It’s a storyline with an easy-to-follow plot: Someone gets a premonition just before a disaster and gets himself and his friends away from danger. However, although they escaped death, they soon begin dying one by one because they cannot run from death’s clutches.
What strikes me is how successful such a simple storyline can be. Everyone in the show dies eventually. No emotionally-shattering plot, no characters to cry for. Boy, did I just think of that somewhere in my dreams? But no, Jeffery Reddick beat me to it and wrote the script which spun off the money-making Final Destination series.
Funny how we enjoy watching characters die in Final Destination. I mean, it’s not everyday you watch a movie just to watch how the characters are going to die. Movies have you rooting for the hero through his/her challenging journey, and hope with all your heart he survives his ordeal. Romantic comedy, anyone? Stuff which pull your heart strings. Final Destination does just the opposite – it skims the surface of each character it portrays – thus you don’t really feel for them and it’s okay for them to die.
So that’s it >> they die and I lust to see them die. Their intestines and eyeballs get wrenched out, their limbs crack and fly apart and they get burnt to a crisp. And I laugh in merriment. Didn’t realise I had a thirst for blood. Seems we all do. What better then to watch blood spilled... by others on a screen? No guilt, no pressure.
Which reminds me of how we like watching horror movies just to see ghosts/supernatural beings pop up to scare us. Think classics like Colic and Shutter. The thrill in watching them is delicious.
Let’s share our favorite movies in the comments page - the ones that hook us with the promise of death and horror. And perhaps we can organise an online movie marathon. Who’s in?
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