Final Destination (2000) KILL COUNT

[Music] welcome to the killcount where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies I'm James a DS and today we're finally starting the franchise that so many of you have been waiting for final destination beginning with the original film from the year 2000 final destination is a film that asks what happens when you escape death its answer is that death comes for you the film screenplay was originally written by Jeffrey Reddick based on one of his own spec scripts for an x-files episode after new line purchased the film they brought on director James Wong and producer Glen Morgan who together rewrote Reddick's original draft the final film was further altered after test screenings by newline founder Bob Shaye Michigan's own who had found success years earlier producing the Nightmare on Elm Street films with all those cooks in the kitchen final destination kind of ended up being a horror film by committee and it's sometimes feels that way with all the weird little asides and disjoint tangential ideas that never really add up to anything the idea at the core of the film however was a powerful one that resonated with audiences and would lead to the production of four sequels each made a few years apart from each other and with the last two filmed in glorious 3d that core idea which would be repeated in every installment is all about death getting even in each film one character's graphic and detailed premonition allows a small group of people to escape a major catastrophe that would have otherwise killed them the premonition disasters are a hallmark of the series and usually do a great job exploiting common fears like flying automobile accidents roller coasters and going to NASCAR races the survivors who escape these accidents thereby cheating death then begin to die in the order in which they were supposed to and they don't die in any old way either see in the final destination series it turns out that death kind of a little schemer and instead of just making these people's hearts give out on them or anything death sets up elaborate mousetrap like chain reactions that oftentimes lead to an unusually violent death these graphic Rube Goldberg kills are the other hallmark of the franchise and as to be expected they grow more and more grotesque as the series continues which yes will mean some censoring in the public releases of these episodes while explicit versions will be available for patrons sorry man it's just out goes how many kills will Death score in this first film which seems so quaint compared to what's to come let's find out and get to them the movie begins with a thunder e rainy title car the opening credits play over cryptic images of hanging dolls and oscillating fans as someone gets ready for a trip to Paris that someone is high school senior Alex browning by devon Sawa during the two or three years he was a hot commodity although maybe we're about to get a Sawan Assad's since Devon stars in the upcoming film the fanatic alongside freaking John Travolta and directed by lympha skits owned Fred Durst yeah Alex is a superstitious kind of guy who's nervous about his frenchclasses quite ahead of it take him in the last flight without the plane crash pretty paranoid there but I can't hate this guy when he's got a Buckcherry poster hanging in his room they were the first band I ever saw live and I don't care what you say that first album was a banger Alex goes to the airport where we meet some of his classmates who will also be going to the city of life first there's resident fuck-boy Carter who's played by Kerr Smith who would go on to be in My Bloody Valentine 3d Carter's got a girlfriend named Terry who doesn't do much other than make out with him and he likes to spend his time bullying nerds like this hockey jersey wearing kid named Billy Hitchcock played by Sean William Scott yep as you will come to hear Carters a dick there's also the obvious love interest for Alex a girl named clear rivers played by Ali Larter you can tell she's a squiggly lines intellectual because she walks through the airport reading Henry freaking Miller Alex's best friends though are a pair of brothers named George and Todd Todd is played by Chad Donella who would go on to be an obnoxious piece-of-shit character him the obnoxious piece-of-shit movie saw 3d you're crazy I knew you were crazy the minute I laid eyes on you crazy but in this movie he's not so much a piece of shit as he has to take a shit and he and Alex are so tight that they're bonafide poopin partners all the lanes sing together like demon Antonina their preflight dump does feature some music since the radio is playing Rocky Mountain High by John Denver and a plane no a coincidence like bad is sure to freak out the superstitious Alex right before he boards bully flight 180 your bill stays the same as your departure time September 25 9:25 Handa I guess that coincidence will freak him out too but wait Alex what are you freaked out about here man that's just the flight status board it's useful information Alex gets worried about a ton of things in this movie which are always presented