The gist of this one, after all, is making enjoyable of long-in-the-tooth franchises being dragged out of the mothballs for yet one more legacy sequel. And appropriately for Scary Film, the principle targets are most particularly Radio Silence’s Scream 5 and VI, proper all the way down to mocking these films’ try and make the time period “requel” occur. Scary Film 6 is a “rebootquel,” as Marlon Wayans’ all the time welcome Shorty enthuses when arising for air between bong hits.
When you’ve seen Scream 5, the skeleton of that film is just about an identical, full with a Jenna Ortega lookalike (Savannah Lee Nassif), right here named Tuesday for “authorized causes,” getting stabbed within the opening sequence however dwelling lengthy sufficient to convey her estranged huge sister Sara (Olivia Rose Keegan) again to city alongside a completely not sketchy trying boyfriend (Cameron Scott Roberts). Seems Sara and Tuesday are the daughters of Cindy Campbell, the OG Anna Farris, who’s now in Jamie Lee Curtis’ fright wig from Halloween (2018).
At this level, it must be clear that is going to be a kitchen sink method to simply about each horror flick the Scary Film franchise has missed out on since 2013. Cindy and a pleasant Regina Corridor as Brenda Meeks are again because the “legacy” characters, a la Scream or Halloween—however NEVER I Know What You Did Final Summer time, a film the olds inform the younger children to not fear about on this film after they ask if it’s associated to The Summer time I Turned Fairly— however Brenda is now rocking Octavia Spencer’s haircut and vibes from Ma whereas dwelling in the home from Get Out; Cindy’s daughter works on the Remaining Vacation spot Theme Park the place “everyone dies!;” and their estranged buddies Shorty and the perpetually closeted Ray (Shawn Wayans) discover themselves dragging the youngsters into parodies of M3GAN and Sinners.
Intriguingly, the prevalent development of “elevated” (or inventive) horror films from the final decade are largely side-stepped. There’s a line the place Cindy mentions It Follows, however says “that film’s too obscure for a flashback.” That or maybe too onerous to insert poop, intercourse, or transphobic jokes into. With that stated, there’s a stable gag about Nosferatu throughout the post-credits—and a flat one about Longlegs.
However it’s the aforementioned scatological humor that basically makes or breaks Scary Film and the Wayans’ oeuvre typically. Their comedies, particularly on this collection, are much less films than a collection of thinly tied collectively sketches. It’s R-rated, filthy-minded SNL that’ll dare do a lynching gag. A few of the gonzo bits work, some don’t, and some are outright hilarious, comparable to Shawn Wayans revealing Shorty is in his twenty fifth senior 12 months on the native highschool. And when it skips horror altogether and swerves right into a John Wick parody? The most effective stuff right here. However by design all of it feels antiquated and, um… previous.
The Wayans would possible say that’s as a result of they’re bringing again raunchy comedy and the times the place it was enjoyable to offend everybody. But it’s noticeable when total sequences turn out to be about “man, children lately,” comparable to when Shorty and Ghostface find yourself getting some killer Twitch content material. That one can nonetheless get a chuckle as a result of it has a twinkle in its eye, however when the twinkle shifts to malice, and Scary Film 6 will get blood in its mouth, it turns into one thing ugly.
