10 Horror Movies Where You Know Nearly Everyone Will Die
Sometimes you know everyone's on Death's hit list.
Death and horror go hand in severed hand, and although sometimes we get through a horror film without a single death, more often than not we expect a good chunk of the cast to be offed in creative and exciting ways. Many of us prefer to be surprised at precisely who is on their way out and who is seeing it through to the credits, but sometimes we can’t help but know which way the wind is blowing.
One way or another, certain horror pictures telegraph their kill count ahead of the big event, and you’d be shocked how many of these involve dispatching as many characters as possible.
Marketing and trailers often overreach, getting so focused on their own clever ideas, like counting through 13 kills for Friday the 13th, that they forget to sell the film and just spoil it. Sometimes it’s in the title - like, can we really be expected to ignore what This Is The End is telling us? - and there are of course so many sequels, requels, reboots, and remakes always happening, that it’s inevitable we’ll already know if most of the named faces are set to expire.
So, let’s find out just how many of these 10 films you knew were going to be killing big before you went in.
10. Final Destination (2000)
James Wong's supernatural horror Final Destination arrived at the cusp of the millennium, the first in a new breed of horror franchises that focused on inventive kills over all else, and which promised all the spills and thrills of slashers gone by, but without the great, hulking bad guy to pin it on.
And you can't exactly have a movie called Final Destination and not pay off on the core premise. Going into the film, we know that most, if not all, of the cast need to die. Why? Because the young protagonists who escape their untimely demise in the movie's opening, narrowly avoiding boarding a flight doomed to disaster, have Death on their tail, and he is looking to square his accounts.
What became something of a curse for the series during its original run - because fans increasingly viewed the films as having essentially no purpose or stakes - was its selling point in the early days. Although Devon Sawa's Alex Browning and Ali Larter's Clear Rivers make it out of this one alive, you could bet your bottom dollar they'd bite the dust in the sequel - though, in the case of Alex, he was killed off-screen, between movies.