
Movies that feel likeScary Movie (2000)
If you loved Scary Movie, the closest films we have are Office Space (1999), Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) and Election (1999). All three share Scary Movie's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lost in America (1985).
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If Scary Movie hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Scary Movie 2 (2001) · Scary Movie 3 (2003) · Scary Movie 4 (2006) · Scary Movie 5 (2013)

Deadpan satire turns everyday institutions into a source of absurd comedy
The difference: A workplace-rebellion satire, not a horror-genre spoof with a body count

Outrageous, boundary-pushing humor exposes hypocrisy with a straight face
The difference: A real-world mockumentary prank, not a scripted horror-movie spoof

Sharp satire mines high-school ambition for its own kind of dark comedy
The difference: A grounded political-satire character study, not a broad horror spoof

Satirical misadventure mines bad decisions for broad, cringe-inducing laughs
The difference: A yuppie road-trip satire, not a horror-genre parody

Fast-talking farce turns institutional incompetence into dark comedy gold
The difference: A political-warmongering satire, not a horror-spoof crude comedy

Absurdist parody needles a familiar genre's most sacred cows
The difference: A biblical-epic parody, not a slasher-movie send-up

Small-town absurdity gets mocked with gleeful, over-the-top dark humor
The difference: A beauty-pageant mockumentary, not a horror-genre spoof

A farcical wager sets off a chain of escalating, satirical chaos
The difference: A class-swap farce, not a horror-movie parody with crude gags

Genre clichés get gleefully skewered with the same crude, broad satire
The difference: Teen-movie tropes in its crosshairs, not slasher-horror conventions

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

A bumbling lead stumbles through slapstick chaos aimed at genre conventions
The difference: A cop-thriller parody with political targets, not slasher-movie spoofery

Common ground: satire
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still
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