10 Horror Movie Franchises With No Bad Movies
10. Final Destination
Sure, the formula of the Final Destination films is extremely repetitive, but it's always extremely effective.
Of course, that formula centres around someone having a premonition of an atrocity that's about to play out, managing to avoid that atrocity, and then that person and their fellow survivors are all stalked by the Grim Reaper. The part of this formula that's particularly great in regards to generating dread and keeping audiences on the edge of their seats, is that we know the bulk of these characters are destined to die; we just don't know how they're destined to die.
As such, every scene has you scouring the screen, looking for an item or a situation that could result in somebody's demise.
Across the five Final Destination movies, we've had the Volée Airlines Flight 180 explosion, we've had the Route 23 accident, we've had the rogue Devil's Flight roller coaster ride, we've had the McKinley Speedway pile-up, and we've had the North Bay Bridge disaster.
Not only do all of those film-opening sequences jump from the screen due to their sheer energy, but they also provide subtle clues as to how each of our soon-to-be survivors may be offed later on.
Also, the Final Destination franchise will forever get huge props for its all-timer of a reveal at the end of Final Destination 5, where it's shockingly shown how the film was a prequel as its ending dovetails into the Flight 180 tragedy of the first FD's opening act.