With a new ‘Scary Movie’ on the way, the original’s gay jokes still haunt the franchise

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Here’s a little treat just in time for Halloween: Wayans brothers Marlon, Shawn, and Keenan Ivory are reuniting for a new Scary Movie, reviving the horror spoof series they first started back in 2000.

Now, we’re not going to sit here and defend the Scary Movies as some works of high art, but they could be pretty darn funny—especially the first two, which happened to be directed by Keenan with Marlon & Shawn writing and starring.

It’s no coincidence that, afters the Wayans brothers parted ways with the franchise, the movies—and other parodies that followed their lead like Epic Movie and Disaster Movie—suffered from diminishing returns. In other words, we have hope that they’ll be able to

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