Scary Film 2 is a supernatural horror parody directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and stars his brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Corridor, James Woods, and Tim Curry, amongst others. The film follows a gaggle of school college students, their professor, and his assistant as they examine an outdated mansion for any paranormal exercise. Regardless of the movie’s mediocre vital reception upon launch, it grossed over $140 million worldwide on the field workplace, with a manufacturing price range of simply $45 million, making it a monetary success.
The Scary Film franchise is understood for its massive forged of characters, potty-mouthed humor, and, most famously, the variety of movies and genres every installment spoofs. Whereas the primary Scary Film primarily poked enjoyable at ’90s slasher movies, Scary Film 2 additionally parodied ’70s and ’80s supernatural horror movies.
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‘The Exorcist’ (1973)
‘Scary Film 2’ Pays Homage to the Basic Story of Possession in Its Opening Scene
William Friedkin’s 1973 movie adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel The Exorcist grew to become a definitive entry within the horror style whose affect remains to be felt right this moment. The Exorcist facilities on a possessed younger woman and some clergymen’s makes an attempt to exorcise her demon. The movie is notable for its sensible performances, notably these of Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair, its mind-blowing particular results, and its appropriately moody, creepy environment. But it’s the movie’s subversion of many conventions that has cemented it as a cultural phenomenon.
In Scary Film 2, Wayans spoofs The Exorcist as quickly because the movie begins. Mrs. Voorhees is celebrating with mates when her daughter, Megan, immediately interrupts them. After just a few failed makes an attempt to get her daughter again to mattress, Megan will get possessed by a demon, wreaks havoc, and forces Mrs. Voorhees to name on the assistance of Father McFeely and Father Harris. Whereas the exorcism within the unique movie is profitable, Father McFeely offers up on his duties and ends Megan’s life by taking pictures her. The movie’s chilly opening is hilarious, completely units the movie’s tone, and provides audiences a glimpse of its humor.
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‘The Legend of Hell Home’ (1973)
‘Scary Film 2’ Takes Its Story Construction From This Supernatural Gothic Story
John Hough’s 1973 gothic supernatural horror movie The Legend of Hell Home relies on Richard Matheson’s 1971 novel titled Hell Home. In The Legend of Hell Home, a bloodbath happens at eccentric millionaire Rudolph Deutsch’s mansion below suspicious circumstances. Ghost sightings and different supernatural occurrences have been reported on the property, prompting Deutsch to enlist the companies of psychiatrist Dr. Lionel Barrett and two mediums to analyze.
Scary Film 2’s plot is actually the identical as this movie’s whereas mixing parts of ’90s slasher movies like Scream to assist in giving it a recent tackle the style. Moreover, the dinner scene from Hell Home is spoofed on this movie throughout the notorious cake scene with Chris Elliott and the remainder of the forged.
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‘The Amityville Horror’ (1979)
The Well-known Haunted Home Film Conjures up Some Bathroom Humor in ‘Scary Film 2’
To not be confused with the Ryan Reynolds-led 2005 remake, Scary Film 2 spoofs Stuart Rosenberg’s 1979 unique supernatural horror movie, The Amityville Horror. Regardless of the movie’s combined reception round its launch, Amityville has accrued a cult following amongst new generations of cinema lovers for its subversion of the horror style. In Amityville, the Lutz household and Father Delaney are harassed by flies upon getting into their not too long ago bought residence.
Followers of Scary Film 2 would possibly keep in mind the hilarious scene involving James Woods as Father McFeely utilizing the toilet, mirroring Father Delaney’s encounter in The Amityville Horror. Whereas relieving himself, he calls the flies “Demonic.” He recites a prayer whereas on the bathroom, turning the eruption of flies as seen in Amityville right into a crude, potty-humor punchline.
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‘The Changeling’ (1980)
An Ominous Bouncing Ball in ‘Scary Film 2’ Comes From This Canadian Basic
Directed by Peter Medak, The Changeling is a Canadian supernatural psychological horror movie that follows John Russell, a composer who unknowingly purchases a haunted home in Seattle and is finally terrorized by evil spirits. The movie employed strategies not typically seen in horror motion pictures throughout its time, equivalent to self-moving wheelchairs and self-destroying mirrors.
The basketball scene in Scary Film 2 is a shout-out to one of many scenes on this movie, the place a ball suspiciously falls down a flight of stairs and conveniently lands at John’s toes. This scene has turn out to be a standard trope in horror movies, typically used as a setup for a very good soar scare, so it is probably not a direct reference.
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‘Poltergeist’ (1982)
‘Scary Film 2’ Used the Clown From ‘Poltergeist’ for One among Its Finest Gags
Tobe Hooper’s 1982 supernatural horror traditional Poltergeist is memorable for a lot of causes. Along with being thought-about one of many best horror movies ever made, it is usually typically cited as one of many most interesting movies of the Nineteen Eighties throughout all genres. The movie is beloved for its well-written script, very good performing, and skill to frighten audiences with out relying an excessive amount of on results and soar scares.
