When the Final Destination franchise came out in 2000, it was incredibly successful and went on to make five more movies that all had new characters and a storyline, but with the same premonition and natural-section fate plot that kept drawing in fans.
Since the last film in 2011, there has never been a franchise in general that has had the same mystery and thrill or as many kills in a franchise as Final Destination has, but there are other films within the genre that have been a success on their own for different reasons.
While fans wait for Final Destination 6 to come out, there are other films that have a huge fan base and a following in their own right.
House Of Wax (2005)
Being in a teen slasher movie was a great starting point for young actors to make or break their careers and when it came to House of Wax, it was a film with a well-known cast. Starring Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton, and Elisha Cuthbert, this film was a remake of sorts that told the story of a group of teens that become stranded near a wax museum. Once they meet the few locals living in the odd town, they realize this place has an eerie past and family that will do anything for each other.
Joy Ride (2001)
Joy Ride came out in 2001 and boasted a fresh-faced cast with Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, and the late Paul Walker. This film takes it on the road when three people embark on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey. They get bored and decide to use their CB radio to mess with truckers on the road as well. When they play a prank on a particular trucker that goes by the name "Rusty Nail," their prank turns deadly and they are hunted for the remainder of their trip.
Escape Room (2019)
Escape Room might've turned out to be yet another puzzling mystery film, but it turned out to be a really good film. When six strangers are invited to an escape room by being sent a mysterious object, they find themselves immersed in a deadly maze filled with strange rooms.
If they don't make the right decisions, use their wits, and ban together, they might not survive another moment to find their way out and survive.
One Missed Call (2008)
The year after the first smartphone came out, One Missed Call came to theaters. They played on the new success of the smartphone when several people start receiving voicemails from their future selves. This is odd enough, but when their "future selves" start providing the date, time, and other details of their own death, things take a deadly turn. The supernatural hides itself in normal people walking around and wreaks havoc via phone.
Technology is very useful, but according to One Missed Call, it can be very deadly as well. This is a very unique film that could be among one of the best time travel movies to date.
Maniac (2012)
Maniac stars well-known actor Elijah Wood, where he plays Frank, a withdrawn mannequin store owner. He befriends the beautiful Anna, who is trying to get her exhibition off the floor. Frank decides to help her with her career but at the same time, a new kind of evil is unleashed that he's kept within and has repressed for a long time.
His desire to stalk and kill are heightened as he gets to know Anna and her life becomes in more danger as she sticks around. Loosely based on a true story and is a film that should be among one of the best serial killer films. It was also rebooted from the 1980 movie Maniac and is a movie to watch on a stormy night.
Idle Hands (1999)
The 1999 release of Idle Hands was a great ending to the 1990s and a great teen slasher movie it provided to the genre. While Idle Hands is more of a campy horror movie, it has Final Destination's Devon Sawa as a teen slacker named Anton Tobias. When he wakes up one morning and realizes he may be an accessory to several murders, he asks for the help of his equally slacker-esque friends.
With his crush as a neighbor, a school dance to attend, and his hand wanting to cause serious harm, he tries to stop it before it's too late. Devon Sawa has been in some pretty iconic 90s films, but this remains of his best.
Eden Lake (2008)
Lovebirds Jenny and Steve plan a picture-perfect romantic weekend getaway with each other. With Steve planning to make their relationship forever, he plans a proposal for the books with a remote lake and woodland as a backdrop. Everything seems to be going well until their privacy is disrupted by a gang of obnoxious kids.
The kids are anything but innocent, as they ruin their means of transportation and steal their belongings. As Steve is severely hurt by the kids, Jenny is left alone to play a relentless game of cat-and-mouse, in hopes of survival.
Happy Death Day (2017)
Director Christopher Landon came out with Happy Death Day in 2017 as a unique twist on the film, Groundhog's Day. When college student Tree Gelbman gets caught up in a phenomenon of reliving the day of her murder over and over again, she must realize how to stop the loop by identifying her killer. She must die a different way every time she wakes up on her birthday while playing an amateur detective on her own self.
The Final Girls (2015)
Directed by funny-man Todd Strauss-Schulson, The Final Girls tells the story of a young woman named Max Cartwright, played by Taissa Farmiga. After losing her mother, a famous screen queen from the 1980s, she and her friends attend a tribute screening to one of her mother's films. Max and her friends are sucked into the silver screen and realize soon after that they are stuck in a cult classic movie and must team up with the characters to make it out alive.
With people dying left and right, who will be the ultimate "Final Girl?" Starring Nina Dobrev, this is without-a-doubt, one of her best performances.
Scream (1996)
Besides the Final Destination franchise, Scream is another late 1990s-2000s film that has spawned four films thus far and will come out with a fifth Scream in the near future. This movie is without-a-doubt, some of the best and most successful work the late Wes Craven had done in his career. It starts out a year after the murder of Sidney Prescott's mother, Maureen Roberts Prescott. Sidney begins getting phone calls by an ominous caller and quickly finds out she's the killer's next target.
Starring Neve Campbell as Sidney, Scream is one of the most well-perceived slasher franchises and as for Sidney Prescott, she's one of the best "final girls" to come out of the horror genre.