FINAL DESTINATION TRIPLE FEATURE

Animated by a series of ingenious chain-reaction schemes culminating in human dismemberment, the FINAL DESTINATION series compels us to consider the paralyzing and thrilling idea that existence is merely a series of booby traps set between us and the grave. As the concrete and asphalt of modern society rise against their creators, the series goes on to play a fantastic game of one-upmanship with itself through its increasingly outrageous original sequels. So come and join us for this spooky season marathon of parts ONE, TWO and THREE!

Originally planned as an episode of The X-Files, FINAL DESTINATION brought TV veteran James Wong to feature films for the first time. He found comfortable footing in its amalgam of the unexplained phenomena of his hit show and the hip teen horror that had been dominating multiplexes in the late ‘90s. On paper, the conceit of the first film—in which a high-school student has a vision of a plane exploding with him and his classmates aboard, prompting them to exit the plane before it actually does—doesn’t sound ripe for the slasher-film archetype, but Wong goes to great lengths to create something cinematic out of the unseen as death comes back to claim what belongs to it. Then the sequels up the ante.

Restricted in its havoc-making powers, FINAL DESTINATION's incorporeal death can only seize upon coincidences or set small objects in motion that will snowball with increasingly larger effects. So rendered, death resembles a Greek deity: vain, capricious, curiously limited. The FINAL DESTINATION films literally visualize what most of us often feel without articulating: The universe is against us. We usually disavow such narcissism, but this franchise’s trademarked brand of screwball existential catharsis temporarily relieves the burden.