Nevertheless, the now-famous Poltergeist curse is well-known, as this ’80s traditional is related to a staggering variety of weird oddities and forged and crew deaths. As unlucky because the Poltergeist curse is, even that wasn’t sufficient to forestall the movie from being parodied, as a scene with Ray and the identical clown doll that was prominently featured in Poltergeist has gone down in popular culture historical past as one of many franchise’s funniest scenes.
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‘Massacre on the Home of Dying’ (1984)
‘Scary Film 2’ Takes Two Scenes From This Obscure Horror Comedy
1984’s Massacre on the Home of Dying is likely one of the extra distinctive entries on this record, as it’s the solely movie to fall below the class of comedy horror. Director Ray Cameron’s Home of Dying didn’t obtain a large launch or optimistic critiques, primarily as a result of Kenny Everett, the movie’s star, made controversial feedback about Russia (through The Guardian). Home of Dying encompasses a scene by which a ghostly apparition enters the mansion the protagonists are investigating earlier than swiftly leaving by way of the window earlier than being found.
In Scary Film 2, Shorty winds up in a state of affairs the place a monstrous weed monster rolls him up in a blanket, lights his afro on fireplace, and smokes him like a joint. Earlier than the creature can end Shorty off, Ray and Buddy break into the room, startle the beast, and it flees by way of the window a la Home of Dying. Moreover, a scene with Barbara, a horny blonde, participating in sexual activity, is spoofed in Scary Film 2 when Alex, one other fairly blonde, has a sexual encounter with a ghost.
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‘What Lies Beneath’ (2000)
‘Scary Film 2’ Makes use of a Bounce Scare From the 2000 Horror Film as A part of Its Climax
What Lies Beneath is Robert Zemeckis’ foray into the horror style. Launched in 2000, the movie stars Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer as Norman and Claire Spencer, respectively, the right couple residing of their Vermont lakeside residence. Whereas issues are superb initially, a sequence of weird and paranormal happenings afflict the couple after it’s revealed that Norman had an affair with a lady shortly earlier than she ended her life.
Beneath’s climax options Claire in a sultry pink costume as she torments Norman for his previous transgressions, and it encompasses a scene by which Pfeiffer’s face morphs into the face of the girl with whom Norman had an extramarital affair. The pink costume and the creepy face morph scene have been spoofed in Scary Film 2 by fan-favorite character Ray throughout that movie’s climax.
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‘Hole Man’ (2000)
‘Scary Film 2’ Took Its Most Well-known Scene From the 2000 Sci-fi Horror Movie
Paul Verhoeven’s 2000 science fiction horror movie Hole Man was primarily based on H.G. Wells’s novel The Invisible Man. Kevin Bacon performs Dr. Sebastian Caine, a superb however egotistical scientist who undergoes a revolutionary invisibility experiment. After the experiment goes awry, Sebastian goes on a killing spree in opposition to his colleagues to maintain the information of the experiment’s failure a secret.
In what’s arguably Scary Film 2’s most well-known scene, Cindy and Buddy wind up trapped in a containment room and almost die from hypothermia. Nevertheless, Buddy convinces Cindy to pleasure him since they may not survive the state of affairs. The scene is a transparent parody of Hole Man’s when two characters are locked inside a freezer and left to die.
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‘The Haunting’ (1999)
Gothic Aesthetics and Ghostly Forces Would Encourage the Units and Scares of ‘Scary Film 2’
Jan de Pont’s 1999 supernatural horror The Haunting follows a gaggle of people that journey to a Massachusetts mansion often called Hill Home to take part in a research on insomnia. Nevertheless, quickly after arriving, the group discovers they’re prey to evil spirits inhabiting the manor and should work collectively to outlive the evening.
The mansion in Scary Film 2 is known as Hell Home, a nod to Hill Home, and the premise of a deranged scientist, Professor Oldman, who’s a comedic stand-in for Liam Neeson’s Dr. Marrow, manipulating folks into experimenting on them, can also be spoofed. A number of set-pieces additionally echo The Haunting, together with the residing hallways, shifting beds, whispering partitions, and malevolent ghostly forces. Aesthetically, each additionally lean into the exaggerated gothic fashion.
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‘Stigmata’ (1999)
‘Scary Film 2’ Took Its Visible Model and Themes of Non secular Horror From This Panned ’90s Movie
Rupert Wainwright’s 1999 supernatural horror movie Stigmata tackles themes of faith, psychological well being, and demonic possessions. The movie stars Patricia Arquette in an against-type function as Frankie Paige, a Pennsylvania lady who suffers demonic possession, and it grossed greater than triple its price range on the field workplace regardless of being poorly obtained by critics.
Scary Film 2 doesn’t recreate any single scene from Stigmata, nevertheless it borrows closely from the movie’s visuals and themes. The blue-tinted lighting, fast cutaways, and chaotic supernatural assaults echo Stigmata’s aesthetic. The spoof comedy additionally performs with the identical religious-horror tropes that Stigmata helped popularize going into the 2000s.