The Final Destination (alternatively known as Final Destination 4) is a 2009 American 3Dsupernatural horror film written by Eric Bress and directed by David R. Ellis, both of whom also worked on Final Destination 2. Released on August 28, 2009, it is the fourth installment of the Final Destination film series, and the first to be shot in HD3D. It is currently the highest-grossing Final Destination film, earning $186 million worldwide but also received the worst critical reception of the franchise.
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Directed by | David R. Ellis |
Produced by | Craig Perry Warren Zide |
Written by | Eric Bress |
Based on | Characters created by Jeffrey Reddick |
Starring | Bobby Campo Shantel VanSanten Mykelti Williamson |
Music by | Brian Tyler |
Cinematography | Glen MacPherson |
Edited by | Mark Stevens |
Production company | |
Distributed by | New Line Cinema[1][2] |
Release date | |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $40 million[3] |
Box office | $186.2 million[4] |
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Plot[edit]
College student Nick O'Bannon visits the McKinley Speedway with his girlfriend Lori Milligan and their friends Hunt Wynorski and Janet Cunningham. While watching the race, Nick has a premonition of a horrible car accident that sends debris into the stands, causing the stadium to collapse. When Nick panics, a fight breaks out and several people leave the stadium, including Lori, Hunt, Janet, security guard George Lanter, mechanic Andy Kewzer, his girlfriend Nadia Monroy, racist tow truck driver Carter Daniels, and mother Samantha Lane. As Nadia berates the group, a stray tire flies out of the stadium and decapitates her.
Several days after the accident, Carter tries to set a fire on George's lawn for preventing him from saving his wife, but a chain reaction causes him to be dragged down the street on fire before his tow truck explodes. The next day, Samantha is leaving the beauty salon when a rock propelled by a lawn mower is shot through her eye, killing her. After reading about the events in the newspaper and the past disasters that parallel to the speedway's, Nick becomes convinced that Death is after them. Hunt and Janet don't believe them, but they manage to convince George to help. The group visits the mechanic shop to warn Andy, but he is killed when a CO2 tank launches him through a chain link fence. After receiving a premonition involving water, Nick tries to warn Hunt, who has gone to a country club pool. At the same time, George and Lori try to find Janet, who becomes trapped in a malfunctioning car wash, and they narrowly manage to save her. Hunt drops his lucky coin in the water after accidentally turning the pool's drain on. When he dives in, he is sucked down to the drain, where the increasing suction eventually sucks his organs through the drain pipe. Afterward, George admits that he tried to commit suicide several times, but all attempts have failed. Nick believes saving Janet must have ruined Death's plan and the group celebrates.
Four days later, Nick begins to see more omens and remembers asking cowboy Jonathan Groves to switch seats prior to the accident, meaning he is next. Nick and George track Jonathan down at a hospital, where he remained in traction recovering from the accident. They witness him being crushed by an overflowing bathtub that falls through the ceiling. As they leave, George is suddenly hit by a speeding ambulance and Nick realizes that Lori and Janet are still in danger. He tracks them down at a mall cinema and convinces Lori to leave, but Janet refuses and is fatally injured by flying debris when a chain reaction causes the screen to explode. A multitude of explosions race Nick and Lori through the mall until they are trapped on a malfunctioning escalator, Lori is dragged into the gears and killed. This turns out to be another premonition, but George is killed by the ambulance before Nick can warn him.
At the mall, Lori begins seeing omens as well. Having failed in his premonition, Nick runs back to the mall to stop the explosion before it occurs. He is pinned to a wall by a nail gun but manages to stop the fire before it spreads to several combustible barrels, saving everyone. Two weeks later, Nick notices a loose scaffold prop while heading into a café and warns a construction worker about it before going inside. While talking with Lori and Janet, he starts to see more omens and alludes to the theory that his premonition were red herrings meant to lead them to where they needed to be for Death to strike. Just as he realizes this the scaffold outside collapses, causing a truck to swerve and crash into the coffee shop, killing all three of them. Janet is crushed under the tires, Lori is decapitated by the impact, and Nick is propelled into a wall, dislocating his jaw.
Cast[edit]
- For more details on the characters, see List of Final Destination characters.
