By Kip Mooney• On • In NewsNewsComments Off on “Scary Movie” Reboot Announced for 2026
"Do you like Scary Movie?" Almost 25 years after the first movie became a phenomenon, Miramax and Paramount have announced a new entry in the Scary Movie franchise.
Keenan Ivory Wayans – with his brothers Shawn and Craig – developed the first two films. They parodied late '90s horror flicks like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and remakes like The Haunting and House on Haunted Hill. The series continued without any Wayans' involvement, led by spoof-meister David Zucker. I personally prefer these latter two films, which focused more on physical gags than gross-out humor. A fifth film, released in 2013, was rightfully ignored.
A lot has changed in the film industry since 2000. But horror movies have remained as popular as ever, if not more so. It will be interesting to see if the Wayans mock broad hits like the Conjuring universe, or if they find time to puncture the "it's a metaphor for trauma" theme that seems to run through every smaller horror flick. No cast has been announced, but I am firmly in favor of bringing back Anna Faris and Regina Hall.
Scary Movie's sixth entry is currently slated for June 12, 2026, where it's scheduled to face off against Daniels' first movie since Everything Everywhere All at Once.
About Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about.
I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague.
Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work.
In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo.
I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.
