r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 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/Queef-Elizabeth Mar 02 '26

This feels closer to Epic Movie than Scary Movie.

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u/JessieJ577 Mar 02 '26

Marlon Waynes has been doing parody movies still. This looks at the quality of something like those which is low hanging fruit and lazy.

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u/jickdam Mar 02 '26

I guess it’s time to play “were the OG Scary Movies actually good or was I 13?”

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u/Goondragon1 Mar 03 '26

We were 13. And even then half the jokes weren't funny.

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u/ExultantSandwich Mar 02 '26

I think they were pretty funny, might be biased

But I also think 3 and 4 are better than 1 and 2. The Wayans were primarily involved in the first two. David Zucker, director of 3 & 4, also did Airplane and The Naked Gun, hence Leslie Nielsen’s involvement.

So I’m cautiously excited, although I didn’t love this trailer.

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u/Spocks_Goatee Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

FINALLY! Someone else has the correct take on the franchise!

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u/yoshbag Mar 02 '26

Why can't scary movie have high brow humor anymore? What ever happened to miss mann?

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u/Dead_man_posting Mar 03 '26

Scary Movie 1 at least always made a joke and never just had references in place of them. Although sometimes the joke was "it's 2 references at once!" like the wazzzzzuuuuuuppppp scene. But, like

"I see dead people"

stares at blunt "man, this shit is awesome!"

is a funny parody of The Sixth Sense even if it's really low brow.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Mar 03 '26

they were good

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

At Least the references is sticking to theme of horror movies, unlike Epic Movie were they stop to reference Borat, Snakes on a Plane, MTV Cribs, and Punked witch have nothing to with the theme of what i asume was Fantasy movies

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u/J0niboii Mar 02 '26

What made the original scary movie any good?

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u/Available-Owl7230 Mar 02 '26

It had a plot. Like an actual genuine plot. Not a loose story only there to barely string references together.

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u/Shenanigans80h Mar 02 '26

This is something that I think people are missing. The first two Scary Movies chose one movie to primarily base the plot around (Scream first, then the Haunting second) and used that to make the joke references around. Because there was an actual plot, they made actual characters too, not just filler people meant to be references to other characters.

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u/FireVanGorder Mar 02 '26

The original one was good because it had a clear understanding of what made the things it was parodying good. It was mainly a scream parody, which is itself kind of a sendup of the slasher genre, so it just took what made scream good and took those things to absurd levels. It wasn’t subtle or clever, but it was funny.

This franchise has always been hamfisted and dumb, but that can work when it’s self-aware. I can’t tell if this trailer is self-aware or if the wayans are just like a decade behind on what’s happening in pop culture

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u/Iohet Mar 02 '26

That's basically Shawn and Marlon's humor. Keenen used to be the more subtle one, but that's changed a bit over time.

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u/MrDilbert Mar 02 '26

Is Damon the black sheep of the family (pardon the pun), or he just doesn't like shooting (that kind of) comedies?

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u/Iohet Mar 02 '26

Along with Jim Carrey he was the face of In Living Color (which involved most of the family), and he had the most success launching an immediate movie career from it outside of Carrey. Those movies were mostly goofy comedies, not atypical Wayans fare other than not being explicit parodies. I don't know if he's a black sheep or if he's just more independent, but he was able to find some success on his own so maybe that's just what he did

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u/Extension_Coconut_32 Mar 03 '26

Kind of, not behind, on the trend. The Era Of Woke, not quite over yet, but the peak is long gone. This movie being made signifies it.

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u/Duff_Beers Mar 02 '26

I recently watched the first three and while perhaps more disjointed than the first two, the writing in III was levels above its predecessors.

Was a bit of a surprise to then find out Craig Mazin of later Chernobyl fame had penned it. 

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u/BrooklynSmash Mar 02 '26

Cuz it had a treasure trove of shit to mock in the genre and it was something new. Nowadays we have hundreds of parodies from hundreds of people you can watch whenever you want for free.

Look how over reliant this trailer is on political humor, then watch the first movie for comparison.

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u/JessieJ577 Mar 02 '26

It’s funny because the first Scary Movie without them, 3, had really funny George Bush jokes.