- Bobby Campo as Nick O'Bannon
- Shantel VanSanten as Lori Milligan
- Haley Webb as Janet Cunningham
- Nick Zano as Hunt Wynorski
- Mykelti Williamson as George Lanter
- Krista Allen as Samantha Lane
- Andrew Fiscella as Andy Kewzer
- Justin Welborn as Carter Daniels
- Stephanie Honoré as Nadia Monroy
- Lara Grice as Cynthia Daniels
- Jackson Walker as Jonathan Groves
- Brendan Aguillard as Ryan Lane
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
After the success of Final Destination 3, which was initially planned to be in 3D,[5] Eric Bress wrote a script, which impressed producer Craig Perry and Warner Bros. enough to green-light a fourth installment. James Wong was on board to direct, but because of scheduling conflicts with Dragonball Evolution, he decided to drop out. Consequently, the studio executives opted for David R. Ellis to return because of his work on Final Destination 2. He accepted because of the 3D.[6] For the 3D, Perry said that he wanted it to add depth to the film instead of just 'something pop[ping] out at the audience every four minutes.'[7]
Filming[edit]
Although shooting was to be done in Vancouver, which was where the previous three films were shot, David R. Ellis convinced the producers to shoot in New Orleans instead to bring business to the city, and because the budget was already large.[8] The opening crash sequence at 'McKinley Speedway' was filmed at Mobile International Speedway in Irvington, Alabama. Filming began in March 2008 and ended in late May in the same year.[7] Reshoots were done in April 2009 at Universal Studios Florida.[9]
Music[edit]
Soundtrack[edit]
The soundtrack album was released on August 25, 2009, three days before the film's theatrical release, under public record label JVC/Sony Music Australia. The album consists of 23 cues composed and mixed by Brian Tyler. He took over scoring the series after the untimely death of the composer for the first three films, Shirley Walker.
- Commercial songs from film, but not on soundtrack[10]
- 'Devour' by Shinedown
- 'How the Day Sounds' by Greg Laswell
- 'Burning Bridges' by Anvil
- 'Why Can't We Be Friends?' by War
- 'Don't You Know' by Ali Dee and the Deekompressors
- 'Faraway' by Dara Schindler
- 'Dream of Me' by Perfect
- 'Make My' by The Roots
- 'The Stoop' by Little Jackie
- 'Sweet Music' by Garrison Hawk
- 'Corona and Lime' by Shwayze
- 'Make You Crazy' by Brett Dennen
Score[edit]
The CD features the score composed by Brian Tyler, omitting commercially released songs that were featured in the film.
- U.S. edition[11]
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Released | August 25, 2009 |
Label | JVC, Sony Music Australia |
- 'The Final Destination' – 2:56
- 'The Raceway' – 3:07
- 'Memorial' – 2:46
- 'Nailed' – 3:22
- 'Nick's Google Theory' – 1:30
- 'Revelations' – 2:28
- 'Raceway Trespass' – 1:39
- 'Stay Away from Water' – 2:38
- 'Flame On' – 1:43
- 'Moment of Joy' – 1:17
- 'Signs and Signals' – 2:51
- 'George Is Next' – 1:12
- 'Car Washicide' – 3:05
- 'Newspaper Clues' – 1:57
- 'Premonition' – 1:50
- 'The Salon' – 3:53
- 'Questioning' – 1:04
- 'Death of a Cowboy' – 2:08
- 'Gearhead' – 1:56
- 'Sushi for Everyone' – 2:53
- 'The Movie Theater' – 3:03
- 'You Can't Dodge Fate' – 1:28
- 'The Final Destination Suite' – 13:29
The soundtrack attracted generally favorable reviews. Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks.com gave the score 3 out of 5 stars and felt Tyler was 'capable [...] to further explore new stylistic territory while making substantial use of the structures and tone of [predecessor composer] Shirley Walker's music.' His approach to the scores were called 'intelligent', and provide 'adequate if not strikingly overachieving recordings is testimony to his immense talents.'
