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Nothing quite speaks horror like the 2000s film series,Final Destination. With errant vehicles barreling down the streets, water dripping on live wires and electronic gadgets, and pointy things lying all around ready to impale the next victim, the horror franchise embodied death like no other slasher could before.
Even so, the film series has managed to introduce new and inventive ways to subvert the viewer’s expectations, leaving the scene littered with false clues and misdirections, only to kill off the next victim in the most shocking, random, and unforeseen manner.
A quarter of a century later,Final Destinationstill manages to haunt an entire generation of fans paralyzed with a deeply rooted, subconscious fear of everyday objects that can render us dead in a matter of moments with a single misstep.
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Final Destination, as a franchise, still reverberates as one of the most emotionally scarring phenomena in the history of pop culture. The film series has not only delivered some of the most grotesque deaths imaginable in slasher culture but has also subverted the viewer’s expectations while doing so.
However, one particular scene in the entirety of the franchise still stands out to this day as the most jarring out of all the haphazard and arbitrary accidents that ultimately lead to the cast’s untimely demise. The scene in question is featured in David Ellis’s sequel to the original film, where a series of seemingly innocuous mishaps leads to the death of countless souls on the highway.
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Kimberly, the protagonist, takes the audience on a ride along Route 23, as things begin to go awry after a police car enters into the mix. Trying to get rid of the weed startsa series of unfortunate eventsas a woman’s windshield lights on fire, a truck driver’s coffee spills, a log truck swerves hard causing one of the cords to snap while a log flies right through the windshield of a state trooper’s car, comes out the other end, taking pieces of him with it.
Final DestinationLeaves a Whole Generation Paranoid
None of theFinal Destinationmovies have been forgettable on account of the strange and paranormal deaths that have been graphically imprinted on the viewers’ minds. The horror movie franchise rose as a response to the overdone and saturated slasher genre that once madeJohn Carpenterfamous in the field.
However, while Hollywood struggled to make their most profitable genre into a profit-making venture again,Final Destinationbrought just the right amount of originality at the right juncture in time to an audience who were ready to witness the blood and gore on screen rather than a shadowy evil that lingers in the background of a scene.
Final Destination: Every Ending Of Each Movie, EXPLAINED
With Death as a constant presence on its trail, the ending of eachFinal Destinationmovie is already a giveaway at the start. The real tragedy lies in the fact that despite knowing what fate has in store for them, the teens try to overcome their destiny by whatever means necessary, only to ultimately succumb to the omniscient scythe of the Grim Reaper.
Final Destinationis available to buy/rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Diya Majumdar
Senior Writer
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
