The moral of the story is "When it's your time to go, it's your time to go."

I scratched another Saturn Award winner for Best Horror Movie off of my list a couple of days ago when I rewatched the 2000 winner, “Final Destination.”

Based on an abandoned 1993 “The X-Files” script, this movie stars Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Amanda Detmer and Sean William Scott.

For those of you who’ve never seen this movie, it’s about a group of high school students who manage to cheat their own deaths. As they board an international flight to Paris as part of a French class field trip, one of them has a premonition of their deaths and some of the students and a teacher end up getting off the plane for one reason or another. The plane explodes, but soon thereafter, they start to die one by one from a series of unusual accidents.

This movie was released on St. Patrick’s Day 2000 and was shot for a budget of $23 million. Gross revenues from the film would eventually top $112 million. So far, the original movie has spawned three sequels.

This movie is full of “in-jokes” and references to other motion picture and historical figures. Many of the film’s characters are named after directors or actors from old black and white horror movies and many of the props used contain references to assassinated U.S. presidents. Throughout the movie, you’ll hear music by musician John Denver, who was killed in a tragic plane accident.

In the end, I enjoyed rewatching “Final Destination” and from here, it’s on to the 2001 Saturn Award winner, “The Others,” which starred Nicole Kidman.