10 Films That Took Themselves Way Too Seriously

Wes Craven must’ve experienced a ‘senior moment’ and forgot he was the director of Scream because My Soul To Take is as bad as one of that movie's clones, a joyless and pedestrian slasher where teens say “I’ll be right back” without irony, sneak up on each other, wander down dark corridors etc.

He probably forgot about A Nightmare On Elm Street and Shocker too because here’s another movie where the killer has supernatural powers, the family has a dark secret and the hero has a connection to the killer. At least the opening scene has a few unintentional laughs.

Moments after a TV reporter has informed us that The Riverton River, a serial killer who uses a knife with ‘Vengeance’ written on the blade, is still at large, Abel Plankov discovers just such a knife in his cellar, causing him to black out. He wakes up next to his wife, who’s lying in a pool of her own blood, which is when his psychiatrist phones to ask, “Is everything all right?”