Scary Movie 6 (2026) 🍿

“WAZZZZZUP!”

Twenty-five years, and apparently were still doing this.

That’s how long it’s been since the Wayans brothers made a Scary Movie. Let that sink in for a second. The original Scary Movie came out in 2000. Scary Movie 2 came out in 2001. Then the Wayans brothers left the franchise, three more movies happened without them, and honestly the series never really felt the same afterward.

So when it was announced that the Wayans brothers were finally coming back, along with Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans and several returning characters, I was excited. Actually, scratch that. I was really excited.

The marketing promised a return to form.

The marketing promised they were going to offend everybody.

The marketing promised every line would be crossed.

After watching the movie?

I think the biggest surprise is that this movie isn’t nearly as edgy as it thinks it is.


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🎬 Let’s Start By Showing Y’all The Trailers Shall We?

Uh huh, sooo…..

The trailers made this movie look absolutely insane.

Ghostface was back.

Longlegs was being parodied.

M3GAN was being parodied.

Wednesday was being parodied.

Smile.

The Substance.

Terrifier.

Sinners.

Politics.

Social media.

Influencers.

Twitch streamers.

The trailers basically sold the movie as the Wayans brothers looking at everything that happened over the last twenty-five years and deciding to make fun of all of it.

And honestly?

That’s exactly what they did.

The problem is they made fun of so much that the movie starts collapsing under the weight of all those references.


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⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️

Strong language, sexual humor, drug use, violence, horror imagery, political references, social commentary, crude jokes, and enough pop culture references to make your brain feel like it just ran a marathon.


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🍿 Parody Movies Are Back

Something interesting has happened recently.

For years people kept saying parody movies were dead. Then last year we got The Naked Gun (2025). Next year we’re getting Spaceballs 2. Whether those movies are good or bad is a different conversation, but the point is parody movies are back in the spotlight.

The reason I bring this up is because The Naked Gun accidentally highlights one of Scary Movie 6’s biggest weaknesses.

Naked Gun felt like it had a reason to exist. It felt like a continuation. It felt like a story. Liam Neeson wasn’t just there because people remembered Leslie Nielsen. The movie actually had a purpose.

Scary Movie 6 unfortunately feels like the Wayans brothers sat down and realized they had missed twenty-five years worth of horror movies and internet culture and decided to shove all of it into one movie.

And that becomes the biggest problem.


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🎭 Non-Spoiler Thoughts

I don’t hate this movie.

I actually had a decent time with it.

I laughed. The audience around me laughed. There are absolutely jokes in this movie that work. I don’t regret buying a ticket and I definitely don’t think this is one of the worst movies of the year.

But after sleeping on it overnight I realized something.

I have absolutely no desire to ever watch this movie again.

That’s a problem for a parody movie.

The best parody movies are endlessly rewatchable. I’ve watched the original Scary Movie multiple times. I’ve watched Airplane! multiple times. I’ve watched The Naked Gun multiple times.

I don’t see myself ever sitting down and saying:

> “Man, I really wanna watch Scary Movie 6 again.”



The reason is because this movie doesn’t really feel like a movie.

It feels like a collection of sketches.

What’s frustrating is that the first act actually works. We get the opening parody. We meet Tuesday. We meet Taylor and Jack. We meet Brenda’s kids. We get Shorty’s reintroduction. We get Cindy. We get the Art the Clown Santa flashback. We get Doofy returning. We get Cindy and Brenda reuniting.

There’s an actual story here.

There’s setup.

There’s characters.

There’s a mystery.

For a brief moment it genuinely feels like we’re getting a proper Scary Movie sequel.

Then the second act arrives and the movie completely loses focus.

Suddenly we’re doing Longlegs. Then Smile. Then a fake Michael Jackson movie trailer called Jermaine. Then Doofy dies. Then The Substance. Then a Scream 6 subway parody. Then Candyman. Then Weapons. Then Sinners. Then Dead by Daylight.

At some point I stopped asking myself where the story was going and started asking myself what movie they were referencing next.

That’s where the movie loses me.


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🎭 Character Rundown

The returning cast is easily the strongest part of the movie.

Anna Faris slips right back into Cindy Campbell like she never left. Regina Hall is still Regina Hall. She’s still hilarious. She’s still loud. She’s still one of the funniest people in the franchise.

Marlon Wayans as Shorty was easily my favorite character in the entire movie. Every time he showed up I immediately became more interested. Most of the laughs I got came from him. He feels like one of the few characters who is actually having fun with the material.

