Final destination 1 premonition
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The film’s glorious opening gambit ensured that anyone who saw it would forever feel uneasy when driving behind a logging truck. But hey, live by the Final Destination 2 sword….well, you know. I realise I’m probably ensuring my own ironic convoluted death by doing this. To celebrate Final Destination 2‘s presence on Netflix, I am going to chronologically rate each death set-piece in the film out of a possible ten severed heads, and cite a delightfully sadistic flourish from each one.
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Ellis (who sadly died in 2013) is a former stuntman/stunt coordinator, as he demonstrates a talent for practical staging in these set pieces that prioritises stunt work over CGI. (For the record, here the FD films in descending order of quality: 2, 5, 4, 3, 1) But what glorious death scenes they are! The gory set-pieces that populate Final Destination 2 are true works of art, and the franchise spent three more movies chasing their heights without ever quite reaching them. Yes, it’s all pretty ridiculous (it’s always struck me as weird that they never address how or why each film’s protagonist has the premonition in the first place), and little more of an excuse to pay extended homage to a style of “suspiciously accidental” death scene pioneered by director Richard Donner and screenwriter David Seltzer in their 1976 classic The Omen. But then these “survivors” subsequently individually die in increasingly Rube Goldberg-esque “accidents” that are theorised to represent “Death” itself stalking victims that erroneously escaped its grasp due to the intervention of the psychic premonition. That victim then prevents those people from dying in the accident, and they go about their lives. The essential thrust is: a bunch of people die in a large scale accident that is then revealed to be a short-term premonition by one of the “victims”. The illuminating commentary track on the DVD hints at various conceptual roads the production considered going down, and the remnants of some of those appear in the finished edit. The first film introduced a formula that sustained a five-film franchise, but that formula was still being defined by the time the second film came around, and the subsequent entries leaned more into the tone of part two than the original. Final Destination 2 (2003), however, is a straight-up Grand Guignol gonzo horror masterpiece that unshackles itself from its predecessor’s relatively self-serious tone and unleashes a hilariously sadistic parade of some of the greatest death scenes ever committed to screen. Final Destination (2000) is a nifty little turn-of-the-millenium supernatural horror film centered around a novel high concept represented by a (then) innovatively intangible antagonist.