Halloween, Scream and Scary Movie – The road to parody and ...



Halloween, Scream and Scary Movie – The road to parody and pastiche.

In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject.

Pastiche denotes a literary technique employing a generally light-hearted tongue-in-cheek imitation of another's style; although jocular, it is usually respectful (as opposed to parody, which is not).

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Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)

• The budget for Halloween was $320,000.

• It was a 22 day shoot.

• The original title for this film was "The Babysitter Murders”.

• They used the name Haddonfield for the town in "Halloween", because Producer Debra Hill grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

• Compass International Pictures, the distributor of "Halloween", didn't have the capital to release it nationwide at first. It was only after its initial success in a number of markets did they have the funds to make additional copies for wider release.

• Halloween is one of the most successful independent film ever made, grossing over $65 million.

• John Carpenter has cited both "The Exorcist" and "Suspiria" as inspirations for the music in "Halloween".

• The mask Michael wears is a "Captain Kirk" mask painted white.

• "The Bowling Green Symphony Orchestra" was credited with the score for Halloween. Actually, John Carpenter did the entire score. It is definitely one of the classic horror scores of all-time.

• "Halloween" was Jamie Lee Curtis' debut in a feature film.



SCREAM (Craven, 96)

• Billy's surname, Loomis, is the same as that of Donald Pleasence's character in Halloween (1978), which in turn was the name of Marion Crane's lover in Psycho (1960).

• In Malibu's Most wanted Jamie Kennedy worked with Regina Hall who played Brenda Meeks in Scary Movie, a character whos name was based off Kennedy's character Randy Meeks in Scream.

• The knife prop that is used in the Scream movies is the same knife that Mrs. Voorhees uses in Friday the 13th.

• When Casey's parents come home and see that something is wrong, her father says to her mother, "Go down the street to the Mackenzies' house..." which is a quote from Halloween (1978).

• The school janitor Fred (played by Craven) can be seen wearing Freddy Krueger's outfit from A Nightmare on Elm Street.

• The Exorcist star Linda Blair has an uncredited cameo in the film as a rude and obnoxious news reporter(although in reality, Linda has been known to be extremely kindhearted and funny). Linda previously worked with Craven in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Summer Of Fear aka "Stranger In Our House".

• The blonde cheerleader in the girls' rest room scene was played by Skeet Ulrich's girlfriend during the shoot.

• To keep Drew Barrymore crying and looking scared, director Wes Craven kept telling her a story that was recently in the paper of how someone intentionally lit a dog on fire. She is a keen animal lover and vegetarian in real life.

• When the phone slipped out of Billy's hand and hit Stu's head, it was completely unintentional. Wes Craven kept it in because of Stu's realistic reaction.

• David Arquette's sister Patricia Arquette starred in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, co-written and produced by Scream director Wes Craven.

• The Kevin Smith movie Clerks. is seen on top of the VCR that Gale Weathers places a camera on, and the movie poster can be clearly seen when Randy (Jamie Kennedy) is visited at work. Kevin Smith and his Clerks co-star Jason Mewes would go on to make cameos in Scream 3 as famed stoners Jay and Silent Bob. Smith would repay the favor in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which features a cameo by Craven, who directs a fictitious Scream 4 with a monkey playing the killer.

• When Billy comes into Sidney's room at the beginning of the movie a cover of Blue Öyster Cult's song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" performed by GUS is played. This song is played in the first Halloween film when Annie and Laurie are on their way to baby-sit.

• 2000 A youth aged 15, who said he was obsessed by Scream wore the mask while stabbing his sleeping parents to death in France. [citation needed]

SCARY MOVIE (Wayans, 2000)



• Scary Movie was at one point the working title for Scream, which was also released by Dimension Films.

• The lowest budgeted Scary Movie film at $19 million. Scary Movie 2, 3 and 4's budget production is $45 million.

• The only Scary Movie film to feature exposed genitalia (penis and scrotum).

• Anna Farris dyed her hair brown for the first two films. Her hair is actually naturally blonde.(as seen in Scary Movie 3 and 4)

• Spoof character names include:

o Cindy Campbell - Neve Campbell, actress who played the main character, Sidney Prescott in the Scream trilogy, also the name Cindy sounds like Sidney.

o Bobby Prinze - Freddie Prinze Jr, actor who played the main character in I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel. His character is a parody of Billy Loomis from Scream.

o Greg Phillipe - Ryan Phillipe, actor who played the main character in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

o Buffy Gilmore - Buffy Summers, fictional character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a show that made Sarah Michelle Gellar who played in I Know What You Did Last Summer into a famous young star. The "Gilmore" part of her name could be a reference to Gilmore Girls, as both shows first aired on the WB.

o Drew Decker - Drew Barrymore, actress who played Casey Becker, killed in Scream's famous prologue scene.

o Gail Hailstorm - A reference to Gale Weathers, the reporter in Scream.

o Ray Wilkins - Ray Bronson, a character from I Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

o Brenda Meeks - Brandy Norwood who played Karla Wilson in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and Randy Meeks.

• Writers Phil Beauman and Buddy Johnson went on to write Not Another Teen Movie. Writers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer went on to write and direct Date Movie.

• The catch phrase "Wassup!" is from a short independent film intitled, "True" written & directed by Charles Stone III and parodied in the film by Marlon Wayans's character "Shorty" along with Shorty's friends and the killer. The phrase was used for a commercial campaign for Anheuser-Busch Budweiser beer in the early 2000s. The ad campaign became well known and popular all over the world.



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