{"id":15934,"date":"2023-10-08T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15934"},"modified":"2023-10-07T21:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T01:54:48","slug":"final-destination-4-2009-david-r-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15934","title":{"rendered":"Final Destination 4 (2009, David R. Ellis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how this keeps happening but only to groups of 18 year olds.  Opening setpiece here is a racetrack pileup that explodes into the stands.  Our precog final-boy is darkhaired Nick (Bobby Campo, also star of a starvation deathmatch thing) with redhead gf Lori (Shantel VanSanten, went on to star in an Oregonian ghost movie), and their buddies: darkhair Janet (Haley Webb, who went on to <em>Blonde<\/em>) and cocky Hunt (Nick Zano also of a <em>Joy Ride<\/em> sequel).  As per the formula, the kids also rope in a few randos from the first scene: ally security guard Mykelti Williamson (Don King in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11173\">Ali<\/a><\/em>), uninterested tampon mom Krista Allen (of Henry Rollins monster movie <em>Feast<\/em>), hapless mechanic Andrew Fiscella (of some Abel Ferrara movies), and antagonist nazi Justin Welborn (<em>The Signal<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>come on now:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/fd401.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lotta people, so let&#8217;s start killing &#8217;em off.  Nick dreams the deaths in advance, first as the lower-mid-tier CG opening scene and subsequently via appallingly-CG symbolic visions (&#8220;it seemed real,&#8221; he says after one of those).  Mom catches a lawnmower-propelled rock to the face and the mechanic is jet propelled through a chainlink fence.  They rescue Janet from being carwashed to death and George from suiciding, while Hunt gets his guts sucked out by a pool.  After looking up the plots of the previous films they celebrate having broken the chain, but with a half hour of movie still remaining, uh oh.  I don&#8217;t get how some cowboy surviving the crash then re-dying in hospital means they&#8217;re all in danger again, but now Nick has to save his friends from an exploding movie theater while fighting off a sentient nailgun&#8230; then they&#8217;re all simply smashed to death by a runaway truck.  Good pacing, one long death premonition.  Between parts 2 and 4, Ellis made <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/83\">Snakes on a Plane<\/a><\/em>.  The DP also did <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5139\">Trick &#8216;r Treat<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12168\">the last three<\/a> <em>Resident Evil<\/em> sequels, clearly a cool guy.<\/p>\n<p><em>the moment I realized this must&#8217;ve been released in 3D:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/fd402.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how this keeps happening but only to groups of 18 year olds. Opening setpiece here is a racetrack pileup that explodes into the stands. Our precog final-boy is darkhaired Nick (Bobby Campo, also star of a starvation deathmatch thing) with redhead gf Lori (Shantel VanSanten, went on to star in an Oregonian ghost movie), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,2081,418,2809,181],"class_list":["post-15934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-car-crash","tag-death","tag-near-death-experience","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15961,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15934\/revisions\/15961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}