Scary Movie, the sixth entry in the Wayans family's horror-spoof franchise, arrived on premium video-on-demand on July 21, 2026, following a June 5 theatrical run.
It is available to rent for $19.99 or purchase for $24.99 through Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube Movies & TV and Fandango at Home, with the PVOD release bundling the theatrical cut alongside an extended version and an alternate ending. There is no confirmed subscription-streaming date yet. The film opened to a franchise-best $54.4 million and finished its run at $228.6 million worldwide against a $30 million budget, the series' second-best total behind the original 2000 film.
Twenty-six years after outrunning a masked killer, the original Core Four, Marlon Wayans' Shorty, Shawn Wayans' Ray, Anna Faris' Cindy and Regina Hall's Brenda, are pulled back into the killer's sights, this time alongside their own teenage children. Michael Tiddes directs from a script credited to Marlon Wayans, continuing the creative partnership behind the pair's earlier Fifty Shades and Haunted House parodies. The plot strings together spoofs of Scream, Get Out, M3GAN, Terrifier, The Substance, Longlegs, Candyman, Smile and It Follows, using the returning cast's history with the franchise as the connective tissue.
The clearest reason to watch now is the reunion itself, and Regina Hall delivers the film's sharpest lines even as the script leans so hard into self-referential, meta humor that it risks repeating the mistake that derailed both the Scary Movie and Scream franchises by their third or fourth installments. The pace runs at a joke a second, with volume substituting for control, so the appeal rests less on narrative payoff and more on watching the original cast's chemistry survive a chaotic format.
This is for longtime fans of the Scary Movie series who want the original quartet back together and are curious how the joke-a-minute formula holds up against a 2020s horror landscape stacked with M3GAN, Terrifier and The Substance. It is not the place to start for anyone new to the franchise, and it demands tolerance for rapid-fire, hit-or-miss gags; go in for the nostalgia of the reunion, not for a spoof that reinvents the format.
