10 Films That Took Themselves Way Too Seriously

For a movie produced by Michael Bay, Ouija is surprisingly low on both humor and fun. Even Bay’s worst films attempt a little nudge-wink humor (remember Ben Affleck getting an injection in Pearl Harbor?) but Ouija’s script appears to have been divested of anything that might cause an audience to enjoy itself.

There’s an important fact to be gleaned from the movie, however: it turns out that the eponymous board, which can receive messages from the dead and in extreme cases lead to demonic possession, is really a harmless toy sold by Hasbro. Together with Bay, they’ve slapped together a joyless, utterly generic slab of teens-in-peril tosh that doesn’t even have the decency to be So Bad It’s Good.

You’d think the board had received enough publicity already from the 1,279 other movies where idiot teenagers attempt to communicate with the dead, but Hasbro and Bay think otherwise, so here’s another film where the lights go out for no reason and people start dying one after the other. Startlingly, at no point does anyone say, “It’s just like that cheesy movie I saw…”