1. Highway Pile-Up (Final Destination 2)
This may be the first and only Final Destination death that both confirmed a subconscious fear and created one that generations of people now have because of the film. Final Destination 2 featured a symphony of errors resulting in a disaster masterpiece on the highway as one breaking chain leads to tree logs flying everywhere, piercing a police officer’s car window (and the policeman inside of it). From there, a motorcyclist gets pinned to death between one of the logs and the bike he flew off of, a driver who survived their car flipping over is instantly set on fire when a truck comes barreling through, and waves of other drivers are killed. With a 71-car pileup occurring a week after a separate 22-car pileup this year alone, it’s no doubt that the Final Destination 2 highway pileup is the most realistic death in Final Destination history, and probably why I still don’t have a driver’s license.
