Final Destination
NZ release: 27 April 2000
Horror scenes & offensive language Rated on: 27 February 2015
What’s it about?
After having a vision about his plane crashing on a school trip, Alex saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation becomes complicated when death starts chasing them.
The facts
- Directed by James Wong
- Starring Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Roebuck, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Chad Donella
- English and French languages
- Runtime: 99 minutes
Why did it get this rating?
This film was classified by Te Mana Whakaatu, Classification Office. You can find out more about classification process and ratings here.
Horror scenes & violence
The film Final Destination follows a group of survivors who are pursued by Death, as they begin to die in a series of gruesome, bizarre “accidents.”
In one scene, a plane is torn apart, with various characters sucked from the plane and one burned after a fireball shoots through the plane.
We see a corpse in a funeral home with small, bloody cuts on its neck and a tube filled with blood attached. Someone removes the tube, and we hear squirting as blood spurts from the hole.
A large chain flies around and beheads one character. Their head falls and rolls on the ground, before we see the body fall to the ground with the neck stump shown, but this is not very gory.
Offensive language
The film contains frequent uses of the F-word, as well as the words “sh*t” and “d*ck.”
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