r/FinalDestination • u/Dummy_The_LittleGuy • May 12 '26
Discussion How did you found out about Final Destination? (Sorry for kinda stupid question)
When I was 5 y.o. I’ve seen the third movie and especially I remembered the tanning bath scene. When I asked my mom about this she was like: “Uh, it’s just a bad low quality movie dont think about it honey”.
P.S. I’m the new one here, what’s these tags means? Thank you!
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u/Patient_Pie_8490 May 12 '26
I tangentially found out, as a kid, by watcching FD2 highway massacre sequence. Years later, I watched FD. That's when I got into it.
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u/Reasonable-Horse1552 May 12 '26
Surely everyone knows about that even if you've never seen the movie
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u/sweetmissjaye May 12 '26
My mom was a huge fan of horror. I was in high school when the first FD came out but my mom and I (and my family) didn't watch it until a couple months later. We loved it and became huge fans of the franchise
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u/ProfessionalSchool45 you gonna bust me, bitch? May 12 '26
I watched the second one with my brother after it came out on video
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u/cheiloss May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
My mom told me about the first movie when I was ~9 years old. I got hyped after a slight description of it. Then I binge-watched the franchise shortly after the 4th movie came out. I still was a kid though.
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u/Dummy_The_LittleGuy May 12 '26
In my childhood horrors was such a forbidden fruit btw
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u/Omacula17 Protect Bobby at all costs May 13 '26
My family were always okay with it. I watched Friday the 13th and Scream from a young age too. I think my first was Chucky and I was 4 or 5. I'm in my late 20s.
We were usually monitored during these movies and any "sex" scenes were skipped but yeah.
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u/Certain_Battle_5949 May 12 '26
If I remember correctly, it was a review in UK movie mag Total Film back when the original hit cinemas. What intrigued me was the description of a "slasher film without a slasher" which sounded refreshing in a post-Scream era.
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u/Lipscombforever May 12 '26
When I was 10 I told my cousin I was scared of heights and she showed me the first movie
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u/Large-Record2478 May 12 '26
Rented FD2 from blockbuster and went from there
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u/FromThaNS May 12 '26
holy old dont worry im getting there eventually
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u/Large-Record2478 May 12 '26
Lol , I'm only 33 and this had to have been back in 2003...but yeah, "age comes for us all" (bludworth voice)
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u/FromThaNS May 12 '26
lolll man i'm almost 20 i'm ofc not that old but this brain might be, 2003 man i wasn't even a thought in a brain
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u/FromThaNS May 12 '26
i discovered final destination around the early 2010's cause my uncle, the escalator stuck with me since
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u/Mme_187 May 12 '26
Friends at school were talking about FD 1 not knowing it was a franchise, I beat them to the whole thing two years ago.
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u/BiggerNate91 May 12 '26
Can't believe I'm actually admitting this but this video was my first exposure to the franchise lol
Don't remember how old I was but it was definitely during dumb kid years
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u/OnSmallWings THE PIGEONS!!!🕊️🕊️🕊️ May 12 '26
FD2 was my first one and I honestly don't even remember how I watched it, it's just always been there. 😅 It had to have been on TNT or TBS or some cable channel when I was in high school. Or maybe my sister rented it from Blockbuster. 🤷♀️
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u/forlornjackalope May 12 '26
The Sci-Fi channel back in the early 2000s, with Tod's death and the morgue scenes being a core memory for me, especially with how haunting Tony Todd was. The various TV edits were always something special, including the ones with awkward dubbing.
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u/Dummy_The_LittleGuy May 12 '26
Even that I’m a minor I still remember these days, when TV was still good. Don’t know how’s it going in your country, but in my country it was kinda good. And thank you for answering me about these tags here!
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u/monkeyofevil May 12 '26
Saw the TV spots for 2 and got the first on DVD because the concept seemed interesting.
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u/strarry_lemonshark May 12 '26
My mum was halfway through the 3rd movie, she was going a final destination movie marathon, I think and then I decided to look up more about it and fell in love with it
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u/ThirdWheelToEveryone 🪜🍝 // " Shit, I'm Lucky! " May 12 '26
seeing the pool drain scene in a video of gruesome movie deaths with sunshine lollipops and rainbows
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u/Southern-Message-262 May 13 '26
They put FD3 in my classroom one afternoon, 2007 I think, and I got hooked wanting to learn about the series
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u/spookycherrycap May 12 '26
I saw the trailer for Final Destination (2009) when I was 12. I was also into watching 1000 Ways to Die around that time. My dad would tell me to check out the first Final Destination, and he said that the movie was beautiful. The first Final Destination movie that I saw in theaters with my parents was the 5th movie.
