From the demented and very funny minds of the Wayans Brothers, Scary Movie pushes the boundaries of good taste and gets away with it.

This spoof, primarily of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, follows a group of dim students that are stalked by a masked, hook-handed serial killer.

Other send-ups include The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense; and not sticking to one genre, The Usual Suspects and The Matrix.

The stupid sextet, including Cindy (Faris) and Buffy (American Pie's Elizabeth), suspect it's the fisherman whose body they prematurely disposed of last summer after accidentally running him over.

The gang get bumped off by increasingly ridiculous means, while pesky journalist, Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri), reports on the action.

The film features scenes that make American Pie, There's Something About Mary, and Me, Myself and Irene seem almost tame.

Scary Movie combines the raunchiness of '90s teen comedies with the single-movie spoof approach of Mel Brooks and the rapid-fire barrage of gags and jokes used in Airplane and The Naked Gun.

Scary Movie proves to be the kind of film that will shock the faint-of-heart and leave just about everyone else laughing until tears run down their cheeks.

Dominic Bloch