8 Movies We Didn’t Know Were Origin Stories Going In

The fifth Final Destination movie, while largely a mixed bag, features one of the great rug-pull moments of modern horror.

Absolutely, completely, unequivocally marketed as a direct sequel to 2009's The Final Destination - making FD5 a straight-up fifth picture to the larger franchise narrative which began with the 2000 original - Final Destination 5 had the final sequence shocker that the movie we'd spent nearly 90 minutes watching was actually a prequel.

That reveal came as FD5 protagonists Sam and Molly headed to Paris for a vacation after evading the Grim Reaper's grasp. Here, it's shockingly shown how this trip to Paris finds the pair on the doomed Volée Airlines Flight 180 plane which explodes in the opening moments of the first Final Destination.

So, what we'd actually seen through Final Destination 5 was a prequel that served to peel the curtain back on Death - complete with Tony Todd's Bludworth detailing how one can appease Death by killing someone who wasn't originally supposed to die.

Final Destination 5 didn't end up being a full-on origin tale for the notion of Death stalking those who have avoided their intended demise, but it does flesh out the rules of this franchise in ways not previously seen in the series.