Final Destination 2 (2003)

"Final Destination 2" follows the same line of logic that you can't escape Death's Grand Scheme, although you might be able to delay your death for a time. The film has a new catastrophe that is avoided by a group of strangers when one of them has a vision of the near future. The survivors soon learn that even though they escaped certain death, their lives are not yet saved and find themselves being killed off one by one in gruesome ways. There is the added element to this film that each character was some how associated with one the survivors/victims from the first film! Only one character from the original, Clear Rivers (played by Ali Later), has survived since the original. The movie has several moments of comic relief and keeps the death scenes unique and entertaining.


Kimberly is on her way to Daytona Beach with a group of her friends. As she approaches the freeway on ramp, she has a vision of a terrifying mass-car pile up where several people are gruesomely killed, including her and her friends. She also realizes that it's the one year anniversary of the airplane explosion and the story of the group of survivors that left the plane before it took it. As the line grows behind her of drivers wanting to get on the free way, and cop comes up and asks her what's going on. Kimberly gets out of the car and tries to explain her "crazy" story to the cop, but while doing so the accident's chain of events begins to the surprise of everyone, and Kimberly watches in disbelief as her friends who are still in the car are killed by a speeding truck. The story then focuses on Kimberly, the cop, and the eight others behind her car who were meant to die in that accident, and how they are killed off one by one in clever, nasty ways. They try to band together to save each other and even ask for help from Clear Rivers who eventually agrees, after hiding herself away in safety in a mental hospital.

Final Destination (2000)

"Final Destination" is the first film in a franchise that features a different group in each film that has somehow avoided a gruesome death only to be killed off one by one in a different, violent fashion. Each film builds up on the last while adding it's own unique detail in how Death is completing it's job. The original film keeps things simple and effective, proving to have it's fair share of interesting death scenes involving whatever might be around the victim at the moment. The acting is equivalent of most slasher films and that's ok, this is just a creative slasher flick without a slasher.

A high school group is on their way for a senior trip to France, accompanied by two teacher chaperones. Alex Browning has a terrifying vision that the plane is going to explode shortly after it takes off and has a panic attack, screaming that everyone has to get off the plane. He is kicked off the plane along with his best friend, a trouble maker and his girlfriend, a kid who was running late, a chaperone, and a girl who just believed what Alex was saying. While the fight continues at the gate, the group sees the plane explode and fall into deep shock. Each one is questioned by the FBI who is highly suspicious of the event, keeping a close eye on Alex.

A month after the event, the survivors begin to die in bizarre and mysterious ways that at first look like suicides. First Alex's best friend Tod is killed in his bathroom and then at a chance meeting in town by the entire group, Terry, the rival's girlfriend, is killed when she steps in front of a speeding bus. Alex soon realizes that everyone is dying in the order that they were sitting in on the plane, essentially dying in the same order as if they had stayed on the plane. With this new information, he tries to save the next victim, the teacher Valerie but she is killed in an explosion at her house, where Alex leaves evidence that makes it look as if he killed her. Clear Rivers, the girl who followed Alex off of the plane, is still the only one who believes his theory and tries to help him solve the mystery as to how to stop Death's design.

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

"Resident Evil: Afterlife" is the fourth film in the franchise and marks the glorious return as Paul W.S. Anderson as both writer and director, and it shows! This films feels more like the original in terms as a horror film with a sense of desperation and being trapped by a horde of zombies. The film's pacing is a bit slow at times, more so than needed, but it still has plenty of action scenes that keep the movie going forward. The issues about Alive being overly powerful and cloned are quickly dealt with in the beginning of the film, a perfect way for the proverbial "reset" button to be pushed in a very satisfying fashion.


The film opens with an exciting showdown between Albert Whesker and the Alice Army. Both Albert and a power-stripped Alice survive.

Later, Alice finds the helicopter that the survivors from Las Vegas used to fly to Alaska. She is attacked by Claire, who is under the control of a mind control device. Alice is able to disable the device and Claire is left without any memory after finding the Arcadia. The two travel to LA where the Arcadia has traveled to (it's a ship) and find more survivors. Together, they fight zombies, find the Arcadia, fight Whesker, fight more zombies, and claim the Arcadia as their own. And then the Umbrella air force arrives and the credits begin to scroll.

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

"Resident Evil: Extinction" is able to regain a bit of a sense of horror by presenting the world as a post apocalyptic wasteland. The action remains fast and intense but the story line is straight forward and very predictable. Mila Jovovich's Alice continues to discover new abilities and remains the primary focus of the franchise as she attempts to take a group of survivors from the middle of the Mojave Desert up to the vast wilderness of Alaska. Along the way she is forced to deal with the agents of the Umbrella Corporation, the company responsible for the T-virus. The ending of "Extinction" is open ended bu sets up the beginning sequences of the fourth film perfectly.

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Do you know who makes a great mad scientist? Jeffrey Combs! He was great on the "Re-animator" series and he's now/was freaky as Dr. Richard Benjamin Vannacuttin the remake of "House on Haunted Hill". Granted, this is more of ghost story than one about a mad scientist but I think it counts because while he was alive, Dr. Vannacutt performed hideous experiments and torture upon the mental patients in his care. And after their uprising, Dr. Vannacutt became one badass ghost straight from a Tool music video.

Simple synopsis 

Stephen Price is throwing a party for his wife Evelyn. They thoroughly hate each other and would love to find a way to kill the other, so Stephen holds the party at a condemned insane asylum and invites his choice of guests and not hers. But a group of unassociated individuals are arrive, a group that neither Stephen or Evelyn even know. Stephen continues with his party plan and explains that whoever stays the night wins $1,000,000 dollars. Once inside, the party is trapped and the spirit if Dr. Vannacutt begins to play with the guests. Or is it just an elaborate scheme of Stephen's to scare his wife to death?

Favorite part - I love the whole movie! But the opening scene with Stephen is a great way to start a movie!