Few movie franchises have traumatized entire generations the way the Final Destination series has. The series sees certain people receive premonitions minutes before their imminent death that depict exactly how they and everyone around them will die. When these people intervene in whichever event will cause their demise, it sets off a chain reaction with everyone involved. Since they messed with Death’s design, Death comes after each person who was supposed to die in one of the premonitions. Usually, those deaths are worse than the original.
Since the premise of the series revolves around people trying to change Death’s design, it offers plenty of room to get creative with each character’s death. Each kill usually has an elaborate set-up that builds weary anticipation. Some of these kills are somewhat realistic, like the premonition Alex (Devon Sawa) has of the plane crash in the first movie. However, many of the deaths are quite absurd and have little plausibility. Or, any plausibility is lost by how exaggerated they are. Here are the most over-the-top kills in the Final Destination series.
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Samantha’s Lawnmower Incident in ‘The Final Destination’
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In the fourth Final Destination movie, the premonition the main character, Nick (Boby Campo), receives is of a deadly crash at the McKinley Speedway. One of the victims who was supposed to die there was a mom named Samantha (Krista Allen) who was brutally trampled by the fleeing crowd in Nick’s vision. When she is already severely injured, she is crushed to death by a racecar engine.
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Haircut Gone Wrong
After Nick intervenes to prevent the crash from happening, Samantha escapes with a few lucky survivors. As with anyone in this franchise, her escape from Death is short-lived. Shortly after the accident, she makes a hair appointment and brings her two kids. Of course, they are bored out of their minds waiting in the salon, so they start throwing rocks at the sign out front. The landscapers happened to be there and one of the rocks the kids threw lands in the path of a lawnmower.
As Samantha is leaving the salon, the rock is sucked up by the lawnmower and is spit out, flying right through Samantha’s eye. While a rock could certainly be picked up by a lawnmower, the chances of it landing directly on someone’s eye like that are slim.
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Ian Getting Cut in Half by a Sign in ‘Final Destination 3’
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During a school event at an amusement park, yearbook editor Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) reluctantly decides to ride a rollercoaster with her friends and boyfriend. Before the ride starts, she receives a horrific vision of a bolt becoming loose on the track and getting stuck. She sees the rollercoaster flying off the track and all of its passengers falling to their deaths or being impaled. Wendy gets off the ride along with a few classmates, but her boyfriend stays on and is ultimately killed.
An Explosive Death
One of the survivors was a guy named Ian (Kris Lemche), who thought that if the last survivor was to be killed first, Death might skip the rest of them. When Death comes for Ian first, Wendy saves him and Death kills his girlfriend instead. Blaming Wendy for his girlfriend’s death, he plots to kill Wendy, despite Wendy explaining that choosing not to kill her would end the cycle. He goes after Wendy at a local fair as fireworks are going off and almost strikes Ian. He brags that he’s invincible. As he says this, a fireworks explosion causes a sign to fall on Ian and cuts him in half. It’s not very realistic, but it is one of the more gruesome deaths in the series.
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Valerie’s House Explosion in ‘Final Destination’
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The first Final Destination set up the premonition phenomenon and the rules for cheating Death’s design. The event that started it all was the vision of Flight 180 to Paris exploding with all of Alex’s friends and teachers on it. Devon convinces most of them to get off the plane before the fiery explosion, resulting in Death hunting each of them down. One of the chaperons on the school trip was Valerie Lewton (Kristen Cloke), a teacher at Alex’s high school.
A Literal Final Blow
As she’s packing up her belongings to start fresh somewhere new, Valerie becomes the third Flight 180 survivor to die. Her death is almost comical, kind of like an elaborate trap shown in an old cartoon. It starts with her making a cup of tea, which she abandons for alcohol instead. The alcohol spills out of the mug and onto the chords connected to her computer, short-circuiting them.
As Valerie investigates her smoking computer screen, it explodes and sends shards of glass into her neck, which she instinctively pulls out. The alcohol trail then ignites as she falls to the floor and several knives come crashing down with her, one landing directly on her chest. At this moment, her house explodes. While utterly horrifying to think about, the execution is a bit silly.
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Evan’s Dinner Fiasco in ‘Final Destination 2’
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The premonition that Kimberly (A.J. Cook) has at the beginning of Final Destination 2 depicts an enormous pile-up on a freeway that results in the horrific deaths of many, including a pregnant woman and a child. After Kimberly convinces Officer Burke (Michael Landes) to help her stop the crash, recent lottery winner Evan Lewis (David Paetkau) survives unscathed. His luck doesn’t last much longer than that.
A Series of Unfortunate Events
As soon as he gets home from talking with the police, his death sequence begins. He starts making dinner in his apartment and, similarly to Valerie’s death in the first movie, his death is rather cartoonish. It goes wrong when a few fridge magnets fall into his leftovers before he puts them in the microwave. Objects start falling all around his kitchen, and eventually, a fire breaks out. He escapes through the fire escape, but just as he thinks he’s safe, the ladder falls and impales his eye. It’s a series of very unfortunate events that honestly could have been prevented.
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Factory Chaos That Killed Roy in ‘Final Destination 5’
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Final Destination 5 opens up with a premonition of the violent collapse of a suspense bridge that would have left multiple workers dead. Roy was the factory boss who actually had nothing to do with the collapse, but was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. His employee, Nathan, was supposed to be killed by a swinging cable in the vision, and when he realizes Death is coming after him, he gets his boss involved.
