Regina Hall's Brenda returns to the big screen, and this time the character skewers 2020s culture as much as horror films, withScary Movie 6set to land in US cinemas on 5 June 2026 and to drag everything from pronoun etiquette to Republican stereotypes into its line of fire.
This is the firstScary Moviefilm in 13 years, and the first sinceScary Movie 2in 2001 to reunite the Wayans brothers behind the camera. Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Ivory Wayans, who created the franchise and shaped its early tone, have returned as writers and producers, with Craig Wayans also on board.
Regina Hall on returning as Brenda in "Scary Movie 6":"I read the script — and it was really funny. I knew what they were intending to do. I always think a work of art is in flux until it’s done and in someone’s hands — you just never know. But the original cast coming back…pic.twitter.com/GYTcl1MXQm
Principal photography wrapped in late November 2025 at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, after Miramax unveiled the project at CinemaCon 2024 alongside Original Film and Ugly Baby Productions.
The basic promise has not changed.Scary Movie 6is not trying to reinvent cinema, it is trying to make you wince, groan and laugh at once. The new trailer leans heavily into that bargain, rattling through a parade of recent horror and thriller hits and then hitting them with a rubber mallet.
What is different this time is the way the jokes plug straight into the social minefields of the past few years.
Regina Hall's Brenda Meeks has always been the franchise's stealth weapon, turning up in chaos and cutting through it with exasperated, often filthy asides. InScary Movie 6, she is doing that again, but now the chaos includes culture‑war shorthand that would have been unthinkable in 2000.
One gag in the trailer has Cindy Campbell, played once more by Anna Faris, hesitating before embracing her friend. She tells Brenda she is 'not sure a hug would be appropriate,' given that Brenda is a Republican and therefore, Cindy suggests, 'supposed to be racist now.'
It is a quick line, but it tells you where the film is choosing to live. The joke is not subtle. It assumes an audience steeped in US political caricature and social‑media pile‑ons. Brenda is no longer just the loud friend in a horror spoof, she is being used to jab at how people are sorted and judged before they have opened their mouths.
Elsewhere, the trailer introduces Dei Meeks, played by Sydney Park, who insists on the correct pronouns 'they / them' even as a knife attack unfolds. It is the kind of gag that will divide viewers neatly into those who think the series has found a fresh vein of satire and those who think it is mocking the wrong people.
Source: International Business Times UK
