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19. The Final Destination: The Franchise's Worst Death

Jason X Kay-Em 14
New Line Cinema

The Final Destination franchise is best-known for those brutally suspenseful, darkly hilarious death scenes which will make you terrified of innocent, everyday objects and send your anxiety levels through the roof. There's a reason why so many people are scared to drive behind a log truck, and that reason is Final Destination. 

Alas, not all Final Destination deaths are created equal, and the absolute worst of the lot is the death of Jonathan Groves (Jackson Walker) in 2009's The Final Destination, which is near-universally acknowledged as the franchise's worst film. 

This entire scene - in which the unfortunate Johnathan is crushed by a hospital bathtub - is exactly what a Final Destination sequence shouldn't be: boring. It's so dull, and there's no suspense or clever omens leading up to it either. Furthermore, the key to a great Final Destination set-piece is it playing into universal fears or seeming almost believable, but there's none of that here. A hospital bathtub would never behave in this way, and no trained doctor would leave it running like that. 

And just when you think it can't get any worse... it's ripped off from somewhere else. In the 2000s, Black Flame released a series of Final Destination original novels, most of which were pretty darn good. One of them, called End of the Line, features a death scene almost identical to this one, further showing just how lazy this whole set-piece was. 

 
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Film Studies graduate, aspiring screenwriter and all-around nerd who, despite being a pretentious cinephile who loves art-house movies, also loves modern blockbusters and would rather watch superhero movies than classic Hollywood films. Once met Tommy Wiseau.