

This time out, Perry even admits they’ve managed to tweak that expected convention even further. It’s a delicious premise and one that keeps getting refined with each additional film. That person usually stops the inevitable, momentarily, but the rest of the movie finds the unseen force of “Death” coming for these people one-by-one (in wildly inventive ways), in the order they were to be killed in the original vision. The usual plot structure begins with a character having a vision of a horrible accident and those around them dying violent deaths.


“I think the formula is very comforting to people, but I do believe it puts the onus on us to come up with a couple of things that might shake it up a little bit,” says Craig Perry who has produced all five films. That keeps the surprise factor ratcheted up. The plot mechanisms are key to each FINAL DESTINATION films (the first one was an airplane crash, the second a freeway pile-up, the third a roller coaster disaster, and the fourth a speedway accident), not the cast, which changes from movie to movie. The December Vancouver haze, certainly adds to the flavor of visiting the set which this time uses a suspension bridge as the catalyst for Death to start picking off victims one by one. It’s an overcast day in Vancouver, Canada as ASSIGNMENT X visits the set of FINAL DESTINATION 5 – the latest chapter in the successful horror franchise that seems to top itself each time out (the film opens nationwide on Friday). FINAL DESTINATION 5 movie poster | ©2011 Warner Bros.
