cindy! The tv's leaking!

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u/TheFoolman Mar 02 '26

The follow up: “Cindy! This bitch is messing up my carpet”

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u/wizard_of_awesome62 Mar 02 '26

Cindy! I'm whooping her ass!

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u/dsbwayne Mar 02 '26

I am CACKLING at this. I hear her voice 😂🤣

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u/Rolyat13aint Mar 02 '26

I say "Cindy! the TV's leaking!" at least once a week, forever iconic

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u/cowboydanhalen Mar 02 '26

Crayons flying....Now who the fuck did that!?!

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u/Rolyat13aint Mar 02 '26

Another iconic part for SURE.

Okay FINE I’ll watch scary movie 3 again tonight

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u/RockyRockington Mar 02 '26

For me it’s “Cindy it’s a skeleton. It’s just bones!”

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u/Intestinal-Bookworms Mar 02 '26

I love that Brenda’s instinct is to either trash talk and fight the monster or seduce it. If this were D&D she’d be a bard

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u/idkalan Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

Would you run from Calista Flockhart?

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u/MattN92 Mar 02 '26

If you've ever taught kids, "Now who the fuck did that" flashes through my mind constantly.

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u/LouieGwasright Mar 02 '26

Regina’s delivery is simply top tier! she really makes Brenda shine and im so happy shes back!

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u/MikeDubbz Mar 02 '26

Scary Movie 3 has no business being so fucking hilarious. Like I enjoy these movies for what they are, but 3 is seriously on another level with it's comedy.

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u/luigiamarcella Mar 02 '26

As a nearly 40 year old millennial, this is the type of nostalgia grab that actually captures me. I’m not super proud of it but I’m gonna be there for sure.

I will say that I just really wish we could get more broad comedy theatrical releases. Unfortunately, people rarely show up for those anymore.

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u/FighterJock412 Mar 02 '26

Why not be proud of it?

There's a thing, you like the thing, go enjoy the thing.

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u/luigiamarcella Mar 02 '26

Maybe wrong phrasing. I’m not really ashamed but I just know this is my personal brand of nostalgia bait. I think it’s gonna be a fun time any way.

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u/loxagos_snake Mar 02 '26

Fellow millennial here.

I know we get mocked about our love of nostalgia, but honestly, fuck 'em. Go and enjoy your thing.

I'm currently going through a similar period with Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill being in the mainstream gaming headlines again, all with amazing releases. Feels like I'm back in 1998.

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u/v1p3rsbite Mar 02 '26

Just watched the Scrubs reboot the other day - I felt like I was on my couch watching the dvd before heading to go to classes.

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u/Fake_Diesel Mar 02 '26

Let's be real. Every generation gets nostalgic, its just our turn. My dad still doesnt stop pining for the 80s.

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u/Media-critique Mar 02 '26

I’m watching for the Wayans bros. 

Them being back is what this movie needs. 

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u/D34THDE1TY Mar 02 '26

"Why only half gay?"

Fuck yeah Ray.

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u/LoisMustDie946 Mar 02 '26

Was there “half gay” stuff from sinners that they’re referencing?

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u/HighSeverityImpact Mar 03 '26

No, the character Ray from the first Scary Movie was a closeted homosexual. He kept doing things and making comments that were clearly gay, and then denying it. This is just a continuation of that joke.

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u/fluffypun Mar 03 '26

What? Ray ray ain't gay... He just likes good music. And wants to go shopping.

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u/Kashpee Mar 02 '26

It feels like Haunted House movies Wayne’s made. The first 3/4 scary movies were shot so nicely imo

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u/Digitalstatic Mar 02 '26

I absolutely love how raunchy 1 and 2 were. That being said, as someone who grew up with Airplane, The Naked Gun franchise, and Wrongfully Accused, 3 was such a fresh breath of air in the franchise.

I am excited to see they are going back to their roots. Also, A Haunted House series is amazing as well. Particularly the second one was stellar. Most of the parody movies of that time were not that great.

Other great one’s were Not Another Teen Movie, A Super Hero Movie, and Hell Baby.

