'Scary Movie' franchise

Scary Movie

• Film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans in 2000.
• The original title for Scream was “Scary Movie” which was used later.
• It is an American dark comedy and parodies the horror, slasher, and mystery genres.
• The tagline for scary movie is “No mercy. No shame. No sequel.” And changed for Scary movie 2.

Scary Movie 2

• Released in 2001.
• American comedy film.Scary Movie 3
• 2003 American comedy film.
• Directed by David Zucker.
  

Scary Movie 3

• 2003 American comedy film.
• Directed by David Zucker.

Scary Movie 4

• Fourth and last film of Scary Movie.
• Directed by David Zucker.

Pastiche - A literary/artistic genre. The word has two meanings:"hodge-podge" or an imitation.

Parody - Are works created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original piece of work.Spoof - is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films.

The main conventions for this genre are:

• Sarcasm
• Huge stereotyping, e.g. the dumb blonde, the hardboiled detective
• Mocking other films/scenes from serious movies
• Violence with no consequence for the characters' actions
• Obvious meanings to characters' actions/names
• Joking around with no purpose
• Random scenes, many layers

Irony - Literary or rhetorical device, in which there is discordance between what somebody says or does and what they mean or what is generally understood. Irony is a mode of expression that calls attention to the character's knowledge and of a audience.

Intertextuality - Is the shaping of texts meanings by other texts. It can refer to an author’s borrowing and transformation of a text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.Scary Movie can be seen as a parody and also a spoof.