10 Reasons Movie Scenes Turned Out THAT WAY
2. The X-Ray Ending - The Final Destination
By the time the fourth and apparently final Final Destination movie was released, it had become customary for each movie to end with a "gotcha!" kill scene, where one or several surviving characters swiftly feel the brutal swipe of Death's scythe.
And The Final Destination kept true to this pattern, with survivors Nick (Bobby Campo), Lori (Shantel VanSanten), and Janet (Haley Webb) being instantly killed when a truck swerves into the cafe where they're sat.
But at the moment of impact, rather than show the trio's deaths in live-action form, we suddenly cut to the same x-ray vision effect featured in the movie's opening credits, where we only see Nick, Lori, and Janet's skeletons being destroyed by the truck.
It's an odd way to end the film considering the audience expectation that it would linger on the grisly demise of the three remaining survivors.
But as was recently confirmed by franchise producer Craig Perry, the x-ray transition actually happened because the production didn't have the money to shoot an elaborate, stunt-filled live-action sequence.
It was ultimately much cheaper to just build an x-ray animation of the scene in post instead.