Scary Movie 6 Review

June 20, 2026 at 3:10pm
By Jason Stettner

The building blocks were here, they brought back the original team and there’s been a good decade of horror material to work with. Actually, in general a golden era of horror content to mine from considering the widespread offerings for horror films in the modern era. The real horror was actually being subject to this movie. It’s laugh-less, somewhat mundane and literally just beat for beat a recent Scream movie.

Now, you may go back to the original Scary Movie as being along those lines but they worked with that plot and added substance to it. It was clever. That’s not the case here. Now you may also think that parodies don’t work these days, well The Naked Gun was downright hilarious the previous year. This, just wasn’t funny. A slight grin here or there of nostalgia, but yeah I didn’t laugh at all.

The teenage girl sat to the side of me was having the time of her life with this movie so maybe I just aged out of the humor. The rest of the theater was similarly silent despite being quite full. Anyways, just wanted to add some context. The plot is straight up one of the recent Scream films with a couple segments that venture off to other movies. We’ve got a group of younger individuals coming in to fill the at threat of Ghostface headed by Sara (Olivia Rose Keegan) that plays an amazing imitation of Cindy (Anna Faris) being her daughter.

It was quite bang on actually. Also, Tuesday (Savannah Lee Nassif) which is another sister of sorts and some other random forgettable kids. They get attacked, things happen and there are some decent twists. Hilariously, and the ironically the plot in this was fine and perhaps even better than recent material it draws from. But you’re not really here for the plot, usually the laughs but it was fine story wise.

The cast is basically all back in this one from the original days of Scary Movie. It’s just most of them don’t do a whole lot and Shorty (Marlon Wayans) is way too centered in this one. A supporting character that is basically the entirety of the experience for some reason, it was jarring. The anime bit was neat if you’re into that.

I was however very disappointed by the lack of Ray (Shawn Wayans); Cindy (Anna Faris) and Brenda (Regina Hall). I was there to see them, and the nostalgia bit was nice when they arrived on screen but it felt as though they were just sort of randomly in there at times and not central to what was happening. I also didn’t understand why they included Shorthand (Chris Elliot) as he said about two words and was in it for what felt like thirty seconds.

A colossal waste. Visually I suppose this looked fine, shot like any other modern lower budget sort of film. I already covered the lack of humor and the various gags that just didn’t connect at the start of this review. It was visibly fine I guess, performances did the best they could with the material.

The Conclusion

Scary Movie 6 isn’t funny, it doesn’t stretch or push any boundaries and I left without so much of a single laugh. I went in with excitement and was sort of left there sitting in the theater in silence. The audience was essentially silent aside from a couple laughs at certain moments and that one teenager beside me finding it hilarious. Maybe I aged out of the humor which is fine I suppose. I just, expected to laugh at a comedy and a parody.

I still think those first three films in this series are fun and have good bits. This one just didn’t land and that’s such a shame despite the onslaught of horror content it had to draw from. The narrative or well plot of this is fine but that’s not really what the core of Scary Movie should be. It’s supposed to be a story that makes sense but has good laughs and fun commentary on the horror of the times at every turn. This wasn’t it.

Scary Movie 6 Review at Theather with Standard Viewing
Screening Provided by Paramount + $2 from Me

Rating Overall: 2.0