10 Upcoming Horror Movies Facing ONE Big Problem

Earlier this year, more than a decade after Scary Movie 5 was released, a sixth entry into the franchise was announced, and this past October it was further confirmed that the Wayans brothers - who wrote, directed, and starred in the first two films - were returning to develop this reboot.

But even accepting that the Scary Movie brand name is legitimately iconic in its own right, the spoof genre is completely dead. 

For one, the glut of low-effort parody movies produced by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer throughout the 2000s and 2010s - including Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie - basically annihilated audience interest in spoofs as a whole. More than that, social media has allowed smart, talented creators to deliver bite-sized parodies of hit movies on platforms such as TikTok with an immediacy that a movie simply can't ever match.

And so, can audiences really be persuaded to leave their house and pay money to watch a new horror spoof movie when all the jokes it's inevitably going to make have probably already been done - and quite probably done better, even - by content creators online?