8 Films That Were Supposed To End The Series (But Got Sequels Anyway)

How long until the next one: Two years

Number of movies after this: One (so far)

How they tried to end it: Everyone dies for the fourth time

The Final Destination is another fourth film in a horror series that pretended it was the last one. Sound familiar? 

The title is meant to emphasize the word final, and the film's trailers declared that "Death saved the best for last." There's nothing in the movie itself that really feels definitive, but the studio was still promising this would finally be the conclusion of the saga (if you can call a bunch of teenagers dying over and over a saga). 

But then it became the highest grossing in the series' history and the first one to hit #1 at the box office. Naturally the studio reconsidered letting this franchise go and a sequel was announced, hitting theaters just two years later. That's the shortest amount of time between any of the Final Destination movies, so really this is the least final of all of them. Though in this case another sequel was welcomed by fans because The Final Destination was so shockingly bad that nobody wanted it to be the note the franchise ended on.