The new Scary Movie might not be for everyone, but its new website has something for everyone to enjoy. That’s because it will let you do almost anything you want. The parody franchise found yet another way to mock Scream. And it did so in a way that also mocks the latest installment in the horror series, which made AI a major plot point. You can get Scream‘s iconic killer to do whatever you want (sort of) at Subservient Ghostface, a very silly website that relies on good old-fashioned human silliness and not artificial intelligence.
Subservient Ghostface is exactly what it sounds like. It features a slightly swaying sociopath in the legendary mask and black robes waiting for you to enter a prompt of no more than 50 characters. When you hit enter, it then follows your instructions. What makes it so funny is that it does not employ AI. This is not a computer-generated Ghostface. It’s a real person in a real costume who clearly acted out a whole lot of possible prompts in anticipation of what you might ask. I told it to make a cup of tea, and it pulled exactly that from behind its bath. I instructed Subservient Ghostface to do math, and the slasher whipped out a calculator. It then typed in “8008.”
Perfect.
The broader your prompt, the more likely you are to get an appropriate response. But if you get really specific and weird by typing in something like “contemplate life” or “eat a stack of pancakes,” then Ghostface performs a non-sequitur, like running or laughing at you.
This is not only a very fitting way to promote Scary Movie. It also takes aim at the most recent Scream, which brought back long-dead characters via AI (in the world of the story, not in actuality). In that way, this Subservient Ghostface site makes fun of Scream in two very different ways.
Well three. Type in “make fun of Scream” to see the third. Subservient Ghostface will not let you down.