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Originally Posted by Variable

Man I have no idea what Final Destination is...

Final Destination (series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The premise is basically the same throughout the movies, as well as in the book series. A group of people, usually teenagers, are about to embark on a journey or vehicular transportation of some kind. One of the group has a premonition of a large catastrophe, that will prove deadly to most of the people present. To date, the events in the movies so far have included a plane flight explosion, a road trip pile-up, and a roller coaster ride falling apart. In the books, there has been a nightclub cave-in, a metro bombing, a train collision, an elevator crash, a yacht sinking, a killer's death list, and an (unconfirmed) plane crash on a beach. In the comic books, the beginning accident involved several explosions at a hotel. The person with the premonition then tries to prevent the accident from happening by alerting the others. Since no one else has any way of knowing of the coming tragedy, practically none of them believe the visionary. Usually only a small group leave with the visionary, either because they were forced by the visionary, they were concerned about the visionary or his or her words, or they were forced to leave by others for causing a disturbance.

Soon after, the visionary sees they're helpless to stop the disaster, which happens exactly as foreseen, killing everyone who had not left. All the survivors see the visionary was right, and their view about them changes drastically. Over the next few days, weeks or months, the survivors begin to die in a series of bizarre freak accidents. Usually, the survivors will begin dying in the same order they would have, had they been present at the original disaster. The accidents are usually extremely gruesome. The death causes range from the common to the bizarre and elaborate (e.g. hanging by a rope, killed by a nail gun.) By the end of the movie, the visionary manages to find a way out of the dilemma they are in, having salvaged two or three of the others (see Final Girl), but there is always at least one final unexpected death at the end of the film, usually with a comedic undertone.