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Movies that feel likeScary Movie (2000)

A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody!

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).

🍅 52% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Keenen Ivory Wayanswittyplayfuldarkly funny
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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)

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Office Space
1999 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 82%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

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

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

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🍅 90%★ 7.4comedyPrime Video

Outrageous, boundary-pushing humor exposes hypocrisy with a straight face

The difference: A real-world mockumentary prank, not a scripted horror-movie spoof

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

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Election
1999 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 92%★ 7.2comedy · dramaParamount+

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

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%★ 7comedy

Satirical misadventure mines bad decisions for broad, cringe-inducing laughs

The difference: A yuppie road-trip satire, not a horror-genre parody

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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In the Loop
2009 · dir. Armando Iannucci
🍅 94%★ 7.4comedy

Fast-talking farce turns institutional incompetence into dark comedy gold

The difference: A political-warmongering satire, not a horror-spoof crude comedy

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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Life of Brian
1979 · dir. Terry Jones
🍅 96%★ 8comedyPrime VideoPeacock

Absurdist parody needles a familiar genre's most sacred cows

The difference: A biblical-epic parody, not a slasher-movie send-up

Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%★ 6.7comedy

Small-town absurdity gets mocked with gleeful, over-the-top dark humor

The difference: A beauty-pageant mockumentary, not a horror-genre spoof

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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Trading Places
1983 · dir. John Landis
🍅 87%★ 7.5comedy

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

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

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Not Another Teen Movie
2001 · dir. Joel Gallen
🍅 32%★ 5.8comedy

Genre clichés get gleefully skewered with the same crude, broad satire

The difference: Teen-movie tropes in its crosshairs, not slasher-horror conventions

On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.

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Look Who's Back
2015 · dir. David Wnendt
★ 7comedyRent or buy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · dir. David Zucker
🍅 77%★ 6.9comedy · crimeParamount+

A bumbling lead stumbles through slapstick chaos aimed at genre conventions

The difference: A cop-thriller parody with political targets, not slasher-movie spoofery

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

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The Producers
1968 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 92%★ 7.5comedy

Common ground: satire

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

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