We check out the next installment of the hit horror franchise.. in 3-D!
By Brian Linder Remember a couple of years ago when horror movies were all the rage? It was good times for genre devotees there for a while, but the post-Saw resurgence was short-lived. The market became flooded, audiences grew bored, and most recent releases, even installments of well-known horror franchises, have met a grizzly end at the box office. But one horror franchise may weather the storm: Final Destination. The FD flicks, while not exactly known for their originality, have continued to be a fun diversion for their shocking death scenes and wicked sense of humor. It's the wink and nudge vibe that's distanced the franchise from the whole 'torture porn' subgenre which has taken the real beating from moviegoers. That brings us to the inevitable fourth film in the series, 14220036.html'>Final Destination 4. And this time, it's in 3-D!
Go ahead and roll your eyes. We did. That is until we made our way to the movie's New Orleans set last weekend. It was there that we got the scoop from producer Craig Perry, director David Ellis (Snakes on a Plane) and the movie's hot young cast. We even experienced some of the movie's 3-D action firsthand and it's more than convinced us about the future of the franchise and the format.
The set itself is contained within a New Orleans warehouse district. And as we made our way towards the action, we passed numerous extras covered in made-up gore -- some with nails sticking out of their bodies and even one dude with his eye hanging out.
Final Destination 4 is being shot in HD 3-D using the PACE camera system, James Cameron's technique of choice on the upcoming Avatar. And FD4 is actually the first movie filmed on practical locations to use the technology. Proponents of next generation 3-D, most notably Cameron, have been saying for a while now that the technology will soon shed it's gimmicky perceptions and may even cross the genre barrier into dramas and the like. Believe it or not, Final Destination 4 looks like it could be the beginning of that. Yes, it has plenty of shocking deaths that make use of the 3-D presentation in just the way you'd expect (a severed head comes flying at the camera at one point), but in the footage shown to us by Perry the more mundane moments are just as impressive for their immersiveness. There's an establishing shot of a mall interior, for instance, that really pulled us into the scene. And simple things like watching the characters talking.. the 3-D really makes you feel like you're there with them. Then there are the scares, like an ingenious car wash sequence featuring actress Haley Webb where the machinery malfunctions causing her Scion to get stuck on the track.. 'and bad things happen,' as Perry quipped frequently during our time on set.
The story is, not surprisingly, similar to previous installments, but don't expect the rules of cheating death to get as much talk time as they did in the prior films. In fact, it sounds a little bit like a semi-reboot of the series. Many of the franchise staples, such as the voice over by Candyman actor Tony Todd, are getting nixed. But there's still plenty of the trademark gruesomeness, this time centered around a group of teens who cheat Death at a stock car race. Nick (Bobby Campo) has a premonition of a horrific crash -- the first of many he experiences throughout the course of the movie -- and manages to save several people. But his heroics have a horrific outcome when Death comes back for the survivors.
'Let's be realistic,' Perry confesses to the group of journalists gathered in the craft services tent, 'Final Destination movies have a certain formula that works. I think we lucked out on the first one by coming up with an interesting fulcrum that we can balance a lot of things on. That, married with the prospect of doing it in 3-D, I think facilitated us coming up with a bunch of scenarios that were fresh, original and yet familiar.'
Perry explains the new approach they're taking with Death this way: 'If you've survived something, you're not going to have this angst-ridden mortality question,' he says. 'You're going to be like, 'F****** aye! I made it!' The next step is that notion that you escaped Death, and now it's coming back after you. That's one of the things I think really helped this particular movie distinguish itself from the other movies. It's tonally more on target with how kids are today. And it won't just be the obvious jerks getting their just desserts either. Death won't be nearly as selective, and may start going after a few people we like in this movie as well.'
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STEVEN A. ROMAN is the bestselling author of the novels Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1, X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy, and Final Destination: Dead Man’s Hand. His writing has garnered praise from such authors as World Fantasy Award–winner Charles de Lint, Bram Stoker Award–winner Elizabeth Massie, and fantasist and crime fiction novelist Neal Barrett Jr.
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Final Destination is an American horrorfranchise composed of five films, comic books and novels. It is based on an unproduced spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for The X-Files television series, and was distributed by New Line Cinema. All five films center around a small group of people who escape impending death when one individual (the protagonist of each film) has a sudden premonition and warns them that they will all die in a terrible mass-casualty accident. After avoiding their foretold deaths, the survivors are killed one by one in bizarre accidents caused by an unseen force creating complicated chains of cause and effect, resembling Rube Goldberg machines in their complexity,[1] and then read omens sent by another unseen entity in order to again avert their deaths.
