📆 Saturday, October 26th
🕓 7 pm
🎟 $22
📍 The Beacon Cinema: 4405 Rainier Ave S, Seattle
Death comes for us all, whether you like it or not. Hopefully, though, it’ll come in the form of increasingly elaborate Rube Goldberg set-ups that you won’t see coming until it’s too late and your exercise machine turns on you in the gnarliest way.
Yes, the Beacon Cinema is showing a trilogy of Final Destination movies, sure to be a riot with the right audience. Originally conceived as an X-Files spec script, James Wong and Glen Morgan (two of that cult show’s best writers) picked up Jeffrey Reddick’s pitch and turned it into a friggin’ delight of a franchise. The first film’s setup: a group of teens get off a plane to France right before it suddenly blows up. But they were meant to be on that flight, and according to Death’s rules, each must get picked off by an invisible force in ridiculous, delightful ways. A slasher franchise without an actual corporeal slasher? Hell yeah.
The evening includes the first three films—Part Two’s catalyst is the highway disaster that taught all of us to never drive behind logging trucks, and Part Three’s is the roller coaster that goes catastrophically off-the-rails—so if you want the full original pentalogy (and lucky me, another movie is in development), you’ll have to finish it off yourself. Personally, I’m fine with them skipping Part Four, the only real dud in the franchise—though it does make good use of actively stealing a kill right out of Chuck Pahlaniuck’s Haunted—but I’d also recommend Part Five, which has a neat little trick up its sleeve, if you’re down with one of horror’s silliest sagas.
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