The reviewers were also impressed with the extension of the sound used by Walker in Final Destination 3. 'It relates to an affection for Walker's contribution to the industry,' said an unnamed critic.[12]
A SoundNotes reviewer grades the film with an impressive score of 7.5/10, remarking 'Brian Tyler slugs his way through the inadequacies of The Final Destination and produces a score with reasonable entertainment value and enough of an appeal to make it function well apart from the woeful film.'[13]
Release[edit]
The film was released in 3D as well as in conventional theaters on August 28, 2009. It was initially planned for an August 14 release.[14] It was also the first 3D film to feature D-BOX motion feedback technology in select theaters.[15]
Box office[edit]
According to USA Today and Newsday, The Final Destination debuted at the top of the North American box office, beating Rob Zombie's Halloween II, earning $28.3 million during its first weekend.[16][17] It is also topped the box office in the UK.[18] The film remained #1 at the box office in North America for two weeks. On September 11, 2009, it gained just over a million dollars and dropped to No. 7.[19] The film grossed $66.4 million domestically and $119.3 million in foreign sales, with a total of $186.5 million worldwide.[4]
Home media[edit]
The Final Destination was initially scheduled for a DVD and Blu-ray Disc release on December 22, 2009. The film was pushed back to January 5, 2010 in the US. Both the DVD and Blu-ray Disc included two pairs of 3D glasses with each set and featured a 2D version on the disc, along with additional scenes. Only the Blu-ray Disc version included two alternate endings, a 'making of' featurette about the deaths, storyboard visualization and a preview of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).[20] The Blu-ray Disc release, also a combo pack, includes a standard DVD of the film.
In Target stores, some of the DVDs included an exclusive Final Destination comic book.
The movie was released uncut in Australian theaters with an MA15+ (Strong horror violence, sex scene) rating. When the movie's DVD/Blu-ray Disc release was reviewed, the ACB (Australian Classification Board) noted several scenes in the 2D version that exceeded the guidelines of the MA15+ category. There were two editions released in Australia: a DVD version which only contains a censored 2D version (most of the blood effects taken off and gore trimmed) and a DVD release awarded an R18+ rating (High impact violence) with both uncensored 2D and 3D versions (and 3D glasses included). The covers between the two releases vary.
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Reception[edit]
The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 28% of 96 critics gave the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.2/10. The site's consensus states: 'With little of the ingenuity of previous installments, The Final Destination is predictable, disposable horror fare.'[21]Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 0–100 reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 30 based on 14 reviews.[22]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'The Final Destination (2009) - Box Office Mojo'.
- ^'Warner Bros. All Time Box Office Results'.
- ^'Movie projector: 'The Final Destination,' 'Halloween II' splitting horror audience'. Los Angeles Times. August 27, 2009. Retrieved January 14, 2010.
- ^ ab'The Final Destination'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ^Miska, Brad (November 20, 2007). 'SET VISIT PART I: FINAL DESTINATION 4: 3-D Explodes in Our Face!'. Bloody-Disgusting. Retrieved May 3, 2009.
- ^B. Alan Orange (May 14, 2008). 'SET VISIT PART I: FINAL DESTINATION 4: 3-D Explodes in Our Face!'. MovieWeb.com. Retrieved May 3, 2009.
- ^ abMiska, Brad (February 1, 2008). 'Final Destination 4 Opening REVEALED!'. Bloody-Disgusting. Archived from the original on February 4, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2008.
- ^Edward Douglas (May 14, 2008). 'Final Destination 4: The 3-D Set Visit!'. ShockTillYouDrop.com. Retrieved May 3, 2009.
- ^Miska, Brad (April 22, 2009). 'Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Final Destination 4 Reshoots'. Bloody-Disgusting. Retrieved May 3, 2009.
- ^'All 11 Songs from The Final Destination Soundtrack'. ReelSoundtrack. August 28, 2009.
- ^Amazon.com : The Final Destination : Brian Tyler : Music
- ^'The Final Destination review'. Filmtracks.com. August 31, 2009.
- ^'The Final Destination: Soundtrack Review'. ScoreNotes.com.
- ^Miska, Brad (June 26, 2008). 'Final Destination 4 Release Makes 2009 3-D Summer'. Bloody-Disgusting. Retrieved May 3, 2009.
- ^'World Premiere Featuring 3-D Movie Combined with D-BOX Motion Code(TM)'. D-BOX Technologies (Press release). August 12, 2009.