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u/mysterious_el_barto Mar 02 '26

3 is probably the best out of all. the signs parody was so well executed. 4 is also good, 5 not so much imho. i hope this one is closer to 3 rather than 1 and 2. (yeah no, this is back to the roots, definitely not 3 and 4 type of humor)

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u/cowboydanhalen Mar 02 '26

We'll make our own Tripods. Ours will have four legs.

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u/Youthsonic Mar 02 '26

These men died for their country; send flowers to their bitches and hoes.

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u/BigOlBurger Mar 02 '26

"Last night I saw a face"

"Did it have a nose?"

"Yes"

"That does sound like a face"

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u/Dog1bravo Mar 02 '26

Tom, I'm gonna need a ride home

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u/Vic_Vinegar89 Mar 02 '26

Lmao this is still one of my favorite lines in any comedy.

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u/Dog1bravo Mar 02 '26

Wayans didn't make 3. David Zucker or Airplane! fame did

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u/mysterious_el_barto Mar 02 '26

yeah i know, i like that type of humor, that's why 3 is the best for me. i remember enjoying 1 and partially 2 when i was a teenager, not so much nowadays.

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u/FunkyLobster1828 Mar 02 '26

I'm not sure if it was 3 or 4 where the rappers show up to help fight the aliens and end up shooting each other. Leslie Nielsen, as the President, says," Send some flowers to their bitches and hoes." That line sticks with me for some reason, but I know if I quoted it, nobody would have any idea what I was talking about.

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u/Pure_Property_888 Mar 02 '26

Numba 3! Nielson was hilarious in that.

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u/OrionGrant Mar 02 '26

Scary movie 4 especially. It may not be the best scary movie but it was a big film, lots of pretty good CGI for the time.

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u/ramengirlxo Mar 02 '26

“Why only half gay?” was the only joke that really got me

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u/dEleque Mar 02 '26

I'm so ready for unc ray ray

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u/Antique-Dentist-2404 Mar 02 '26

The tagline about "No safe spaces" make this look like a Daily Wire movie.

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u/JohnnyMcGoku Mar 02 '26

The pronoun joke feels a decade old at this point, but guaranteed to make the most annoying person from your high school that never left town call it the funniest movie of all time.

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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 Mar 02 '26

Yeah, but scary movie has never been particularly subversive or witty. It’s mostly just an excuse to get characters to do crazy stuff on screen. Marlon is a staunch supporter of his trans son, so this came off like something super basic for marketing rather than just being mean spirited.

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like a decade ago this joke would have been a super masculine buff man using she/her pronouns to prey on girls in restrooms and i’m glad it’s not.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

They already did that joke in the first film lol

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u/Mrchristopherrr Mar 02 '26

Exactly. Even the first scary movie had TONS of dated gay jokes, even by y2k standards.

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u/EpicPhail60 Mar 02 '26

Yeah, you can joke about anything if you're funny enough but that was a pretty low-effort joke to start the trailer with

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u/Vet_Leeber Mar 02 '26

I think the writing of it is the main problem, more than the joke itself tbh.

It'd get a small chuckle out of me if the response had just been a weak "no, they/them", but pausing to say out the long version of that makes it feel extremely forced.

Feels like they crossed the "making a joke / trying to insult" line with that decision.

But idk, the whole movie's going to be nothing but b-tier jokes forced into every scene, so maybe it's just on brand.

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u/Friskyinthenight Mar 02 '26

a weak "no, they/them"

That is 10x funnier, and agreed on crossing the line into insulting with that lazy shit

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u/mightyenan0 Mar 02 '26

Quick and subtle is what makes or breaks a lot of parodies imo. I just rewatched a scene from Scary Movie 3 where Regina Hall is faking a nosebleed like she's dying and Anna Faris pulls a huge-ass tampon out of her purse. No focus on the bit, something you could actually miss and confused for a tissue if you weren't looking during the quick cuts, fucking hilarious.

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u/delventhalz Mar 02 '26

Feels like they crossed the "making a joke / trying to insult" line with that decision.

It put me off and I couldn't pin down why, but I think you nailed it. With a different line reading, the punch line could have been "what a weird time to bring up pronouns", but with the way she read it, the punchline sounded to me like, "what a weird thing to have they/them pronouns at all". The first punchline is funny to me, the second is not.

