"This is some Final Destination shit" are words that we have probably said at least once in our lives after watching the movie

Let’s be honest anyone who has seen final destination refuses to drive behind a log truck🤷🏻‍♀️

The Tanning bed deaths s h o o k me to the core dude.

I really hated the last one until the reveal of being on Flight 180 happened and I completely lost my shit. That was brilliant

Jaws: People are scared of the ocean because of me. Final Destination: People are scared of _everything_ because of me.

Final destination was the first franchise that went complete full circle

My headcanon was always "what if Death gives the one with premonition the chance to leave the natural order intact?" just as a cruel joke where Death will let him/her live if they decide to let everyone else die. That would give a twisted edge to Mr. Bloodworth, as in maybe he's one of the people who had a premonition and didn't act on it, so Death spared him. Maybe he had the fascination with death even before the incident and that's the reason WHY he didn't act on it.

I remember the ending of part 5 thinking "oh an airplane, that's how part 1 started... (then I yell) 😮 OOOH SHIT THAT'S HOW PART 1 STARTED!!!!"

Ah yes, Final Destination, those movies the made you literally just ball up in the most empty corner of your house and just pray that the roof didn't fall on you...

Final destination did to everyday life what jaws did to swimming

It’s brilliant because every person who was around and watched this movie has panic set in the minute they drive behind a truck that hauls logs.

This movie ruined the number 180 for me. “Pre-heat the oven to 180°C” ...ugh I think not, I’ll be pre heating to 190°

Jurassic Park: Life finds a way Final Destination: Death finds a way

This movie messed me up cause I saw it as a kid and I'm still terrified of it. It's ruined tanning, gymnastics, laser eye surgery, and roller coasters

When I was a kid, my siblings and I were watching Family Guy in the living room. I went to the kitchen to pour myself some water. I set my cup and the gallon down on the little strip of counter space between the fridge and the stove. I started to pour the water but something I was hearing in that episode of Family Guy caught my attention, so I dropped what I was doing and went back to the living room to catch whatever funny moment was happening. When I went to the living room I heard glass explode (I hope you know what I mean, I'm not sure how to say it). I went back to the kitchen and I saw the shattered pieces of a plate that had been on the front right burner of the stove, a ceramic plate, that had exploded (shattered from the heat of the burner). I don't know why but my mom used to do that a lot. Maybe she thought plates on the burners looked nice, who knows. But I guess she had left the stove on, that particular burner that was right next to where I was standing when I was a kid at just the right height and in just the right place for that to have shattered and punctured something important and then killed me. I wish I remembered which episode of Family Guy distracted me, but I don't think I ever will. Every now and again I'll think back to that moment and I wonder what could have happened, but I'll be glad that whatever it was, it didn't. Praise God.

Yes, the bus is my favorite death. But my favorite scene, where I got the most chills is in 2, when they all start talking about the other times they cheated death and tie it to the first one.

I have NEVER used a tanning bed in my life because of these movies. I also get really nervous driving behind large trucks bc of the logging truck scene.

I do believe this series triggered an early form of anxiety for me.

The final “final destination” was brilliant. I love how at the end we found it that it was actually the 1st. I did notice certain moments were things were dated like the televisions & phones but at first I didn’t expect it

My favourite part of these movies has to be the reactions of the characters who witness the deaths. They're standing there like the surprised Pikachu meme.

Unlike horror movies full of jump scares, this movie effected many people on a deep level. I remember working at a restaurant the year the first movie came out. The power went out and came back on after just a second. The manager said "Huh, that's weird." And I jokingly said "This is some final destination shit. The power went out for a second, which cuts out the pilot light on the gas griddle. The griddle stays hot for a while so we don't realize it's out as the room fills with gas. Someone slips on the wet floor and drops a pan, it slides across the ceramic tile floor creating a tiny spark and BOOM! We all burn to death." Right at that moment, another co-worker came in from taking out the trash and started mopping the floor. I looked at the manager and said "And there's our wet floor." The manager spent over an HOUR checking the pilot lights, the breakers, the fire extinguishers, the door locks, the fire exit, etc. Even went outside and checked how securely the bollards in front of the building were attached to the ground. LOL! Not gonna lie though, I double checked everything behind her...And to this day I get nervous driving behind a logging truck.