Doofy is also back. Some jokes work. Some don’t. But at least he still feels like Doofy.

Unfortunately the same can’t be said for the new generation.

Taylor spends most of the movie complaining about Cindy, getting high, then complaining about Cindy some more. Tuesday is basically one giant Wednesday Addams parody. Jack barely qualifies as a character. He’s essentially one long joke about suspicious boyfriends in modern Scream movies.

The movie clearly wants these characters to be the future of the franchise, but it never really gives me a reason to care about them. Ironically, that makes the ending funnier.

More on that later.


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😂 The Comedy

The biggest issue with Scary Movie 6 is that it constantly mistakes references for punchlines.

A reference is not a joke.

And this movie struggles to understand the difference.

The Longlegs sequence is probably the best example. Hanson randomly appears dressed like Longlegs. Two cops show up. The movie makes a profiling joke. The scene ends. Hanson never matters again. The cops never matter again. The movie never references any of it again.

So what was the point?

That’s a question I found myself asking repeatedly throughout the second act.

The same thing happens with the M3GAN parody. The joke is basically:

> “Remember M3GAN dancing?”



Now she’s dancing in a more sexual way.

That’s the joke.

Then the movie moves on.

The same thing happens with The Substance parody. The same thing happens with the Epstein Files joke. The same thing happens with several of the political jokes.

The movie constantly points at things people recognize and expects the audience to laugh simply because they recognize them.

Recognition isn’t a punchline.

It’s a reference.

And there’s a huge difference between the two.


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😬 The “Offensive” Humor

This is where I think the movie completely misunderstands itself.

The marketing promised they were going to offend everybody. After watching the movie I honestly don’t think it’s nearly as edgy as it believes it is.

Now don’t get me wrong.

The movie absolutely is offensive.

But it’s offensive in the safest way possible.

We get jokes about Trump. We get jokes about Elon Musk. We get jokes about January 6. We get jokes about pronouns. We get jokes about Republicans. Democrats. COVID. MeToo. Woke culture.

The issue isn’t that these topics are being joked about.

The issue is that we’ve heard these exact same jokes for years.

The movie keeps acting like it’s crossing some forbidden line while I’m sitting there thinking:

> “Yeah. We know.”



It’s the comedy equivalent of somebody walking on stage and saying:

> “Paying taxes sucks.”



No kidding.

Everybody already knows that.

The movie wants credit for being edgy when most of these jokes feel like they arrived years late to conversations everybody already had.

👍 Pros

✅ The returning cast still works. Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans and Doofy all slide back into their roles naturally. It feels like they never left.

✅ Shorty is easily the MVP. Most of my biggest laughs came from Shorty. Every time he appeared the movie immediately became more entertaining.

✅ The first act is surprisingly solid. The opening Scream 6 parody works, the setup is decent, the characters get introduced, and for a little while it actually feels like a proper Scary Movie sequel.

✅ A handful of jokes genuinely landed. The opening bird-call Avengers gag, Ghostface being handed a mop and saying “I’m the killer, not the janitor,” and the entire ending got legitimate laughs out of me.

✅ The ending is one of the most creative jokes in the movie. Instead of passing the torch to the younger generation like every modern legacy sequel, the movie basically lights the torch on fire and refuses to pass it.

✅ Ghostface remains a fun parody villain. He’s clumsy, constantly gets embarrassed, and still works as the central horror icon of the franchise.

✅ A few references actually serve the story. The Art the Clown Santa flashback is one of the rare examples where the reference helps build Cindy’s relationship with her daughter instead of stopping the movie dead.

✅ I was never bored. Even when the movie wasn’t working, there was always something happening on screen.


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👎 Cons

❌ The movie mistakes references for punchlines. Just because I recognize Longlegs, Sinners, The Substance, M3GAN, Weapons or Dead by Daylight doesn’t automatically make the joke funny.

❌ The second act completely loses focus. The movie stops telling a story and starts jumping from reference to reference like somebody changing TV channels.

❌ Most references don’t connect to the plot. Longlegs, Candyman, Weapons, Sinners, Dead by Daylight and several others feel like random sketches dropped into the middle of the movie.

❌ The new generation characters are forgettable. Taylor, Tuesday and Jack never become interesting enough to care about.

❌ Jack barely qualifies as a character. His entire existence revolves around parodying suspicious boyfriends from modern Scream movies.

❌ The “offensive” humor isn’t nearly as edgy as advertised. The movie keeps bringing up Trump, Elon Musk, January 6, pronouns, COVID, MeToo and woke culture, but most of these jokes feel years late to the conversation.