The series is noteworthy among other films in the horror genre in that the antagonist is not a stereotypical slasher or other physical being, but Death personified, subtly manipulating circumstances in the environment with a design on claiming anyone who escapes their fated demise.
In addition to the films, a novel series, which includes the novelizations of the first three films, was published throughout 2005 and 2006 by Black Flame. A one-shot comic book titled Final Destination: Sacrifice was released alongside select DVDs of Final Destination 3 in 2006, and a comic series titled Final Destination: Spring Break was published by Zenescope Entertainment in 2007.
- 1Films
- 1.1Overview
- 1.5Future
- 3Literature
Films[edit]
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Directed by | James Wong (1, 3) David R. Ellis (2, 4) Steven Quale (5) |
Produced by | Glen Morgan (1, 3) James Wong (3) Warren Zide (1–5) Craig Perry (1–5) |
Written by | Jeffrey Reddick (1–2) James Wong (1, 3) Glen Morgan (1, 3) J. Mackye Gruber (2) Eric Bress (2, 4) Eric Heisserer (5) |
Starring | Devon Sawa Ali Larter Kerr Smith Sean William Scott A.J. Cook Michael Landes Mary Elizabeth Winstead Ryan Merriman Kris Lemche Bobby Campo Shantel VanSanten Mykelti Williamson Nicholas D'Agosto Emma Bell Miles Fisher Arlen Escarpeta Courtney B. Vance David Koechner Tony Todd |
Music by | Shirley Walker (1–3) Brian Tyler (4–5) |
Cinematography | Robert McLachlan (1, 3) Gary Capo (2) Glen MacPherson (4) Brian Pearson (5) |
Edited by | James Coblentz (1) Eric Sears (2, 5) Chris G. Willingham (3) Mark Stevens (4) |
Production company | Zide/Perry Productions (1–5) Hard Eight Pictures (1, 3) |
Distributed by | New Line Cinema (1–4) Warner Bros. Pictures (5) |
Final Destination: March 17, 2000 Final Destination 2: January 31, 2003 Final Destination 3: February 10, 2006 The Final Destination: August 28, 2009 Final Destination 5: August 12, 2011 | |
Running time | Total (5 films): 453 minutes |
Budget | Total (5 films): $154 million |
Box office | Total (5 films): $665 million |
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Overview[edit]
The franchise's logo, used since the release of the original film in 2000 and is featured throughout its licensed merchandises.
Final Destination[edit]
In the original Final Destination, high school student Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) boards Volee Airlines Flight 180 with his classmates for a field trip to Paris, France. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everyone on board. When the events from his vision begin to repeat themselves in reality, he panics, and a fight breaks out, which leads to several passengers being left behind, including Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), Carter Horton (Kerr Smith), Billy Hitchcock (Seann William Scott), Valerie Lewton (Kristen Cloke), Terry Chaney (Amanda Detmer), and Tod Waggner (Chad Donella), who witness the plane explode moments later. Afterwards, the survivors begin to die one by one through a series of bizarre accidents, and Alex attempts to find a way to 'cheat' Death's plan before it is too late. Six months later, Alex, Clear, and Carter travel to Paris to celebrate their survival, believing they have finally cheated Death; however, after Carter is crushed by a giant neon sign, they realize that Death's plan is still in action.[2]
Final Destination 2[edit]
Final Destination 2, picking up one year after the first film, features college student Kimberly Corman (A. J. Cook) heading to Daytona Beach for spring break with her friends Shaina, Dano, and Frankie (Sarah Carter, Alex Rae, and Shaun Sipos). En route, Kimberly has a premonition of a huge car pile-up on Route 23, killing everyone involved. She stalls her SUV on the entrance ramp, preventing several people from entering the highway, including state trooper Thomas Burke (Michael Landes), Eugene Dix (T.C. Carson), Rory Peters (Jonathan Cherry), Kat Jennings (Keegan Connor Tracy), Nora and Tim Carpenter (Lynda Boyd and James Kirk), Evan Lewis (David Paetkau), and pregnant Isabella Hudson (Justina Machado). While Officer Burke questions Kimberly, the pile-up occurs as she predicted. In the days following the accident, the survivors begin to die one by one in a series of bizarre accidents. After learning about the explosion of Flight 180, Kimberly teams up with Clear Rivers, the only survivor of Flight 180, to try to save a new group of people from Death. This time the survivors are told that only 'new life' can defeat Death, and they must stay alive long enough for Isabella to have her baby. It is later revealed that Isabella was never meant to die in the pile-up, and Kimberly drowns herself in a lake so that she can be resuscitated by emergency staff, thus granting her 'new life'; saving her and Officer Burke.[3]
Final Destination 3[edit]