with foreboding potions and bass tones but everything's so innocuous it's hard for me to take it seriously like that's just the plane Alex it's not ominous it's just 20th century travel technology they board their flight and feel reassured of its safety by the sight of a crying baby that's a good sign yeah the better be a fucked up gonna take down this plane oh that's kind of dark but I guess it's a solid line okay that one might be in bad taste though Alex takes his assigned seed but is asked to switch spots with one of these generically attractive early 2000s chicks he does and although his new seat is next to Todd its tray latch is broken and you know the airline ain't gonna do a damn thing about that the planes takeoff is smooth at first tend everybody cheers but things take a tumultuous turn real damn fast and pretty soon those oxygen masks are popping out of the overhead but hate to tell you folks a little bit of extra airflow ain't gonna help when a fire starts on board and a whole row of seats get sucked out the side of the plane holy shit another fire burst spreads through the cabin and we watch else's face cook for a nice hot minute until he finally wakes up back in his original seat on the plane those she's all that look at chicks asking him to switch again Alex quickly determines that his dream was more like a premonition and he calmly explains everything he just saw to the others on board ha ha never mind Alex fucked shit up and even fucking starts a riot a riot during the commotion a handful of students are removed from the plane along with both teacher chaperones Todd leaves his brother George to go check on Alex and clear ops to remove herself voluntarily since things are getting so spooky pilot bars all of them from his plane but since both French teachers are here they convinced him to let one of them back on board to chaperone the rest of the class headed to Paris although Larry Murr now offers to stay Valerie Wooten insists he go ahead so she stays behind as he read boards the plane Alex tries explaining himself which only leads to another fight with Carter and while they scuffle Billie watches out the window as the rest of his class heads to Paris yep there they go all right flight 180 s explosion somehow breaks the airport windows which I would like to see myth-busting please and just like that we've got a new kill count record the movie will later give us a number to use when it reports that 287 people died on flight 180 [Music] as far as premonition kills go I won't be including them on the kill count cuz they're just visions and besides the same people end up dying for real later and getting counted anyway as you might expect everyone is immediately suspicious of Alex even though he rightfully claims he didn't cause the explosion to happen do just be happy this was pre 9/11 who are you'd probably already be on your way down to get mo even pre patriot act though the FBI is obviously getting involved and to blam dudes and suits introduced themselves as agent Wayne and agent Shrek yep agent Rex the DreamWorks movie came out two years later in 2001 thereby making this character retro actively hilarious fun fact though agent Shrek is named after Max Schreck who played count or lock and Nosferatu and many other characters are also named after classic horror film creators he got Alex browning who comes from Tod browning director of universals 1931 Dracula of agent Wayne who comes from Robert Wayne director of the cabinet of dr. Caligari and of course Billy Hitchcock who comes from Alfred Hitchcock director of like a billion movies including the Byrds these feds are also suspicious of Alex but they're unable to learn anything during their questioning except that Val Lewton feels guilty for sending the other teacher back onto the plane survivor's guilt man it'll get you a month later there's a funeral service for Alex's classmates and in their honor the school uncovers statue of a bird really maybe it should have gone with something that doesn't remind people of fly at the service we see that everyone's got a different reaction towards Alex clear thanks him for her life Billy believes that he's a full-blown psychic and miss Luton is literally repulsed by him don't talk to me Hughes kid to Helen to me as for Carter he's still got no love for the Sala stir and instead decides that his survival has left him untethered to the mortal realm I'm never gonna die the worst fallout for Alex though is that Todd's dad blames him for the death of Todd's brother George so the poopin pals are presently off-limits to each other no longer allowed to defecate as a duo and so that night Todd is forced to take a solo squad in his bathroom at home never noticing the drippy valve leaking behind his porcelain throne for some reason he tries to shave his non-existent facial hair only to cut himself before a cloudy image appears behind him in his mirror port ending the fatal disaster that awaits him look out Todd that leaky waters comin at ya and it's blue for some reason that's weird over at Alex's House the other excommunicated puppeteer is just about to engage in a little tug