This article mentions a fatal traffic accident.
TheFinal Destinationfranchise is built on deaths written to be darkly memorable, but one specific scene is still very easy to remember even after more than two decades. Although notevery death inFinal Destinationmovieshas remained part of the general zeitgeist, it’s impossible to deny the impact that one of them had and continues to have on those who have seen it. With 2025 adding another installment to theFinal Destinationmoviesfor the first time since 2011, the upcoming effort will likely maintain the franchise’s penchant for standout deaths.
Thekill count in everyFinal Destinationmovievaries greatly, as it depends on the original environment in which the macabre vision is experienced. Weirdly, the first movie still has the highest number of deaths by far, with 292, but it’s not the installment that boasts the franchise’s most memorable character exit. Instead,this honor goes to the first-everFinal Destinationsequel, which premiered in 2003 - three years after the original.
Final Destination 2’s Log Truck Scene Was Incredibly Traumatizing
The log truck’s loose cargo lives in the minds of many Final Destination viewers
TheFinal Destinationmovies have something of an unconventional antagonist. Rather than a masked serial killer or demonic beast, the characters meet their respective ends in ways that are generally considered to be realistic. It’s the avoidance of these seemingly predetermined fates and the universe trying to “correct” this death-dodging that gives the movies its heightened state of reality. However,Final Destination’s log truck scene goes above and beyond to be an incredibly grounded death scene, which makes it seem very real and therefore a terrifying prospect.
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Of course,the scene does go a little overboard with its explosionsand other aspects of the massive traffic accident, but it’s primarily for cinematic value rather than to enhance the realism. Regardless, a log coming free from a truck and smashing through the driver’s side of the windscreen doesn’t feel like it comes from anywhere near the realm of the supernatural. In this respect, it leaves a strong mental impression on its viewers that arguably remains dormant until they find themselves driving behind a log truck. Then, it all comes flooding back.
Most Final Destination Deaths Are Too Silly To Be Genuinely Scary
Final Destination has few other scenes as genuinely harrowing as the log truck accident
TheFinal Destinationwriters clearly have a lot of fun when it comes to coming up with creative death scenesfor their characters. Although they do have a little freedom, the deaths tend to be similar to the way they were originally intended to meet their respective ends in the characters' visions. So, because of this requirement to write two different death scenes tied together by a believable connection, the latter of the two tends to be a little bizarre - and can sometimes even be a little funny as a result.
2000
36%
2003
51%
2006
44%
2009
28%
2011
63%
2025
TBC
This isn’t always the case, as instances such asFinal Destination 3’s tanning bed scene are also very harrowing. However, they almost always tend to have an air of supernatural intervention about them, and the scenes themselves often tend to stretch the possibilities of what would be likely to happen. On the other hand, a massive log coming loose from a truck like inFinal Destination2 is worryingly possible by comparison.
Final Destination 2
Cast
Final Destination 2 follows a group of strangers as they desperately try to escape an inevitable and gruesome fate after a premonition saves them from a deadly highway pileup. Seeking to cheat death, they must uncover the mysterious pattern of their survival while striving to evade a series of fatal accidents meticulously orchestrated by an unseen force.
