Teens are again very much to the fore in Final Destination, which marks the feature debut of X-Files veteran James Wong, writes David Parkinson.
Packed with jolts and guffaws, this is a hugely entertaining postmodernist thriller, in which the principals are named after horror movie legends.
It's as if the teen slasher and the disaster flick had met in the Twilight Zone, as Devon Sawa's premonition of a mid-air disaster comes explosively true and Death begins to stalk those who escaped by dint of being ejected from the plane along with our tormented hero.
The premise is flawed and the exposition clumsy. But the methods of demise presented in the film are as hilarious as they're ingenious, with Wong very evidently more intent on toying with expectation than shocking outright.
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