Final Destination (2000)
Directed by James Wong
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
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P.S.: In a nice, small touch that shows at least one of the writers has done some homework, characters are named for classic horror producer Val Lewton ("Cat People," "The Leopard Man") and director Tod Browning ("Freaks").
(In fact, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blind Chance toyed with similar elements of life, death, and crashing planes.)
(Actually, that one is uttered by Candyman's Tony Todd, who has a cameo as an all-knowing mortician who babbles for about two minutes about "Death's sadistic design.")
A cameo by horror/sci-fi veteran Tony Todd (Candyman, Night of the Living Dead) injects a Crypt Keeper-ish mood.
Tony Todd (1992's "Candyman"), as an arcane morgue attendant, pops up for a five-minute cameo, but his appearance is rather supererogatory.
Each victim hears John Denver music just before they get whacked, for instance, and horror icon Tony Todd, from the cheezeball "Candyman" flicks, has a cameo as a soothsaying mortician.
A cameo by horror/sci-fi veteran Tony Todd (Candyman, Night of the Living Dead) injects a Crypt Keeper-ish mood.
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Ali Larter (1999's "Varsity Blues"), in the other central role, is also effective, as a girl whose life was going well until her father died in a convenience store shooting years before, leaving her stuck with an increasingly uncaring mother who married a loutish man--the exact opposite of her now-deceased father.