Final Destination 3, set five years after[note 1] the explosion of Flight 180 and four years after the pile-up on Route 23, has high school student Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) visiting an amusement park for grad night with her friends Kevin Fischer (Ryan Merriman), Jason Wise (Jesse Moss), and Carrie Dreyer (Gina Holden). As Wendy and her friends board the Devil's Flight roller coaster, Wendy has a premonition that the ride will crash, killing everyone on board. When Wendy panics a fight breaks out and several people leave or are forced off the ride before the accident occurs, including Kevin, Wendy's younger sister Julie (Amanda Crew), Ian McKinley (Kris Lemche), Perry Malinowski (Maggie Ma), Erin Ulmer (Alexz Johnson), Lewis Romero (Texas Battle), Frankie Cheeks (Sam Easton), and Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin (Chelan Simmons and Crystal Lowe). When the survivors start to die one by one in a series of strange accidents, Wendy and Kevin set out to save those who remain after they learn of the events of the first two films. Most of their attempts are futile, with the exception of Julie and themselves, leading them to believe they have cheated Death. However, the three 'coincidentally' cross paths five months later and are caught in a horrifying subway accident.[4]
The Final Destination[edit]
In The Final Destination, set nine years after the explosion of Flight 180, eight years after the pile-up on Route 23 and four years after the Devil's Flight disaster, college student Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) visits the McKinley Speedway for a study break with his friends Lori Milligan, Janet Cunningham, and Hunt Wynorski. While watching the race, Nick has a premonition that a race car crash will send debris into the stands, causing the stadium to collapse on the guests. When Nick panics a fight breaks out and several people leave before the accident occurs, including, his friends Lori (Shantel VanSanten), Janet (Haley Webb), and Hunt (Nick Zano), security guard George Lanter (Mykelti Williamson), and spectators Jonathan Groves (Jackson Walker), Andy Kewzer (Andrew Fiscella), Samantha Lane (Krista Allen), Carter Daniels (Justin Welborn), and Nadia Monroy (Stephanie Honoré). Once again, the survivors are killed in a series of strange accidents except for Janet, who is rescued just moments before her death. This leads the remaining survivors to believe that they have cheated Death, until Nick has another premonition of a disastrous explosion at a shopping mall, which he manages to prevent, saving himself, Lori, and Janet. Two weeks later, Nick realizes the mall disaster vision was only meant to lead them to where Death needed them to be and all three are killed by a runaway semi.[5]
Final Destination 5[edit]
In Final Destination 5, Sam Lawton (Nicholas D'Agosto) is on his way to a corporate retreat with his colleagues. While they cross the North Bay Bridge, Sam has a premonition that the bridge will collapse, killing everyone on it. Sam manages to persuade several of his co-workers to get off the bridge before the accident occurs, including Molly Harper (Emma Bell), Nathan Sears (Arlen Escarpeta), Peter Friedkin (Miles Fisher), Dennis Lapman (David Koechner), Olivia Castle (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), Isaac Palmer (P. J. Byrne), and Candice Hooper (Ellen Wroe). After Candice and Isaac die in bizarre accidents, Sam is warned that Death is still after the survivors and told that if he wants to live he must kill someone who was never meant to die on the bridge, and claim their remaining lifespan. Olivia and Dennis are killed before they have a chance to save themselves, but Nathan claims the lifespan of a co-worker when he accidentally causes his death in a warehouse accident. Peter attempts to kill Molly, jealous that she survived instead of Candice. He eventually gains the lifespan of an investigating agent, but is killed by Sam before he can kill Molly. Sam and Molly later board a plane to Paris, which is later revealed to be Flight 180 from the first film. Unable to get off the plane, both are killed in the resulting explosion. The landing gear is sent flying towards New York City and crashes into a cocktail bar, killing Nathan, since the co-worker whose life he claimed had a terminal illness and was due to die 'any day now'.[6]
Development[edit]
Final Destination was written by Jeffrey Reddick after having 'read a story about a woman who was on vacation and her mom called her and said, 'Don’t take the flight tomorrow, I have a really bad feeling about it.'. The woman switched flights and the plane she was originally supposed to take crashed. Originally having written the script as an episode of The X Files, Reddick decided to turn the script into a feature-length film at the behest of one of his New Line Cinema colleagues. After reading his spec script, New Line Cinema hired Reddick to write the screenplay; James Wong and Glen Morgan were later brought on board to help with the script, making alterations to comply with their standards.[7]
