The 10 Best Deaths in the Final Destination Franchise

10. The Bait and Switch

They've worked it out, Death will kill in the order the survivors should have died. But if you cheat death a second time, it just skips right on to the next person. Your time will come though. Final Destination's Carter wants to take fate into his own hands, but it doesn't work like that. After narrowly avoiding getting hit by a train at a level crossing, the others can't believe he could have been so stupid. But Death just carries on and swiftly decapitates Billy with some metal wreckage instead.

9. The Unsafe Salon

Death can make the most innocuous objects into a death trap, such as in The Final Destination (number 4, we don't know why they just didn't call it that). Samantha's trip to the hairdressers is full of red herrings, you're continually guessing which one is going to be her downfall. The chair? The scissors? The hairspray? The slippery goop on the floor? The sharp instrument under the nail during the pedicure is so nerve-racking you breath a sigh a relief when she survives it all. Only to be shot through the eye by a rogue rock flicked up by a lawnmower as she's leaving. If it wasn't for those pesky kids.

8. The Two for One Surprise

Final Destination 2 brings out some really fun and wild deaths out of all the franchise, but there's a moment when they come so thick and fast you cant keep up. After getting in yet another car crash, the survivors mill around as Kat is cut from the wreckage. Unfortunately for Kat, the fireman's jaws of life cause the airbag to go off, impaling her head onto a broken pipe through the headrest. She drops her cigarette, igniting leaking fuel, the news van explodes, sending a barbed wire fence into, and ultimately straight through, Rory - slicing him into several pieces.

7. The OG Death Sequence

I'm not sure this one actually counts, because it didn't actually happen, but some people still died, if not the main characters. Plus it's the very first death scene of the very first Final Destination, so it has to go in here. Alex switching seats, the faulty tray table, the turbulence and people getting sucked out of the plane before the eventual fiery explosion. Thank goodness, it was just a premonition and Alex can get himself kicked off the plane before it happens for real.

6. The Lucky Lottery Winner

The Rube Goldberg machine of death is at work in lottery winner Evan's house in Final Destination 2. Cooking a spot of lunch, checking out his expensive purchases, life seems pretty good for Evan. But then, the ring down the garbage disposal, his new watch trapping his hand as he tries to retrieve it. Watching helplessly as his frying pan sets the kitchen on fire, and the microwave exploding due to a rogue fridge magnet. But he escapes all of this out the window. What a lucky guy Evan is. Until he slips on his discarded spaghetti and the fire escape ladder drops and slams right through his eye. Not so lucky now.

5. The Bus Swipe

It's the first Final Destination. We don't really know what's happening yet. Todd had a long drawn out death with the clothes line in the shower. You're on the look out for clues for the next one. Terry starts ranting in the street how she won't let the plane crash define her. BAM! Bus runs her over. No build up, no warning. Death made you jump. There are no rules, anything is possible.

4. The Painful Dismount

You think you see it coming in Final Destination 5 but Death likes to play games, it's not going to be what you think. The frayed electrical cord in the puddle of water? No. The rattling air conditioning fans above her head? No. That pesky screw on the balance beam that Candice jumps and twists and pirouettes over, inches from her bare feet? Not yet. It takes anther gymnast to step on the screw, fall and cause a dust of chalk to blind poor Candice as she's on the uneven bars, making her landing a bone crunching, neck breaking fall. 10 points!

3. The Knife Block

Life hasn't been fair for teacher Valerie Newton. She's plagued by guilt of getting off the doomed Flight 180 in Final Destination, and has seen her pupil Terry flattened by a bus. All she wants to do is move away from this cursed town. A final drink whilst packing starts off the inevitable chain reaction of an electrical fire, a shard of glass to the throat, and the desperate grab for a tea towel causing the kitchen knife to fall straight into her chest. To then be pushed in by a falling chair. Then the house explodes. Brutal.

2. The Logging Truck

You never drive behind a truck full of logs (or pipes, or scaffold) anymore without thinking about the pile-up in Final Destination 2. For anyone who doesn't immediately change lane, here's the deal; the logs will fall, come straight through your windscreen and kill you. The resulting crash is going to cause multiple deaths and a long tailback. Best hope your friend pulls over.

1. The Tanning Beds

The PSA of the year for avoiding sunburn goes to Final Destination 3 for causing a generation of fear of using sunbeds. When class hotties Ashley and Ashlyn go to top off their tans, a chain reaction of events causes their entrapment and eventually their fiery deaths, all to the banging soundtrack of Love Rollercoaster. Cut scene to two coffins side by side.