10 Greatest Movies About Death

A rather left-field pick now, for though Final Destination may not be nearly as critically acclaimed as any other film on this list, it is a rarest of mainstream multiplex horror films to truly dig into the unseen ubiquity of death around us.

The film's elaborate death scenes may be ridiculous and often played for laughs, but there's a genuinely unsettling undercurrent to its reminder that death can come for any of us, even young high-schoolers with their entire lives ahead of them, at any time without any particular malice or motivation.

The gory bodily destruction depicted throughout may not be subtle, but in its own way Final Destination confronts the fragility of human life in a way that's more palatable to popcorn-gobbling audiences than, say, a 60-year-old, black-and-white Bergman movie.

Considering how difficult it is to innovate in the slasher genre, Final Destination quite ingeniously painted everyday living as an incredibly perilous predicament itself.