Final destination is the only franchise that’s still literally shaped my life to this day. I still feel suuuuuuper uneasy driving behind/past log trucks on the motorway. That said...I kinda had that fear coming. I purposely took a mate to see the OG film a week before we went on a school exchange to New York. They already had a fear of flying. I’m going to hell...a hell filled with log trucks.

I'll wear glasses forever because I'm not getting Lasik surgery, forget THAT!! These movies are some of my favs though... 1st, 3rd & the last to be exact..

If Life and Death had a catch frase Life- "I, uh, find a way" Death- "I'll see you soon"

There should be a parody movie of final destination where death I constantly trying to kill people, but fails to even get a scratch on anyone. Some guy: *huge shard of glass flies by his head* hey, did you guys hear something? Death: dangit! Also death has the voice of bugs from homestar runner

You could have named the movies “A series of unfortunate events”

How to ruin your life: step one: watch final destination Step two: Be scared of life and have anxiety

I think Final Destination is a neat concept but ended up being just gore porn in its execution. Can't lie though, the concept alone is enough to freak you out about doing literally anything...

I really liked the first one - like a slasher movie without a slasher. I also felt it had the heart in the right place. My problem with the sequels is (apart from the increasingly silly deaths) that the characters have all become like water-balloons - their sole purpose is to burst and die, thus it's almost impossible to care for them.

The woman who gets decapitated by the elevator still gives me nightmares, everytime I get in one and the doors close before I'm in fully my stomach flips.

My rankings of the movies: 3- I feel like this one has the best characters and I like the photography aspect 1- classic, not as crazy as the other ones, more simple and easy to follow 5- the twist where you can kill someone and get their life gave the movie something fresh that some of the others lacked 2- I don’t remember much about this one but I like all the call backs to the first movie and the fact that the characters had a connection to the first movie 4- it was just unnecessary

All these years later, and of all the deaths in the franchise, Tod's death STILL freaks me out the most. It's the most chilling.

This guy's accent is a combo of Irish and KZfaq narrator.

I think Final Destination was one of early franchises that popularized fan theories. I remember going on forums during the times these movies came out and finding people analyzing small details trying to find all the clues that foreshadowed all the deaths.

How to survive the final destination series Leave the area when you feel a breeze and/or see a dark shadow creeping in reflections

There's actually a more consistent internal logic to cheating death a second time in these movies than you might think. With five actually being zero, we can conclude the William Bloodworth's theory that stealing another person's lifetime in order to survive was more or less off the mark, but in one and two, he only suggests "new life" will interrupt the chain of events... Which, officially, is never proven wrong. So, for anyone who wasn't aware, the first movie had an alternate ending where Ali Larter (the Kristen Stewart of the late 90s to early 2000s, imo) and Devon Sawa's (yes, that's THE Stan you're looking at!) characters hooked up and ended up having a kid. After that, it's heavily implied they're completely free to live normal lives and die normal deaths. Since this ending was replaced, most people don't know that this rule was actually introduced in the first movie and not in the second. Instead, the second movie *expands* on the rule, saying that simply dying and coming back to life constitutes a "new life", and thus the two main characters of *that* movie and its original disaster are saved, and, as Mr. Hollinger here has stated, never canonically killed off, even between movies. Therefore, you actually CAN beat Death at Their own game. You just have to be willing to die temporarily, or bump uglies until you're a parent. =P

Whenever I hear Final Destination, I immediately think _”there is someone walking behind you”_

Every time I see a truck with logs on the highway it screws me up😳 Although it’s about time we had another final destination

Fun Fact : it was just Kira from Death Note enjoying making people die on those ways

I saw the first one in theaters when it came out, and I was honestly impressed they managed to make a teen slasher movie without the teen slasher.

"Before films like Saw" *zooms out from a saw* lol nice one.

Death, uh, finds a way

You can actually see what year final destination 5 was set in when Isaac is going through his co-workers desks. The voucher he uses for the massage parlor states the year 2000 on it, just as he pulls it out of the desk. I missed it the first time but check it out.. ITS THERE😊

The first movie will always be the best. Great early 00’s cast, great soundtrack and realistic deaths that made you feel like you could die from a freak accident at any given moment.

Final Destination did scare me as a kid because the villain wasn't something that you could fight: death. Just death. And the inevitability of it. That eventually it'll come for you whether you want it to or not. It's the same reason that TV show 1000 Ways to Die freaked me out. Seeing and knowing there are so many ways we can kick the bucket was a harrowing thought... at the time. But nowadays, FD isn't nearly as scary. Especially as the series got more convoluted with the deaths. They stopped being probable or believable. I can believe being flung out of a rollercoaster seat, because I've been on some goddamn scary ones with a loose-ass feeling belt around my waist. But the scene you're talking about with the pool? Oh come the fuck on.

