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Synopsis: Final Destination is an American horror franchise 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 that 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 evading their foretold deaths, the survivors are killed one by one in bizarre accidents caused by an unseen force engineering complicated chains of cause and effect, resembling Rube Goldberg machines in their complexity.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Production: New Line Cinema
  3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
R
Year:
2000
98 min
Website
1,592 Views


With a DEEP GASP, he does so. Drinking up the air. It appears to infuse him

with another blast of adrealine as he manages to push with his arms adn free

himself from the pinning tree branch.

He pauses only for a couple gulps of air... and is off.

CUT TO:

EXT. WINDOW - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

CLear leaps from the end of the branch to her window, grabbing the sill

awkwardly, she dangles outside the house. With a breath, she pulls herself

inside, just as the power line bites, ARCING, at her feet.

CUT TO:

EXT. FOREST - NIGHT

Weine RUNS INTO FRAME, looks around, frustrated...

WEINE:

(into radio)

Lost him.

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST - SCHRECK

deperately scans the area.

SCHRECK:

From the direction... there's only one

place he can heading...

CUT TO:

EXT. CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE NIGHT

The power lines strike the rooftop.

INT. CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Clear River's stands in her bedroom just as it fills with blinding blue

light. Her television screen BLOWS OUT. Sparks jet across the room. Blasts

of FLAME erupt from the electrical outlets. She quickly turns, racing toward

the hallway.

INT. HALLWAY - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

CAMERA IS LOW, RACING WITH HER as SPARKS EXPLODE FROM the lamps and

electrical outlets. She cuts and leaps three steps at a time down the

staircase...

CUT TO:

EXT. EDGE OF THE WOODS/BACKYARD - NIGHT

Alex tears across the fenceless backyards towards Clear's house. Blue ARC

light glowing from the front yard.

CUT TO:

INT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

A mid-eighties Corolla is parked amongst Clear's artwork. A door, adjacent

to the kitchen flies open. Clear hustles through, running to the car and

entering via the passenger door, for the sake of expediency.

EXT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

The power lines WHACK angerily against the door.

INT. COROLLA - NIGHT

Clear scoots into the driver's seat. She CLICKS the automatic garage door

opener...

GARAGE DOOR OPENER MOTER

connected to a metal arm, attached to the door, remains motionless - there

is no power.

INT. COROLLA - NIGHT

Realizing the moter is dead, Clear takes a beat, STARTS THE ENGINE and

SHIFTS INTO REVERSE...

EXT. BACKYARD - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Alex reaches the backyard. CAMERA PUSHES IN as he quickly tries to deduce

the deadly situation. HE RUNS OUT OF FRAME...

INT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Clear guns the small car in reverse.

ARAGE DOOR:

as the rear of the car makes impact with the door...

THE GARAGE OPENER

trembles, the long metal arm collapses, falls...

EXT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

BAM! In reverse, the Corolla SMASHES through the garage door.

THE METAL ARM:

of the garage door opener RIPS through the windshield, locking upon the

windshield wiper ggrille. The other end remains attached to the garage rood

interior, essentially acting as an anchor.

INT. COROLLA - NIGHT

The car SHUDDERS, wheels spinning uselessly, as the arm "holds" onto the

car.

INT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT - DOOR OPENER MOTER

the screws holding the arm to the ceiling begin to pull away...

A METAL CAN:

on a shelf, is rocked as, O.S., the CAR rattles the garage, trting to break

free. The can is marked "TURPENTINE: EXTREMALY FLAMMABLE." The can tumbles

over the shelf.

GARAGE FLOOR:

the can SMACKS on the floor, edgewise, REVREALING the can is sealed tight

with a cap.

EXT. CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT - POWER LINE

thick cable ARCS, snapping toward the car INTO FRAME

INT. COROLLA - NIGHT

Foot to the floor, Clear SCREAMS for the car to move.

INT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT - DOOR OPENER MOTER

pulls away from the ceiling.

EXT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

The Corolla lurches backward, freed from the grasp of the house.