Box office[edit]
Final Destination, when compared to other top-grossing American horror franchises--A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Hannibal Lecter, Psycho, Saw, Scream and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre—and adjusting for the 2011 inflation[8] is the tenth highest grossing horror franchise in the United States at approximately $347.8 million.[9]
Film | Release date | Budget | Box office gross | References | ||
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North America | Outside North America | Worldwide | ||||
Final Destination | March 17, 2000 | $23 million | $53,331,147 | $59,549,147 | $112,880,294 | [10] |
Final Destination 2 | January 31, 2003 | $26 million[citation needed] | $46,961,214 | $43,465,191 | $90,426,405 | [11] |
Final Destination 3 | February 10, 2006 | $25 million | $54,098,051 | $63,621,107 | $117,719,158 | [12] |
The Final Destination | August 28, 2009 | $40 million | $66,477,700 | $119,689,439 | $186,167,139 | [13] |
Final Destination 5 | August 12, 2011 | $40 million | $42,587,643 | $115,300,000 | $157,887,643 | [14] |
Total | $154 million | $263,455,755 | $401,624,884 | $665,080,639 | [15][16] |
Critical response[edit]
The franchise has been praised for its innovative premise, of the invisible abstract concept of Death killing people, instead of a usual slasher killer; the death sequences have also been praised for their creativity.[17]
Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore |
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Final Destination | 34% (94 reviews)[18] | 36 (28 reviews)[citation needed] | B-[19] |
Final Destination 2 | 48% (111 reviews)[20] | 38 (25 reviews)[citation needed] | B+[19] |
Final Destination 3 | 43% (115 reviews)[21] | 41 (28 reviews)[citation needed] | B+[19] |
The Final Destination | 28% (96 reviews)[22] | 30 (14 reviews)[citation needed] | C[19] |
Final Destination 5 | 62% (134 reviews)[23] | 50 (24 reviews)[24] | B+[19] |
Future[edit]
Future sequels[edit]
In early 2011, Tony Todd said in an interview with Dread Central that if Final Destination 5 was a success at the box office, then two sequels would be filmed back-to-back.[25] On August 23, 2011, when asked whether he would be directing a sequel, Steven Quale elaborated, 'Who knows. Never say never. I mean, it'll be up to the fans. We'll see how this one performs internationally, and if it makes as much money as the fourth one, I'm sure Warner Brothers will want to make another one.'[26]
Reboot[edit]
In January 2019, it was announced that a reboot was in the works at Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema, with Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan set to write the script. The new film is billed as a 're-imagining' of the franchise.[27]
Cast and characters[edit]
List indicators- (v) indicates the actor or actress used only his or her voice for his or her film character
- (f) indicates the actor or actress did not appear in any new footage for the film; footage from an earlier film was used.
- A dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.
Character | Films | ||||
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Final Destination | Final Destination 2 | Final Destination 3 | The Final Destination | Final Destination 5 | |
2000 | 2003 | 2006 | 2009 | 2011 | |
William Bludworth | Tony Todd | Tony Todd | |||
Clear Rivers | Ali Larter | Ali Larter (f) | |||
Alex Browning | Devon Sawa | Photograph | Referenced | Devon Sawa (f) | |
Carter Horton | Kerr Smith | Photograph | Kerr Smith (f) | ||
Billy Hitchcock | Seann William Scott | Photograph | Referenced | Seann William Scott (f) | |
Valerie Lewton | Kristen Cloke | Photograph | Referenced | Kristen Cloke (f) | |
Terry Chaney | Amanda Detmer | Photograph | Referenced | Amanda Detmer (f) | |
Tod Waggner | Chad Donella | Photograph | Referenced | ||
George Waggner | Brendan Fehr | Brendan Fehr (f) | |||
Larry Murnau | Forbes Angus | Forbes Angus (f) | |||
Agent Weine | Daniel Roebuck | ||||
Agent Schreck | Roger Guenveur Smith | ||||
Kimberly Corman | A. J. Cook | Photograph (Deleted Scene) | |||
Thomas Burke | Michael Landes | Photograph (Deleted Scene) | Michael Landes (f) | ||
Eugene Dix | T. C. Carson | Referenced | T. C. Carson (f) | ||
Rory Peters | Jonathan Cherry | Referenced | Jonathan Cherry (f) | ||
Kat Jennings | Keegan Connor Tracy | Referenced | Keegan Connor Tracy (f) | ||
Nora Carpenter | Lynda Boyd | Referenced | Lynda Boyd (f) | ||
Tim Carpenter | James Kirk | James Kirk (f) | |||
Evan Lewis | David Paetkau | Referenced | David Paetkau (f) | ||
Dano Estevez | Alex Rae | Referenced | Alex Rae (f) | ||
Frankie Whitman | Shaun Sipos | Referenced | Shaun Sipos (f) | ||
Shaina McKlank | Sarah Carter | Referenced | Sarah Carter (f) | ||