Death by Hook
As the two argue in the factory surrounded by dangerous machinery and tools, a giant hook falls and smashes into the tile floor and causes Roy to fall toward the metal stakes on the floor. It looked like the stakes would impale Roy, but at the last second he stopped falling. Instead, the hook comes swinging back and gets him right in the chin and goes straight through his skull. It’s a gnarly but rather over-the-top death.
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Olivia’s Laser Eye Surgery in ‘Final Destination 5’
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Olivia was the third survivor of the North Bay Bridge collapse in Final Destination 5 and an employee of Presage Paper, which is the company on the bus involved with the bridge collapse. Olivia had terrible vision without her glasses, and when they got knocked off her during the accident, she had to crawl across a support beam without clear vision. She falls into the water and survives the impact only to be crushed by a car that lands on her.
Surgery Gone Awry
When Sam (Nicholas D’Agosto) saves her along with the other survivors, she decided she was tired of her poor vision. She scheduled laser eye surgery to correct her vision, but was extremely nervous about it. So nervous that her doctor had to give her a teddy bear to hold, which she squeezed so hard she made the eye pop out. When her doctor leaves the room to retrieve paperwork he forgot, Olivia is left stuck on the table with her eye forced open.
A cup of water is knocked over in the process and spilled onto the machine’s wires, setting the intensity to its highest power. The laser burns right through her eye and the hand she used to cover her eye. When she finally breaks free, she slips on the bear’s eye and falls out the window. While over-the-top, the kill does play into real-life fears over getting surgery.
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Rory’s Wire Fence Death in ‘Final Destination 2’
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Rory (Jonathan Cherry) was one of the unlucky survivors of the pileup in Final Destination 2 who was a stereotypical stoner. His character was mostly comic relief, but as his real death approached, he began to show a more serious side. After the group met up at Officer Burke’s apartment to discuss Death’s plan, Rory told the group that if he died, he didn’t want his mother to find any of his drugs. He didn’t want her to think of him that way.
A Comically Gruesome Death
Shortly after admitting that to the group, he leaves to take drugs. At this point, they had left the apartment and were in a car accident. He walks off with his drugs, and as he’s doing so, an explosion caused by the crash sends a wire fence hurdling toward him. It slices him in three, and while absolutely terrifying to think about happening in real life, it’s done in a rather comical manner in the movie.
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Hunt’s Pool Drain Death in ‘The Final Destination’
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Hunt (Nick Zano) was one of the main friends in the central group who escapes the tragedy at McKinley Speedway in the fourth movie of the franchise. In Nick’s vision, he is crushed by a large chunk of ceiling alongside his girlfriend. Nick saved his best friend, which would prove to be not in Hunt’s favor shortly after. Ultimately, however, it’s Hunt’s obsession with his lucky coin that brings about his demise.
A Bad Day at the Pool
While swimming at his country club, he drops his coin in the pool. He dives in after it as it lands near the pool’s drain. His trunks get caught in the vent, resulting in Hunt getting sucked into the pool. Since his trunks were stuck in the vent, he slowly started drowning. His trunks were clogging the drain and preventing the proper flow of water, which caused the pool’s ventilation system to malfunction. The pressure became too much for the system to handle, causing Hunt to be sucked into the drain from his bottom and explode out of the water pressure machine. It’s undoubtedly one of the most unrealistic, exaggerated deaths in the series.
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The Tanning Beds in Final Destination 3
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Perhaps the most notorious kill in the entire Final Destination franchise is the tanning booth malfunction in Final Destination 3. Ashley and Ashlyn were two of the teenagers who got off the rollercoaster after Wendy’s vision, which meant Death was going to come for them in another horrific way. The girls did everything together, including going to the tanning salon as one of their beauty treatments.
Beauty is Pain
Their misfortune begins when Ashley leaves her cup of water on top of the table above the machine controlling the lights in the beds. The condensation from the cup begins to drip, causing the machine to malfunction and the intensity of the heat to drastically increase. Ashley and Ashlyn were listening to music, and by the time they realized what was happening, it was too late. Both of them were trapped in their beds and the glass eventually shatters over them due to the malfunction. The heat becomes unbearable, and both girls are horribly burnt to a crisp. This scene alone has turned many Millennials and Gen Zs off from going to a tanning salon.
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The Car Engine Slicing Through Frankie’s Head in ‘Final Destination 3’
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The third movie had some of the most disgusting, brutal kills in the whole franchise. Frankie was one of the students thrown off the rollercoaster to his death in Wendy’s premonition. Although his character isn’t in much of the movie or part of the main cast of characters, his death is one of the most memorable ones. Death was going to get him in a horrifically gruesome way no matter what.
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A Truly Violent Death
While in line at a fast food drive-thru, Wendy gets the feeling that something truly awful is going to happen. She starts to notice ominous signs that point toward Death creeping up on them again. Frankie was in the convertible in front of them, unaware of Wendy’s knowledge of Death. When a runaway truck comes rolling down the hill behind them, the chaos of the scene goes full-throttle.
Wendy and Kevin barely make it out of their car and desperately try to warn Frankie to get out of his car. Frankie doesn’t get out, and as the truck crashes violently into Kevin’s car, it propels the engine forward right into the back of Frankie’s skull. The sound design is utterly disturbing as you can hear the engine slicing into his skull and his blood splatters everywhere.
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