Final Destination is an American horror franchise that includes six films, ten novels, and two comic books. 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. The films revolve around a group of people who escape a mass casualty event thanks to a visionary, who predicts they will die in it. By surviving, however, they also cheat Death itself since they disrupted its design to kill them in that event. As a result, Death kills the survivors one by one in gruesome and often comical Rube Goldberg–like mechanisms.
In addition to the films, a novel series 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, and the creativity of the convoluted yet tense death sequences.
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