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Every Final Destination Death, Ranked
These films toy with the audience as much as Death toys with its victims.
I’ll admit, as a teen, this scene made me wary of stepping onto escalators, but rewatching it as an adult highlights the fundamental flaws of this installment’s deaths — those that aren’t lifted from the franchise’s other films are conceptually sound, but the digital effects rupture rather than aid immersion. What improves the scene considerably are the ensuing rapid shock deaths — people smashed by falling cars or swinging cables, impaled by rebar or bisected by sliding metal sheets — and impactful touches, like the score cutting out, as if holding its breath, just as Molly begins her tightrope walk on a jutting beam connecting the two halves of the collapsing bridge, or the screen fogging up as one character is burned alive by a steaming tar spill. Evan Lewis’s (David Paetkau) death is a gruesomely effective anti-littering PSA, even as its tension-filled lead-up teases several other potential accidents: He might break his neck while carrying home an armload of packages that obscure his vision, causing him to slip on a doll left out in the hallway.
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