Final was the first horror movie I've seen and that's why it will always have a special place in my heart. Thanks, grandma.

I love this series because it hits very close to home for me. I have basically no memory of the events of 23 January, 1988--most of my memories prior to and including that night, and many since then, are similar to watching a home movie of a good friend's life. I was 15 years old and in a car that was hit head-on by a drunk driver on the highway. People who saw the vehicles before EMTs arrived thought it was a no-survivors crash, but all three of us survived; the drunk driver finally managed to kill himself five years later via drug overdose. The driver of my car broke both legs and several ribs, and lost all his teeth against the steering wheel. I was wearing a lap belt (thankfully!), so my hips were held in place (and broken in at least 3 places) while my upper body swung forward. The windshield fell in and broke against the top of my head at about double highway speed because of kinetic energy. I was in a coma for several weeks, in the hospital for a few months, and have been in recovery for over 3 decades. I react less to my own story than to the ones told in the Final Destination franchise because, well, I didn't see it and didn't understand much of it until long after the fact. Thank you for breaking it down for us, Ryan, and helping me understand why I'm so drawn to those movies. Oh, and I could listen to your voice all day!

I saw a video recently where a passenger was filming a log truck ahead of them that had lots of space behind/around it. The caption? "Everyone saw Final Destination." 🤣

The DVD of the 3rd film had an awesome 'choose their fate' feature which let you choose between two different options at certain moments of the film. A pretty creative way of seeing alternative scenes, deaths and outcomes

My favorite Final Destination film is Final Destination 3. The story and plot is interesting, it has an interesting spin of using photos and photography to show how people will die, it has pretty cool kills and the characters are pretty interesting and dynamic

Final Destination 2 will forever be my favorite. Every death (except the hospital explosion) was perfect. That premonition on the highway has caused more fear than any other scene in cinema history. No one can see a log truck without getting a gut feeling now.

I always thought the premonition was those characters having a particularly good ability to predict. indeed... All of the characters with premonitions often catch the deaths of the other characters before they come, the more elaborate they are, precisely as though death wants them to avoid that particular accident. I always wondered if they were meant to make sure the deaths stayed on course but preventing them their punishment is to be included with the rest. Because it's strange they are the last ones... The witnesses to make sure to realize what was going on and make the rest of them panic. I always found that they were scary precisely because death seemed upset at them. Which, to me, explained how elaborate those deaths kept becoming. I always wondered watching them, if a character accepted the inevitability of their death or even apologized to death in some way... Would the deaths have been less sadistic? Food for thought. Or maybe I always put more thought into these films then most who watched them. Who knows?

The scene in Final Destination 2 where they are all in the van and basically tell stories about how the characters from Final Destination 1 all saved their lives at some point (one of the characters was on the bus which hit the annoying girl and that stopped him reaching a doomed destination, or something) was a huge mindblow for me when I first saw it. I loved things all overlapping and the implications it gave, now the survivors were perhaps dooming other people (or "skipping" them) through every action.

4:21 "before movies like saw" Shows an actual saw on screen

Final Destination, imo, is so refreshing cuz rarely do we have a horror film that focuses on man vs nature. sure, it's a supernatural force, but the idea of an unseen, unpredictable force that stalks the psyche of the cast is terrifying in a fun way

I loved Clear and I literally cried when she died in FD2...I believed that she will survive😭

Dont make the grim reapers job harder, or he might get creative while fixing things.

The Hidden genius of Sharknado 7: Sexy Sharks by the Bay

Seeing the rollercoaster scene when i was younger messed me up😂

I love how they connect FD5 to the first one but they messed up with Tony Todd. They should’ve made him look younger and gave him some hair on his head since it was technically before flight 180. Big mistake

It's the deep fact of death, a normal fact of life that we all must accept. We don't know the hour or day of our deaths, for all we know, someone will probably die tomorrow or next week. Anything can happen at any time but when you start thinking about it too much, that's when you worry about it, and the more you worry, the worse the fear gets.

Don't forget Mr. Todd also played the Candyman.

