For decades, the genre has been treated like the black sheep of cinema.
Every subgenre of horror is clicking, which makes now the perfect time for the return of theFinal Destinationfranchise.
After a 14-year absence followingFinal Destination 5, Death is making a comeback with this year’sFinal Destination: Bloodlines.
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Horror was left in between eras, not knowing what to do next.
Horror went through another unsure period, and one of the products of this time was2000’sFinal Destination.
But the final product is rather fun.
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The death itself was the payoff.
Recent Horror Has Shown the Way Forward for the Genre
No one saw it coming.
It even seeped into 2018’sHalloweenand was made fun of inScream 5.
In the 2020s, the genre has undergone an interesting development.
That’s exactly what theFinal Destinationfranchise was like.
Going back to that template,horror has shown that it can still be smart while also being fun.
2020s horror has created more nuanced charactersand digs below the surface level.
In modern horror, characters feel like real people.
Imagine aFinal Destinationfilm where nearly everyone is likable or at least three-dimensional and well written.
This changes up those intense death scenes.
