Scary Movie

The general rule of spoofs is that by the time a movie genre is ready for its piss-take, its popularity has definitely passed its peak. Mel Brooks put a well-timed boot into Westerns with Blazing Saddles, while Airplane! nailed the coffin shut on '70s disaster flicks. Scary Movie's spectacular US box-office run suggests that movie-goers have finally grown bored of jaded, self-aware teens who jeer at horror movie clichés and then get killed anyway.

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UK Theatrical Release Date: Sep 8th 2000

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