Black Comedy or Dark Comedy in Scary Movie

Black Comedy or Dark Comedy

A black comedy (or dark comedy) is a work that makes light of serious, disturbing and taboo subject matter. Black comedy or dark comedy is deals with disturbing subjects such as death, drugs, terrorism, rape, and war, can sometimes be related to the horror drama genre. Black comedy often uses farce and low comedy to make clear that individuals are helpless victims of fate and character. The purpose of dark comedy is to deals with serious and often shocking subject matter in a light-hearted way. It can be used as a tool for exploring difficult issues. It is likely to provoke discomfort and serious thought as well as amusement for an audience.

According to Britannica Encyclopedia black comedy corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor. Black comedy is often controversial due to its subject matter. The term black humor (from the French humour noir) was coined by the surrealist theorist André Breton in 1935 to label a subgenre of comedy and satire in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism, often relying on topics such as death. Black humor is related to that of the grotesque genre.

The purpose of black comedy is to make light of serious and often taboo subject matter; some comedians use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues, thus provoking discomfort and serious thought as well as amusement in their audience. Popular themes of the genre include murder, suicide, depression, abuse, mutilation, war, religion, barbarism, drug abuse, terminal illness, domestic violence, rape, homosexuality, incest, pedophilia, child sexual abuse, insanity, nightmares, disease, racism, homophobia, sexism, disability (both physical and mental), chauvinism, terrorism, genocide, political corruption, torture, and crime. Thus, all of them have several aims to the audience, although they are black comedy or dark comedy, like Scary Movie.

Scary Movie is a 2000 American parody film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. The film is a dark comedy that heavily parodies the horror, slasher, and mystery genres. The film was originally titled "Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th", but was changed Scary Movie in homage to the production title of Scream, which was also released through Dimension Films. The first in the Scary Movie film series, it was followed by four sequels: Scary Movie 2 (2001), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Scary Movie 4 (2006) and Scary Movie 5 (2013).

Scary Movie tells about horror. Horror here means that murder. This movie is about murder. An 18-year-old girl named Drew Decker receives a threatening phone call while home alone one night. Drew is chased outside by Ghostface. The someone who wear a Ghostface try to kill Drew. Drew run around her house, but the Ghostface is success to take her, and then he kills Drew.

The next morning, Cindy Campbell meets up with her boyfriend Bobby and her friends, Brenda, Ray, Greg, and Buffy. Various news teams, including hack reporter Gail Hailstorm, converge on the school in the wake of Drew's murder. While Cindy is in class, she receives a note reading: "I Know What You Did Last Halloween!". Then, she realizes that Drew was murdered exactly one year after she and her friends accidentally killed a man during a wild car ride.

That night during a beauty pageant, Greg is killed by Ghostface in plain view, with the audience mistaking Buffy's screams as being part of her act. When Buffy realizes she's won the pageant, she almost immediately forgets about Greg's death and celebrates her victory. After Cindy goes home alone, she gets attacked by the killer. After Cindy locks herself in her room and contacts the police, Ghostface disappears. Bobby arrives momentarily after hearing the incident, but a pair of black gloves and a telephone fall out of his pocket, leading Cindy to believe that he was the killer. Bobby is arrested and taken to the police station. Afterwards, Cindy heads to Buffy and Doofy's place, to spend the night with them. When their, she receives a call from Ghostface, mocking her.

The next morning, Bobby is released, being found innocent as he was in the police cell and didn't make any phonecalls. Later that day, in girls locker room at school, Buffy, high on the success of her victory at the pageant, ignores Cindy's warnings about the killer and is beheaded by Ghostface with a cleaver, though her severed head somehow remains alive. That night, Ray and Brenda go to a showing of Shakespeare In Love, where Ray is stabbed in the ear through a bathroom stall. Ghostface then goes after Brenda. Unfortunately, angry movie patrons, fed up with Brenda's rude behavior during the movie, kill her before Ghostface can.

Meanwhile, Cindy throws a house party, hoping for safety in numbers. Suddenly, Ghostface appears and stabs Bobby, before disappearing quickly. Cindy gets a gun from a drawer near the entrance, Bobby follows and she tends to his wounds. Brenda's stoner brother Shorty comes up from the basement and informs them that all of the partygoers have fled the house. Start from the events, the story of Scary Movie start. Then, the someone who wear a Ghostface try to kill all of them.

