- Title: USA: RELEASE OF 'SCARY MOVIE" - COMEDY PARODY OF THE THRILLER FILM
- Date: 10th July 2000
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) SMV [SOUNDBITE] (English) SHAWN AND MARLON WAYANS SAYING "We just needed to make some money. We needed to pay the bills, you know? The show got cancelled and we said damn! We've got to make some money. Let's parody these movies that are already parodies of themselves. Let's do that. And, we did it and
- Embargoed: 25th July 2000 13:00
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS, US
- Country: USA
- Reuters ID: LVA1OCHTRWCOLIN4F94SPXGMQ8LG
- Story Text: The outer limits of R-rated respectability are stretched by Keenen Ivory Wayans' "Scary Movie," a zany spoof of teen horror pictures, high-school sex comedies and assorted pop-culture phenomena.
Unbounded by taste, inhibition or political correctness, this film goes where no-one, not even Peter and Bobby Farrelly, has gone before with mainstream fare.
Many may express outrage, which should only make the picture even more attractive to the under-30 audience.
The script - reportedly taken from two independently conceived and completed scenarios -- is credited to six writers, including co-stars Shawn and Marlon Wayans, brothers of the director.
"We just needed to make some money. We needed to pay the bills," said Shawn. "Let's parody these movies that are already parodies of themselves. Let's do that. And, we did it and it's funny," he explained.
The narrative combines "Scream" with "I Know What You Did Last Summer," with a side order of "American Pie."
"Scary Movie" encompasses, among other things, references to "The Usual Suspects," "The Sixth Sense,"
"Dawson's Creek," "Amistad" and "The Matrix."
The humour is so up-to-the-moment, there's even a joke about the Budweiser "Whassup?" ads and a quick mention of "Big Momma's House."
This is the work of filmmakers who have studied "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" series.
The story revolves around a group of teens - played by actors in their 20s and 30s -- who share a deep, dark secret about a pedestrian they accidentally killed during a late-night, drunk-driving joyride. (The victim wasn't fatally injured, but he wound up dead anyway.) Now the young friends must cope with an apparently vengeful killer whose mask occasionally resembles that worn by the mad slasher of the "Scream" franchise.
Director Wayans sets the tone during the first 30 seconds, when Carmen Electra, playing a character named - wink-wink, nudge-nudge - Drew, passes gas while on the phone with the mad killer.
Shortly afterward, the slasher arrives to bury his knife in her chest. When he removes the blade, however, he finds the point is embedded in a breast implant.
"It's a real job because my scene was very physical and I think most of the movie is," says Electra. " It's just so physical and that's what is so funny, that physical comedy. I love doing that. And, it is hard work," continues Electra.
Much of the rest of the picture proceeds in the same anything-goes vein. There's a high school football player (Shawn Wayans) who can barely remain in the closet, a hot-headed big man on campus (Lochlyn Munro) who's not so huge where it really counts and a pushy TV reporter (Cheri Oteri) whose latest bestseller is titled "You're Dead, I'm Rich."
There's even more: a slutty airhead (Shannon Elizabeth), a jive-talking best friend (Regina Hall), a pot-smoking horror movie buff (Marlon Wayans), a horny boyfriend (Jon Abrahams) and a professional virgin (Anna Faris) who, when deflowered, sounds as ferocious as the possessed Linda Blair in "The Exorcist."
"Scary Movie" opens in theatres in the US on July 7. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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