In the pantheon of modern parody cinema, one franchise sits on a blood-splattered, whoopee-cushion throne: . What began as a direct spoof of the late-90s slasher renaissance quickly evolved into a cultural time capsule, skewering everything from The Matrix to Brokeback Mountain with a gleefully immature, R-rated sensibility.
To understand the scene, you have to remember the landscape of horror in 2001. The Haunting (1999) had recently been in theaters, featuring a skeleton ghost that looked, quite frankly, a bit goofy. Scary Movie 2 took that goofy skeleton and decided to take it to its logical, R-rated extreme.
| Version | Runtime of Scene | Availability | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Theatrical Cut | 2 min 14 sec | Standard DVD/Blu-ray | | Unrated Director’s Cut | 3 min 01 sec | Out-of-print 2002 DVD | | TV Network Edit | 45 sec (heavily censored) | Occasionally on FX | | Lost Workprint (Exclusive) | 5 min 47 sec | Private collector only |