The Scary Movie franchise changed the way cinemagoers saw a plethora of horror films forever, from Scream to I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Exorcist, Ring, and so much more. The comedy films – created by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, and Rick Alvarez – last hit our screens in 2013 with Scary Movie 5, and fans have been calling for a sixth installment almost as soon as the credits rolled.
For more than 10 years, our funny bones remained untickled while waiting for a Scary Movie 6 announcement, one that finally came in 2024, with the bonus of the Wayans brothers reuniting to write the script.
Marlon said that Scary Movie 6 will be “no holds barred and equal opportunity offenders,” and if teaser trailers and posters are anything to go by, fans of the original film will be in for a treat with plenty of outrageous humor to shock the masses. It has been described as a reboot of the franchise, with Marlon telling People Magazine back in 2025 that they’re “going to have the same fun and the same kinds of tone and Wayans flavor that they gave on the first [film]”, but with plenty of new horror films on the chopping block. Ahead of Scary Movie 6’s eagerly anticipated release, we have everything you need to know about the latest parody in one place, from what films it will reference to trailers, returning cast, and more.
Scary Movie 6 Release Date
Scary Movie 6 will be released on June 5, kicking off a month of impressive genre releases. Izabel Pakzad’s feature debut Find Your Friends follows on June 12, with Adrian Chiarella’s Neon-acquired Queer horror Leviticus hitting our screens a week later on June 19. CAMP, directed by Avalon Fast, rounds out the month on June 26.
Scary Movie was originally set for release on June 12. It was brought forward, with Marlon announcing in a video on his Instagram page: “We are currently in the edit for Scary Movie. The bad news is, we’re no longer going to be releasing on June 12. The good news is, due to the overwhelming response and the worldwide excitement, we are releasing a week earlier. That’s right: June 5th is the new date for Scary Movie. We’re starting off the summer with a bang and a laugh fest. So I’m really excited about coming early.”
Scary Movie 6 Cast
A host of huge names from the world of Scary Movie are set to return for the sixth film, as well as a slew of new faces. It was announced last year that Anna Faris and Regina Hall would be reprising their roles as Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks, respectively, for the first time in 20 years.
The characters featured in the first four Scary Movie installments did not appear in Scary Movie 5. In a joint statement issued to Deadline at the time of the announcement, the actors said: “We can’t wait to bring Brenda and Cindy back to life and be reunited with our great friends Keenen, Shawn and Marlon — three men we’d literally die for (in Brenda’s case, again.)”
As well as penning the latest film, Marlon and Shawn Wayans will once again appear as Shorty Meeks and Ray Wilkins for the first time in 23 years. Other familiar faces set to appear on our screens again include Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Jon Abrahams, Cheri Oteri, and Chris Elliott. Newcomers include Saturday Night Live’s Heidi Gardner, Amnesiac’s Olivia Rose Keegan, The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders’ Savannah Lee Nassif, Relative’s Cameron Scott Roberts, There’s Someone Inside Your House’s Sydney Park, Alison’s Choice’s Gregg Wayans, Ruby Snowber, and Benny Zielke.
Plot
Scary Movie 6’s official synopsis reads: “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. Marlon Wayans (Shorty), Shawn Wayans (Ray), Anna Faris (Cindy), and Regina Hall (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.”
Scary Movie 6 Trailer
The first trailer for Scary Movie 6 gives fans their first taste of which iconic horror films will be parodied, with references to M3GAN, Get Out, Longlegs, Terrifier 3, Smile, The Substance, Weapons, A Quiet Place, and Sinners. Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, and Wednesday Addams all make an appearance, while we also caught signs of Ma, Halloween, Heart Eyes, and Malignant among the chaos.
You can watch the most recent Scary Movie 6 trailer right here, and see how many more references you can spot:
Production
Scary Movie fans had been pleading for a new installment for some time, and in 2024, their prayers were answered at CinemaCon, where Miramax shared that a sixth installment was in the works, with Neal H. Moritz attached as a producer. In October, it was revealed that the Wayans brothers would return as screenwriters and producers, marking their first collaboration in 17 years. Rick Alvarez was hired to co-write, and Michael Tiddes was announced to direct shortly after. Principal photography began a year later, on October 1, 2025, and wrapped on November 24.
Speaking about what fans can expect from the upcoming film, Marlon told Entertainment Weekly: “What we’re trying to do is bring back laughter. This is about bringing back comedy the way it used to be. And I think the only way to do it is you have to cancel the cancel culture. We’re gonna do what we always do. We’re gonna make fun of everybody because we’re equal opportunity offenders, we have a recipe, we have a formula that you can’t mimic or copy. You could try, but it’s very specific. It’s how we grew up, and it’s how we see the world. It’s the household we were raised in with the sense of humor that we all were governed with, that we inherited from our mother.”
Consider us there on day one, Ghostface masks in hand.
