The premonition that sets the story rolling is never explained, nor are the similar occurrences that kickstart every sequel. And so, one by one, Flight 180’s survivors get picked off in head-scratching coincidences, all preceded by John Denver’s crooning. Unfortunately, it is too good to be true, and, as foreboding mortician William Bludworth (Tony Todd) tells them, nobody escapes Death’s plan. Survivor’s guilt notwithstanding, it’s almost too good to be true that these kids and their teacher so narrowly escape death. His freakout causes half his class to evacuate the plane, only to watch stunned from the departure lounge as his vision comes true down to the last detail. How did the most innocuous singer-songwriter of the 1970s become a harbinger of doom for Y2K teens? Well, naturally, because Denver died young in a plane crash a fate that Alex (Devon Sawa) and his classmates were also to experience were it not for Alex’s vivid premonition of a mechanical malfunction that leads to the plane combusting shortly after take-off. Are you sensing a theme here? Of course, the one recurring gag of the first movie, that nobody can forget, for better or worse, is John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” playing over and over again to foreshadow bad luck and, occasionally, death for the many unwitting characters. You can’t say they didn’t warn you with an opening that involves ominous pans over a copy of Death of a Salesman, a quick glimpse of a magazine spread about Princess Di’s death, and mysterious zooms on potentially frightening double entendres like “terminal”. That first film is hardly subtle in evincing the tone of what’s to come. Wong took over as director while Reddick and Morgan joined him as co-writers, fashioning a unified vision of hapless teens trying and failing to escape their spectacularly gruesome fates. Morgan and Wong apparently loved the premise almost too much, agreeing with New Line Cinema that it would work better without the constraints of a pre-established television universe, and together the three of them fashioned a new, slicker, bloodier screenplay for Final Destination as a movie.
Writer Jeffrey Reddick pitched an early version of the concept as a spec script The X-Files‘ writer-producers James Wong and Glen Morgan read.
#FINAL DESTINATION 1 2000 SERIES#
In a film series that routinely varied in setting, tone, and, let’s face it, quality, there was one consistent thread running through all five movies: explosively bloody Rube Goldberg-esque set-pieces in which teens died in the most ludicrous ways imaginable.Ģ0 years after the release of the original Final Destination, it still stands as the first and best horror franchise of the 21st-century-a last gasp for blood-soaked campiness before genre trends pivoted to humourless torture porn, remakes, and reboots.įor a film with such an unmistakable look and feel, the original Final Destination was born from comparatively humble origins. Maybe this isn’t a common occurence in reality, but in the Final Destination universe, it’s business as usual. And, as if your day couldn’t get any worse, your house finally explodes!
You reach for a dish towel to apply pressure to your wounds but, unfortunately, that just pulls a knife block off the shelf and your butcher knife lands precisely in the middle of your chest. As you’re stumbling helplessly around the room, the computer situation takes a turn for the worse as the fire catches the trail of vodka you dripped on the ground, leading it directly back to the bottle on the counter, which also explodes. The computer starts smoking, the screen explodes, and shards of glass are launched at your throat.
#FINAL DESTINATION 1 2000 CRACKED#
You carry that cracked mug over to your computer and it drips along the floor and into the back of your PC. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you’re pouring ice-cold vodka into a mug that recently contained a hot beverage and, naturally, the mug cracks.
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