Brian Gibbons | Noel Fisher | ||||
Isabella Hudson | Justina Machado | ||||
The Devil / Subway Voice Announcer | Tony Todd (v) | ||||
Wendy Christensen | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Mary Elizabeth Winstead (f) | |||
Kevin Fischer | Ryan Merriman | Ryan Merriman (f) | |||
Julie Christensen | Amanda Crew | Amanda Crew (f) | |||
Ian McKinley | Kris Lemche | Referenced | Kris Lemche (f) | ||
Perry Malinowski | Maggie Ma | Referenced | Maggie Ma (f) | ||
Erin Ulmer | Alexz Johnson | Referenced | Alexz Johnson (f) | ||
Lewis Romero | Texas Battle | Texas Battle (f) | |||
Frankie Cheeks | Sam Easton | Referenced | Sam Easton (f) | ||
Ashley Fruend | Chelan Simmons | Referenced | Chelan Simmons (f) | ||
Ashlyn Halperin | Crystal Lowe | Referenced | Crystal Lowe (f) | ||
Amber Regan | Ecstasia Sanders | ||||
Jason Wise | Jesse Moss | Referenced | |||
Carrie Dreyer | Gina Holden | Referenced | |||
Nick O'Bannon | Bobby Campo | Bobby Campo (f) | |||
Lori Milligan | Shantel VanSanten | Shantel VanSanten (f) | |||
Janet Cunningham | Haley Webb | Haley Webb (f) | |||
Hunt Wynorski | Nick Zano | Nick Zano (f) | |||
George Lanter | Mykelti Williamson | Mykelti Williamson (f) | |||
Andy Kewzer | Andrew Fiscella | Andrew Fiscella (f) | |||
Samantha Lane | Krista Allen | Krista Allen (f) | |||
Carter Daniels | Justin Welborn | Justin Welborn (f) | |||
Nadia Monroy | Stephanie Honoré | Stephanie Honoré (f) | |||
Jonathan Groves | Jackson Walker | ||||
Cynthia Daniels | Lara Grice | Lara Grice (f) | |||
Sam Lawton | Nicholas D'Agosto | ||||
Molly Harper | Emma Bell | ||||
Peter Friedkin | Miles Fisher | ||||
Agent Block | Courtney B. Vance | ||||
Nathan Sears | Arlen Escarpeta | ||||
Dennis Lapman | David Koechner | ||||
Olivia Castle | Jacqueline MacInnes Wood | ||||
Isaac Palmer | P. J. Byrne | ||||
Candice Hooper | Ellen Wroe | ||||
Roy Carson | Brent Stait | ||||
John | Roman Podhora |
Literature[edit]
Novels[edit]
Throughout 2005, publishing company Black Flame released a series of Final Destination books which faithfully follow the premise of the films, with each involving a group of people who find themselves targeted by Death after surviving a catastrophe of some sort due to a character experiencing a precognitive vision. Their first five novels all featured original stories, with the first novel, entitled Dead Reckoning, has punk rocker Jessica Golden saving herself and several others from the collapse of Club Kitty in Los Angeles, earning Death's ire.[28]Destination Zero, also set in LA, has magazine employee Patricia Fuller and few others survive a train bombing and afterward, while being stalked by Death, Patti learns this is not the first time her family has been hunted by the entity.[29]End of the Line has a group of New York Citysubway crash survivors, led by twins Danny and Louise King, trying to escape Death, who uses an unknowing agent to hasten its acquisition of the survivors.[30] In Dead Man's Hand a group meant to die in the crash of a Las Vegas glass elevator are stalked by both Death and the FBI, the latter believing the group's savior Allie Goodwin-Gaines was responsible for the elevator crash.[31]Looks Could Kill has beautiful New York model Stephanie 'Sherry' Pulaski stopping her friends from boarding a yacht when she has a vision of it exploding, but is left horribly disfigured and comatose by flying debris moments afterward when her vision comes true; eventually awakening the embittered Stephanie makes a deal with Death, aiding it in claiming her friends in exchange for having her good looks restored.[32]
After the run of the original series of books Black Flame released novelizations of the first three films in January 2006.[33][34][35] Black Flame's last Final Destination novel was Death of the Senses released in mid-2006. Taking place in New York the book has a homeless man named Jack Curtis saving policewoman Amy Tom from a maniac after having a vision of Amy's death; Amy's attacker is later revealed to be a serial killer who was meant to murder six other people (representing the first five senses and a sixth) who Death begins targeting as Jack and Amy rush to find and warn the intended victims.[36] It was, due to a printing error, only available for a short period of time before being recalled, leaving only a few copies in circulation. A tenth novel, titled Wipeout and written by Alex Johnson, was planned, but cancelled; the book would have featured a pair of surfers and several others, after surviving a plane crash in Hawaii, being hunted by Death and the survivor of another disaster, an unstable soldier who had nearly died in an ambush in Afghanistan.[37]
Comic books[edit]
