Scary Movie 4 premieres on friday night at STAR Movies

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New Delhi, April 16, 2008

Scary Movie 4: Trivia

Many of the sets resemble the real ones used in the original films. The Saw producers were so impressed, they asked if they could use the bathroom set from Scary Movie 4 for Saw III.

* Anna Faris (Cindy) and Regina Hall (Brenda) are the only two cast members to appear in all four Scary Movie films.

* TV fans will recognize Regina Hall from her one-season stint in Ally McBeal. In Scary Movie 2, she made fun of Ally star Calista Flockhart.

* In the original Scary Movie, Regina Hall played a high school student, even though she was 30 at the time.

* Someone is crushed by a car at the end of Scary Movie 4, just like in the previous ones. This time it’s James Earl Jones, the film’s narrator.

* Most of the special effects in the film were in the parody of War of the Worlds.

* This is the first film in the Scary Movie franchise, to be shot in HD.

* The movies spoofed in Scary Movie 4 include War of the Worlds, The Grudge, The Village, and Brokeback Mountain. Scary Movie 4 co-stars Regina Hill, Leslie Nielsen and Craig Bierko are currently starring in another film spoof. The trio reunited for Superhero Movie, a comedy parodying the blockbusters Spider-Man and Superman.

* Although she is best known for her role in the Scary Movie franchise, Anna Faris has also starred in Oscar-winning fare like Lost in Translation and Brokeback Mountain.

* While Anna Faris is grateful to the Scary Movie films for giving her a start in show business, she also feels that they’ve limited her options. “ have given me a career, but they've also sort of boxed me in. What really surprised me when I first moved here is that the industry thought of actors as either comedic or dramatic. And I'm still confused. I understand that maybe some people are better at one or the other, but I can't understand why it's so divided. I've been able to chip away at that a bit; I think it gets easier as my body of work expands.”

* A natural blonde, Anna Faris died her hair dark for the first two Scary Movie films so she could resemble Neve Campbell from the Scream franchise.

* Scary Movie 4 director David Zucker is a veteran of film spoofs. His earliest film is the 1980 hit Flying High. He also helmed the Naked Gun series as well as the 1986 comedy Ruthless People. Scary Movie 4 reunites the director with his Naked Gun star, Leslie Nielsen.

* Film critic Roger Ebert once described Leslie Nielsen as “the Laurence Olivier of spoofs.” Some of his other parodies include 2001: A Space Travesty, Spy Hard, Repossessed and Wrongfully Accused.

* In Scary Movie 4, Leslie Nielsen plays President Baxter Harris. In reality, his brother was the deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

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Diksha Mehta

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