- ^Bowles, Scott (August 30, 2009). 'Final Destination knocks off stiff competition at box office'. USA Today. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^'Final Destination arrives at No. 1 with $28.3M'. Newsday. August 30, 2009.
- ^'Final Destination heads UK box office'. Digital Spy. September 3, 2009.
- ^'Daily Box Office for Friday, December 19, 2014 - Box Office Mojo'.
- ^'The Final Destination Crashes onto Blu-ray and DVD'. DreadCentral. November 15, 2009.
- ^'The Final Destination'. Rotten Tomatoes. December 20, 2018.
- ^'The Final Destination: Reviews'. Metacritic. January 14, 2009.
External links[edit]
- The Final Destination on IMDb
- The Final Destination at AllMovie
- The Final Destination at Box Office Mojo
- The Final Destination at Rotten Tomatoes
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The set itself is contained within a New Orleans warehouse district. And as we made our way towards the action, we passed numerous extras covered in made-up gore -- some with nails sticking out of their bodies and even one dude with his eye hanging out.
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The story is, not surprisingly, similar to previous installments, but don't expect the rules of cheating death to get as much talk time as they did in the prior films. In fact, it sounds a little bit like a semi-reboot of the series. Many of the franchise staples, such as the voice over by Candyman actor Tony Todd, are getting nixed. But there's still plenty of the trademark gruesomeness, this time centered around a group of teens who cheat Death at a stock car race. Nick (Bobby Campo) has a premonition of a horrific crash -- the first of many he experiences throughout the course of the movie -- and manages to save several people. But his heroics have a horrific outcome when Death comes back for the survivors.
'Let's be realistic,' Perry confesses to the group of journalists gathered in the craft services tent, 'Final Destination movies have a certain formula that works. I think we lucked out on the first one by coming up with an interesting fulcrum that we can balance a lot of things on. That, married with the prospect of doing it in 3-D, I think facilitated us coming up with a bunch of scenarios that were fresh, original and yet familiar.'
Perry explains the new approach they're taking with Death this way: 'If you've survived something, you're not going to have this angst-ridden mortality question,' he says. 'You're going to be like, 'F****** aye! I made it!' The next step is that notion that you escaped Death, and now it's coming back after you. That's one of the things I think really helped this particular movie distinguish itself from the other movies. It's tonally more on target with how kids are today. And it won't just be the obvious jerks getting their just desserts either. Death won't be nearly as selective, and may start going after a few people we like in this movie as well.'
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The Final Destination, also known as Final Destination 4, is the fourth film in the Final Destination series, released in 2009.
Nick and his friends are visiting a race car tournament when he receives a premonition of a car crash, setting off a chain reaction that causes the stadium to collapse. After escaping the accident, he soon realizes that he and his friends are hunted by Death.
This film provides examples of:
- Asshole Victim: Carter and Hunt.
- All There in the Manual: The wiki has most of the secondary victims' last names and facts on their individual pages.
- Blood from the Mouth: Lori's death is in a way caused by this; her leg getting crushed by escalator gears somehow causes her to spit up a large amount of blood onto her arm, which the main character is holding on to. As he slips, more and more of her body is dragged in, and eventually she either dies or passes out from the trauma and falls in getting mulched into mince.
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- Call-Back: The opening sequence showcases most of the deaths in the previous films, usually through x-ray shots of skeletal damage.
- Car Fu: George Lanter VS an ambulance.
- Continuity Nod:
- The opening sequence depicts the various deaths from the previous three films from the perspective of an x-ray camera.
- Early in the movie, shortly after the scene with the vision, news on TV are asking 'Are amusement parks going the way of the dinosaurs?' The previous movie's accident couldn't have helped...
- Conveyor Belt o' Doom: The escalator, possibly the series' goriest death.
- Death by Ambulance: When the security guard is mentioning a feeling of 'déjà vu' and is run down by a careening ambulance twice.
- Death by Racism: The first victim is a redneck who has NO compunctions whatsoever about calling African Americans 'the N-word'. (His character is actually listed as 'Racist' in the end-credits.) He is given a spectacularly hilarious and humiliating end when he tried to burn a cross KKK-style in front of the black lead's house; his tow truck, dragging his burning and screaming carcass, twists the knife by playing War's anti-racism tract 'Why Can't We Be Friends?' on the radio before it spectacularly explodes. The kicker? Dragging a black man from a car is a known (if uncommon) method of lynching, as seen with the murder of James Byrd, Jr. In other words, the guy got lynched.
