“When we first started writing this, we were trying to think, ‘How can we make Death just a total badass?’” noted Final Destination 2 co-writer Eric Bress ahead of the film’s 2003 release. Considering the sequel features an elevator guillotining, a 15-year-old boy getting squished to smithereens by a falling window pane, and a horrific traffic accident that left every viewer too scared to drive behind a log truck again, it’s fair to say they nailed the assignment.
