Final Destination 2 (2003)

Final Destination opened on March 17th, 2000 with a first weekend gross of over 10 million dollars. The film depicted the terrifying tale of a group of high school students who are prompted to get off Flight 180 before takeoff after one of them has a terrifying vision that the plane will explode in flight – a premonition that comes tragically to life before their eyes. Despite having seemingly cheated fate, the students were meant to die in the flight, and the shadowy presence of Death begins stalking them as one by one they meet sudden and brutal ends. Those still left alive are forced to band together to try and change the course of destiny and outwit the untamable forces of Death…a struggle that is ultimately lost by all but one of the students, Clear Rivers (Ali Larter).

Due largely in part to the positive audience word-of-mouth centered around its series of unique and jolting thrills, Final Destination went on to gross 53.3 million theatrically in the U.S. before enjoying a very successful home video life.

Producer Craig Perry describes Final Destination 2 as a thrill ride which steps up the action, fear and comedic elements that made the first film such a popular and lasting hit. "This film builds upon the notion that death is all around us," he says. "Both Final Destination films tap into that universal fear. Death could be in your car or your bathroom! The conceit is not so otherworldly that it stays on the movie screen. It follows you home."

"You can’t predict exactly when it’s going to happen or where Death is coming from, or even who it’s coming for," adds director David R. Ellis, whose accomplished career as a sought-after second unit director led him to helm Homeward Bound II and, now, Final Destination 2. "You don’t know how Death is going to manifest itself."

Rising star A.J. Cook plays Kimberly Corman, who is struggling to deal with the death of her mother when she foresees a cataclysmic and deadly highway pileup that soon becomes a shocking reality. For the group of strangers who were meant to die in the accident but whose deaths were prevented by Kimberly’s warning, it’s left for them to figure out both why they survived and what they can do to stay alive once it becomes clear that Death is coming back to claim them one by one. "Kimberly is stuck in the middle of all this and doesn’t know why she is the one having premonitions," comments Cook. "A year earlier, she lost her mother and through that trauma has become stronger, so she is determined not to let Death win."

Kimberly is also aware of the stories about the survivors of Flight 180. "She’s aware of the circumstances that prompted them to get off the plane before it crashed, as well as the fates that all but one of them suffered, and she knows what’s going to happen with all the survivors of the Route 23 pileup who cheated Death," Cook explains. "So she seeks out Clear Rivers, who is the only survivor of Flight 180, for answers and for help."

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