II session when he instead uses his smut to scare away a voyeuristic hootie-hoo his penthouse gets caught up in the fan and he's left with a warning sign from fate or whatever Todd but it's too late for Alex to save time since death has already caught up to him in the form of a slippery fall into a clothesline the mechanics of it wrapping around his neck are a little wonky to me but at least there's this cool image of his eyes becoming bloodshot Todd struggles for quite some time but he's unable to save himself not with scissors nor with traction Todd dies in his bathtub with a clothesline around his neck while death covers up its tracks wait what the fuck why is death cleaning up the evidence here it's not like you're gonna get arrested death that's literally the one and only time something like this happens in the entire series but part of me will always wish that we got a series where death was just a shady two-bit criminal who had to cover up its own deeds anyway Alex runs over to Todd's house and although he's too late to save his friend he is just in time to look shady as fuck two FBI agents Shrek and Donkey Alex goes to talk to who's taking a break from reading tropic of cancer to weld stuff in her garage her metalwork pieces that she shows off to Alex include a statue of Billy the answer head from figure it out was a spring head guy it's you oh never mind I guess it's supposed to be Alex and clear says she made it because she feels some kind of emotional connection to it three years of high school we haven't said one word to each other at that moment on the plane I felt what you felt this is one of those half-baked ideas that I think kind of muddles up the movie but because of clears feeling my Bob's she knows that Alex feels like death is still around that it just feels like it's all around us Alex feels like he'd know his feelings better if he was able to feel Todd's body up feel it spiritually not like a weird way so the teens decide to break into the local funeral parlor to pay Todd's corpse a visit and see if they can feel any answers out from at the funeral home they encountered the coolest motherfucking mortician this side of a closed casket funeral Tony fuck yes Todd plays blood war a character with an awesome name that's only given in the credits and as to be expected mr. Todd tears this scene the hell up as he tells the kids that their friend's death wasn't a suicide as it had been ruled and reported but it wasn't an accident either death there are no accidents no coincidences no mishaps Bloodworth tells them that death has a design and by walking off that plane Alex and his pals cheated death but only temporarily now deaths drawing up a new design for everyone who escaped and although Alex wants to figure out in defeat deaths new plan Bloodworth tells him that there are risks to cheating the Grim Reaper you don't even wanna fuck with that's always been another real bind to me I've never figured out exactly what Tony Todd is talking about there but whatever I'm just happy to have him in the scene I'll see you not soon enough mr. Don Alex tells clear that from now on they need to be looking out for omens of death kind of like that reflection in the window of a bus that isn't really there but you know who is actually there Carter who's driving is just as dickish as his pedestrian behavior when all of a sudden all six of the remaining survivors find themselves together outside of a coffee shop coincidence or something spooky the usual bickering gets underway until Terry tells Carter and Alex to knock it off get over it yeah get over it like this bus gets over Terry's body boom these suddenly hit by a vehicle kills are kind of common nowadays but I remember being floored by this kill the first time I saw it almost as Florida's Terry's body after that bus hitter zing and I wasn't the only one rocked by it either test screen audiences took so long to calm the fuck down after that kill that the filmmakers literally had to add 40 seconds of inconsequential chill-out footage where Alex had clear:both make alka-seltzer drinks that's why that weird little scene is in there Alex continues trying to figure out a pattern to these deaths and he comes across a new clue when an unlikely graphic in a news report shows in detail the path of destruction on the plane after its fuel line caught fire a little of this a little of that and holy moly we've got a convenient itinerary of death that Alex can follow to determine the pattern dye anywhere they would have died and according to deaths design miss Valerie Wooten is max miss Luton is currently packing up her house so she can move to a new town and start a new life but not if the invisible breeze of death has anything to say about it careful miss Luton deaths even in yotie posh bouquet I do think the shadow reflection stuff is kinda dumb but not as dumb as Miss Lutins behavior after she pours herself some hot water for tea what the fuck was that I guess she got spooked because the mug has the high school's logo on it but it's never really played well to me and in fact this entire convoluted setup for her death feels pretty forced