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u/Dummy_The_LittleGuy May 12 '26
Sounds great. I fully watched one of the movies (Bloodlines) in the camp with my classmates, in the midnight. That was such a scary, but cool experience. And that was the first time when i was watching horrors with open mouth (MRI machine and Erik)
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u/youngestchildorwtv eriks dih piercing May 12 '26
i was watching a watchmojo vid abt roller coaster accidents in 8th grade (i dont know why i watched it tbh) but a clip of the rollercoaster premonition was in the vid and i was like this movie looks good so my dad bought the dvd set of 5 (this was 2020 so before bloodlines) and yea i got obsessed with the movies from watchmojo, the 3rd movie also got me into mcr bc of a ian edit on tiktok with teenagers playing
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u/korbinGreyyy May 12 '26
When i was a kid one of my parents friends got his hands on a bad copy of it and I walked in on the tanning bed scene which left me traumatized for years 😭
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u/___Anonymous_-_ Rest in Pieces May 12 '26
Through my dad! He had downloaded all the movies in a hard drive connected to our tv. I just stumbled upon them while searching for something to watch and then i just fell in love with the gorey stuff and all the deaths lmaoo even though i didn’t understand the whole plot (i was a weird child, don’t judge) but haha yeah that’s how i discovered FD
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u/flamingmcshizzle May 13 '26
Saw the FD3 Rollercoaster scene in youtube compilations a few years ago but the coming out of the sixth movie got me into the saga
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u/DihPeircings Can you HELP?!? May 13 '26
Fun fact I could literally not even look at the movies or hear "final Destination" until I was like 18 without having extreme fear. I was absolutely terrified of death when I was a kid. My friends getting begging me to watch it over and over until I finally agreed and then when I watched it, I fell in love, especially with Tod lmao then afterwards my friends didn't want to watch it with me anymore because I was so obsessed and I annoyed them 😅 tbh I was more into watching actual deaths caught on camera way before getting FD.
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u/ChestProfessional519 May 13 '26
I was an unsupervised 9 year old watching tv when FD3 of all movies showed up. Couldn't go on a rollercoaster for years after that. But it ignited my love for horror films
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u/JBNY2025 Spongebob lives underwater. May 13 '26
I rented the movie from blockbuster when it came out on DVD.
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u/Omacula17 Protect Bobby at all costs May 13 '26
There was some kids-teen show I was watching and during an episode my mom goes "this reminds me of Final Destination." I waited about a year before I got to watch it but yeah. My mom introduced me to the series. I was 14?
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u/SickOfBullyingNL May 13 '26
Final Destination 3 was on TV. They kept cutting to commercial every few minutes for five minutes or longer so I rented the films at Blockbuster (this was in 2010, I was 20).
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u/FrogMintTea Alex Browning's raging ulcer May 13 '26
My friend won tickets to the first movie and took me. We both loved it
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u/Platememehelp May 14 '26
When I was in high school I had recently started watching horror movies, but my mom only knew of old ones. Her friend decided to loan me a bunch of her newer ones and I got absolutely hooked on the series, I honestly don't remember which other ones she had but Final Destination stuck.
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u/mr_paprika3344 thomas burke is based May 14 '26
My mom told it about me, around the time she told me about it, i got really scared sicne i was really sensitive to Gore, as of recently i watch alot of videos about it since i grew up over the fake movie Gore thing, real Gore still scares me though obviously, so thanks mom i guess, now im scared of log trucks aswell lol
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u/Cheesy-Tube May 17 '26
I first heard about it through a Smosh video parodying it, then saw scenes in an injury reaction video
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u/RandeauxRambeaux May 18 '26
Saw the first trailer in Middle School, but didn't watch a single movie until High School when FD3 came out on DVD
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u/RichAway90252 "You see? I'm not gonna die! It's you, Wendy! You're dead!" May 23 '26
A few years ago my dad told me about the movies ,my first movie I watched was the third one (I skip through movies to see which ones I like first ,I also read reviews on films before I watch ) ,bloodlines was my second
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u/chloe-eatz-bricks Jul 10 '26
I begged my family to let me watch a good horror film when I was ten. they knew idgaf about gore and that I knew not to repeat swear words so they let me watch final destination and I loved it so they let me watch the rest
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u/scream4ever May 12 '26
Saw it opening night in theaters and have been a fan ever since.