Final Destination is an American
horror franchise that comprises 5 films, comic books and novels based on an unproduced
spec script by
Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for the
X-Files television series. Distributed by
New Line Cinema, all five films center around a protagonist that has a
premonition of a terrible accident that will kill numerous people. The protagonist and several other people manage to escape from the scene of the accident, before it happens, but are later killed in a series of bizarre accidents that frequently resemble
Rube Goldberg machines in their complexity.