r/ScaryMovieSeries

I know this movie has been pretty divisive, but I actually think there were some moments that had that old school Wayans Brothers Scary Movie energy that people aren’t giving enough credit for.
The jokes that worked best for me were the ones where they weren’t just making a random joke, but were actually parodying the movie they were referencing. The Get Out parody with Ray chasing the gardener while Shorty is just casually smoking felt like the kind of simple, ridiculous humor the original movies were built on.
The boner pills joke in the beginning referencing Scream 5 also felt very much like the classic Wayans style. Taking a specific moment from the movie they’re parodying and adding their own dumb twist to it. The Weapons parody with Shorty telling Brenda he passed out his edibles and now the kids are running through the streets was another one that felt like it had that same flavor.
The ice joke and the Get Out sunken place parody were also some of the moments where I felt like they were really tapping into that old Scary Movie formula. Even the sunken place scene had potential because it felt like it was building toward that type of absurd parody, but once it turned into the animated parody it kind of lost some of that energy for me.
I think the biggest issue is that those moments were surrounded by a lot of jokes that didn’t work, so the stuff that actually felt like a Wayans Brothers parody got buried. When they were focused on parodying the movie itself while adding their own ridiculous humor, it worked. I honestly think the movie would’ve been a lot stronger if it had kept that energy consistently throughout.
Curious what everyone else thinks
Did anyone else feel like there were some good old school Scary Movie style jokes in there that got overlooked?

Why do people often act like the entire Scary Movie franchise is a parody of Scream, when most movies in the franchise are parody of other movies/franchises?

I don't know, it's tone and editing was just so bizarre. I know we ain't the 2000's anymore but this shit was like the Matrix 4, and i hate that direction we are going with remakes and reboots, where everything is meta. its not funny. at least do it with some tongue in cheek or irony. breaking the 4th wall is just tacky.

I wrote my reflection dawn in this opinion:

Anyone searching for themselves and for the true nature behind the world around them no longer needs the help of a psychologist or life coach. The recent horror film Backrooms can, with the help of ancient philosophy, guide you further. The Greeks are the heroes here. No, this is not about Homer’s Odysseus in The Odyssey, but about the newest interpretation of Plato in the 2026 horror masterpiece** Backrooms.

The popular media currently lives in the story of The Odyssey, based on Homer’s heroic tale from around 800 BC. Let’s stay in Greece, but fast‑forward to the 5th century BC. There, Plato wrote The Republic, a philosophical treatise still considered a political and philosophical standard work in the 21st century. A well‑known passage in it is the allegory of the cave. Where Homer’s Odysseus spends ten years traveling to rediscover his home (and true self), the creators of Backrooms take things a step further by pulling humanity out of the cave of illusions. We follow a difficult, frightening, and confusing journey toward the truth of real life.

After the final scene, in which the psychiatrist transforms into her monstrous allusion, the first thought that came to me was: this story is a version of Plato’s allegory of the cave. Online, interpretations circulate claiming that Backrooms presents an inverted cave allegory — that from reality we enter a world of misinterpretations and shadows of that reality.

Although I initially had the same idea, it is too simplistic an approach. Viewed from a macro (read: meta) perspective, the story is a pure embodiment of Plato’s cave allegory.

At first glance, it seems as though the main character, Clark, escapes reality through a portal and enters the cave. Although the actions, events, and unsettling distortions of reality make it appear as though we, chained cinema‑goers, are watching the shadows of a play and mistaking them for reality, the point of the film is precisely that these backrooms are not the cave — they are reality.

The backrooms inside our skull are reality. The truth — the purest ideal forms Plato strives for — are in fact anti‑ideals. The world of ideals consists of failed forms, not perfect figures and objects; our earthly interpretations are merely weakened reflections of them.

We can even go a step further. The film actively speaks to the philosophical question of how real our world and our personality truly are. The answer is simply: they are not. We live under the illusion that everything is perfectly complete and logical. But that logic is nothing but appearance. Truth lies in imperfect, confusing forms. Our identity and living world are illusions and simply do not exist.

What, then, about the fact that the rooms arise from and increasingly abstract (alienating) events? This assumption is deliberately instructed by the creators. Where the film suggests that the backrooms originate from places and events, this is nothing but an illusion. It is the other way around, forming a shadow we observe and accept as truth.

Plato followed the method of dialectic. Through dialogue, truth can be found. Let me, in the case of Backrooms, offer the following thesis as a starting point: the creators of Backrooms follow Plato’s cave allegory purely. If we cannot resolve the question, I am certain we will see the point of the creators (and Plato) confirmed.

still waiting on the alternate ending, but here are the deleted/alternate scenes

Guys this movie was not good.

Don't get me wrong, there were some good parts in it. I think Cindy and Brenda were good, Sara and Jack were also good. (There are moments where if you close your eyes when Sara is talking, she sounds exactly like Anna Farris, it's weird)/ I'm glad they got Lochlan Munro back for those couple of scenes he was in.

But Jesus, there were so many skits. The first scary movie works because it was basically just scream with some little bits thrown in. So much of this movie is just like family guy style cutaway gags.

There is also way too much Shorty, he is fine in small doses. Sometimes he doesn't even feel like Shorty.

This movie was just a mess, and honestly cringeworthy at times. They really shoud've just stuck to the basic format of SM1 as it worked so well.

Can someone post the new alternate ending?