‘Final Destination’ producer reveals which film in the franchise he thinks ‘sucks’

Sometimes the journey is more important than the destination.

And for producer Craig Perry, creating the fourth film in the “Final Destination” franchise might have been a good time, but the movie, which he thought would be their final flick, wasn’t his favorite.

“I figured that we’re done,” Perry shared, per an exclusive excerpt from Clark Collis’ “Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie,” per Entertainment Weekly. “Then, lo and behold, opening weekend, we’re like, ‘Uh, okay, here we go.’”

“I don’t think the fourth one is good at all, actually it sucks,” admitted the producer. “But it was successful enough to give us a chance to redeem ourselves with 5.”

The horror series started in 2000 with “Final Destination,” then “Final Destination 2” (2003), “Final Destination 3” (2006), “The Final Destination” in 2009, “Final Destination 5” in 2011 and the sixth film, “Final Destination Bloodlines,” which hit theaters on Friday.

Collis, a former Entertainment Weekly reporter, explores the horror genre in his upcoming book, which hits stands Sept. 2, 2025.

The book “reveals the challenging and often chaotic production stories behind these films, offering readers an inside look at the creative turbulence and triumphs that brought these landmark movies to life,” per an official synopsis.

“‘Final Destination’ starred Devon Sawa as a New York high school student named Alex who receives a premonition that the Paris-bound plane he has just boarded will catch fire in the air. After Alex, some of his classmates, and a teacher disembark, the plane does indeed explode,” an excerpt from the book read. “During the days that follow, the survivors start passing away and Alex realizes they are being murdered by the Grim Reaper.”

The original film was created by Jeffrey Reddick, who shared, “The original idea came from an article I read about a woman who was on vacation and her mother told her to switch flights because she had a bad feeling. The woman switched planes and the plane she was scheduled to be on crashed. So that idea stuck with me.”

The creator, 55, was always a big fan of horror — especially Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”

“I saw it in a double feature at a drive-in with ‘Alone in the Dark,’” Reddick shared, per Collis’ book. “It just scared the hell out of me.”

Diving into what led the journalist to write the publication, Collis told People on Tuesday, “There are a lot of books about horror films from the ’70s and ’80s and I felt this period, too, deserved its own properly-researched history.”

“I’ve taken a bird’s-eye view of the whole horror film scene, from the release of the genre-reviving ‘Scream’ to the 2013 debut of ‘The Conjuring,’ which inaugurated the first multi-billion dollar horror movie franchise.”