Log trucks, tanning beds and pool drains: The most outrageous Final Destination deaths
And though the overall premise remains largely the same across each film, audiences can rarely predict what will happen next. Every instalment delivers at least three major twists, the biggest of which was the revelation that the fifth film was actually the prequel to the very first.
So, in honour of what Final Destination does best, here are six of the franchise's most outrageous deaths (so far). Proceed with extreme caution.
Death by train (Final Destination)
Few horrors nail misdirection like Final Destination. In the original, the ill-fated teens believe they've cracked death's code, thus determining who will die next. After their car becomes trapped on a train line and the presumed doomed person can't open the door or undo his seatbelt, the theory seems confirmed.
But death is devious. Another character manages to pull his classmate from the tracks before the train hits. As they argue over why death skipped him, a metal sheet is swept up by the passing train, decapitating an entirely unexpected character.
Death by log truck (Final Destination 2)
Many millennials have an irrational fear of driving behind log trucks. This scene is why.
A young woman has a premonition in which she foresees dozens of people become roadkill after a metal chain snaps on a cargo truck, sending massive logs hurtling along the highway (to hell).
Carnage ensues. A motorcycle rider is crushed by his own bike, cars collide and catch fire. And the pièce de résistance: one of the logs rams right into a policeman's windshield, taking his head clean off.
Death by tanning bed (Final Destination 3)
Tanning beds have been cancelled for a while now, largely due to the increased risk of skin cancer. But one could argue that Final Destination 3 had a small part to play.
A trip to the tanning salon goes horrendously wrong, as two women become trapped inside their booths and are slowly burned to a crisp. Like most Final Destination deaths, it's triggered by a series of freak coincidences – a discarded drink, a tube of tanning lotion wedged under the door. Inside the claustrophobic death chambers, the temperature rises so high that their goggles melt into their eye sockets. As they say, beauty is pain.
Death by pool drain (The Final Destination)
Pool vents are already unsettling – what's inside those dark voids? This scene turns those troubling questions into an all-out phobia.
A man is pulled onto a pool drain bottom-first after the pressure system malfunctions. His body creates a vacuum, resulting in his insides being sucked out. Even the Final Destination crew couldn't stomach showing the final moment on-screen, but did reveal the guts geyser that followed.
Death by laser eye surgery (Final Destination 5)
For many, the eye is not to be messed with. A woman's trip to the ophthalmologist goes haywire after an electrical malfunction increases the laser's intensity. Trapped in the chair by a clamp and speculum, the laser blasts her eye, as well as the hand she desperately tries to shield herself with.
She eventually frees herself, but then stumbles out the window where she falls to her death. In a cruel footnote, her undamaged eye pops out of its socket and is crushed by an oncoming car.
Death by MRI (Final Destination: Bloodlines)
All it took was one pesky clipboard and a peanut snack to seal two men's fates.
In the most recent film, a hospital's MRI machine is accidentally set to 'research level', pulling anything metallic towards it. This includes a man's nose, nipple and phallus piercings, as well as a wheelchair that smashes into his back. The machine's force keeps pulling on the man and chair until he eventually folds backwards like a human taco. The other man, seemingly spared, is suddenly impaled in the head by a flying vending machine spring.
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