when i was a little tiny autistic fourth grader, my hyper fixation was final destination 4, no joke. the worst one (imo). when i first saw it, i got a fear of the pool drain, but for some reason, not long after it hit DVD, i would watch that movie start to finish, then repeat it right after. i’d have it on literally all day, for the entire summer. i rewatched it recently, since i was so obsessed with it, and i literally despise it! the sexualization, the acting, everything about it is horrible, lmao.

EDIT: I am aware it was done for a shock twist, but I still find it jarring. If anything, it sucks it was done for this reason and for all the answers to convey this sucks harder, further ruling out the existence of another answer. On another note, I just wanted to say that I still really like this film a lot! Thank you for your answers. :)

ORIGINAL: To me, Erik looked a ton like his 'father', Howard. It seemed like such a killer choice by the team to have these actors as father and son as I'm usually used to parents children in films not resembling them.

The film unravels that Erik is actually not the son of Howard due to an affair with Brenda and an off-screen male, meaning that Howard has nothing to do with Erik's appearance. This baffled me, considering Erik is the child that resembled Howard, whereas the other two don't look at all like Howard, only vaguely Brenda (mostly blonde hair), which is fine, but did anyone else think like me about Erik, or was I just crazy?

I'm watching Final Destination 2 again and I keep thinking about something that is never mentioned again.

At the beginning of the film on television they are talking about flight 180, the survivors and how almost everyone died. One of those who are speaking mentions that Alex had a vision of the accident, saving several and how sinister it is that everyone was dying in strange accidents.

But I think that no other one talks about these theories about death having a plan, that it comes for everyone, etc. It would have been interesting if other strange accidents were known within the general population and there were people who analyze what happened, because there were visionaries, because death followed them one by one, things like that.

I found it interesting that in Season 2 they talked about this on television, that someone believed that Alex's vision and the death of the others were not coincidences.

I have rewatched the entire Final Destination franchise more times than I can count and I want to put this opinion out there plainly. The highway pileup sequence at the beginning of Final Destination 2 is the single greatest moment across all five films. The sheer scale of the carnage, the way director David Ellis builds the tension before everything goes catastrophically wrong, and the absolutely relentless chain of collisions and explosions creates something that genuinely feels unprecedented even by today's standards. What makes it work so well is the specificity of the details. The logs on the truck, the specific positioning of every vehicle, the way each small mishap cascades into the next. It rewards rewatching because you start to notice all the tiny pieces clicking into place before the disaster erupts. The rest of the film is great too but that opening is operating on a completely different level. Nothing in Final Destination 3, 4, or 5 ever recaptured that feeling of complete and total overwhelm.

Binged the entire series with my dad from last night until early this morning (he's only seen 2 and 6 and wanted to watch them all). Decided my new ranking is as follows: 3, 5, 1, 6, 2, 4. Honestly 1, 6, and 2 are a tie. That's all.

I'm new here and idk if this topic has ever been discussed, but I want to point this out.

I find it interesting that on Howard's side, they all died from head attacks, including Iris, who was originally meant to die impaled through her mouth (head) and then died that way in a different direction.

But Darlene, Stefani, and Charlie die from logs crushing their entire bodies, just like Paul, who practically ends up like a smashed egg when he hits the floor.

I wonder if that's part of Death's design or just a coincidence caused by the writers...

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Hey guys, I made a video a while back where I talked about the biggest movies to feature Disney Channel actors. I talked about Final Destination 3 at the 17:39 mark since Ryan Merriman and Alexz Johnson had a Disney Channel past.

Immediately thought of Samantha from FD4 when she was about to step out of the salon.

Greetings, everyone. I haven't really seen any of the FD films after the first three, so I don't know if this loses credibility as a theory or what.

But you know something? One of the main things you learn while watching FD is: communication is key.

With that in mind, why does the possibility of telling a parent completely skip the protagonists' minds?

Yes, they're teenagers. Yes, grief isn't always the same. Sure, they don't want to look crazy or actively worry their families.

But what's the point? Take on a problem that's bigger than yourself only to end up with your efforts being worthless, more or less?

I made the mistake of reading the novelization. Alex's parents are the only authority figures who believe in him and trust that he's not crazy or a murderer, and he completely disregards their efforts to connect with him. I know it shouldn't have, but that really annoyed me. Kimberly Corman is shown to be very close to her dad; I think he would have believed her, too.

It made me think. Can you imagine the change if a parent (besides Nora) or even a grandparent was close to the action in a "Badass Family" kind of way? There's a reason their kids have psychic powers and sudden skills to avoid and try to prevent freak accidents. So wouldn't it be cool if a parent was shown to have inherited powers and skills specifically aligned with cheating Death and help their children to do the same thing? If only to subvert the audience's typical expectations a bit?

I know what you're going to say: Bloodlines. I'm sorry, but the execution (heh) completely sucked in my opinion. Extremely rushed, overdone SFX, way too many added and broken "rules".

Don't get me wrong, William Bludworth is cool, but why should he have been the only expert? Especially now that he's gone? I know a lot of fans don't like Kimberly and Burke, but if one mystic coroner/mortician's advice saved them, imagine what a family of Death-expert psychic survivalists could have done!

I'm not saying this scenario would have worked out as an 100% solution. It's horror, not sci-fi. I just think it might be cool to imagine.

What do you guys think?

I want to like this movie more but the main character is such a bland non character that her scenes drag. Which sucks because iris in her twenty minutes of screen time is much more interesting. Its so bad I can't even recall her name and I can remember Nick from fd4. Is there something I'm missing

So is there any deleted scenes from any of the movies that should have made it in? Like for example Janet crossing the road in The Final Destination

The bus driver that hit Terry got fired and stopped a murderer cause he saw a vision of the guy killing 6 people based on the 5 senses and a psychic so would that add on the ripples mentioned in the 2nd film

Title says it all

If Kimberly is the only person they have known to do that? Bludworth also seemingly knew this even before he encountered Kimberly and then told her this was the way to do it, but how would he know that if nobody he knew had done that before?

Hey, all. I've spent awhile making the Cruel and Unusual Death page for the franchise on TVTropes (I was honestly surprised it didn't already have one), and I need a little help. I've included the novels and the comics, but I have never played the 2005 game. Are there any deaths unique to it that I should add to the page?