With the biopic “Michael” coming to theaters later this week, the Wayans Brothers’ “Scary Movie” is leaning into their well-established cheeky comedy for the horror-world parody by including new footage of “SNL” cast member Kenan Thompson playing pop star Michael Jackson in the latest trailer that has dropped online (an attempt to capitalize on the biopic’s release week to help market this sixth installment).
Franchise stars Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall return alongside Cheri Oteri and Dave Sheridan, with Jon Abrahams, Lochlyn Munro, Anthony Anderson, Chris Elliott, Damon Wayans Jr., Kim Wayans, Heidi Garnder, Felissa Rose, Olivia Rose Keegan, Cameron Scott Roberts, the aforementioned Thompson, and Savannah Lee Nassif joining the fray.
An official logline for the comedy via Paramount Pictures:
Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer (Ghostface), the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs, and no horror movie IP is safe. Shorty, Ray, Cindy, and Brenda reunite in Scary Movie alongside returning favorites and fresh faces to slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final. Nothing is sacred. No trope survives. Every line gets crossed. The Wayans are back to cancel the Cancel Culture.
Not only do they have footage of lampooning Jackson ala Thompson, but they’ve also released a teaser poster (with “MJ” in the Ghostface mask) with the tags of “Prepare To He-He” and “Touching Fans Everyone,” an obvious tasteless nod to the multiple allegations that the musician sexually abused and molested children. Something we should have expected from the folks behind the sketch comedy show “In Living Color,” which often took huge scathing swipes at massively popular musical acts and actors in the 1990s (everyone was fair game, and the horror genre isn’t the source of fodder in the “Scary Movie” films over the years).
Check out that new footage below, as “Scary Movie 6” directed by Michael Tiddes heads to theaters on June 5.
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