Parody films possess a remarkable superpower. They take everything we love (or roll our eyes at) in cinema, crank it up to 11, and somehow make us love it even more. They roast the clichés, mock the ...

From little acorns, mighty oak trees grow. Or put another way, from a handful of script pages, gargantuan multimedia franchises mushroom to mind-boggling proportions. Image Credit: Fuzzy Door ...

Parody and spoof movies have fallen out of favor in recent years, but they were popular in the 1980s and had a resurgence in ...

The very first episode of Saturday Night Live in many ways barely resembles the show we know so well today. But one building block of that episode has survived for nearly 50 years: the commercial ...

In 2000, during the prime of the slasher boom from the Scream trilogy, the Wayans brothers made Scary Movie, which is often regarded as the best horror parody of all time. It led to a franchise, with ...

The Simpsons gave fans one of the best episodes in the history of the animated series 32 years ago today, and with it also ended up with one of its best movie parodies ever. The Simpsons has had a lot ...

The spoof movie is a greatly under-appreciated genre, with many critics assuming they try to take the easy way out by merely referencing the films they target without putting much effort into actual ...

A '70 sitcom continues to serve as one of the best, if not the best, Star Trek parody. Unfortunately, it remains a forgotten ...

In 1975, Steven Spielberg directed Jaws, giving Hollywood its first blockbuster and changing how movies were released. For a time, Jaws was the box office king that was part horror movie, part action ...

Many of the most beloved horror movies have scenes, like Linda Blair’s rotating head in “The Exorcist,” that are so absurd they practically invite satire. But other horror films build the laughs ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Prime Video’s The Boys adapts Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic book series of the same ...