It's raunchy, it's hilarious, and it's dead-on when it comes to certain horror movie tropes. "Scary Movie" is also a very direct parody of "Scream" that manages to carve out its own space in pop culture, with memorable original characters like Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) and Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) . The film was so successful it spawned a whole series of sequels, and then a cottage industry of imitators (Setzer and Friedberg, we're looking at you). After years of dormancy after the "Naked Gun" series of films ended, suddenly it was cool for films like "Not Another Teen Movie" and "Date Movie" to be produced and released.

This list of 15 sometimes underappreciated and underrecognized films like the "Scary Movie" series is comprised of parodies, horror comedies, and genre films that pla

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