❌ The political humor feels repetitive. Not because it’s offensive, but because we’ve heard these exact same jokes for years.

❌ The movie feels more like a sketch show than a story. Large portions of the second act feel disconnected from the actual Ghostface plot.

❌ Many jokes end before they become jokes. The movie constantly points at something recognizable and expects recognition alone to do the heavy lifting. Most of them don’t even have a punchline.

❌ It doesn’t really justify its existence. After twenty-five years away, this feels less like a sequel and more like a catch-up session on everything the Wayans brothers missed.

❌ Not very rewatchable. I laughed a few times, but once the credits rolled I had no desire to sit through ninety-six minutes of references again.

❌ The pacing feels longer than the runtime. Despite only being around an hour and thirty-six minutes, the endless stream of references eventually becomes exhausting.

❌️ The comedy in this film isnt the best, it mainly consists of a lot of outdated boomer towards gen z type of jokes, a lot of weed jokes, then if it aint that theres potty humor then the rest of the movie is just references galore.

❌️ Also the movie to me is poorly structured, it doesn’t really feel like a satire or a movie, its more structured out like a bunch of TikTok videos, and SNL skits, take that as you will.

❌️ I truly think this movie is gonna be outdated in 5 years, if not a year, majority of these jokes are just modern day politics and modern day culture events, yeah this is gonna date the film very quickly.

I mean, to give an example, there’s literally a joke about a January Capital Rioter, and yes I did get a chuckle but then I instantly thought, okay, this rope is gonna be only funny for another. Maybe give or take.

❌️ Another thing I wanna point out is I hate friedberg and seltzer for what they did with the stupid, the parody movies that came after scary movie, and the Wayanes said they also hate them, but there’s also, but for some reason, there’s elements in this movie that just made me think. Okay, did you hire them for this movie? Because the entire middle act just becomes specifically, what Friedberg and Seltzer did with their movies, just insert reference here, move on to nex thing .Insert reference here.

❌️ There’s a sinners reference in the film, and it made no sense. Because Jack, Sarah and Tues were trying to get into a party run by Roy, Small Cheeks and Brenda, they all know each other and now for some they dont know each other because gag?

But I think the worst defender is the long legs. Gag, it has no punchline, doesn’t even connect to the story at all. It just exists because hey remember long legs and wouldn’t be funny if we made the butler from the second movie with the small handbeat the long legs killer, because ain’t that funny.

I think that’s literally half their thought process.In this movie, just wouldn’t it be funny?


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🎬 Final Thoughts

I wanted to love this movie.

I really did.

The original Scary Movie is one of the best parody films ever made. Seeing the Wayans brothers return felt exciting.

Unfortunately Scary Movie 6 feels less like a sequel and more like a catch-up session.

It feels like the Wayans brothers looked at everything that happened since 2001 and tried fitting all of it into one movie.

The result is a film that constantly asks:

> “Remember this?”



> “Remember this?”



> “Remember this?”



And eventually I stopped laughing and started feeling tired.

The saddest part is parody movies aren’t dead. Last year’s The Naked Gun proved that. Next year we’re getting Spaceballs 2. Parody movies are back.

Which is exactly why Scary Movie 6 feels disappointing.

Because after twenty-five years away, I expected something sharper. Something crazier. Something more creative.

Instead I got a movie trying to catch up on twenty-five years of pop culture.

I laughed.

I had fun.

I don’t regret seeing it.

But once the credits rolled I had absolutely no desire to ever watch it again.

This movie has the cardinal sin of not being funny for more of the run dime than it is being funny, wish I was joking you but majority of the jokes in this movie is just weed and getting high.It’s like okay.I’ve seen that done so many times. There’s just nothing original with the comedy in this movie.It’s not even it’s not even worth getting offended over.I mean, you might as well just go on, you might as well. Just go get offended by twitter. It’s more worth getting offended by.

Going back to what I said earlier, this film won’t age well within the next half decade, I had to stop myself and ask myself. What will any of these jokes mean to a generation in the next decade or half a decade, this is why some certain jokes in anything else makes the (game, show, film, skit,) outdated.

You don’t throw in every modern day political jokes and culture jokes, and hope this will hold up in a decade, but hey we’ll see maybe I’ll be proven wrong, maybe im mentally old.


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Final Rating

⭐ 5/10


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🚨 SPOILER WARNING 🚨

Everything below discusses major spoilers.

Turn back now if you haven’t seen the movie.


