The horror franchise Final Destination dominated the 2000s as the movies combined ridiculous campy features — similar to Sharknado, and horrific gory deaths. The movie was able to seamlessly substitute reality for dramatics as the kills are attributed to the supernatural force, Death. 

The Final Destination franchise was created by screenwriter and director Jeffery Riddick who contributed to the scripts of the first two movies. Since its debut in 2000, the franchise has come to encompass five movies, two comic books by Zenescope Entertainment, and a series of novels. The movies have featured a few notorious actors, some of which are Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Resident Evil’s Ali Larter, Criminal Minds’ A.J. Cook, and Shameless' Noel Fisher.

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Each Final Destination plot revolves around a group of people, sometimes friends and sometimes strangers, who work to escape their eventual death after the movie’s protagonist has a vision, referred to as premonitions, of the group dying in an accident and intercepts. As the story develops, the group is slowly killed off in shocking and often-gruesome murders

Although kitschy-sounding, the movie adopts a very unique voice. The movies tend to be comedic and terrifying simultaneously without ever falling victim to B-rated parody. The inescapable nature of Death adds to the movie’s fear as the group members slowly come to their senses and work ferociously to stay alive, however, their incapability to do so often results in jaw-dropping deaths, teasing the audience with the unimaginable. Here are five absurd and teeth-chattering murders from the Final Destination movie series

Evan Lewis’ Death in Final Destination 2 

After being saved from death by protagonist Kimberly Corman’s premonition that predicted a major highway pile-up and explosion caused by a large log sliding off of the back of a truck and impaling the front window of the following car, Evan Lewis is the first of the survivors to go. His death sequence includes a number of nail-biting moments, leaving the watchers on the edge of their seats. Although it is baffling how he got himself into the situation, it doesn’t make the impact any less severe. 

Samantha Lane in Final Destination 4

Samantha Lane’s death in Final Destination 4 accentuates the “anything can happen” implication seen throughout the series as the characters find themselves evaluating their every move. In this sequence, Lane dies while attending a last-minute visit to her usual hair salon after escaping death at a race car event. Her death really makes people question the mundane, as after she survived the initial accident and the many misfortunes of the salon, her final moments were more unavoidable than most.

Valerie Lewton’s Death in Final Destination 

As the inception of the series, the first Final Destination movie set the tone for the ones to follow. In this movie, it is first learned from the recurring mortician character William Bludworth that those who escaped their initial death by premonition will be immediately sought after. In this sequence, teacher Valerie Lewton is suffering from survivor's guilt and is amidst packing her belongings to leave town. She is in fear of the protagonist Alex Browning’s premonition which predicted a plane crash that was carrying students and teachers to their senior trip. As the third death in the movie, Lewton’s had plenty of blood and quick scares. 

Nora Carpenter Final Destination 2 

Revisiting Final Destination 2, Nora Carpenter is unrelatedly widowed and fresh off of losing her son to the Death theory. In this scene, she leaves a “survivor’s meeting” early to tend to her son’s funeral, despite the advice from the movie’s lead, Kimberly Coleman, police officer Thomas Burke, and lone survivor of the first Final Destination movie Clear Rivers. Carpenter’s death sequence is dreadful in many ways and it’s hard to point blame towards her inadequacy, unlike many of the other sequences. Similar to the salon sequence, this was a woman at the wrong place at the wrong time.  

Erin Ulmer in Final Destination 3

Lastly, there’s Erin Ulmer’s gruesome death in Final Destination 3 that involves a nail gun to the head. After protagonist Wendy Christensen saves her friends and classmates from death at a local amusement park, Ulmer is the fifth of the movie’s survivors to die. In this sequence, Christensen and her friend arrive at Ulmer's workplace to warn her of the subsequent deaths, but Ulmer refuses to take them seriously resulting in this bloody scene

Fear not about this reminiscent visit to the Final Destination series as creator Riddick has confirmed that there will be a sixth addition. In a recent interview about his newly-released horror movie Don’t Look Back, Riddick expressed, “Yeah, there will be another Final Destination. They were talking about it before COVID, about developing it, and then COVID hit.”

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