- Denser and Wackier: The deaths in this film are so over-the-top and ridiculous with many campy dialogues, not to mention Nick's infamous Dull Surprise throughout the entire film that it's as if the filmmakers have finally embraced the fact that the franchise really is camp on paper, whereas previous films have at least tried to be serious horror. Doubly surprising because the director of this film previously directed the second film, which many consider as the darkest (and most realistic) film in the series.
- Downer Ending: Although Nick, Lori, and Janet think they manage to escape Death when Nick stops the cinema disaster from happening, it turns out that Death is the one who gave Nick the premonitions. In other words, Death is just playing with them, and in the epilogue, he has had enough fun. Cue the truck crashing through the cafe.
- Dull Surprise: Bobby Campo's default facial expression throughout the film. Even when he's impaled in his premonition.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: Race track. Full stop.
- Exploding Barrels: The source of the mall collapse.
- Eye Scream: 'I've got my eye on you!'
- Foreshadowing: Taken to extremes. As if the commercials weren't bad enough Nick has brief images depicting how a character will die just moments before their death.
- Fold Spindle Mutilation: Hunt dies when his organs are violently sucked out of his anus by a pool drain and catapulted in a gory display, along with the coin he tried to get from the bottom of the pool.
- Forgot About His Powers: Janet, despite having nearly died in the car wash accident, tells Lori that she's being paranoid and/or going crazy for believing that Death still has it out for them.
- Free Wheel: Nadia, the first victim of Death's damage-control dies when a burning tire from the (unseen) mass pileup is flung clear out of the stadium and plummets down onto her in the parking lot, pulping a large part of her upper body from mid chest up. Her last words: 'Have you all lost your fucking minds?'
- Gas Cylinder Rocket: How the mechanic gets catapulted into a chain-link fence.
- Giving Them the Strip: Played with when Lori's shoelace gets caught in the escalator. It looks like it'll be either this trope or the opening gambit of her gruesome demise, but when the shoelace snaps of its own accord it becomes Foreshadowing.
- Gory Discretion Shot: The deaths of Nick, Lori & Janet are so brutal that the camera switches to a CGI x-ray shot showing bones snapping, skulls crushed, etc.
- Also counts as Book-Ends, since the opening credits used the same effect for previous movie deaths.
- Ground by Gears: After barely escaping an explosion in the mall, Lori is pulled into the exposed machinery of a broken escalator and is torn to shreds as Nick looks on. Of course, this turned out to be another premonition and he is able to prevent it. In an alternate scene, he ends up getting pulled in as well.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: The racist and his wife in the original vision.
- Heroes Want Redheads: Nick's girlfriend Lori.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Nick pulls this in one of the alternate endings (although he could have thought it through some more). What makes it heroic is that he chooses to save everyone in the mall, not just the people he knows personally. Unfortunately, Death still gets Lori and Janet.
- Hope Spot: Twice, no less.
- The gang thinks that by saving Janet and George from their respective deaths, they have managed to cheat Death. Thus, Nick and Lori decide to take a vacation, but the latter wants to watch a movie first with Janet. However, Nick realizes that there is another survivor in the stadium collapse who is in Death's List before Janet/Hunt: the Cowboy, but because he didn't go with Nick outside in the stadium, he is still injured all the same. Nick and George fail to save him, and George abruptly dies from being hit by an ambulance. Followed by the cinema disaster....(which turns out to be another premonition).
- After preventing the cinema disaster, Nick, Lori, and Janet think that Death may has finally skipped them from Death's List, hence they celebrate their survival in a cafe weeks afterward. Yet Nick realizes that it may have been very well that Death is the one who gave him the premonitions, and they are never safe to begin with. Followed by the speeding truck...
- Hypocritical Humor: The guy who yells at the rock-throwing boys for being stupid: never mind how he's smoking while filling his lawn mower with gasoline.