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SPOILERS

The opening is honestly one of the stronger parts of the movie. It’s basically a parody of the Scream 6 opening, except this time Ghostface thinks he’s about to get an easy kill and instead gets absolutely destroyed. The victim uses a bird call, summons her entire friend group like she’s calling The Avengers, and Ghostface immediately finds himself getting jumped by a whole crowd of people. It’s ridiculous, it’s stupid, and honestly it got a laugh out of me.

Then we get introduced to Taylor, Tuesday and Jack. Unfortunately none of them are particularly interesting. Taylor’s entire personality revolves around hating Cindy and getting high. Tuesday’s entire personality revolves around being a Wednesday parody.

Also, tuesday gets stabbed by the ghostface.Killer, I swear there’s a meta commentary, and there’s somewhere, because gen ortega or in the last two scream movies. Ha ha.

Speaking of Tuesday, the explanation for her name might be one of the dumbest jokes in the entire movie. Cindy explains she named her Tuesday because it was Taco Tuesday.

I was looking at finger. They really do nothing special with the character. All they do is just dress. Her up to look like Wednesday Adam’s with the same hair style and that’s as far as the cat goes, they though nothing of importance with that character. If why she? Why does she have the same hairstyle as Wednesday? Because funny.

That’s it.

That’s the joke.

I wish I was kidding.

One reference that actually worked for me was the Art the Clown Santa flashback. The reason it works is because unlike most of the references in this movie, it actually serves the story. It’s showing us the strained relationship between Cindy and her daughter. It just so happens that the Santa Claus is Art the Clown. That’s an example of a reference actually supporting the plot instead of interrupting it.

Then we get Doofy back, which I was honestly happy about. Unfortunately he eventually gets one of the dumbest death scenes in the movie. Ghostface attacks him, Doofy ends up throwing poop at Ghostface, Ghostface asks what it was, Doofy proudly announces it came from his ass, and Ghostface responds with:

> “Fuck your ass.”



Then Doofy eventually dies after a ridiculous fart gag. Honestly the joke that made me laugh more was afterward when Ghostface gets handed a mop and complains:

> “I’m the killer, not the janitor.”



That got a genuine laugh.

Then the next scene gets a genuine laugh on me is the scene that that’s just a ripoff of get out where little sheeks is standing outside smoking.Weed, and this guy in his underwear, just runs up to him and runs the opposite direction, and then we see what he’s running from.He’s running from gay ray.

And that gonna laugh at me.I was like, what in the hell okay?And then I liked little sheek’s reaction. He said, should we be legal? And then he’s like hell yeah. 🤣

But the scene that follows is that whole is that whole mind control by a teacup. And it’s not funny at all, in my opinion, shorty gets remembers his mother and apparently she’s a and apparently he comes to the realization that she’s a squirter, that’s the joke, and then ghostface demands him to sink into the share, and he ends up in this animated world where he starts. Doing a parody song with the kpop demon hunters, because I don’t know at this point. I’m just kind of going along with what’s happening. I’m just like, yep that checks out i guess.

The Longlegs sequence is where the movie really starts falling apart. Hanson randomly appears dressed like Longlegs. Two cops show up. The movie makes a profiling joke. The scene ends. Nobody involved matters again. It’s the perfect example of the movie’s biggest flaw. The scene exists because Longlegs exists.

Basically the whole joke just boils down to racial cop violence, unless you find that funny, it ain’t gonna get a laugh from that now.Let’s say, why would you find that funny? That’s just, I’d be concerned if you did.

Also, yes, it seems pretty much that the writing basically just consisted for the scene, hey look, it’s the long legs, killer. And it’s the small hand butler from the second movie.Who’s dressed like him, LAUGH!!!

Throughout this review, you will realize that that’s pretty much what this movie just summarizes up to a bunch of please laugh.Because we referenced something.

Then we move into the Smile parody, followed by the fake Michael Jackson movie trailer called Jermaine. Then we get The Substance parody. The reporter takes The Substance, a younger version emerges, and that younger version turns out to be the White Chicks character. Then a hand randomly drops a folder labeled:

> “The Real Epstein Files.”

What is like what is the joke? There is no punchline to it, the it’s just, hey, here’s the epstein files. Laugh I guess, but what did get a genuine? Good laugh at me is that, though, then we get a white chicks cameo where the the if you remember that movie more power to you cause, I feel bad for you. But yeah, and and the white chick from the white chicks movie goes up to the window and says, you know, you won a white chicks 2.

Then, ghostface gets up and knocks her out and says, get the f*** out of here with that, a white chicks 2?

