Final Destination

Final Destination is an American horror franchise owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment through New Line Cinema. It includes six films, nine novels, and two comic books. It is based on an unused spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for the television series The X-Files. The series centers on groups of people who survive a disaster after one individual receives a premonition warning them of the event. The survivors are then killed one by one in a series of elaborate, Rube Goldberg machine–like accidents orchestrated by an unseen force, often identified as Death, leading the remaining survivors to seek ways of escaping their predetermined fates. A seventh film is in early development. In addition to the films, a novel series consisting of six original stories and 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 book series titled Final Destination: Spring Break was published by Zenescope Entertainment in 2007. The franchise has been praised for its innovative premise, with Death itself being a villain instead of the usual slasher figure, and the creativity of the convoluted yet tense death sequences.