and clunky miss Luton cancels her tea and instead pours herself a beverage that's cold and hard the change in temperature cracks the mugs which leaks out a trail of vodka on the floor before some of it seeps into her computer monitor things kick into high gear when the monitor explodes catching Luton in the neck with some glass and starting a fire that follows her along the vodka trail and listen I know that's a handy trope for writers but liquor isn't flammable unless it's a hundred proof or higher and most vodkas are only 80 proof maybe this would be believable with Luton was knocking back some 151 but she wasn't so it isn't the fire spreads to the kitchen where it blows up her bottle of vodka and the explosion knocks Luton to the ground when she reaches for a rag so she can get a head start cleaning this whole mess up it pulls down a block of knives and one of them stabs her in the chest it's right about then that Alex runs over to her house to check on her he finds her on the floor bleeding to death and after one final explosion from the oven knocks a chair over which drives the knife in deeper Miz Luton finally dies after she's gone Alex stupidly grabs the knife getting his fingerprints all over the murder weapon well don't drop it there dude take that shit with you and bury it somewhere come on the last four survivors all get together even though they're still far from being friends car you dick although Carter and Billy grill Alex about who the next one on deaths list is alex says it doesn't matter shut the fuck up you idiots that kind of language and an increasing sense of desperation causes Carter to snap and he puts the pedal to the metal pig's bladder my own free will right as Carter speeds through the streets alex has a couple of premonitions about seatbelts braking and passenger trains not braking as if on cue Carter stops the car right in the middle of some train tracks and don't look now but shoot shoot motherfuckers Billy clear and Alex all file out of Carters car while he stays seated calmly waiting for his death but at the last minute he decides that it ain't his time but that might not be for him to decide cuz all of a sudden his car won't start and his doors won't open and his seat belt won't unbuckle Ike rumba armed with his knowledge that the seat belt will break Alice intervenes and saves Carter's life right before the train goes off back to the future three on a Chevy Nova I guess that one wasn't death Proof Thank You editor Zorn for that joke cuz I don't know cars Alex tells the others that Carter was in fact the next one on Jeff's checklist but does that mean everyone's safe now or his Carter still at the top of the list like Billy thinks you're dead your daddy went down then travel alone mofo Billy gets a sudden half decapitation from a hunk of chunk of metal junk kicked up by the train dude where's the top of my head who made me check behind the mail truck Billy Alex quickly logics out that because he intervened and saved Carters life death skipped over him and went to the next person on the list which was Billy and after Billy Alex is next and after Alex clear as next oh no what should they do fuck out of here oh okay yeah sure let's do that and we can just end this scene here with a fade to black fuck it sometime later alex is hiding out in a woodsy cabin owned by queer and is doing everything he can think of to death proof the interior these kind of seem like some janky ass safety measures though alex is this really the least dangerous setup you could think of that looks unstable as shit hey why are you eating cat food it's cat food safer than people food great Lucy will be thrilled to hear it while playing a game of crumply dumb plea with some newspaper Alex sees a picture of those hotties from his class who had asked him to switch seats on the plane and then he realizes that he never actually did in real life I never moved she was in front of mine this is another point that's always kind of confused me a little bit and I still don't fully get it but I do know that gusts of wind mean death is on the prowl it's now going after clear who's the next on its list for reals with some zappy lightning and a wacky waving power line Alex heads out to help clear right as agent Shrek and Co roll up from the swamp they're still chasing after him because you know his fingerprints were all over the knife they pulled out a Val Lewton chest idiot but Alex gets away from the cops in a quaint fucking canoe what the hell Rockstar needs to make GTA Venice pronto as Alex shakes his tails and runs through the woods to clears house the Wow then out power lines somehow manages to turn her whole upstairs into a full-blown pyrotechnic show I don't know what's causing those explosions but they all look very stage clear escapes into her garage and gets into her car then decides that the safest way out is by reversing straight on through the garage door shockingly that doesn't work I said sarcastically and she winds up trapped with a beam through her windshield Alex arrives to find being harassed by the world's most persistent power line he engages in a shovel fight