10 Awesome Horror Movie Moments That Make No Sense

The death of Alex's (Devon Sawa) best pal Tod (Chad E. Donella) in the original Final Destination remains one of the series' most memorable and brilliantly wince-inducing.

Tod is the first survivor of Volée Airlines Flight 180 to be "claimed" by Death, when he's implausibly garrotted after slipping on some water in the bathroom and falling onto an ill-placed clothesline.

This death scene effectively crystalised the series' penchant for devious fake-outs, as after showing numerous instruments which could kill Tod - namely a sharp razor and a pair of scissors - it's the damn water-clothesline combo that gets him.

As flippantly, comedically brutal as many of the series' deaths tend to be, this one is still genuinely nasty and uncomfortable to watch today. 

Seeing Tod so desperately attempting to free himself from strangulation, while being a likeable character to boot, makes this prolonged death scene sheer agony to sit through.

But it's also a little out of step with the franchise's general approach to Death itself, as we unambiguously see Death attempting to cover up its involvement by forcing the leaking water to recede back into the toilet, in turn causing Tod's death to be labelled a suicide.

The idea of Death having such an overt, tangible impact on the physical world was dropped for all the sequels, and so it sticks out like a sore thumb here, like a concept from an earlier draft that somehow made its way into the final script.