1 of 5 | Shorty (Marlon Wayans) goes live in "Scary Movie," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures
LOS ANGELES, June 4 (UPI) -- In 2000, Scary Movie used Scream as the bones for a witty horror parody. The fifth Scream from 2022 provides far less focus, relevance or insight for 2026's Scary Movie, in theaters Friday.
After a cameo-heavy pretitle sequence, Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) sees her children (Gregg Wayans and Sydney Park) off to school. They go to high school with Cindy Campbell's (Anna Faris) daughters, Sara (Olivia Rose Keegan, doing Faris's breathy voice) and Tuesday (Savannah Lee Nassif).
Cindy has fortified her house like Laurie Strode in the 2018 Halloween waiting for Ghostface's return. The main joke is that everybody thinks the killer is obviously Sara's boyfriend, Jack (Cameron Scott Roberts).
That's the beginning of a joke, naming him after Jack Quaid in the fifth Scream, but the comedy does not go anywhere with it. They also recreate the one Scream (2022) scene about a new generation trying to save the franchise, but fail to deliver a new perspective.