*Favourite Film:* Final Destination 0 *Favourite Premonition:* The Highway Pile-Up *Favourite Freak Accident:* The Tanning Bed Explosion *Funniest Freak Accident:* The BBQ Punchline or Why Can't We Be Friends? (They're tied.) *Favourite Character:* William Bludworth *Funniest Gag:* The moment in FD4 where the survivors go to check on George Lanter (the security guard), only to find out he's been unsuccessfully trying to kill himself ALL DAMN DAY. *Favourite ESPer:* Wendy Christensen (She needed better writing and dialogue, but I love Mary Elizabeth Winstead more than actual life itself.) And yes, I have the "worst" and "least favourite" answers to these categories, too. Also, *Most Underrated Concept:* That all the people in FD2 had to die because they were supposed to die sooner due to the events of FD1, but because that crisis was partially averted, they'd all already cheated death once. The pile-up was actually their *second time* cheating death. I kinda wish that had happened again at least once, even if it wasn't with EVERY character.

The first one is my absolute favorite, closely followed by the 5th film. I'm currently writing a "Final Destination" script for a fan-film, as well as a spin-off series.

The Final Destination series made some of the most mundane, everyday things so terrifying. I'm always wary about the way the knife block is positioned, I check my cup isn't leaking, trucks carrying "secured" loads like logs and hay scare the shit out of me, and I hate the idea of travelling over that long of a bridge. Granted, some of the deaths were ridiculous, but many were shockingly plausible.

That’s something these people at Hollywood fail to understand! They think filling the entire film with jumpscares, loud noises, and creepy imagery is scary. Sure your heart skips a beat in the moment, but it’s not from fear it’s because you weren’t expecting it! Real horror lingers with you long after the movie’s over (like Final Destination) how many people *TILL THIS DAY* are/were scared to drive behind trucks, ride rollercoasters, or fly on planes because of this movie 😂 this movie gets your mind going and at the end of the day they made your imagination your worst enemy...

Shouldn’t have watched this just before having a shower. Most intense shower of my life.

Is no one gonna talk about how in FD5 the mortician says that he’s seen these events before, but then it turns out that FD5 was a prequel?

My favorite is Final Destination 3. Everybody loves amusement parks and we don't think of being in danger at them.

Such a misunderstood and underrated thriller/horror franchise

I am convinced that like 60% of people who change lanes to avoid being behind a semi carrying logs, PVC pipes, metal tubes, etc do so because of this series.

Alex from the first Final Destination sums up my experience with OCD and anxiety

I’m still terrified every time I see a truck with logs

My favorite is Final Destination 2. It's gotta be one of the best opening sequences of all time for a horror movie.

I loved this franchise. But one day, I went to the car wash and my car got stuck in there when car wash malfunctioned. I freaked the fuck out. I jumped out my car and got soaked, and ran inside the gas station screaming and outraged. I remember some lady in there said “That’s some Final Destination shit”, but I was able to file a complaint and got a $50 gas card from it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Fun fact; the scene where Terry gets hit by the bus in the first one freaked people out so much that they had to add in an extra 40 seconds of Alex and Clear drinking Alka-Seltzer and trying to calm down so that the audience could calm down as well. Those kinds of “suddenly getting hit by a vehicle” kills are pretty common now, but apparently they REALLY freaked out audiences in the early 2000s.

I do not let water bottles roll around my car☠️☠️☠️

Unpopular opinion but 3 has always been my favourite! The rollercoaster is so iconic and kind of unique for the series, it had a great mix of stupid deaths (My personal fave being "I'm not gonna die!" ) and genuinely scary (I will literally never use a tanning bed bcs of this film) and on the DVD there was a cool little feature where you could slightly alternate or even prevent the deaths!

*me turning on my burner*: can’t wait to have this grilled cheese *final destination character turns on burner* Me: what angry gods have you tempted

Remember seeing part 2 in theaters (nearly 18 years ago) like it was yesterday. The audience was 100% into it throughout the entire film, and remains one of the most fun times I've had at the movies till this day. People can say what they want about the quality of the rest of the sequels, but I miss this series.

Personally, my favorite movie in the franchise is Final Destination 3 and my favorite death has to go to Erin for the nail gun blindside

I'm normally a fan of great horror series like *SAW* or *Halloween* , but the *Final Destination* movies were the only movies in the world that actually scared me as a kid! I'm an adult now, but thanks to *FD* 2, I *still* refuse to drive behind a truck!

Death:"I want to play a game, the ending is the same but you can extend your life from this event everytime you win, the game doesn't end until you meet your end.

