Traders don’t appear to have much confidence that the new Scary Movie reboot will win over critics.
Kalshi’s Rotten Tomatoes score market for the sixth Scary Movie film currently predicts that the parody starring Anna Faris and Marlon Wayans will end up with “Rotten” rating of 31.4%.
What’s the movie about?
It’s been 13 years since the last Scary Movie film hit theaters. Like its predecessors, the reboot spoofs a wide range of horror hits and pop-culture films. Earlier entries targeted flicks like M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, Saw, The Ring, The Matrix, and most notably, the Scream franchises.
This time, the movie has its sights on modern horror hits like Sinners, M3GAN, The Substance, Get Out, and others. The film will also bring back some of the horror-comedy franchise’s regular players such as Faris, Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Cheri Oteri, and Dave Sheridan as Doofy Gilmore.
No early reviews
The film opens in theaters on Friday, but it doesn’t appear critics were allowed to view advance screenings from the studio. Studios sometimes limit advance screenings when they expect negative reactions, though that isn’t always the case.
None of the past Scary Movie films in the franchise were able to finish in “Fresh” territory on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer. The first Scary Movie film released in 2000 has the highest Rotten Tomatoes rating at 52%. Scary Movie V released in 2013 has the lowest rating at 4%.
It’s joke, joke, joke, joke, joke
The stars and writers of the new Scary Movie are promising to scare up laughs with audiences once the film hits the theaters.
Entertainment Weekly’s Ryan Coleman interviewed the cast as part of a special profile on the film. Marlon Wayans promised the movie to be packed with jokes, just like all his other comedy films.
“If you look at everything we’ve done – I don’t care if it’s White Chicks, I don’t care if it’s Little Man – all our movies are set pieces and jokes,” Marlon Wayans says. “It’s joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. If we have a movie that’s an hour and a half, we really want 88 minutes of jokes and two minutes of heart.”
The takeaway:
Kalshi markets now predict:
Scary Movie Rotten Tomatoes score: 31.4%
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