The first Final Destination comic book, titled Sacrifice, was published by Zenescope Entertainment and came packaged with a limited-edition DVD of Final Destination 3, sold exclusively at Circuit City stores. The premise of the story involves the survivor of a terrible accident and his friend Jim, who continually experiences images of other people's deaths, isolating himself from the rest of the world to escape the visions that torment him.[38] Zenescope later released a five-issue miniseries, titled Final Destination: Spring Break, which involves a group led by Carly Hagan being stalked by Death after surviving a hotel fire and becoming stranded in Cancún, Mexico. The miniseries was later released in a trade paperback collection, which included the Sacrifice comic as bonus content.[39]
Notes[edit]
- ^Final Destination 3 is set in 2005. Kevin Fischer's statement to Wendy Christensen outside their school that the Flight 180 explosion from the first film occurred 'six years ago' is a continuity error, as the first film is set in 2000.
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You can thank (or blame) many of the 3D, 1950s horror movies, like It Came From Outer Space and House of Wax , for introducing the 3D effect to the masses. Now, 3D is having a renaissance with The Nightmare Before Christmas and, most recently, Beowulf. It looks like that theater technology is ready to spill into the truly mediocre — Final Destination 4 will be shot in 3D — according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Although Beowulf had its moments, it was still a poorly-executed story that had dazzling visuals, which only kept my attention for about a half an hour. So far, 3D is the indulgence of spectacle and hasn’t really added any content to films. It’s doubtful that Final Destination 4 will herald the coming of substantive 3D filmmaking, but there might be a lot of blood and guts flying in your face, so we’re on board. Plot details are limited, but it’s said that this will be a stand-alone feature — offering Death a new batch of teen victims.
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Directed by | David R. Ellis |
Produced by | Craig Perry Warren Zide |
Written by | Eric Bress |
Based on | Characters created by Jeffrey Reddick |
Starring | Bobby Campo Shantel VanSanten Mykelti Williamson |
Music by | Brian Tyler |
Cinematography | Glen MacPherson |
Edited by | Mark Stevens |
Production company | |
Distributed by | New Line Cinema[1][2] |
Release date | |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $40 million[3] |
Box office | $186.2 million[4] |
The Final Destination (alternatively known as Final Destination 4) is a 2009 American 3Dsupernatural horror film written by Eric Bress and directed by David R. Ellis, both of whom also worked on Final Destination 2. Released on August 28, 2009, it is the fourth installment of the Final Destination film series, and the first to be shot in HD3D. It is currently the highest-grossing Final Destination film, earning $186 million worldwide but also received the worst critical reception of the franchise.
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Plot[edit]
College student Nick O'Bannon visits the McKinley Speedway with his girlfriend Lori Milligan and their friends Hunt Wynorski and Janet Cunningham. While watching the race, Nick has a premonition of a horrible car accident that sends debris into the stands, causing the stadium to collapse. When Nick panics, a fight breaks out and several people leave the stadium, including Lori, Hunt, Janet, security guard George Lanter, mechanic Andy Kewzer, his girlfriend Nadia Monroy, racist tow truck driver Carter Daniels, and mother Samantha Lane. As Nadia berates the group, a stray tire flies out of the stadium and decapitates her.
Several days after the accident, Carter tries to set a fire on George's lawn for preventing him from saving his wife, but a chain reaction causes him to be dragged down the street on fire before his tow truck explodes. The next day, Samantha is leaving the beauty salon when a rock propelled by a lawn mower is shot through her eye, killing her. After reading about the events in the newspaper and the past disasters that parallel to the speedway's, Nick becomes convinced that Death is after them. Hunt and Janet don't believe them, but they manage to convince George to help. The group visits the mechanic shop to warn Andy, but he is killed when a CO2 tank launches him through a chain link fence. After receiving a premonition involving water, Nick tries to warn Hunt, who has gone to a country club pool. At the same time, George and Lori try to find Janet, who becomes trapped in a malfunctioning car wash, and they narrowly manage to save her. Hunt drops his lucky coin in the water after accidentally turning the pool's drain on. When he dives in, he is sucked down to the drain, where the increasing suction eventually sucks his organs through the drain pipe. Afterward, George admits that he tried to commit suicide several times, but all attempts have failed. Nick believes saving Janet must have ruined Death's plan and the group celebrates.