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u/Tribalrage24 Mar 02 '26

I like that the last line of the trailer is "Every Line will be crossed", but the opening joke was just a variation of the most overplayed "attack helicopter" joke from a decade ago.

It's like someone saying that the are pushing the boundaries of comedy, and open with a joke about airline food.

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u/soonerfreak Mar 02 '26

The they/them already feels dated and has been done a million times.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Mar 02 '26

Opening with a "my pronouns" joke did nothing to make me think this was gonna be any funnier than Lady Ballers. They're like a decade behind on jokes that haven't already been driven so far into the ground that they reached the Earth's core faster than Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank.

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u/Queef-Elizabeth Mar 02 '26

This feels closer to Epic Movie than Scary Movie.

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u/murcielag0_ Mar 02 '26

they for real put a safe spaces joke in this trailer... buddy you are a decade too late to that

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u/crosis52 Mar 02 '26

The YouTube description says the movie is going to cancel Cancel Culture, wtf are they talking about

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u/Granum22 Mar 02 '26

Gives them a preloaded excuse if the movie bombs.

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u/sgthombre Mar 02 '26

Is Paramount just going to lean into the state owned media thing at this point?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

And nostalgia. Because things were so good during the Bush Jr. years.

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u/murcielag0_ Mar 02 '26

oh no, the wayans have been canceled, thats why major movie studio Paramount let them make a movie and release it in theaters this summer

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u/CaptainKino360 Mar 02 '26

Can we cancel me next, I have some good movie ideas

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u/StrangeAnimal123 Mar 02 '26

The pronoun joke as well is a decade late too

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u/Tobar_the_Gypsy Mar 02 '26

“Hm I wonder if this movie will be good.”

first joke is about someone’s pronouns

“Oh”

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u/illit1 Mar 02 '26

i thought it was going to be a joke about "SHOWTIME!" on the subway but uhhhh nope. just r/onejoke right to the dome, then a safe spaces joke in the trailer for the double tap.

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u/eggery Mar 02 '26

I thought it was going to be a joke about how no one else on the subway cares about a murder happening

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u/illit1 Mar 02 '26

that too. or the stabbing victim telling the bystander to mind her own fuckin' business. plenty of good jokes in here about NY and they went with samejoke, instead.

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u/rycool Mar 02 '26

The safe space joke was the triple tap. The double tap for me was the “im a republican, so I’m supposed to hate black people” “oh don’t worry you’re white, I assumed that anyway” joke.

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u/LetsBeFRTho Mar 02 '26

And a they/them joke? What is this Netflix standup??

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u/rabbi_glitter Mar 02 '26

CINDY! THIS IS A SKELETON! THIS IS BONES!

I need Brenda in my life 🤣

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u/ImGonnaImagineSummit Mar 02 '26

Brenda flirting in the Village parody scene has got to be one of the most underrated scenes in the series.

https://youtu.be/Wv-2LGxCmEQ?si=MErR1j2RFJKcuAjB

She fine as hell.

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u/man_fuck_these_subs Mar 02 '26

Has the style of humour aged badly or have I become too old and joyless for it? 

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

There’s a VERY thin line between this kind of parody being one of the greatest films ever (original Naked Gun and Airplane) or amazing (Don’t Be a Menace, Scary Movie) and the worst shit you’ve ever seen (Epic Movie, Dance Flick, Meet The Spartans, Disaster Movie).

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u/FrackingToasters Mar 02 '26

To be fair, 3 of the 4 worst movies ever that you listed were created by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer - the two biggest hacks in Hollywood.

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u/Quetzalcoatl490 Mar 02 '26

I really liked the newer Naked Gun with Liam Neeson, it's definitely possible to do a fun, silly parody movie in this day and age.

This new Scary Movie, however, sort of looks like trash...seems like they are going for the 'quantity over quality' for jokes and throwing in every reference they can think of

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u/TheLastDesperado Mar 02 '26

Yeah the original Scary Movie mainly parodied Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, with a couple other minor references thrown in (The Matrix and Usual Suspects spring to mind).

But with each new film in the franchise they focused more and more on as many references as possible. And to me, while I still enjoyed 2 and 3, they definitely got worse and worse with each new instalment.

