10 Horror Movies With Scooby Doo Plots

Insincere, coldly calculated and with designs on stealing your soul, this 2003 reboot is so overdone, and misses the point by so great a distance, that it might’ve had camp value if it hadn’t been so joyless and oppressive.

If the filmmakers had their wits about them, they would’ve realized that when five stock characters in a van encounter Sinister Locals, Creepy Kids and a Sheriff so wicked his face ought to be lit by a flash of lightning, the villain has to be a corrupt authority figure in a costume, who’s dressing up as a monster to scare people away from the old mine where gold has been found.

Instead, because Marcus Nispel and Michael Bay are interested only in your hard-earned (see also: Friday The 13th), they use carnage and Jessica Biel in a wet t-shirt to try and sell tickets. The Boston Globe wasn’t fooled, however: “As the eviscerations ensue, the truth becomes undeniable: this is easily the most gruesome, most pointless episode of Scooby Doo ever.”