with it like he's out of ammo playing day of defeat but his efforts only lead to another series of unfortunate events and by the end of them fire has gotten involved as well Alex tells clear that he's going to grab the power line so she can get out of the car before it explodes deal with it all the over although she cries for him not to he goes ahead and does it anyway right as the car explodes and blows both of them to the ground is that it then did Alex die we're fading to white so yes actually no although originally yes the original ending did have Alex dying right there in clears driveway and it was followed by a day new mall showing clear giving birth to a child she had made with him there were some other deleted scenes where it was implied that the two of them boned on a beach and we're showed that clear was pregnant so in the original ending were both clear and Carter survived they were finally able to beat death by bringing new life into the world although that concept was removed from this film they would explore it again in final destination - as for this original ending Bob Shaye had it changed after test screenings to be much more punchy and less schlocky ending that we all know and love that maybe makes up for the time he changed the ending of the first Nightmare movie to include that awful shot of a sex doll being pulled through a window the real ending which was filmed in reshoots that cost a few extra million dollars takes place six months later in it Alex clear and Carter all looking pretty different are alive and well and finally fulfilling their trip to Paris they sit at a cafe and toast the ones who didn't make it celebrating the fact that they beat Depp's design and have won a new lease on life but alex isn't completely satisfied yet he breaks out his crackpot map and points out that although he intervened to save queers life no one actually intervened to save him so shouldn't he still be at the top of deaths list Carter acknowledges that Alex may have a point but he's not too concerned for his own safety for all I know could circle back and get his soul again i and the safest fucker because you're still next don't speak too soon Carter cuz it's time for things to get spooky yeah bring on the breeze and the foreboding flame Alex tries to leave the others so they can be safe but as he walks away from them a near accident with the bus triggers yet another Rube Goldberg death contraption that leads to a big old 180 sign swinging down to kill him thankfully Carter intervenes and saves him by knocking him to the ground so who's next who's next Carter the movie cuts to black right before the sign hits him but the kill is confirmed in final destination - and also come on Carter obviously died there excellent last minute kill to death may be coming for us all but how many did it catch up to during final destination let's find out and get to the numbers a record-shattering 292 people died in final destination obviously I don't know the demographic breakdown of all the 287 Plain victims but aside from them three men and two women died so we can put them on the pie chart in some barely perceptible wedges with the runtime of 98 minutes we had to kill on average technically every twenty point one four seconds but yeah you can see here why averages aren't always useful I've been the golden chainsaw for coolest kill to Billy Hitchcock I almost went with Terry but I've always loved how the effect of this death looks it's the one kill in this first film that hints towards just how gory the series is going to get dole machete for lamest kill will go to Valerie loot I know all final destination deaths are convoluted and that's kind of the point but even with later deaths that are more fantastical I find them more believable that vales unrealistic reaction and her trail of flammable vodka and for the final destination franchise I've got a new award to give out each episode the primo premonition which will go to the coolest death that takes place only in a vision since those don't go on the kill cap for the inaugural award I'll give it to Alex browning himself the crash of flight 180 doesn't have as many interesting individual deaths as the catastrophes in the sequels so I've just got to give it to the main character burning up like that it's pretty damn shocking the first time you watch this movie and that's it final destination came out in 2000 and would be followed by a steady stream of sequels that we'll start looking at next week with part 2 until then I'm James a JD's this has been the killcam thanks a lot for watching this kill Kyle I'd like to thank some patrons like fright TV daniel moulds victor Reyes Jennifer and John Stanford like I said before the Sunday kill counts are over right now for final destination I'm just gonna focus on making these episodes the best I can that means one kill count a week for at least the month of August but don't worry we've got some fun times ahead thanks everyone be good people

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Id: RfVrU1fuR3Q

Length: 24min 38sec (1478 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 02 2019