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The Final Destination Explores No One’s Fears

4:03 PM EDT on June 4, 2009

Here is a trailer for the latest in the Final Destination series, you guys. This one is in 3D so that it really feels like the things you find more-funny-than-scary-actually are flying up into your UNSUSPECTING FACE.

Haha, relax technofinaldestination. I guess we have all been with a group of friends sitting four feet behind a 12-inch-high chain link fence at a generic NASCAR-style race wondering what would happen if the screws magically worked their way loose and a car exploded because there was a crack in the foundation that was sprinkling crushed cement dust huh? That's a common enough fear. But if horror movies are supposed to exploit and explore our collective nightmares, what are some of these other deaths? Even when I owned a car, I was never once scared that it would stop in the middle of a car wash, the sun roof would magically open of its own accord, and I would be almost drowned to death until I was maybe decapitated? And while it is true that I may have believed that there were sharks lurking in the bottom of the deep end of pools long after I was of a reasonable age to think that was a real thing, I have never worried that a drainage vent was going to suck me butt-first to the bottom. Right before a street lamp (next to a swimming pool? classic place for those) snapped off at the base and electrocuted me (because my butt was stuck!). Not a fear of mine, ever. I bet the rejected ideas for Final Destination 3D were all top notch. "Man gets trapped in a revolving door at a fancy hotel, which slowly begins to fill up with water because maybe there are some pennies stuck in the lobby fountain but the important thing is that a million birds crash into the door because they think he is a bird and he gets stabbed to death by beaks that were accidentally dipped in poison at a poison factory nearby, so he is really poisoned to death it turns out, just like we all worry will always happen."