20 Best Opening Scenes From Recent Horror Movies

20. Final Destination Bloodlines

As is custom for the franchise, Final Destination Bloodlines of course opens with a stunningly over-the-top premonition sequence, though this one happens to be set in the far past of 1969, as a young Iris Campbell (Brec Bassinger) and her boyfriend Paul (Max Lloyd-Jones) attend the grand opening of a high-rise restaurant tower.

After a young boy (Noah Bromley) throws a coin off the top of the observation deck, a chain reaction is triggered which causes the restaurant's glass dance floor to collapse, killing dozens.

A fire then breaks out and the tower's structural integrity begins to fail, eventually causing the death of everyone else, including Iris.

But rather than pull back out to show Iris averting the disaster with the knowledge of her premonition, we instead leap forward 55 years to the present day, where Iris' granddaughter Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) experiences recurring nightmares of the incident.

This is one hell of a fun way to start the movie, combining a brutal, expertly crafted calamity sequence with the fun new rub that Death is now targeting the descendants of everyone who survived thanks to Iris.

And let's face it, you'll never hear The Isley Brothers' iconic tune "Shout" the same way again considering how memorably it's used here.