#FINAL DESTINATION 1 2 3 4 5 6 MOVIE#
Save for one entry, the final shot of every Final Destination movie shows those who made it to the end buying it, often in the most gruesome way imaginable. By and large, their plans don’t work out. In the fifth, they realize that what they really need to do is to take another life, thus trading someone else’s death for their own. In the third, photographs provide clues as to how the characters will die, giving them a chance to stop the kills before they happen. In the second, they decide that what’s needed is a new life that can be brought into the world. In the first, they realize that if they can force death to skip one of them, they can break the curse. Each movie also features the survivors discovering a new way to potentially thwart death’s design. In the fifth, it’s the bridge collapse to end all bridges. In the fourth (called, simply, The Final Destination), it’s an explosive racetrack calamity. In the third, it’s a doozy of a rollercoaster accident. Subsequent entries hewed to the same structure: In the second, it’s not a plane crash but the most grotesque, terrifying freeway pile-up in cinematic history. Turns out that, by getting off that doomed flight, they disrupted death’s design, and now death is fixing the error by plowing its way through them in the order in which they would have died originally.
#FINAL DESTINATION 1 2 3 4 5 6 SERIES#
Over the following days, however, the survivors themselves start to die off in a series of Byzantine freak accidents. He freaks out, and in the ensuing chaos a few of his companions are forced off the airplane, which takes off without them and promptly explodes. (That’d be the second film.) Right after boarding a flight to Paris with the rest of his French class, high school senior Alex Browning ( Devon Sawa) has a detailed, beat-by-deadly-beat vision of a fiery accident in the sky. And for those of us who in real life spend a lot of time catastrophizing matters both big and small (which at this point might be all of us), a Final Destination movie serves as both an indulgence and an inoculation for bad thoughts.ĭirected by James Wong (who would also direct Final Destination 3), the first film establishes the series template, though it doesn’t quite perfect it. Ridiculous because the individual deaths, especially as the series wears on, become impossibly ornate, abstract, and silly. Harrowing because there’s no bad guy, no masked monster with a backstory, no villain waiting to be defeated - just death itself, an eternal and invincible force that always triumphs in the end (and can turn the average kitchen or elevator or garage into a Rube Goldberg–inspired kill room). It’s the most harrowing of horror franchises, and the most ridiculous. Our bodies are effectively water balloons filled with blood, ready to explode, our heads mere tubers just waiting to be crushed, sliced, grated, or meringued. Humanity has never been so fragile as it is in the Final Destination movies. Head to Vulture’s Twitter to catch his live commentary, and look ahead at next week’s movie here. This week’s selection - the third in a special monthlong celebration of horror - comes from film critic Bilge Ebiri, who will begin his screening of Final Destination 2 on October 16 at 7 p.m.
Photo: Shane Harvey/New Line/Kobal/ShutterstockĮvery week for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club. Which might be a reason why they’re so strangely cathartic.
The many dangers of our sad little lives are weaponized by these horror films.
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