“Why are you wearing gloves?”
“Would you believe I’m planning to go as OJ Simpson for Halloween?”
“But your gloves fit!”
Like its predecessors, Scary Movie (6) is a loose configuration of skits orbiting a vaguely traveling general plot direction akin to the great Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker classics such as 1980’s Airplane!, Top Secret! in ‘84 and The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! franchise (the ZAZ team really liked exclamation points) beginning in 1988. Those features all owe a great debt to the vast creative genius of Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, which is on vivid display in such films as Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles in 1974. Those pictures rely on upending expectations with subject parodies, visual gags, puns, 4th Wall-breaking, and subject parodies all coming at a rapid-fire pace, hosing the audience down with jokes in the hopes that more land than miss.
Here they miss. A lot. Lazy and predictable references to 2017’s Get Out, 2021’s Candyman, 2022’s M3GAN (and a bit of the sequel), 2025’s Ballerina, Weapons and Sinners, even the Wayans ’04 project White Chicks are unceremoniously resurrected to serve as weak structure woven around the sad parody of Wes Craven’s Scream series of films that started in 1996 and propels the “plot”. There are five listed writers on this project. Scary Movie (6) makes it clear that none of them are familiar with The First Rule of Holes: if one finds oneself at the bottom of a hole, STOP DIGGING. Scary Movie (6) fails at its basic premise. It is a horror-comedy that is neither scary nor funny.
“White folks are getting weird.”
Scary Movie (6) is a 2026 Paramount Pictures release directed by Michael Tiddes from a screenplay written by Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Craig Wayans, Marlon Wayans, and Rick Alvarez. There are hordes of cameo appearances, but the principal performers are Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Olivia Rose Keegan, Ruby Snowber, Savannah Lee Nassif, Dave Sheridan, and Camern Scott Roberts.
“I didn’t mean it that way, many of my victims are black!”
The Ghostface Killer has returned (somehow) and is hunting down Cindy Campbell’s (Faris) loved ones, starting with her daughters, Tuesday (Nassif) and Sarah (Keegan). Sarah brings her new boyfriend, Jack (Roberts), as they regroup with Brenda (Hall) and Shorty (Wayans). As their friends drop like flies, together, they must unmask the menace lest he hunt them down and kill them one by one. See this in the theatre if you are a completist, but otherwise this bad egg is better served by home viewing on streaming services (if that).
“Et tu, Brute?”
During the entire duration of the runtime, all one hour and thirty-six minutes of it, this reviewer laughed heartily exactly twice; the OJ Simpson gloves gag repeated above and a joke about the many multitudes of Wayans, a wave of Wayans, who are like a Legion. This reviewer is paraphrasing, but “Our name is Wayans for we are many”.
Scary Movie (6) has a problem; it’s a bad movie. Despite the flood of jokes, the film is plodding and puddles up in places. It is never really scary. It’s not gory at all and in this reviewer’s opinion, it’s rarely, barely funny.
There are mid-credits sequences that work better than large parts of the movie, so staying through them is an option. This reviewer suggests waiting a few weeks for Scary Movie (6) to hit streaming.
Scary Movie (6) is in theatres Friday, June 5th.
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