The Scary Movie is part of the black comedy or dark comedy because it tells about horror (murder) actually. But, how the way of Scary Movie to tell the story is very funny, and it is part of joked, comedy. Most of the plot is a Scream parody. The main characters mirror Scream's and the film centers on figuring out who's killing people while wearing a Ghostface mask. There are also a few direct references to Scream, including one character saying it didn't have a plot and another saying their lives are just like Scream, "same dialogue and everything."

The title is Scary Movie. From the title that is related to the problem is ‘scary’. ‘Scary’ is horror movie, but in the ‘Scary movie’ there are many jokes. Much of the humor of Scary Movie relies upon specific references to other contemporary films. Many scenes and jokes parody or reference other films outside the horror film genre.

Scary Movie is a series of American horror comedy parody films created by Keenen Ivory Wayans with his younger brothers, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. Produced by Eric L.Gold, Shawn Wayans, and Marlon Wayans. The film is a dark comedy that heavily parodies the horror, slasher, and mystery genres. Several mid- and late-'90s films and TV shows are spoofed, and the script is primarily based on the '90s hit horror films Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).

The contributors of the Scary Movie are The franchise was conceptualized by The Wayans Brothers, who wrote and directed the first two films before leaving the franchise. Their entries were produced by Dimension Films and distributed by two different studios: Miramax Films, as it was originally the studio's genre film label during executive producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein's run and produced the first three films, and The Weinstein Company—the brothers' subsequently formed studio—which produced the rest of the series release after the Weinsteins departed Miramax and took the Dimension label with them. The franchise was rebooted in 2013 with Scary Movie 5, which disregards the events of the previous films and begins an entirely new storyline with new characters.

Dimension Films is a mini-major American film production and distribution studio formerly owned by The Walt Disney Studios and now owned by The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films. The studio was founded by Bob Weinstein to distribute horror films, but was expanded to release other genres. Originally owned by Miramax Films, but in 1993, Dimension Films became a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios due to their full purchase of Miramax Films. Bob and Harvey Weinstein left Miramax Films to make their own film company, taking Dimension Films with them. Currently, the highest grossing movie in the company is Scary Movie, which was released in 2000. Dimension Films distributes higher-budget releases than its parent company.

The studio's movie franchises include the later Halloween films, later Hellraiser films, Children of the Corn, Scream, Spy Kids and Scary Movie. Its films are currently released on DVD and Blu-ray by Beverly Hills–based Anchor Bay Entertainment under The Weinstein Company, due to the Weinsteins' 25% purchase of Starz Media, which is Anchor Bay's parent. Before the purchase, they were distributed by Genius Products and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The pre-2005 Dimension films were originally released to home video through Buena Vista Home Entertainment while Miramax was owned by Disney. They are currently distributed on home video through Lionsgate (with the exception of the overseas rights to The Brothers Grimm, in which is now owned by Disneyas of 2015), with Echo Bridge Home Entertainment briefly handling some as well. Most of Dimension film’s productions are horror movie and engaging kids to be the player.

The series of Scary movies that mainly specialize in parodying horror films, which have collectively grossed over $895 million at the box-office worldwide:

·      Scary Movie (2000) is the first film that premiered in the series.  It is a spoof of several films, with a focus on the Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer series.

·      Scary Movie 2 (2001) is the second in franchise. This is one of two Scary Movie films to receive an R-rating and also marks the end of the Wayans siblings' involvement with the series.

·      Scary Movie 3 (2003) is the third film in the seriesThe plot of the film is a spoof of The Ring and Signs as well as several other films and celebrities.

·      Scary Movie 4 (2006) is the fourth in the series. The film opened with $40 Million at the weekend box office, making it the third best opening in the series. The main target of spoof was War of the Worlds,Saw, The Village and The Grudge.

·      Scary Movie 5 (2013) is the fifth installment in the series and is the first film to not feature Anna Faris and Regina Hall, being the least successful film in the franchise.