Millennials and Gen-Xers, it’s your time… because the Scary Movie franchise is officially back in action. The upcoming film, Scary Movie 6, premiered its very first trailer ahead of Scream 7 during its opening weekend, and needless to say, the sneak peek is a real doozy.
For those of you returning to the Scary Movie franchise (again, your Millennials and Gen-Xers) that wacky, madcap humor you know and love is all over this thing. The trailer — which kicks off with an unsurprising pronouns joke within a Scream 6 parody that leads to Marlon Wayans’ character Shorty standing with a chill-as-hell Ghostface and friends while telling the camera “We baaaaaack” — is full of the tone you’d expect with all of the fun and practical physical comedy you crave in this franchise.
For those of you who are new here (Gen Z and Gen Alpha, of course), the humor might take some getting used to but there’s a wealth of great horror properties to anticipate jokes about. The trailer shows off nods to films like The Substance, Megan, Weapons, Sinners, Get Out, and even Terrifier, among many more. It appears that this new installment is going full modern… minus their original sense of humor, clearly.
However, the filmmakers want fans to know that the movie isn’t just trying to bumrush modern franchises with distasteful jokes. “Our brand of humor is never that,” Marlon Wayans, one of the stars and cowriters of the film, recently explained to GamesRadar. “If you look at Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, it wasn’t, ‘Hey, let’s just throw everything in there’. We threw in everything that was organic to the characters.”
Speaking of characters, let’s not forget the best part of that teaser. The sneak peek also shows us something that isn’t specifically horror-related that will definitely get fans going: the reunion of the franchise’s iconic female characters Brenda and Cindy. So there’s a lot to get excited about here, and at minimum the older gens will be on board for it all.
Scary Movie 6 will star Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Shawn and Marlon Wayans, Jon Abrahams, Lochlyn Munro, Dave Sheridan, and Cheri Oteri, all of whom will be returning from the original film. Marlon, Shawn, and Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote the film, which was directed by Michael Tiddes. Tiddes worked with the Wayans brothers on their A Haunted House horror comedy films.
The film’s tagline should excite fans as well: “Every line will be crossed.” If that’s truly the case — and it seems like it might be with some truly gory horror properties on parody this time around — then we’re probably gonna have some serious fun with this one.
Scary Movie 6 is set to arrive in theaters on June 12, 2026.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
