From long-haired ghouls emerging out of TV sets to ghosts with grudges, the one thing that’s certain for the decades-long lives of iconic horror franchises is that The Grim Reaper will always get his payback, no matter how hard foolhardy mortals try to escape him. Giving an invisible face to Death as he outsmarts his victims in ghastly Rube-Goldberg cause-and-effect manner is what’s distinguished the Final Destination series. When your inevitable foe is more of a metaphoric idea, an all-important element in materializing an unstoppable force than music. First materialized by Shirley Walker with the torch passed to Brian Tyler, Final Destination’s scoring has been characterized by its relentless suspense and operatic sense of black-humored fate.
