It’s the invisible hand of death itself that is the villain after all.
The five films loved to toy with the audience, winding up the tension with each death.
That has become so popular that theteaser trailer forFinal Destination: Bloodlinesis nothing but a drawn-out death scene.
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Fate comes for these poor souls in a multitude of well-thought-out ways.
We follow Candice (Ellen Wroe) at a gymnastics practice.
If you didn’t cringe when that happened, there’s something wrong with you.
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Still, as gnarly as that one was, it’s notFinal Destination’s most shocking death.
This death may not be the goriest but it’s definitely the saddest.
The most memorable death by far goes to Terry Chaney (Amanda Detmer).
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Is Alex seeing one when he spots the reflection of a bus in a window that’s not there?
A minute later, the other survivors show up and get into an argument.
Terry tries to get everyone to stop fighting.
It works so well because it’s not like the rest.
In an interview with Yahoo,James Wong said the scene was done without any visual effects.
And then the dummy exploded."
Wong and his crew also went to movie theaters whenFinal Destinationwas released to watch audience reactions.
They would see ushers coming down to the front of the theater at a certain point during the runtime.
There’s a reason why so many movies have copied it in the quarter-century since.
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