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Scary Movie 5

Scary Movie 5

Movie · 2013 · 15 people

Malcolm D. Lee directed Scary Movie 5, the fifth film in the Scary Movie spoof series, working from a script by David Zucker and Pat Proft; Turkish audiences know it as Korkunç Bir Film 5. Dimension Films produced the 2013 American parody, which premiered in Hollywood on April 11, 2013 and reached cinemas a day later.

The story follows married couple Dan and Jody, whose comfortable life is upended when Dan's nephews and niece — children who survived alone in the wilderness for three years — move in. When the spirit the kids call "Mama" starts wrecking their home and careers, the couple summons a parade of self-styled expert exorcists to drive it out. Along the way the film spoofs Mama, Sinister, Evil Dead, Black Swan, Paranormal Activity and even Inception.

Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex and Erica Ash head the cast, joined by Terry Crews, Heather Locklear, Jerry O'Connell, Molly Shannon, Kate Walsh, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Snoop Dogg and Mike Tyson, among others. It is the only installment in the series without Anna Faris's Cindy Campbell and Regina Hall's Brenda Meeks. Critics panned the film, and although its roughly $78 million worldwide gross comfortably recouped a budget of about $20 million, it stands as the lowest-grossing and worst-reviewed film of the franchise.

DirectorMalcolm D. Lee
Production companyDimension Films
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Kubilay Penbeklioğlu Kubilay Penbeklioğlu Actor · 59 years old Ashley Tisdale Simon Rex Erica Ash Molly Shannon Heather Locklear J. P. Manoux Jerry O'Connell Charlie Sheen Lindsay Lohan Terry Crews Kate Walsh Chris Elliott Mike Tyson Kendra Wilkinson

Also in the cast: Snoop Dogg

Through different eyes

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

The title says horror, but this is a spoof, and it is still not an easy pick for a family with children. Parodies of this kind usually lean on crude jokes and grown-up references. Younger kids who don't know the horror films being mocked will miss most of the gags anyway. Teenagers who like the series can watch it; with grandparents in the room, think twice before pressing play.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

A spoof is only as sharp as its grasp of the film it targets. Scary Movie 5 tries to fit a list running from Mama to Black Swan and from Paranormal Activity to Inception under one roof, and never digs into any of them; the result is less a story than a string of sketches. Losing Cindy and Brenda also removes the spine that held the series together, and Dan and Jody never acquire enough identity to fill the gap. In my view that scatter is what the critics were reacting to. The crowded roster of guest names reads like a shop window standing in for a structural idea.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Scary Movie 5 can be read as a map of 2013 pop culture. Its targets sum up that year's horror and thriller box office, while guests such as Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Mike Tyson and Snoop Dogg bring the tabloid faces of the moment into the cast. The short shelf life of the spoof genre shows clearly here: because the jokes depend on references, viewers today who don't remember those films lose much of the point. And a gross of around $78 million on a budget of about $20 million shows that even the weakest link in the series could turn a profit, which says the brand was stronger than the content.

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