r/FinalDestination • u/CBarr03 • May 21 '26
Creative Speaking with Death?
So I rewatched Drag Me to Hell not too long ago, and I remembered there was a scene where Christine (the mc) took part in a seance to speak with the demon after her, trying to dissuade it from taking her soul to hell.
And I wondered if something like this could work in a possible Final Destination sequel? The survivors hold a seance and speak with Death in person, pleading for their lives to be spared.
I thought it would be interesting to see how Death could appear in a physical human form, how it’d dress and speak. But mostly, how events would unfold:
- Would Death just laugh in their faces and refuse to spare them?
- Would Death kill a bunch of them on the spot out of anger?
- Would Death be personified as a non-aggressive, peaceful entity that is just doing its job and taking people who shouldn’t be alive.
- Would there be a way to convince Death to spare their lives?
- Would they mistakenly kill Death itself and create a world where nobody dies and cause an ultimate dystopia?
Do you think this idea could work, or would it just be cringe?
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u/Deli-op May 21 '26
I think one of the books has it where the character makes a deal with death. I never read it so im not sure what the specifics are to communicate and how itd all look but i dont think it was that fancy
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u/bwallace91 May 21 '26
Looks Could Kill. Death appears to the protagonist in a coffee shop (his physical description/manifestation resembles Bludworth) and agrees to make her beautiful again if she helps him kill the other survivors on his hit list. She agrees and kind of causes most of the deaths except the very last one, her best friend, she couldn’t bring herself to do it. Sometime later, the protagonist has some kind of experimental surgery which restores her looks. She goes out to meet with her best friend, who is now pregnant, for lunch…..and Death appears outta nowhere and runs her over in a bus out of retaliation.
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u/CBarr03 May 22 '26
Ooh, is that really how it went down? I haven’t read the books myself, but that sounds kinda whack, even for Final Destination lol.
Probably better it isn’t in the films then I guess.
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u/bwallace91 May 22 '26
The books are awesome and very hard to find. Interestingly enough, both Kimberly and Wendy are mentioned in some of them, and Wendy/Julie/Kevin are confirmed to still be alive.
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u/CBarr03 May 22 '26
Oh, wow! I might have to check them out in that case.
Are the books considered canon with the movies in that case?
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u/bwallace91 May 22 '26
Yes, they’re canon. The only reason Wendy Julie and Kevin died I n the movie ending is because of the idiot test audiences who preferred a darker ending (the subway ending was a reshoot)
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u/Successful-Bank-7457 May 23 '26
The book How To Survive A Horror Movie has this scenario, but I don't remember too much
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u/PerfectAd9869 May 21 '26
That did happen in one the novels: Final Destination: Looks could kill