Scary Movie

Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Memorable quotes:

Killer: "What's that noise?
Drew Decker: Oops, I farted. I didn't think you'd hear it.
Killer: No, that popping noise.
Drew: Oh, I'm making pop corn!"

Gail Hailstorm: "What would have been your last words to Drew?
Shorty: Run bitch, run!"

Cindy: "I won't have anything to do with this!
Greg: Shut up!
Buffy: Cindy, come on, we'll just pretend it never happened. You know, like the time we were drunk and got down on each other."

Greg: "And we'll never mention this again!
Cindy: Mention what?
Greg: The guy we just killed!
Cindy: But you just mentioned it, Greg!
Greg: Starting now!"

Cindy: "Greg, you're not the only one who got one.
Greg: You mean Bobby got a baby dick too?
Cindy: No, I as talking about the note. I got one too."

Cindy: No mister killer, I don't know where you are!

Shorty: "Yo son, it's like I've seen this all before.
Cindy: You had a killer in your old high school Shorty?
Shorty: No, it was this movie Scream: same dialogues and everything. This is ill!"

Cindy: Ray, if you see Bobby, tell him I love him.
Ray: Okay, if I see Bobby I'll tell him I love him.

Cindy: "I'm sorry, please understand!
Bobby: Understand what? That my girlfriend would rather call me a killer than touch me?
Cindy: That's not true, Bobby.
Bobby: Then what is it?
Cindy: What is it? She's gone, and she's not coming back!
Bobby: It's been over a year Cindy!
Cindy: But Ginger was such an important part of the Spice Girls!
Bobby: You gotta move on baby.
Cindy: I'm sorry if my complicated life is an inconvenience to your perfect existence!"

Gail: I'm here at lovers lookout. It's dark, it's in the middle of nowhere, and it's where hormone driven teens love to come and fool around. So very luckily, we're about to see someone get killed.

Garage victim: Oh my god, oh my god, please don't: I'm just a day player!

Cindy: "I am ready.
Bobby: You are?
Cindy: Yeah. I can't keep fighting these urges, I have to just give in to them and let them flow.
Bobby: Right.
Cindy: Bobby, I have been so selfish!
Bobby: It's like a scene from a movie or something!
Cindy: Only it's not a movie: This is real life.
Bobby: It's all a movie baby. There is the sound guy, there is the script supervisor..."

Cindy: "You guys are psychos! You've watched one too many T.V. shows.
Ray: No, watching television shows doesn't create psycho killers. Cancelling them does!"



Plot: A group of friends kill a guy by accident...twice, and decide the best thing to do is to get rid of the body. Unfortunately for them, the past come back to haunt them as a psycho killer start killing them one by one.

Review:

Scary Movie is one of those rare films, which you can both call completely stupid yet very smart!
What I mean by that, is that the jokes are sometimes very cheap and crude, and the movie itself isn't very classy. Nevertheless, it does render so well all the nonsense and stereotyped characters of most slasher movies such as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, while making fun of movies such as The Blair Witch Project and Matrix. It manages to identify and amplify all the flaws and cliches of the slasher genre such as the 30 something teenagers, the slut that is going to get killed, the invincible virgin and the fact that somehow the characters almost seem to run head first into the killer's claws. In fact, it's almost as though they beg for trouble, which can sometimes be frustrating for the viewers. Scary Movie thus works as a relief as it makes fun of the formula and gives you a good laugh.
I realize that Scary Movie might seem shallow, and maybe even plain stupid to people who aren't used to watch slasher movies (especially those of the 90's and early 20's), but when you do know them, you actually have a great time watching that movie, even though it isn't scary, obviously.
I also discovered Anna Faris in the very first time in this film, and she's now become one of my favourite actresses. She's just so effortlessly brilliant and funny!
I'd also recommend that you watch the music video by Bloodhound Gang called The Inevitable Return Of The Great White Dope. The video stars Carmen Electra, who also plays Drew in Scary Movie, and it also stars the infamous killer!

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