Final Destination (2000)

Final Destination is a 2000 supernatural thriller, about a group of teenagers who cheat death by avoiding a plane crash when one of them, Alex, has a premonition of their deaths. Soon after their escape, they begin dying one-by-one in mysterious freak accidents. The script was originally written by Jeffrey Reddick as a spec script for The X-Files. Director James Wong worked as a writer, producer and director on that series. The film is distributed by New Line Cinema. The DVD was released on September 26, 2000. The film was the first in the Final Destination series, which has since produced three sequels and a series of books.

Final Destination takes place on Long Island. Locations such as Jones Beach and John F. Kennedy International Airport are shown. Nassau County is mentioned. However, Vancouver International Airport stood in for JFK.
Possibly not a slasher in the fullet sense of the word but it contains enough elements of that genre to deserve to be included. Despite poor general critical response, I love these movies.

Directed by James Wong
Produced by Glen Morgan
Warren Zide
Craig Perry
Associate Producer:
Chris Bender
Co-Producer:
Art Schaeffer
Executive Producer:
Richard Brener
Brian Witten
Written by Screenplay:
Glen Morgan
James Wong
Jeffrey Reddick
Story:
Jeffrey Reddick
Starring Devon Sawa
Ali Larter
Kerr Smith
Kristen Cloke
Seann William Scott
Chad Donella
Amanda Detmer
Roger Guenveur Smith
Daniel Roebuck
Tony Todd
Music by Shirley Walker
Cinematography Robert McLachlan
Editing by James Coblentz
Studio Zide/Perry Productions
Hard Eight Pictures
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) March 17, 2000
Running time 98 min.
Country Canada
United States
Language English
French
Japanese
Budget $23 million
Gross revenue $112,880,294
Followed by Final Destination 2