INT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

a chunk of the cieling collapses upon Clear's artworks, inclusing the canvas

incorporating a jagged piece of debris from Flight 180. The metal SLAMS to

the floor, on top of...

THE CAN OF TURPENTINE

which causes the flammable liquid to sream out, toward the driveway.

EXT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

As the Corolla lurches away from the house down the sloped driveway...

THE POWER LINE:

THUDS upon Clear's car.

INT. COROLLA - NIGHT

An ear splitting CRACKLE. SPARKS FLY! The electrical system of the samll car

erupts and the engine dies. The car stops.

EXT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

From the rear of the house appears Alex. CAMERA SWEEPS IN ON HIM as he

reacts to the situation...

ALEX:

Don't move!

WIDER:

The power line sadistically rests atop the automobile. The exposed end of

the cable flutters and whips like a cat's tail, SPARKING, CRACKLING, as it

hits the ground.

INT. COROLLA - NIGHT

Clear looks up, desperately to Alex.

EXT. GARAGE - CLEAR RIVER'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Alex extends his hands. O.S., CARS approach THUNDEROULSY...

ALEX:

You're grounded in the car. Don't

touch anything. DON'T MOVE.

IN THE STREET:

The unmarked F.B.I. vehicle and wo sheriff patrol cars pull up on the

street. Schreck and Weine hustle out of the car.

WEINE:

Alex, get away from there!

SCHRECK:

Any part of that line touches you,

you're dead.

THE POWER LINE:

SNAPS in ALEX'S DIRECTION.

ALEX:

lurches back...

THE STREAM OF TURPINTINE

is ignited by a single spark fom the power line. It flows toward the car.

ALEX:

backs away, eyes locked with Clear's, assuring she's remaining in the car.

CLEAR:

keeps her eyes locked on Alex, watching him. Suddenly, a BURST OF FIRE

FLASHES FROM BELOW FRAME...

ALEX:

reacts, shocked. He realizes...

WIDER:

the underbelly of the Corolla has ignited from the stream of combustible

fluid.

SCHRECK AND WEINE

step forward...

THE POWER LINE:

atop the car, whips, ARCS, warning everone away.

IN THE COROLLA:

Clear can see the flames, her instinct is to grab the handle to get out.

CLEAR'S POV - GARAGE WALL

The fire roars angrily in the f.g., on the garage wall, however, the shadows

do not match that of the flames, rather, the approaching form of Death

appears.

ALEX:

steps closer...

ALEX:

NO!

CAMERA PUSHES IN ON ALEX as he quickly considers, then moves toward the hood

of the burning car...

SCHRECK AND WEINE

WEINE:

Get back! You'll both die!

ALEX AND CLEAR:

hearing this, Alex's mind is made up , he looks to Clear.

ALEX:

You know what to do.

CLEAR:

No! No! Don't!

ALEX:

When I do this.. it'll have skipped you...

and it'll all be over.

At that moment, Clear doesn't understand. She looks to him, scared...

ALEX:

You know what to do. I'll always be with

you.

He reaches out and grabs the power line, falling back to pull it away from

the hood of the car. The cabel ARCS furiously.

COROLLA:

Clear opens the drivers side door and runs out, knocked to her feet behind

her as the car EXPLODES.

ALEX:

is engulfed in the flames.

ALEX'S POV - THE SHADOWS

the edge of the FRAME are collapsing. Alex's face, gray and emotionless

appears, yet, before it can transform into decay...

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Glen Morgan

Morgan was born in Syracuse, New York, and moved to El Cajon, California at the age of 14. While attending El Cajon Valley High School, he met James Wong, who would become his friend and professional partner. Both enrolled at Loyola Marymount University, graduating from the School of Film and Television in 1983, and afterward, wrote many scripts together. Morgan did not want to work on television at first, but wound up accepting a job on 21 Jump Street, which would later earn he and Wong a steady job at Stephen J. Cannell Productions. As Morgan was about to leave the company following scripts for The Commish in 1992, his former boss at Cannell, Peter Roth, invited him to work on a show being developed at 20th Television, The X-Files. more…

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