WTF Happened To Final Destination 2?

Can you believe that it's been 20 years since the greatest highway accident ever filmed was released? And can you believe that most of the visual gags were done practically vs with a computer? But even looking past the opening highway crash, there is just so much to like about this death-defying series. So join us as we cover David R. Ellis' Final Destination 2.
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Written, Edited, and Narrated by: Tyler Nichols
Produced by: Lance Vlcek and John Fallon
Executive Produced by: Berge Garabedian
SERIES SYNOPSIS: Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs. Either way, we have to ask: WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
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[@irvinmaddox4192]

Crazy how this is probably the most underrated film in the franchise, but the log is truck sequence is still fresh in everyone’s mind

[@williammoser4877]

Easily the scariest of the five premonitions

[@lusciousmayweather8385]

My favorite one

[@AwkwardBlackGal613]

Part 1 2 and 5 are the most highest ranked in the franchise.

[@coreym162]

I thought that log was real. Maybe I've just seen it on crappy monitors. I have a better one now.

[@kelsey2333]

I think people remember it so well because its probably the only death in the franchise that is the most likely to happen in real life. And most people have been behind a car thats towing a trailer full of stacked wood planks or other similar stuff. when your brain learns new information it is a short term memory, but you can help it be stored in your long term memory by going over the information again within 24hrs of the initial learning time. So tons of people probably saw a car towing a trailer similar enough to the log death in FD within 24hrs. That's why I think it's the most remembered scene/death in the entire final destination franchise. Also yes, I am a chronic over analyzer. Its my hobby

[@smcveen]

This movie made us all realize to be wary of highway travel and to avoid a logging truck too.

[@thenegativoneify]

Sad if you need a movie to teach you this

[@AnneettaLife]

I avoid any truck carrying large cargo because of this movie.

[@HieuChiLe]

Same

[@nerdrocker89]

This and the real life story of a rock going through the front window into a woman face make every truck terrifying.

[@damned2058]

To this day!

[@MikeNapoli1989]

This might sound weird, but I think this franchise helped prevent tragedies. It made people a lot more cautious and aware.

[@fabriziopinna]

By using trauma lol

[@manigje1]

Yes, less log truck accidents

[@seijuroakashi9178]

@@manigje1Look up nike exec couple now. Especially now we know a reboot happening

[@timloader]

For me this is easily the best of the franchise, with the best opening sequence by far!

[@jean-mi1825]

Having as director the man who was 2nd Unit Director on Matrix Reloaded's highway chase MIGHT have helped 😋!

[@danielmunoz9374]

This the second best, 3 still comes to mind when I’m on a roller coaster

[@tahowow]

1, 2, 3, and 5 have the best opening sequence, the 4th movie in the race track is just whack!

[@nopillpill]

@@tahowow 4 is awful. I love the franchise, except for that film.

[@Octavia680]

In addition to the infamous “log scene,” the water 💦 bottle getting lodged under the break pedestal was (and still remains) my anxiety-laced nightmare.

[@dark12ain]

Holy shit you just unlocked a nightmare for me 🤣

[@J.Soffer]

Same!

[@gregholmes6083]

Same. I could be on the freeway and if my water bottle drops im reaching to make sure that cant happen. Ironically might crash and die anyway taking my eyes off the road. Lol.

[@heisgonenowheisgonenow]

Exactly why you never let ur kid do something stupid like slamming water bottles against the cabinets in the front seat.

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

The most underrated installment of the franchise

[@Chrissy_and_Pippa]

I totally agree with you 💯

[@tiamod]

Really? Almost everyone I’ve talked to about it tends to agree that it’s the best one.

[@legendary2553]

No it’s not it’s universally top 2…

[@primarydecision2313]

It really is the fourth movie which is considered the worst installment in the franchise is more talked about than 2 but this the only installment that was a failure in the box office which is so mind boggling to me cause I love how suspenseful this one is.

[@RiThaKilla]

This has always been the one I remembered the most.

[@Ms.Yana83]

The water bottle under the break pedal?? 😳 Still freaks me out to this day because it is something that seems can DEFINITELY happen. I don’t leave full bottles in my car to this day because of this movie.