- Improbable Infant Survival: One of the victims is a mother of two and her kids are seen escaping the accident at the start while she gets separated and killed off. Unfortunately, there were a bunch of other children in the stadium that didn't get out, as seen in the memorial scene.
- Kill 'Em All: The film outright confirms a theory that has been long postulated about the series: Death is the one who gave the protagonists the premonitions. And no one can truly escape Death's List. Ever. How everyone in the series died was always the way Death intended them to die in the first place.
- Kill It with Fire: This is how Carter dies. He gets hooked onto his truck as it starts moving forward and spilling gasoline, and he ignites and the truck explodes.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: When leaving the hospital, George starts casually talking about how he has a feeling déjà vu, and then... Well, see Look Both Ways below.
- Look Both Ways: George gets run over by an ambulance while leaving a hospital.
- Mythology Gag: The falling tub death is completely identical to one of the deaths in the spin-off book End of the Line.
- Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: After two numerical sequels, the fourth film is called The Final Destination, then the fifth one is just Final Destination 5. The Final Destination is, however, referred to as Final Destination 4 at the end of part 5.
- Off with His Head!: Nadia Monroy.
- Oh, Crap!: Twice, corresponding to the Hope Spot mentioned above.
- Nick gets an epic one when he realizes that there is another survivor in Death's List before Janet/Hunt.
- And again, this time Nick, Lori, and Janet, when Nick reveals that Death is just playing them off.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The main characters all have their names mentioned in the credits, but secondary ones (Carter, Samantha, Andy, Jonathan, etc.) are only referred to by nicknames (Racist, MILF, Gearhead, and Cowboy, respectively). You'd have to go to the wiki for their proper names, or listen closely to the news broadcasts in the background of certain scenes.
- Plot Hole: In the premonition, the cowboy's death comes before Hunt and Janet were crushed by debris. However, in the 'real world', the audience only learns that he's still alive after Hunt has already been killed, and after Lori and George had saved Janet from near-certain death in the car wash. Apparently, Death wasn't too strict about the order in which people died this time.
- It could be possible that Janet survived slightly longer due to falling rubble not always being an instant death, and she died in the same explosion that killed George and Lori
- Prophecy Armor: George Lanter discovers, much to his despair, that Death's game is played by Its rules alone. He decides to kill himself to try to appease Death (because as he sees it, what is the point of keeping on fighting?), only for his every attempt (as he mentions: overdosing, gunshot, hanging, trying to choke with his car's fumes) to just not work.
- Series Fauxnale: This was supposed to be the last film of the series, as in TheFinal Destination, but as it became highest grossing entry (to date), another film was produced. However, in terms of in-universe chronology, The Final Destination is technically the latest set of events as Final Destination 5 reveals itself to be a prequel to the first film.
- Shirtless Scene: Nick and Hunt each get their own.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Suggests the premonitions are part of Death's design to begin with and that no one ever had a chance of escaping.
- Special Effects Failure: Some of the effects here somehow manage to look worse than past films.
- In his premonition, Nick is thrown backward by an explosion and impaled on a pipe. The extent of his injuries include a CG bloodstain that appears on his shirt in a fade transition and a tiny trickle of Blood from the Mouth. It's also very obvious the actor is simply standing in front of a green screen.
- Stupid Sacrifice: The original ending had Nick grab one of the flammable canisters in the mall, look around to see there were too many to remove...and jump out of the window with one to cause an explosion and set off an alarm. Wait, what? Why not just throw the canister out on its own? Doubly dumb due to the fact that Lori and Janet die moments later outside anyways.
- Token Minority: George.
- Torso with a View: The mechanic gets diced by a chain-link fence, and a diamond-shaped piece falls through to allow the audience a clear view of the other surviving characters freaking out.
- Trailers Always Spoil: At least half the deaths from the film were spoiled in the commercials. Subverted with Janet, whom we all thought was going to get her face ripped off in the car wash.
- Likewise subverted with Lori getting crushed in the escalator gears. We do see that happen, but it turns out to be another premonition of Nick's.
- Vapor Trail: Kills the redneck.
- Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The pool death was probably based on Abigail Taylor, though she didn't die from the event itself.
- Wham Line: Nick: 'What if we didn't change anything, what if us being here, right now,...was the plan from the beginning?'