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Released the same year as a [[Scary Movie|similar parody film that shall not be named]], ''Shriek'' was sent direct to video to avoid lawsuits. The film was quickly overshadowed by the other parody, but gained a semi-cult following.

 

 

* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: More of apathetic students. See [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]].

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted. Screw runs into a bug zapper and electrocutes herself, leaving a grid pattern burnt into her face. {{spoiler|Barb dies from an allergic reaction to bee stings and her face becomes red and swelled up.}}

** Barbara to a lesser extent.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Mrs. Tingle's lectures her class about how [[Frankenstein]] and the Holocaust are connected.

* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]: Parodied endlessly.

** All five major characters admit that they have good reasons why they would want to kill at least one of the other four, but none of them are the killer, who is hiding out [[Right Under Their Noses|right under the table they’re convening at]].

* [[I Love the Dead]]: {{spoiler|The [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] mentions that even though Barbara is dead, every once in a while a passerby has sex with the corpse}}.

* [[Mattress Tag Gag]]: The characters are shown to have thrown a man hit by their car into the sea, but interpret threatening notes about it as being for other minor misdeeds. This ends with a girl accidentally pulling off a mattress tag in the middle of sex. With the local priest.

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Martina

* [[Never Live It Down]]: In-Universe. Dawson was accused of murdering his entire family while he was supposedly at camp. Hagatha wrote a pop-up book about it called "Dawson Is The Killer". It doesn't help that it got rave reviews from Oprah.

** Subverted, in that it looks like EVERY student at the school has also got one.

* [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]]: Lampshaded by Doughy when {{spoiler|Hagatha runs off with the pizza deliverer}}.

* [[Power Walk]]: Parodied when the main cast is shown doing this and others walk around them at normal speed and wonder what's wrong with them.

* [[Punny Name]]: Where to begin? One of the more [[Sarcasm Mode|subtle]] ones announced over the high school speaker is [[Country Matters|Mike Hunt]].

* [[Running Gag]]: Every time a main character gets a note from the killer, it read "I know what you did last (insert event)". The thing is, every flashback, regardless of the date, has them coming back from a sausage festival and accidentally hitting a plastic deer with their car. They then toss it into the sea and agree to never speak about again. In Dawson's flashback, {{spoiler|he's the one they hit, dressed like a deer, and the other four toss him into the sea}}.

** Triples as [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]] and [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]].

* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: Between the French teacher and a random student, who even fathered her kid.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Invoked. Everyone agrees that with the recent killings they should hide out at a safe place – but they all think it should be in the middle of nowhere, preferably the dark woods in the pouring rain, and without any adult supervision or police protection in the near vicinity. One even suggests that they should go to a deserted place that's been abandoned ever since a bunch of dorky kids were dismembered there.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]:

** The killer murders dozens of people in the background, including three of Hagatha's cameramen, yet no one notices or even cares. He even takes it to an absurd level by wearing scuba gear, cowboy gear, and crossing guard gear, complete with a stop sign, over his Ghostface costume.

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