Review #305: Scary Movie 2 (2001)
October 2024 Horror Origins Review #22- Scary Movie 2 (2001) Watch it here on Pluto! I said yesterday that Scary Movie is, by most metrics, a better movie than Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth. That's definitely true, but I think Scary Movie 2 is even better than the first. I think it does a great job of showing the strengths of the Scary Movie series over Shriek If You Know- yes there's a ton of pop culture references and easter eggs in both, but the Scary Movie series makes sure that even if you don't care about all of the topical jokes and references, there's still a consistent story throughout that you can appreciate regardless. While the previous Scary Movie was a mashup of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scary Movie 2 is almost exclusively cribbing from The Haunting (which I'll be reviewing tomorrow) with other movies relegated to just the smaller vignettes and one-off jokes. Scary Movie 2 follows several of the characters f...