Tagline: You can’t cheat death.
On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O’Bannon has a premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him.
When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave… escaping seconds before Nick’s frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they’ve cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning.
As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one–in increasingly gruesome ways–Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination.
In “The Final Destination,” the fourth installment in the successful horror series, a group of early twentysomethings cheat Death—only to have Death come back for them again and again as they keep trying to escape their fate. “The villain in the ‘Final Destination’ movies is Death,” states director David R. Ellis. “If it’s your turn to die, you’re gonna die. That’s the bottom line.” This time, Death is in 3D.
And this time around, the story centers on Nick, who, along with girlfriend Lori and friends Hunt and Janet, is out for an exciting day at the races. But as the engines rev and the cars circle the track at top speeds, Nick has a frightening premonition of an errant screwdriver falling out of the pit and onto the track, starting a domino effect that leads to a horrendous crash, sending cars hurtling into the packed bleachers. Shaken, Nick urges his friends to leave, getting them and a few others out just before his premonition becomes reality…and just before they all would have died a horrible death.
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The Final Destination 4
Starring: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Krista Allen, Mykelti Williamson, Haley Webb, Nick Zano, Andrew Fiscella, Richard T. Jones
Directed by: David Ellis
Screenplay by: Eric Bress
Release Date: August 28, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for strong violent / gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality.
Studio: New Line Cinema
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $66,477,700 (43.6%)
Foreign: $86,136,297 (56.4%)
Total: $152,613,997 (Worldwide)