Four days later, Nick begins to see more omens and remembers asking cowboy Jonathan Groves to switch seats prior to the accident, meaning he is next. Nick and George track Jonathan down at a hospital, where he remained in traction recovering from the accident. They witness him being crushed by an overflowing bathtub that falls through the ceiling. As they leave, George is suddenly hit by a speeding ambulance and Nick realizes that Lori and Janet are still in danger. He tracks them down at a mall cinema and convinces Lori to leave, but Janet refuses and is fatally injured by flying debris when a chain reaction causes the screen to explode. A multitude of explosions race Nick and Lori through the mall until they are trapped on a malfunctioning escalator, Lori is dragged into the gears and killed. This turns out to be another premonition, but George is killed by the ambulance before Nick can warn him.
At the mall, Lori begins seeing omens as well. Having failed in his premonition, Nick runs back to the mall to stop the explosion before it occurs. He is pinned to a wall by a nail gun but manages to stop the fire before it spreads to several combustible barrels, saving everyone. Two weeks later, Nick notices a loose scaffold prop while heading into a café and warns a construction worker about it before going inside. While talking with Lori and Janet, he starts to see more omens and alludes to the theory that his premonition were red herrings meant to lead them to where they needed to be for Death to strike. Just as he realizes this the scaffold outside collapses, causing a truck to swerve and crash into the coffee shop, killing all three of them. Janet is crushed under the tires, Lori is decapitated by the impact, and Nick is propelled into a wall, dislocating his jaw.
Cast[edit]
- For more details on the characters, see List of Final Destination characters.
- Bobby Campo as Nick O'Bannon
- Shantel VanSanten as Lori Milligan
- Haley Webb as Janet Cunningham
- Nick Zano as Hunt Wynorski
- Mykelti Williamson as George Lanter
- Krista Allen as Samantha Lane
- Andrew Fiscella as Andy Kewzer
- Justin Welborn as Carter Daniels
- Stephanie Honoré as Nadia Monroy
- Lara Grice as Cynthia Daniels
- Jackson Walker as Jonathan Groves
- Brendan Aguillard as Ryan Lane
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
After the success of Final Destination 3, which was initially planned to be in 3D,[5] Eric Bress wrote a script, which impressed producer Craig Perry and Warner Bros. enough to green-light a fourth installment. James Wong was on board to direct, but because of scheduling conflicts with Dragonball Evolution, he decided to drop out. Consequently, the studio executives opted for David R. Ellis to return because of his work on Final Destination 2. He accepted because of the 3D.[6] For the 3D, Perry said that he wanted it to add depth to the film instead of just 'something pop[ping] out at the audience every four minutes.'[7]
Filming[edit]
A car on 'McKinley Speedway' sequence as shown in film
Although shooting was to be done in Vancouver, which was where the previous three films were shot, David R. Bhaag milkha bhaag. Ellis convinced the producers to shoot in New Orleans instead to bring business to the city, and because the budget was already large.[8] The opening crash sequence at 'McKinley Speedway' was filmed at Mobile International Speedway in Irvington, Alabama. Filming began in March 2008 and ended in late May in the same year.[7] Reshoots were done in April 2009 at Universal Studios Florida.[9]
Music[edit]
Soundtrack[edit]
The soundtrack album was released on August 25, 2009, three days before the film's theatrical release, under public record label JVC/Sony Music Australia. The album consists of 23 cues composed and mixed by Brian Tyler. He took over scoring the series after the untimely death of the composer for the first three films, Shirley Walker.
- Commercial songs from film, but not on soundtrack[10]
- 'Devour' by Shinedown
- 'How the Day Sounds' by Greg Laswell
- 'Burning Bridges' by Anvil
- 'Why Can't We Be Friends?' by War
- 'Don't You Know' by Ali Dee and the Deekompressors
- 'Faraway' by Dara Schindler
- 'Dream of Me' by Perfect
- 'Make My' by The Roots
- 'The Stoop' by Little Jackie
- 'Sweet Music' by Garrison Hawk
- 'Corona and Lime' by Shwayze
- 'Make You Crazy' by Brett Dennen
Score[edit]
The CD features the score composed by Brian Tyler, omitting commercially released songs that were featured in the film.
