Scary Movie Franchise

The Scary Movie franchise are a number of spoof films which parodie the horror, slasher and mystery genre. Scary Movie films have made a number of references to a number of other films. These films include:

Scream
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Exorcist
The Blair Witch Project
The Usual Suspects
The Shining
Titanic
Thinner
The Matrix
Drop Dead Gorjeous

The Franchise:

Scary movie 1 -8th September 2000 (UK)

Scary movie 2 -7th September 2001 (UK)

Scary movie 3 - 23rd January 2004 (UK)

Scary movie 4 -13rd April 2006 (UK)

Post-modern-

Pastiche-A media text made up from other media text pieces or of imitations of other styles.

Irony- Irony is when humour is based on using words to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning.

Intertextuality- The practice of purposely including a reference of one text in the narrative of another, it can generate levels of meaning for the viewer.

Parody-A parody is in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation

Spoof- a composition that imitates or misrepresents some body's style, usually in a humorous way