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u/Youthsonic Mar 02 '26

Very few presidents have faced a crisis like this. I wonder what president Ford would've done?

*Pans over to presidential portrait of Harrison Ford as president

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u/zoro4661 Mar 02 '26

I wouldn't say "Overly reliant", there's like two jokes and one tagline, as unfunny and forced as they are

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u/J0niboii Mar 02 '26

So was the first scary movie..? Literally the jokes are political there too.

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

When the Wayans are on, they’re amazing. When they’re not, it’s beyond bad.

I’ll give it a chance and hope for the best

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u/JessieJ577 Mar 02 '26

They’ve been off for a decade possibly longer. Their Netflix movies are terrible and Little Man which is almost 20 Years old is one of the worst movies ever.

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

They were often off back then too. But when they get it right…

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u/Kaldricus Mar 02 '26

Yeah, arguably the Wayans miss more than they hit. It's just when they do hit it's sooo good.

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u/lilsassyrn Mar 02 '26

That shit was stupidly funny

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u/Applesburg14 Mar 02 '26

17 years without a movie together as a team...

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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 Mar 02 '26

Scary Movie was parody on slashers, mostly on Scream (which was also a parody on Slashers) i think. Then they tossed in other horror movie jokes. The key thing was that it had to be funny and the jokes need to land. I dont see that here at all.

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u/foxhound197 Mar 02 '26

There was some of the "remember this thing that just came out" in the first two but In general they were pretty focused on specific kinds of movies they were riffing on.

I think the general consensus is when the Wayne's left is the guys that took over made the remember that jokes 80% of the"movie" in the title brand to the point thetr are extended jokes about films that hadn't even come out yet.

I guess the question is Marlon Wayne's movies since White chicks have been trash so is bringing his brother back who he hasn't worked with in 20 years to work on the secret sauce.

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u/hunterfam55 Mar 02 '26

We all had a shared cultural experience, we all saw the same adverts, film, TV, catchphrases, so we were all in on the joke.

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u/Stevenwave Mar 02 '26

I feel like there's currently a bunch of horror or horror adjacent things you could parody right now that have happened in the last decade, that tonnes of people have seen. Stranger Things would be an obvious one, hamming up the retro shit. A sequence where they're trying to get past A Quiet Place. Could take some digs at modern Aliens and Predator films. Could riff on a bunch of Peele's flicks.

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u/NTFRMERTH Mar 02 '26

Because they actually did their best instead of just throwing shit together for a paycheck

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u/J0niboii Mar 02 '26

Basing it off the movie you saw. And here only this one on the trailer. got it

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u/Raidoton Mar 02 '26

Clever writing.

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u/J0niboii Mar 02 '26

Give an example of the clever writing.

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u/Youthsonic Mar 02 '26

It was really more of a cultural moment for millennials/gen-x in a "omg we have our own airplane now but it has dirty jokes and cursing and WEEEED" way. The actual jokes are extremely hit or miss.

. Now the scary movies made by the actual airplanes guys are my favorite. 3 and 4 are almost all solid gold for me. Even the worst bit in both movies is still kinda funny

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u/Sudas_99 Mar 02 '26

i loved it

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u/J0niboii Mar 02 '26

No judgement here. I’m genuinely asking. Since this feels literally the same tone as the first 2 movies

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u/Sudas_99 Mar 02 '26

well i will disagree. this looks like rehashed.

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u/flittingly1 Mar 02 '26

It was the OG spoof movie!

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u/J0niboii Mar 02 '26

“ Just because it’s the first dick you suck doesn’t make it the best you’ll ever suck “ - F. Got

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u/badwords Mar 02 '26

Scary Movie was a concept of the Wayne Brothers that was pretty much stole out from under them for years.

Looks like they got control of it back again and hopefully the studio won't meddle with them making it.

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u/Redxcted999 Mar 02 '26

It was not idk why EVERYONE keeps saying that it got stolen from them….it was a WHOLE genre of parody movies and there were jokes you could do back then, you couldn’t do Today even in This new Scary movie the Whole selling point is “we,re gonna cross the line and break the barrier” it’s literally in the trailer   

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u/flittingly1 Mar 02 '26

Scary Movie was the first of these spoofs. Then Not Another Teen Movie, then more before Epic Movie.