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The 12 Best Horror Prequels


If you aren’t a total hater, there are many delights to be found in the prequel bin.

A terrifying premonition of mass death that catalyzes a group of friends to realize they escaped fate and now have to outrun its swinging scythe, and then they all die anyway in wildly elaborate scenes of freakish “happenstance” that do things like scare an entire generation away from driving behind log trucks for the rest of their lives. the guy who does uncanny Tom Cruise deep fakes), performs his catchy bop “New Romance” as Zack Morris in Bayside High with the FD 5 main cast on hand and people getting Final Destination ’d to death the entire time. Norman was a man living under a suffocating veil of secrecy who was so mutated by sexual repression that he became a monster, and the reveal later of Perkins’s own queerness has since informed consideration of the role as a coded performance filled with hidden meaning.

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