This was the central conceit of “Final Destination,” a 2000 horror movie, released just past the slasher movie renaissance that began with “Scream” in 1995, that went on to have a uniquely satisfying run all its own.

It's been 25 years since we first watched Death wind its wicked design around the throats of the young and old with nasty efficiency in the first Final Destination film. Built upon a series of ruthless Rube-Goldbergian traps that methodically ensnared the survivors of a plane crash after they eluded their fate thanks to the prophetic vision of one Cassandra-like figure among them,