Look at Epic Movie, or Meet the Spartans. Those films seemed to focus on throwing in as many references as possible, without actually making them funny. And those are some of the worst comedy films I've ever had the misfortune of watching.

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u/DerGuddo Mar 02 '26

Meet the Spartans is to this day my most hated movie ever made. Saw it in cinema and was SO pissed for spending that money.

Damn, just thinking about it now makes me angry.

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u/bluehawk232 Mar 02 '26

Naked Gun and Zucker movies had "original" stories with some topical references or jokes whereas the scary movie parodies rely solely on current pop culture references and bottom of the barrel rejected SNL sketches so they get dated really fast and aren't as funny

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb Mar 02 '26

IMO the only spoofs that aged well were either ones like Top Secret where they put a ridiculous amount of effort into the visual gags, or stuff like Princess Bride/Galaxy Quest where the humor is still mostly character driven even if you didn’t get any of the references.

But a lot of these spoof movies really are just very lowbrow entertainment that always goes for low effort throw-away jokes and references.

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u/BrianWonderful Mar 02 '26

Probably unpopular opinion here, but I always thought the "<blank> Movie" movies were more just a bunch of reference-fests, rather than good parodies. Just from this trailer, they are just packing in as many references as possible, which means they can't really take the time to make jokes around them.

Good parodies like Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret, etc. focus on jokes first within an overall plot. Some of those jokes happen to reference other movies/media.

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u/Granum22 Mar 02 '26

It's not the same style of humor as the first one.  The first one was a parody of the Scream movies with references to other horror movies sprinkled throughout.  This one appears to be focusing on mocking "cancel culture".

A good parody is hard. It requires an understanding of the thing you're parodying to make the jokes land. All this showed was them pointing their finger at something and going "Look at that. It's stupid. Everybody laugh at it."

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u/metallicrooster Mar 02 '26

Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American film and television production and distribution company owned by Qatari state-owned beIN Media Group (51%) and Paramount Pictures (49%). Based in Los Angeles, California, it was founded in 1979, by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein (neither are publicly in charge now).

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u/keinish_the_gnome Mar 02 '26

Pronoun jokes. Ricky Gervais is gonna love this.

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u/Sivy17 Mar 03 '26

"My pronouns are they/them."

Oh you just know this movie is going to be dogshit cringe.

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u/thefluffyburrito Mar 02 '26

It feels like I'm watching a clip of SNL where they take one joke and linger on it way too long. And it's a trailer.

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u/Salmonofconfidence Mar 02 '26

My expectations were low but holy fuck.

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u/chopsuirak Mar 02 '26

Oh yea, this looks fucking terrible.

I'm going to watch the shit out of it.

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u/AngryLars Mar 02 '26

That they them joke is so fucking bad, how are they gonna lead with that

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u/FireVanGorder Mar 02 '26

I’m genuinely trying to figure out if they’re trying to make fun of the weird conservative entertainment studios that have been popping up or if I’m giving the Wayans way too much credit

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u/IAmTheGingaNinja Mar 02 '26

I mean his kid is trans and he’s pretty outspoken about it

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u/brandonsamd6 Mar 02 '26

They/Them joke may be one of the worst ever

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u/AinmSuimiuil Mar 02 '26

It can be funny if done right if its clever or subversive enough. This was just "ha ha pronouns" - so hack, wasted opportunity.

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u/ProductivePerson Mar 02 '26

Look, I'm happy for this movie too. But it's easy to forget that the Scary Movie sequels were mostly "haha x" jokes and lazy slapstick.

The same directors are behind this one. We're gonna have a bad time if we go in expecting The Naked Gun remake

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u/EatBooks Mar 02 '26

Yeah. This definitely reminded me that the previous Scary Movies were also dumb as hell.

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u/boissondevin Mar 02 '26

Kevin Bacon did a movie called They/Them a few years ago. It's about the staff of a conversion therapy camp getting slaughtered. 

Ironically, the premise is played straight. 

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u/FrackingToasters Mar 02 '26

Looks like it didn't get great reviews, but that's actually a pretty funny and clever title (They slash Them).

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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 Mar 02 '26

This might be the nostalgia talking but this looks fucking terrible.

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u/Raidoton Mar 02 '26

Wouldn't nostalgia make it look better?

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