"Scary Movie" was awful -- from the outset. I am generally a fan of spoof movies like "Spy Hard" or "Loaded Weapon." "Hot Shots," the spoof of "Top Gun," was hilarious. Actually, I am a big fan of any big, funny, stupid movie. "King Pin" and "Deuce Bigalow" were just great.

And I like scary movies too, like "Scream", "I Know What You Did Last Summer," "Halloween," "Friday The 13th" and all of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" stuff.

So I thought I would like "Scary Movie."

Wrong.

I think the humor was, frankly, too sick. A guy gets stabbed with a umm . . .male organ, for example. They were trying too hard to be funny and went over the top more often than they hit the mark. The audience may laugh at the graphic nature of the content but that is different from laughing because something is genuinely funny. "Scary Movie" failed as a parody and that angle was the main thing it had going for it.

Now, the mimicking of scenes from the recent spate of horror films was well done. And I did laugh at about five scenes or so, like the one in which a character has some trouble with tree limbs as he stands up through a car's sunroof. Overall, though, I was disappointed.

Dibble's scorecard: Half a baseball out of four.