The movie opens with Wendy, a soon-to-be graduate from McKinley High School, visiting a theme park with friends and taking random photos of each of them. The group boards a roller coaster, and Wendy has a premonition that the coaster will crash, killing everyone. She wakes up from this premonition, still in the coaster, and demands to be let off. The attendant frees all the seats in the rear car, and when the coaster leaves the station, it crashes as predicted, killing her boyfriend and her best friend in it.
Soon, Wendy realizes that the people who survived are now dying in the order in which they would have died if they stayed on the roller coaster, and she tries to prevent further deaths after discovering a link to how the person will die using the photos she took. Her best friend's boyfriend, Kevin Fischer, helps Wendy to try and stop the deaths and cheat Death once more.
- Wendy Christensen: The protagonist, her friends tease her that she is too much of a worrier and a control freak. After having a premonition of the coaster's derailment, she saves several of her classmates, only to have them die one by one in even more gruesome ways. She is portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
- Kevin Fischer: Kevin is the supporting lead character. He was dating Wendy's friend before the crash and bands together with Wendy to help save the rest of the survivors. He is portrayed by Ryan Merriman.
- Ian McKinley: Artsy and moody, Ian is sarcastic, smart and cynical. He is the school's Goth. Erin is his girlfriend, and they sat together on the roller-coaster. He is portrayed by Kris Lemche.
- Erin Ulmer: Erin is also a Goth, equally artsy and cynical. Ian is her boyfriend, and they sat together on the coaster. She is portrayed by Alexz Johnson.
- Julie Christensen: Julie is Wendy's sassy younger sister. She is portrayed by Amanda Crew.
- Lewis Romero: Lewis is tough, enthusiastic and the school's athlete. He was sitting alone on the coaster. He is portrayed by Texas Battle.
- Frankie Cheeks: Frankie is a clown, failure, pervert and is a graduate that still attends high school events to videotape and hit on girls. He gets on the roller-coaster behind Ashley and Ashlyn. He is portrayed by Sam Easton.
- Ashlyn Halperin: Ashlyn is a pretty brunette, popular, and shallow cheerleader. She was sitting next to Ashley on the roller-coaster. She is portrayed by Crystal Lowe.
- Ashley Freund: Ashley, the blonde half of the duo is head cheerleader. She was sitting next to Ashlyn on the roller-coaster. She is portrayed by Chelan Simmons.
- Perry Malinowski: Perry, is Julie's best friend. She is portrayed by Maggie Ma.
The premise to both the film and book series about death is essentially the same: A group of people are gathered together at a venue, when suddenly a member of the group has a premonition of a disaster that will kill all of the people present. Horrified and motivated by the vision of impending doom, the person with the premonition then tries to prevent the incident by alerting the others. The other members have doubts of the incredible claims but the visionary is persistent, fracturing the group in hostile skeptics, dubious believers, or those that had no choice but to accompany the visionary. Soon afterwards, disaster strikes as foreseen, proving to the survivors that the visionary was right, and their opinions change drastically.
Over the next few days, weeks or months, the same survivors begin to die in a series of horrific accidents and/or incredible circumstances until the same visionary notices a pattern and concludes that, while surviving the initial disaster, they are still destined to die shortly. The visionary usually teams up with another fellow survivor of the opposite sex, and they are determined to once again cheat death; then the same group devises various plans to survive that usually fail until the protagonist visionary finds a solution to their fate, having salvaged two or three of the others. At the end however, there is one fantastic event that kills most or all of the survivors.
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