10 Films That Took Themselves Way Too Seriously

Final Girl – which is not to be confused with The Final Girls, starring Taissa Farmiga – should’ve been great. The main idea is that blonde, butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-her-mouth Abigail Breslin is trained to become the ultimate weapon against slasher movie villains, but the filmmakers play all their cards too soon.

Wes Bentley plays a creepy guy (doesn’t he always?) who tells Breslin how to turn the tables and go from victim to victor before sending her out into the field. Lured into a remote spot by some boys with murder on their mind, she easily defeats them, which was never in doubt – having watched her being trained for such an event, we know what she’s capable of, so where’s the suspense?

The lack of surprises mean that Final Girl plays more like a pilot for a failed TV series than a movie, and the lack of tongue-in-cheek humour leads you to expect more than the film delivers. If ever a movie could’ve used a Tarantino-esque non-linear structure (not to mention a few jokes), it’s this one.