- U.S. edition[11]
The Final Destination (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
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Released | August 25, 2009 |
Label | JVC, Sony Music Australia |
- 'The Final Destination' – 2:56
- 'The Raceway' – 3:07
- 'Memorial' – 2:46
- 'Nailed' – 3:22
- 'Nick's Google Theory' – 1:30
- 'Revelations' – 2:28
- 'Raceway Trespass' – 1:39
- 'Stay Away from Water' – 2:38
- 'Flame On' – 1:43
- 'Moment of Joy' – 1:17
- 'Signs and Signals' – 2:51
- 'George Is Next' – 1:12
- 'Car Washicide' – 3:05
- 'Newspaper Clues' – 1:57
- 'Premonition' – 1:50
- 'The Salon' – 3:53
- 'Questioning' – 1:04
- 'Death of a Cowboy' – 2:08
- 'Gearhead' – 1:56
- 'Sushi for Everyone' – 2:53
- 'The Movie Theater' – 3:03
- 'You Can't Dodge Fate' – 1:28
- 'The Final Destination Suite' – 13:29
The soundtrack attracted generally favorable reviews. Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks.com gave the score 3 out of 5 stars and felt Tyler was 'capable [..] to further explore new stylistic territory while making substantial use of the structures and tone of [predecessor composer] Shirley Walker's music.' His approach to the scores were called 'intelligent', and provide 'adequate if not strikingly overachieving recordings is testimony to his immense talents.'
The reviewers were also impressed with the extension of the sound used by Walker in Final Destination 3. 'It relates to an affection for Walker's contribution to the industry,' said an unnamed critic.[12]
A SoundNotes reviewer grades the film with an impressive score of 7.5/10, remarking 'Brian Tyler slugs his way through the inadequacies of The Final Destination and produces a score with reasonable entertainment value and enough of an appeal to make it function well apart from the woeful film.'[13]
Release[edit]
The film was released in 3D as well as in conventional theaters on August 28, 2009. It was initially planned for an August 14 release.[14] It was also the first 3D film to feature D-BOX motion feedback technology in select theaters.[15]
Box office[edit]
According to USA Today and Newsday, The Final Destination debuted at the top of the North American box office, beating Rob Zombie's Halloween II, earning $28.3 million during its first weekend.[16][17] It is also topped the box office in the UK.[18] The film remained #1 at the box office in North America for two weeks. On September 11, 2009, it gained just over a million dollars and dropped to No. 7.[19] The film grossed $66.4 million domestically and $119.3 million in foreign sales, with a total of $186.5 million worldwide.[4]
Home media[edit]
The Final Destination was initially scheduled for a DVD and Blu-ray Disc release on December 22, 2009. The film was pushed back to January 5, 2010 in the US. Both the DVD and Blu-ray Disc included two pairs of 3D glasses with each set and featured a 2D version on the disc, along with additional scenes. Only the Blu-ray Disc version included two alternate endings, a 'making of' featurette about the deaths, storyboard visualization and a preview of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).[20] The Blu-ray Disc release, also a combo pack, includes a standard DVD of the film.
In Target stores, some of the DVDs included an exclusive Final Destination comic book.
The movie was released uncut in Australian theaters with an MA15+ (Strong horror violence, sex scene) rating. When the movie's DVD/Blu-ray Disc release was reviewed, the ACB (Australian Classification Board) noted several scenes in the 2D version that exceeded the guidelines of the MA15+ category. There were two editions released in Australia: a DVD version which only contains a censored 2D version (most of the blood effects taken off and gore trimmed) and a DVD release awarded an R18+ rating (High impact violence) with both uncensored 2D and 3D versions (and 3D glasses included). The covers between the two releases vary.
Reception[edit]
The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 28% of 96 critics gave the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.2/10. The site's consensus states: 'With little of the ingenuity of previous installments, The Final Destination is predictable, disposable horror fare.'[21]Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 0–100 reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 30 based on 14 reviews.[22]
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^'World Premiere Featuring 3-D Movie Combined with D-BOX Motion Code(TM)'. D-BOX Technologies (Press release). August 12, 2009.
- ^Bowles, Scott (August 30, 2009). 'Final Destination knocks off stiff competition at box office'. USA Today. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^'Final Destination arrives at No. 1 with $28.3M'. Newsday. August 30, 2009.
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- ^'Daily Box Office for Friday, December 19, 2014 - Box Office Mojo'.
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- ^'The Final Destination: Reviews'. Metacritic. January 14, 2009.
External links[edit]
- The Final Destination on IMDb
- The Final Destination at AllMovie
- The Final Destination at Box Office Mojo
- The Final Destination at Rotten Tomatoes
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