2. Final Destination SeriesOf all the seemingly endless horror franchises, why is this my...
2. Final Destination Series
Of all the seemingly endless horror franchises, why is this my favourite? Well it can't be Halloween, as I've only seen the first one, A Nightmare on Elm Streetgets far too campy and ridiculous after part 1 and I've unforgivably never seen any of the Friday the 13th saga. The Scream series is good but relies too much on twist endings, and the Saws are a tad too gory for my liking, but there's something
about Final Destination that makes me not care that they're essentially making the same film over and over again, with only a moderate twist each time. It's also probably because there's no actual killer stalking the barely-characterised victims, it's merely death himself. The first film occasionally portrayed this entity as a self-aware blue liquid, and actually caused at least one of the deaths, but later films did away with this completely. Part 2 holds a special place in my heart purely for the death-by-fence shot, of which a screenshot was my desktop background for some time.
about Final Destination that makes me not care that they're essentially making the same film over and over again, with only a moderate twist each time. It's also probably because there's no actual killer stalking the barely-characterised victims, it's merely death himself. The first film occasionally portrayed this entity as a self-aware blue liquid, and actually caused at least one of the deaths, but later films did away with this completely. Part 2 holds a special place in my heart purely for the death-by-fence shot, of which a screenshot was my desktop background for some time.
