The horror comedy franchise that helped define an entire generation of movie parodies is finally back. More than 25 years after the original movie became a box office phenomenon, Scary Movie returns to theaters this week with a new installment that reunites several of the series’ most iconic stars. Ahead of the movie’s June 5 release, Collider is excited to exclusively premiere “Scary Movie Suite” from composer Haim Mazar, offering fans an early listen to the music behind the franchise’s long-awaited comeback.
The track arrives ahead of Lakeshore Records’ release of Scary Movie — Music From the Motion Picture, which will be available on June 5 alongside the movie’s theatrical debut. While Scary Movie has always been known for its rapid-fire jokes, outrageous set pieces, and relentless pop culture references, the score plays an important role in making the comedy work. Horror parody is most effective when it understands the genre it is poking fun at, and that means creating genuine suspense, tension, and atmosphere beneath the laughs. Mazar told Collider exclusively:
“Scary Movie holds a special place in pop culture, and scoring this new chapter gave me the opportunity to pay tribute to many of the iconic film scores and musical styles that have shaped the genre’s musical identity over the years. ‘Scary Movie Suite’ features several of the score’s central themes, including my new Scary Movie theme, which became the musical foundation for this new chapter of the franchise. Performed by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, the score combines the power of a full symphony orchestra with modern beats, guitars, and plenty of musical surprises along the way. It was an absolute joy to write, and I hope fans around the world enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed creating it.”
Give the track a listen below!
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
Jason
Michael
Freddy
Pennywise
Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
02
Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
03
What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
04
What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
05
You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
06
What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
07
What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
08
It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
‘Scary Movie’ Is Bringing the Franchise Back to Its Roots
The new Scary Movie marks a major milestone for the long-running series. The movie reunites Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall, bringing several of the franchise’s most beloved performers back together for the first time in years. The original 2000 movie became a cultural sensation by parodying the slasher boom of the late 1990s with targets such as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, spawning a multi-installment franchise that would go on to spoof everything from supernatural horror to blockbuster science fiction.
This latest installment aims to recapture the spirit that made the original such a hit. By bringing back familiar faces while introducing a new generation of horror targets, the movie continues the franchise’s tradition of turning the genre’s most recognizable tropes into comedy gold. The return arrives at a particularly interesting moment for horror. The genre has never been more popular, with audiences embracing everything from psychological thrillers and supernatural nightmares to legacy sequels and franchise revivals. That gives Scary Movie plenty of material to work with as it makes its own return to the big screen.
The Scary Movie soundtrack from Lakeshore Records will be available on June 5, the same day the movie arrives in theaters.
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