25 Greatest Easter Eggs From The Last 20 Years Of Horror
2. Final Destination 5
The fateful series based upon deaths predilection for ensuring everybody dies when theyre supposed to hinges on the very idea of foreshadowing. Its the crux of the premise for each of the five teen terrors - one poor soul is shown a vision of a fatal catastrophe, i.e. a plane crash, a pile-up, a bridge collapse, and then chooses to deviate from those events. Thus, the hero saves everyones lives until Death picks them off one-by-one.
Thatll teach them.
The fifth instalment cleverly looped around at the end, and was only in the last moments revealed as a prequel to the very first Final Destination. Ah, its so clever. While most were dumbfounded at how such a blatant case of misdirection had slipped them by, the film does include several teeny tiny hints indicating the films time period.
The chosen seer, Sam, mentions wanting to take an internship in Paris at a prestigious restaurant - Le Cafe Miro 81. The same bistro Clear, Alex and Carter dine at in the first movie. Olivias boyfriend timestamps the movie by comparing her to singer Lisa Loeb - whose big hit Stay was released at the time of the original. Molly listens to an Everclear song on the radio - again, a hit in 1997. Possibly the biggest give-away that many missed was the P.A. announcement near the start of the film asking for all pagers to be turned off. Could you get more nineties?