what were all the final destination movies about
All five films center around a small group of people who escape impending death when one individual ( the protagonist of each film ) has a sudden premonition and warns them that they will all die in a terrible mass - casualty accident . After evading their foretold deaths , the survivors are killed one by one in bizarre accidents caused by an unseen force engineering complicated chains of cause and effect , resembling Rube Goldberg machines in their complexity