The Scary Movies Ranked From Worst To Best

The movie parody is an interesting phenomenon in film-making. It has generated some of the best comedies ever, with Mel Brooks classics like Spaceballs and Young Frankenstein to name a few. Sadly the genre eventually began to fade. Parody films ended up making nothing at the box office, and not even the wonderful Leslie Nielson seemed to be able to draw a crowd in for them.

That was until the Wayans brothers made Scary Movie. Although it is an inherently terrible franchise, people do not give credit to these films for essentially saving the parody genre. Whilst it would eventually end up completely ruining itself as other projects took the concept and destroyed it, for a moment, these films were everywhere.

Because they chose to parody whatever was most popular at the time, the instalments end up feeling like time capsules, giving us an insight into pop-culture of the time. This makes them an overwhelmingly positive experience to look back on if you want a nostalgic tour of the early 2000s.

With gross-out humour, some great actors and an over-reliance on goofiness this series made for a fun time and is a great one to explore during Halloween.

Scary Movie V came along in 2013 a whole nine years after the last instalment in the series. It seemed like a strange choice, as there was no demand for it, and parodies had all but died out.

Absence did not make the heart grow fonder for this franchise. There was a time for this kind of humour to feel appropriate, but in 2013 it just didn't have a place. Even if the film had been a decent outing, it still wouldn't have done well, as comedy had moved on without it.

Although the Scary Movies certainly had no sense of logic or continuity, they at least had reoccurring actors and characters that made them feel familiar. The only memorable face in this was Simon Rex from the third film, and even this wasn't enough to make it feel like a Scary Movie.

An over-reliance on gross humour worked at times in the previous films, but they got on well because the characters they created were fun and likeable. In this version, there is simply no-one that you enjoy seeing on screen.

Not funny, no logic and arriving way too late. This was the final nail in the parody movie coffin.