10 Movies Where Evil Won

4. Final Destination

The Final Destination franchise - which is imminently being rebooted - brings with it one hell of a narrative hook.

The series' poor saps typically avoid a cataclysmic event after one of their group has a deathly premonition, prompting Death to continually return to the "lucky" survivors, attempting to off them for good by not-so-subtly influencing the world around them.

Now, perhaps if Death was just killing the survivors in their sleep, you could argue that the unseen force was simply re-balancing the cosmic scales and keeping the world's population in check. But the needlessly cruel, violent and often darkly comic manner in which the human meat shields are dismantled ultimately says otherwise.

In these movies, Death is a kid putting an insect under a magnifying glass on a hot summer's day - it knows exactly what it's doing, and has not a single care for the suffering inflicted.

A consistent through-line across the five movies to date, moreover, has been the inevitability of death and the inability of the protagonists to escape it.

Though several of the movies appear to end with the heroes triumphing or escaping the "curse", every single movie ultimately concludes with a final "gotcha!" death, confirming Death's dominance over all.

Dying isn't inherently an evil or bad thing - it's the most natural thing in the world. But as a sentient, discriminating force, the Death depicted in these movies clearly has one hell of a sick sense of humour.