10 Best Horror Movie Prequels

Oh, Final Destination 5, you cheeky, cheeky scamp...

This fifth entry in the Final Destination franchise is absolutely 100% a prequel, yet the film doesn't actually let you in on that fact until its final few minutes.

Marketed as a straight-up sequel affair, this 2011 picture has Final Destination 'things' happening in your usual Final Destination way.

This time out, it's Nicholas D'Agosto's Sam Lawton having opening act premonitions about a huge bridge collapsing and killing a whole bunch of people. From there, it's very much lather, rinse, repeat as the Grim Reaper comes calling for those who Sam had managed to warn and save during said opening act.

As Final Destination 5 draws to a close, it looks as if Sam and his beau Molly (Emma Bell) have managed to somehow evade the grip of Death. Casually boarding a flight to Paris for some vacation time, it's here that the penny drops that this is the one and the same doomed Volée Airlines Flight 180 that kickstarted the entire Final Destination series.

Without any sense of hyperbole, seeing Final Destination 5 dovetail straight into the opening of Final Destination is nothing short of genius.