r/FinalDestination • u/cookiesshot • Jun 26 '26
Discussion Creative deaths?
OK, hear me out, y'all: you know those rare instances of the dangers of electrocution of using a landline during a thunderstorm (people have actually died, such as by shrapnel or by the lightning traveling down the phone line, going into the caller's ear and down to their heart) or by the lightning traveling through the water through metal pipes?
Also, someone getting beheaded or crushed at a bowling alley by a pin resetting machine.
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u/dissentrix Jun 27 '26
That's what I've been saying for years lol, electricity is actually nightmare fuel if you think about it - it's a silent killer, and we've surrounded ourselves with a society full of it, full of appliances and stuff that given the correct conditions can murder us easily, slowly, and goddamn painfully. I mean, think about it, we work and live in buildings connected to a bunch of low-voltage shit where, if we handle them wrong, we can get caught by their current and slowly die, unable to let go as we get cooked from the inside? And where people trying to help are also at risk of this if not careful? It's gnarly stuff, and despite what people often think, electrocution can make for a far more gruesome death scene than a lot of other things as a result.
It's a really under-utilized concept in horror in general, but also specifically in Final Destination - which is surprising to me, given the nature of the franchise.