Scary Movie 6: Official Trailer Drops Monday March 2 — Full Cast, Release Date, Every Horror Film Being Parodied
The scary movie franchise is officially back after 13 years. Scary Movie 6 has been generating enormous buzz this weekend after its teaser began running in theaters ahead of Scream 7 screenings — and Marlon Wayans even bootlegged his own trailer online. The official full trailer drops this Monday, June 12, 2026 is the release date, and the Wayans brothers are promising absolutely no mercy.
Scary Movie 6 Official Trailer Release Date: Monday, March 2, 2026
The trailer for Scary Movie 6 is set to be released online on Monday, March 2, 2026, with the film hitting theaters on June 12, 2026. The footage has already been playing in theaters this weekend exclusively in front of Scream 7 screenings — and audience reactions have been explosive, with packed auditoriums laughing and cheering at what critics are calling a perfectly timed theatrical-first reveal strategy.
Franchise architect Marlon Wayans leaned into the chaos, posting a video to Instagram of himself sneaking into a theater to film his own teaser — captioning it "Just Bootlegged my own Movie Trailer! WE'RE BACK!!!!" The post earned more than 125,000 likes. The self-aware stunt is exactly the kind of irreverent energy fans have been waiting 13 years to see from the Wayans brothers.
Scary Movie 6 Release Date: June 12, 2026 — The Full Story
Scary Movie 6 is an upcoming American parody film directed by Michael Tiddes and written by brothers Marlon, Shawn, and Keenen Ivory Wayans, alongside Rick Alvarez. It is the sixth installment in the Scary Movie film series, following 2013's Scary Movie 5. The June 12 release date is strategic — it's a period when teens are out of school, summer travel ramps up, and studios traditionally aim for big opening weekends. For a comedy built on rapid-fire references, opening early in the season gives it time to run before late-summer releases tighten competition.
Principal photography began on October 1, 2025, and wrapped on November 24 — meaning the entire shoot took just 8 weeks. The film was shot entirely at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Paramount Pictures will distribute Scary Movie 6 under its first-look deal with Miramax, which is fully financing the project.
Full Scary Movie 6 Cast: Every Returning and New Face
The film stars Marlon and Shawn Wayans returning as Shorty Meeks and Ray Wilkins, alongside returning actors Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell, Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks, Jon Abrahams as Bobby Prinze, Lochlyn Munro as Greg Phillippe, Cheri Oteri, Dave Sheridan as Doofy Gilmore, Anthony Anderson, and Chris Elliott.
New additions to the scary movie franchise include Damon Wayans Jr., Kim Wayans, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Savannah Lee Nassif, Cameron Scott Roberts, Sydney Park, Gregg Wayans, Ruby Snowber, and Benny Zielke. The reunion of Anna Faris and Regina Hall alone sent social media into overdrive when their returns were confirmed in August 2025.
Every Horror Movie Being Parodied in Scary Movie 6
This is the list fans have been waiting for. Here are the horror films confirmed to be lampooned in Scary Movie 6: Terrifier 3, Weapons, Sinners, A Quiet Place, Annabelle, MA, Get Out, The Substance, M3GAN, and multiple Scream films.
Marlon Wayans previously suggested recent horror films such as Get Out, Nope, Longlegs, Heretic, and Sinners could be parodied, as well as the Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer franchises. The film also parodies Terrifier 3, featuring Felissa Rose in a special appearance in a scene depicting Art the Clown blowing up a mall with children — a sequence that was initially removed but later reinstated in a trimmed-down edit.
What the Wayans Promise: "No Holds Barred, Equal Opportunity Offenders"
Wayans told Entertainment Weekly the film promises a "no holds barred and equal opportunity offenders" experience, adding: "We just want to make everybody laugh, and we don't care if you're sensitive." That philosophy — the same one that made the original 2000 Scary Movie a cultural phenomenon — is precisely what the franchise has been missing since Keenen Ivory Wayans departed after Scary Movie 2.
Early trailer reactions reveal a parody of Scream 6's subway sequence reworked with signature Scary Movie absurdity fans crave. With Scream 7 breaking franchise box office records this weekend and Scary Movie 6 already generating enormous pre-release buzz from leaked theater footage, Paramount is having one of its best horror weekends in years — and summer 2026 is shaping up as the scary movie genre's biggest commercial moment in a decade.
