- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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1 out of 5
It wasn't a classic or particularly well made, but at least Scary Movie was good for a few honest Scream-inspired laughs. That original outing looks like a masterpiece in comparison to this uninspired profit-driven sequel. Barely competent on any technical or artistic level, what comic ingenuity and genre appreciation was shown the first time around has been replaced by boorish vulgarity and a desperation to get the audience to snigger at anything, no matter how lame, crude or obvious. Once past the opening where The Exorcist is amusingly sent up by James Woods in a cameo appearance as a priest (a role originally earmarked for Marlon Brando), it descends rapidly into lampooning the 1999 remake of The Haunting - so close to an awful self parody itself that any gags at its expense are depressingly redundant. Everything from Charlie's Angels and What Lies Beneath to Hannibal and even The Weakest Link is raked over for minimal laughs in a shoddy satire that took seven screenwriters to produce. It brings new depths to the term "too many cooks spoil the broth".
Plot Summary
Horror parody sequel that sends up classic moments from, among others, The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror and The Haunting. The haunted mansion of Hell House hides many horrors within its walls. So there is bound to be trouble when a college professor bribes some of his students to spend a weekend there.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Ray Jones
- Shawn Wayans
- Shorty Meeks
- Marlon Wayans
- Cindy Campbell
- Anna Faris
- Brenda Meeks
- Regina Hall
- Buddy
- Chris Masterson
- Theo
- Kathleen Robertson
- Father McFeely
- James Woods
- Professor Oldman
- Tim Curry
- Alex Monday
- Tori Spelling
- Hanson
- Chris Elliott
- Mrs Voorhees, Megan's mother
- Veronica Cartwright
- Father Harris
- Andy Richter
- Megan Voorhees
- Natasha Lyonne
- Tommy
- James DeBello
Crew
- Director
- Keenen Ivory Wayans
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