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- The entire concept is bad enough. (Oh, you managed to avoid dying? Fine. Now your death will be several times more horrifying, painful, or both.) Then there are some of the deaths themselves, and the movies' premise. Specifically, the opening disaster scenes, which prey on our everyday fears (flying, driving, roller coasters, race tracks, and now crossing bridges).
- Hey, mortals, get this; turns out anything that dies (and will die), however it happens, is all from the devious machinations of an omnipotent force, with a personality and everything. Apparently, it gets incredibly pissed whenever you don't die as it planned you should even though you most likely would never have any idea you were supposed to "follow" said plan. Also, it especially gets off on killing you in a slow, excruciatingly painful, Cruel and Unusual Death. Have fun.
- Bludworth himself seems to be nightmare fuel for various reasons: 1. He is played by The Candyman himself Tony Todd. 2. He knows more about death more than anyone else. 3. This is the big one: He may as well be the reaper himself and only gives the protagonists cryptic advice because he took pity on them. The other characters on the list were either already dead or too busy to talk to him.
- There's essentially little to no "free will" in the Final Destination universe as everything that happens to you was and is planned by Death from birth and even prior to that.
- The extremely graphic depiction of the accidents at the start of the films definitely qualifies.
- Have a fear of flying? Watching 1's plane premonition will exacerbate that paranoia.
- Does highway driving make you nervous? You're not going to like 2's pile-up and how realistic it is.
- Afraid of roller coasters? Watching the premonition from 3 will make sure that you never set foot in an amusement park again.
- Have an uneasy feeling in your stomach from being on a loose bridge above water? 5's North Bay bridge collapse might put you off driving on one for quite some time.
- The McKinley Speedway disaster in The Final Destination may not bring to mind any rational fears, however there's still that feeling of dread that comes with watching a race and knowing that accidents of this magnitude can happen and actually have happened before (specifically the 1955 Le Mans disaster, which took the lives of 84 people).
- If fate is so important, how come Death just arbitrarily gives up and skips over certain people? Well, Death didn't give up on getting you. Death just decided to be patient or, on one occasion, gets played to a stalemate and waits for the person to make a mistake and then gets them. Death can be patient, because no one escapes in the end.
