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The first of many excruciatingly painful deaths...
Final Destination's premise alone is enough to guarantee horror. A group of kids survive a horrific plane tragedy, but Death doesn't like to be cheated, and makes sure the survivors die painful and gruesome deaths. Strap up, it's gonna be a wild ride.
- The infamous plane scene in the beginning. It's graphic and ends with it exploding and burning everyone alive. Just the beginning showing a baby and a handicapped man on the plane makes it more disturbing and just tragic. And the way it builds up is worse: From it getting into the air only for it to immediately go to shit, with parts flying off and until it finally explodes, burning everyone inside.
- When Alex's premonition ends, he tries to get everyone off the plane, only for him and some of his friends to get kicked out. There's a small glimmer of hope that it's just a bad dream, but then the plane actually explodes, and everyone stares at Alex in disbelief and/or horror.
- Final Destination 5 makes it worse when it reveals that Sam and Molly died on that same plane, meaning the explosion may have been the result of Death stalking them.
- Tod being strangled by a clothesline in his bathtub. Yes, it sounds ridiculous on paper, but watching him struggling to get the wire off or stand up is quite terrifying because you know that there's a very slim chance of him making it. The fact that it was drawn out to be a very slow and obviously painful death adds to this. This scene also shows that Death is capable of covering its own tracks.
- Ms. Lewton's death. Just to count: she gets stabbed in the throat by shards of her exploding computer screen, knocked to the ground by an exploding Vodka bottle, stabbed in the chest by a large kitchen knife when she was trying to grab a cloth to stop her hemorrhage, but it takes a chair falling on her and hammering the knife deeper in her chest to kill her. And to put the cherry on the cake, her house explodes, burning her body. Considering that she suffered severe trauma after she witnessed the accident, does not take away the fact that her death is one of the most sadistic and fucked up of all.
- Not to mention what she's doing in the accident vision: when the plane blows open, she tries her best to try and save a student's life and keep her from getting sucked out, only for her to fail and the girl to be pulled screaming out of the plane.
- The loose electric wire at Clear's house chasing her and trying to break down the garage door, as if it were a living, sentient predator.
- Alex nearly getting electrocuted and blown up at Clear's house.
- The alternate ending is even worse in this regard: Alex actually dies.
- Terry's death, by way of getting hit by a speeding bus, can be considered one, due to it coming out of fucking nowhere. In fact, the shot of the alka seltzer dissolving in the glass had to be added in to allow audiences to recover from the shot.
- Billy's death is also pretty gruesome even though it goes by really fast. A piece of metal shrapnel ricochets from a passing train right toward his face at a high speed and, having zero reaction time, cleanly rips his head in half. Once the train passes, we're treated to a split-second glimpse inside the bottom half of Billy's head as his body stands momentarily before falling.
- This leans into Paranoia Fuel as well, but look at how terrified Alex is after waking up from his premonition. He gets two clues that it was real, and panics. What amps this up is everyone's refusal to believe him, and he only got off the plane because Carter got into a fight with him. George wanted to get off as well, but wasn't allowed to.
