8 Best Misdirections In Horror Movies
2. Everything! - The Final Destination Franchise
It would be absolutely impossible to whittle the Final Destination franchise down to just one piece of misdirection. After all, this is an entire movie series that is constantly reliant on misdirection.
The crux of each of the five films that currently make up the franchise - recent reports suggest a sixth film is on the way in 2021 - centres on a catastrophic, multi-death situation being avoided after one of the series' protagonists has a premonition of this event unfurling.
In the first film, we see a plane disaster avoided. In the second film, it's a major car pile-up that's dodged. In the third film, it's a roller coaster accident. In the fourth film, it's a speedway disaster. And in the fifth film, a bridge collapses.
What then ties these movies together, of course, is that the shadow of Death now stalks the survivors of these incidents as these shocking events were meant to be 'their time'.
For the audience, we soon get conditioned that the intended victims of the Final Destination's ginormous accidents are going to die. It's just a case of when and how. As such, the minds behind the series use this audience knowledge to constantly be on a revolving tale of misdirection that keeps you on the edge of your seat and forever expecting the worst from any and every situation seen on screen - no matter how non-threatening a situation may appear.