In Scream, the killer was a guy in some vaguely ghostish mask, who yammered on about Psycho and Nightmare On Elm Street – Scary Movie copied this outright, replacing the metacommentary with the more crowd-pleasing option of sex and drug gags. The odd thing about Scary Movie was that it went about spoofing the slasher genre by, specifically, mimicking Scream, a film which was itself a spoof of the slasher genre. The latter garnered fully six Golden Raspberry nominations, including one for a young Kim Kardashian for ‘worst supporting actress’.
This is perhaps why the same team also spawned the other (x) Movies, like Epic Movie and Disaster Movie, both considered to be among the worst films of all time. Nonetheless, it would give birth to four sequels, which became increasingly disinterested in the horror genre – with some of their major points of reference being War Of The Worlds (arguably scary) and Eight Mile (what? Why?). The pre-credits sequence saw Carmen Electra being stabbed in the chest, only for the killer’s blade to then draw out one of her breast implants, which is a fair summation of the film’s approach to both tasteful humour and gender relations. While you’d never call Scary Movie ‘cinema’, its crude parodying of slasher flicks certainly got the 16-25 market in. So instead, I’m going to talk about Keenen Ivory Wayans’ early 2000s comedy-horror film Scary Movie. And that’s not an unreasonable expectation of an article which is meant to be about the game. And despite fairly limited sales, it maintains a strong cult following – not just because of the obscenity, or because it was one of Rareware’s last major Nintendo projects before they jumped ship for Microsoft (a move for which this reporter still hasn’t quite forgiven them), but because it was a genuinely memorable title.Īt this point, you might expect me to go into an examination of what made Conker’s Bad Fur Day what it was, how it was a slightly fractured take on the platform game, moving between various different gameplay styles (racing, puzzle, shooter, and not to forget jumping between platforms), and why its brand of vulgar silliness is so fondly remembered. Conker was that rarest thing in gaming: a 18-rated title from Nintendo. Has it really been twenty years since Conker’s Bad Fur Day came out? Because someone who was born on the day of its release would only recently have been allowed to play it.