Final Destination is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wong, with a screenplay written by Wong, Glen Morgan, and Jeffrey Reddick, based on a story by Reddick. It is the first installment in the Final Destination film series and stars Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, and Tony Todd. Sawa portrays a teenager who cheats death after having a premonition of a catastrophic plane explosion. He and several of his classmates leave the plane before the explosion occurs, but Death later takes the lives of those who were meant to die on the plane.
Not gonna lie, a young me had a decent crush on Devon Sawa back in the ’90s.
This is not a happy movie, this is a very gory take on what destiny, fate, or even Death has planned for us, for everyone. But somehow, Sawa’s character catches a glimpse of those plans and upsets the donkey cart, or the airplane.
What follows is the beginning of a 5 film series of what happens when you try to cheat Death. Death claps back, and in the most horrifying gruesome way possible – mysterious “accidental” deaths. I am not sugar-coating this, this is a gory horror movie. Normally I don’t care for “it’s gory because I can” horror movies, but in this case it makes sense to have them added, otherwise we wouldn’t really have much of story here, now would we?
I like horror movies, I’ve see many of them (and documented quite a few on the blog already), and so it’s no secret that I have an affinity for this series even if it is gruesome. And origin stories are top tier, so there’s that.
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