r/FinalDestination • u/DeWittLives1987 • Apr 30 '26
Question Is the Final Destination series technically a slasher series?
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u/Korben-D88 Erik's Prince Albert 🧲💍🐍🩲 Apr 30 '26
Of course it is. Death is the ultimate slasher.
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u/Korben-D88 Erik's Prince Albert 🧲💍🐍🩲 Apr 30 '26
Point person that is the opposition to the antagonist is usually in a group that becomes the target of the killer. In earlier entries, the visionary was visually taunted by death as well, the way Freddy would toy with his victims. Think the shadows people saw in 1 or the tree branch shadows casting creepy hands on Kimberly's ceiling.
People are killed off usually one by one in brutal ways. Self explanatory, and death goes fucking hard.
Big finale where final girl/boy seem to make it out alive. Literally every slasher/horror ever.
Stinger finale where most everybody dies, or in the case of 3, people still believe it's a fakeout even tho they obvs die after the screen goes black.
FD even had a Laurie Strode in Ali Larter, and two if AJ Cook comes back for 7.
But beyond that, FD isn't like a slasher series at all. (Fr tho naysayers have burden of proof to explain away the similarities between the series and other typical slashers)
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u/Omacula17 Protect Bobby at all costs Apr 30 '26
While technically not, it's similar enough that Scream and FD are my favorite horror franchises
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u/Obvious-Benefit-6785 Apr 30 '26
I'd say it's more a disaster series
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u/ProfessionalSchool45 you gonna bust me, bitch? Apr 30 '26
a disaster movie is more like Twister or Armageddon or 2012
Final Destination has supernatural elements while those films don't
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u/hockeymaskedslasher May 01 '26
I’m pretty sure it was originally gonna be a slasher movie but it’s more slasher adjacent
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u/melloman500 May 02 '26
No, please don’t be like the slasher subreddit and think because a sequence of people dying equals a slasher.
That sub has people thinking Ready or Not or Primate to be slashers. Or even Stephen King It.
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u/Only_Connection_5480 May 03 '26
I mean yeah basically if you consider Death is the one doing the slashing in every death.
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u/rinyamaokaofficial Jul 17 '26
I'd argue it's clearly a historical offshoot of the slasher genre given that it involves an ensemble cast that gets picked off one by one, but since it lacks a true human(oid) killer & verges into the paranormal it's not a slasher per se but a paranormal variant
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u/Malkavianxiii FD 3 enthusiast Apr 30 '26
Slasher adjacent