It’s almost like the movie is addressing. How much of a stupid idea that would be? And my reaction is movie stop giving hollywood ideas.We do not need a white chicks 2.

And once again the movie expects the audience to laugh simply because they recognize the reference.

Then we get the Scream 6 subway parody before the movie completely goes off the rails.

Let’s put it this way, this scene got a lot of backlash. Because the the non-binary daughter is on the subway and Ghostface, shows up in front of her dressed as Megan. Doing in the joke now is just that megan is doing horny dances, instead of whatever the hell that dance wasn’t megan, because funny let’s have the small kid robot do horny dances that to get a laugh.

Then, then she takes the mask off, and it’s the Ghostface and women. She, I mean the little Megan costume girl, and and then he stabs the non-binary girl. And then this woman on the train says, oh my God, they stabbed her. And the non binary girl says them, I pronounce, are they them and yeah, that single, a lot of controversy.

Then, the old lady is like, well. Hey, not my fault. I can’t keep up with all this pronouns and ghostfaces, like a point, and then but there’s no unbinary girl just so eager on making her pronouns i’m known to the point that the woman just gets up and gets annoyed and stabs her.And old ladies coming off as a karen and the non binary woman girl teenager literally says, you’re acting like a karen or something like that.And she says, I am my name is karen, and then the blue collar worker comes up and tries to help and again the non binary girls is being is being nor myself.And he’s like, you know what, I don’t want to help you and then he stabs them.

Then, there’s a line that people in the row walking up to the non-binary girl and stabbing her, taking their turn. And my thought process was, this is just a reused gag of that brenda scene from scary movie two, with brenda again stabbed in the I might be thinking of someone else.And may not be brenda, my bad.I’m getting names wrong where I think it was. Brenda gets stabbed in the movie theater for being obnoxiously loud.

So I was like, great, so we’re reusing jokes now.Good grief, because apparently originality is dead.

Also, what started off as a set?My funny joke ended up just going on too long and started getting kind of offensive.It’s like, okay, great, we’re overstaying our welcome here.

Candyman appears. Then the movie transitions into Weapons. Then it immediately transitions into Sinners.

Candyman.

Weapons.

Sinners.

Back-to-back-to-back.

At that point it honestly felt like somebody was changing channels every few minutes.

The Sinners parody especially didn’t work for me. The joke basically boils down to recreating the famous door scene and replacing the dialogue with crude jokes. That’s not really parody. That’s just recreating the scene and making it dirtier.

It’s basically just hey, remember sinners and that’s pretty much it that’s like, yeah, I remember sinners, and?

Then we get the Dead by Daylight sequence which feels like a fever dream. Ghostface is trying to kill people while Shorty is basically trapped in a parody of Dead by Daylight. Everybody’s getting high. Ghostface gets involved. The whole thing feels like it came from a completely different movie.

The political jokes are another major issue. We get references to Trump, January 6, Elon Musk, pronouns, MeToo, COVID and everything else you’d expect. The problem isn’t that they’re offensive. The problem is they’re obvious. The movie acts like it’s pushing boundaries when most of these jokes feel like things people were already arguing about online years ago.

Then we finally get to the ending.

And honestly?

The ending might be the funniest thing in the entire movie. Well, first I want to quickly mention that Cindy just shows up dressed as John Wick. It’s like why? What’s what’s the joke here? That doesn’t even make any sense for the for the whole movie. She’s dressed like she’s dressed like this.Lori strolled from halloween twenty eighteen and now she shows up in the third act, dressed up as john wick or as brenda puts it.I would love to say ballerina, but no one saw that movie.

Again laugh because we said reference.

The entire movie feels like it’s setting up the next generation. Taylor. Tuesday. Jack. The future of the franchise.

Then the legacy characters basically look at that idea and say:

> “Nah.”



Brenda asks if they should feel bad because they’re their kids.

Cindy immediately responds:

> “Eh, fuck them. They deserved it.”



I laughed.

Not because it’s smart.

Not because it’s deep.

Because it was one of the few jokes in the entire movie that genuinely surprised me.

Ironically the ending ends up being the best parody in the whole film. Hollywood keeps passing the torch to younger characters. Scary Movie 6 decides to light the torch on fire instead.

Literally.

Then after the credits we get BrosFeratu.

Not BruhFeratu.

BrosFeratu.

And honestly it feels less like a post-credit scene and more like a random sketch they forgot to put in the movie.

Which might actually be the perfect summary of Scary Movie 6.

A bunch of random sketches stitched together into something that vaguely resembles a movie. 🤣🍿💀