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5. Billy's Death Gets Foreshadowed - Final Destination

The Thing Kurt Russell
New Line Cinema

It's apt that a movie with a central plot device about the foreshadowing of death does itself contain some sneaky foreshadowing for audiences to keep an eye out for.

One of the most memorable death scenes in the original Final Destination is the brutal decapitation of obnoxious goofball Billy Hitchcock (Seann William Scott), whose head is improbably parted from his body after a train catapults a hunk of metal debris at him.

But the nature of Billy's demise was subtly hinted at right at the start of the movie, shortly after Alex (Devon Sawa) has a premonition of the plane explosion which results in him and his friends ditching the flight.

Mere seconds before the plane explodes in a fireball, we see Billy watching the plane take off, with the aircraft visible in the window's reflection as it "cuts" across Billy's head, almost exactly mirroring the cut that the metal takes through his noggin.

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