10 Terrifying Moments In Terrible Horror Movies

Did anyone really believe there was a grand, overarching master plan for the enjoyably gory but largely scare-free Final Destination series?

Yes, the first two films featured a pair of incredible opening sequences, both of which utilized a combination of CGI and crunchy practical gore effects to create terrifyingly claustrophobic and believable catastrophes. But the remainder of the films were devoted to increasingly cartoony and over-the-top death sequences which owed as much to Chuck Jones as Chuck Russell, and outside of occasional cameos from horror icon/ Candyman himself Tony Todd, none of them could claim to be very scary or even interconnected.

That is, until Final Destination 5 (which we maintain should have taken the Scre4m route and been titled Five-nal Destination), which is a largely routine outing for the franchise, a little less scary and more humdrum than its immediate predecessors—until its ending.

The bombshell twist reveals that the film is actually a prequel as it ends with ill-fated flight which opened the first film, a gory and scary full-circle reveal which leaves the entire series seeming far smarter and scarier in retrospect, whether or not this is actually earned.