Final Destination is an American horror franchise that includes six films, ten
novels, and two comic books. It is based on an unproduced spec script by
Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for The X-Files television series and was
distributed by New Line Cinema. All of its films are set around the premise of
a small group of people who escape impending death after one individual has a
sudden premonition and warns them about a major disaster that is about to
occur. After avoiding their foretold deaths seen in the visions, the survivors
are later killed one by one in bizarre accidents caused by an unseen force by
creating complicated chains of cause and effect, resembling Rube Goldberg
machines, and then read omens in order to again avert their deaths.