This year, we started spooky season off with a look back at 2000s Final Destination A. Film that really rattled people when it came out that it inevitably led to a franchise of five films, two comic books and nine novels. I have to admit that as a child, this film scared the living daylights out of me. The central premise of Final Destination revolves around the concept of death as an inescapable force with a design. The story begins with a group of individuals that narrowly avoid a catastrophic event
Those in love with mean girls or Clueless would absolutely love Jennifer's Body. It's got what makes a horror film great, but also integrates some of the cringe comedy and spunk of the high school films that we've all come to know and love. With strong performances from Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, clever writing by Diablo Cody and a subversive approach to horror, it has earned a place as a cult classic and is worth a watch for those looking for something a little bit different in the horror genre
Glenn Mann
@GlennPriceMann · 2:55
Of course, there was quite a few sequels, but the first one is this was just like, wow, this is such an inventive sort of horror film and just crazy deaths. I just think it was sort of a new era of horror that started probably with Scream and then I Know What You Did Last Summer. They had all these movies, and Final Destination kind of really sort of stood apart from the rest of the films during this era
It was really an event I vividly remember many times growing up where all my friends made plans to go see the new horror movie and they were always these sort of really campy, wacky, goofy horror films that just doesn't really seem to be the case anymore. And I don't know, maybe because of the shift to more indie, I don't know, highbrow horror films, but I miss those days
Like, I think we were nowhere near the element of the brutality and fear of the think. Rob Zombie just called it the I think he just referred to it as the high school era of horror. It was a much more cleaner, a much more approachable aesthetic, if that even makes sense. Even though these movies are brutal. But Final Destination just felt like a kid's horror movie
There were basically no adults in sight. And through the entirety of the film, it was essentially just kids screaming and yelling and talking in between scenes. There was very little actual movie watching happening. And so I really do think that that is probably a large contributing factor to a lot of these films from this time kind of being glossed over. I think there are some genuine gems in there