From what I heard, the writers or something stated that William Bloodworth is NOT death(which was sort of a popular-ish theory going around)), which makes a lot of sense because death is supposed to be unseen, it doesn’t HAVE a physical form hence why you can’t really fight it. I do think that Bloodworth is a grim reaper though, and everyone might be thinking “that’s the same damm thing as death!”, let me explain. Although everyone commonly likes portraying death as the grim reaper, especially in animation, it raises the question of why would death, a literal force of nature that’s constantly all over the place at once doing their job, have a physical form that everyone can see and potentially try causing harm to? Media has played into this idea of the grim reaper being death by having the grim reaper either get hurt & unable to currently perform the duties of death or actually die and this ends up leading to nobody dying, which kind helps feed into the idea that there would be no way that death would take a physical form at all because if something happened to death we’d all be fucked, hence why death is formless and the presence of the grim reaper is there for a much different job, that being collecting the soul to take to the property of the afterlife, like a repo man, a repo man who’s not collecting cars but instead a more morbid thing, the recently deceased souls. Now how does this tie into William Bloodworth’s character? Well he works in a morgue, a place where dead bodies are taken to once discovered, bodies that still have the soul trapped inside of and are in need of being taken and repossessed by the afterlife officially. It’s the smartest way for this grim reaper to be able to do his job in modern times without risk of being harmed for being perceived as death. His words are meant to inform our protagonists about death so that they can prepare themselves for it, because he knows eventually it will happen and he might as well take the chance that he’s given to try and comfort them the best he can(because let’s be real, it does seem weird the way he does it but you gotta remember that he works for death so yeah, it’s gonna look weird)

This franchise is absolutely genius and so under appreciated

A "Final Destination" episode of the X-Files would have been neat! Mulder: "Scully, the kids are dying in the exact order they would have died on the plane. I think Death itself is trying to complete the job." Scully: "Mulder, that is absolutely ridiculous. Death is no more predetermined than what tomorrow's weather is going to be."

i think what's brilliant about the series is that the main characters are given hope through a form of a premonition. it's like death is playing a game with them, giving them a head start, so to speak.

I always thought the series was very clever, hell it personally made me scared of rollar coasters, tanning beds, and electricity, weights, roads ect. The villian death is still up in the air either it was a supernatural grim reaper of sorts or just nature in itself energy manifesting, just genius Lol

I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought the final destination movies where underrated gems

I like Final Destination 5 cause the bridge scene was really good and i like the end twist aswell, as for favourite death i'd say is Evans death, there were so many red herrings in this scene - Microwave explosion, Fire in apartment, Garbage Disposal, Apartment explosion, Ladder falling before stopping and then hes killed plus irony that he wins the lotto to be killed shortly after.

Even in my youth, I've never been afraid of ghosts, demons, possessions in films but Final Destiny and Hostel gave me nightmares.

The films swore me off of tanning beds forever. Anytime I see one I can’t get the song Rollercoaster out of my head. Your analysis is spot on. I think death as an unseen force made the deaths seems all the more plausible, even the ones that seemed to defy basic logic (such as the guy getting cut apart by flying barbed wire).

Final Destination. Was the alternate title "How to Heighten Anxiety?"

from what I heard about final destination 3 there's a version of the movie where you can choose who lives and who dies.

let me just leave this quote here: "NO ONE ESCAPES DEATH"!

I love number 2 but oddly enough it's the elevator scene. The characters that either don't believe or don't care and want to die are slammed in the face with 1) they don't want to die, 2) it is 100% out of their hands and 3) it's going to be gruesome

This series is rather consistent in quality excluding the 4th one (really bad, that one and the awful 3-D doesn't help). I mean, you really don't expect the 5th entry in a horror franchise to be arguably the best one, but it speaks to the overall quality of the series. I'd also add, however, a very simple reason why Bloodworth the mortician is so memorable and menacing; it's because he's portrayed by the motherfucking Candyman.

I think 2 still has one of the best disasters out of all of them. And my favorite death is probably in the second film where the kid is squished by the pane of glass. It seemed like he might die in the dentist office, which is also a good tension builder because I hate the dentist and most people do.

The scariest part is that these could actually happen

My favorite Final Destination was definitely Final Destination 2. It had the best twist and I really liked how other characters aside from the main protagonist could see clues. Nora's was probably my favorite death scene. It was rare to see a character who had found out the cause of her death, and was desperately trying to prevent it.