One of the smartest horror films in years

Final Destination I actually own on video cassette and seen it in 2002, then seen the other films in the series. It won't be fair just to review this one and ignore the sequels. The series as a whole is downright frightening, and pushed what horror is. The first film I can imagine as a horror novel that really starts out with a scare and never lets up. The story itself reminds me of a play I used to watch at my old church -- Heaven's Gates And Hell's Flames.

This is done by a director whose studied under Stephen J. Cannell, and what you see with this is an overall killer horror series. The plot is of the survivors of a plane explosion, the main character sees a dark and haunting vision of his friends and himself dying on the plane. He freaks out and got six other people off the plane with him, then as they are in the terminal the airplane blows up.

The cast for the most part is from Generation X, and the plot being a French Class go on their field trip to Europe. The deaths I won't give away in this one or in the films sequels. I can tell people where I've seen Final Destination 2, and this was a place that I shouldn't have seen it -- and that was in a blood bank. The room mates rented Final Destination 3.

Final Destination 2, some of the survivors from Final Destination get into a traffic accident that was near fatal. Death missed them, but caught up with the survivors through out the film -- and the deaths in this one are even more macabre and gruesome than the first.

The deaths in the first one are pretty evil in the way they went, one character got hit by a bus and splattered on the boyfriend.

I saw this a year after September 11, 2001, and I am glad I didn't see it before I went to Canada in 2000. The reason I say that because I went up in a plane to go, and that was the last time I ever been in a plane. It wasn't because of the film either, it was because of September 11, 2001.

Death was coming for them and one by one, each survivor dies in bizarre, gruesome accidents. I think about this with an eye of someone who wrote scary stories, and I don't think I could even come up with some of these with my eyes closed.

I give Jeffory Riddick the credit with this one for writing a killer story, and the thing that keeps you watching is the actual story unfolding. The director also wrote the screenplay version of the film, and what he pulled off with this is proof he is a master of horror.

Wong did the Jet Li Sci-Fi flick The One, and he is behind the remake of Willard. He is a peer to Stephen King if you ask me, and he earned that with a reason. Wong you have my respect too.

This has a kinship between Nightmare At 20,000 Feet, and some of the other episods of the Twilight Zone. Except that the story is much more gruesome, and I imagine if a story like this was written in the 1980s it wouldn't fly that well. Or if it came out a year later, it wouldn't be politically correct. This horror film is very un-pc, and that is how I like it.

The way they used Nine Inch Nails, "Slipping Away" in one scene, "I reached my final destination."

This was a disturbing song for this kind of film, and if H.P. Lovecraft and Rod Serling were both alive to watch this film, they would be applauding the writer of this one. I also want to mention the writer of Final Destination also penned Return to Cabin By The Lake. A TV Movie horror sequel to a sick horror film that didn't need any blood to scare people to a film titled Cabin by the Lake.

The writer of the story of this film also played in Return to Cabin By The Lake. I want to actually see the story he wrote that lead into the screenplay, Jeffery if you're reading this -- you need to put the stories to paper with Final Destination. The reason I say that because some of the parts are scary on film, I want to see how they translate on a printed page -- they would become even more frightening.

If someone was to compare Final Destination to his latter project as a screenplay, I think he did a better job with Final Destination. This movie is a reminder to the newer generation of movie watchers how horror was done before I was born, a combination of 1950s style storytelling -- the delivery fits right in one of those old horror comic books.

This isn't bad for a director who studied right under both Stephen J. Cannell and Chris Carter. Carter is a genre veteran in horror and Science Fiction, while Cannell is good at the human stories and starting to prove himself as a horror producer. This is a film from a guy who had plenty of practice with "The X-Files" in producing a genre series. So with Final Destination as a series he was putting all what he learned with working with Chris Carter to practice.

Like Hostel and Stir of Echoes, this horror film will be the film that will define the 2000 decade with dead teen movies. This one changes the rules of the film, and blows The Scream Trilogy out of the water. Kevin Williamson just got knocked to his ass, and seeing the destroyed novel on screen of I know What You Did Last Summer this is a welcomed change.

This is going to be a horror classic if it isn't already. People are going to talk about this one like my mother's generation talked about The Omen and Halloween.