[@jobturkey7418]

Have you seen the one with the grapefruit that explodes and gets acid in the eyes when it’s stick under the brakes

[@luisfernando5998]

⁠@@jobturkey7418what about when Uranus explodes?

[@societycrumbles]

The highway scene was iconic and so impactful, I still get scared of driving behind log trucks 20 years later.

[@cameronliddell9533]

i went up the back of a bus at 55kmh cause i didnt feel confortable behind a normal semi let alone a logging truck. broken index finger on left hand and fractured sternum

[@MavenCree]

Still the most terrifying car crash ever put to screen.

[@BrittaniasWaves]

Final Destination 2 is an iconic horror movie that deserves its space in the hall of fame. I know so many people who have never seen this movie yet still feel fearful of trucks on the highway because of it.

[@Mrcharrio]

Growing up in a Logging area the idea of being killed by a Log coming loose is ever present. Driving down I-5 behind a truck after watching this movie makes a spooky moment terrifying.

[@jonnymankin]

Yes! Very much with you on that. Grew up in the mountain towns near Yosemite. This movie brought back those fears as a kid.

[@dougcrawford6386]

You must live in Oregon

[@trinaq]

Wow, has it really been 20 years since this movie was released?! Time really flies by! I remember AJ Cook from Virgin Suicides and Criminal Minds, she looks so different with brown hair!

[@vampirascoffin870]

I had a huge crush on her lol

[@Texan45]

@@vampirascoffin870 I had and still have a huge crush on her. That woman is HOT lol

[@jruss9851]

@@Texan45 She definitely is, lol

[@bluebook27]

i never made the virgin suicides connection before!!

[@Texan45]

@@jruss9851 She makes me feel certain kinda ways I can't discuss lol hehe

[@jean-mi1825]

David R Ellis (who died exactly 10 years ago) was an underrated director. Aside from FD2 (my favourite) he directed FD4 (my least favourite), Snakes On a Plane and Cellular (let's forget Shark Night!). Before that he was a stuntman and became a famed Second Unit Director (action scenes from Patriot Game, Clear and Present Danger, Waterworld, Deep Blue Sea, or the highway chase from Matrix Reloaded).

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

@jean0mi1825 also composer Shirley Walker died 17 years ago!😔

[@jean-mi1825]

@@SuperMarioBrosIII 17 years already!

[@One-Unical]

​@@jean-mi1825 FD4 is good?

[@jean-mi1825]

​@@One-Unical I think it's the weakest of the franchise

[@shorttiktoks8605]

my favorite one. I love that the main character survives unlike the other ones.

[@Mokiefraggle]

Man, forget the car crash scene...I'm pretty sure that the elevator death was the source of most of my elevator phobia (not helped by later watching Resident Evil...that one has a double-whammy of falling elevator and decapitation while stuck in an elevator door)!

[@petersmith3087]

Came here for this. That elevator scene haunts me to this day!

[@drewskiee9254]

Fun Fact. The guy who plays Eugene, "T. C. Carson" is the original Kratos from the God of War series.

[@laterferaligatr2947]

And is also Kyle from Living Single

[@StarshineGoomba]

I actually saw this in theaters (actually, I may have watched them all that way), so the logging truck scene was made that much worse. I know that Devon Sawa was unavailable at the time of shooting this one, but they really should have said that Alex was hiding out somewhere else to escape death and they felt that it was best for him and Clear to not be together. And yeah, were we really supposed to believe that someone like Clear Rivers would not only bleach her hair, but do so while in a mental institution? It's not like Death wouldn't recognize her.

[@CeeJayThe13th]

Dude no joke: we got into a car accident on the way to watch this one in the theater. Pretty wild coincidence. Also, Clear's hair doesn't really make sense in the context of the movie but I'm fairly sure that it had a lot more to do with Ali Larter becoming a much more bankable star and her hair being a part of her trademark look. It's kinda weird thinking about that now since her star power pretty much fizzled out right around this time.

[@alexmeyers2274]

Yep real happiness

[@1428elm]

Ali Larter is a natural blonde. So Clear dyed her hair in the first one. Look at it that way. Edit: Clear was blonde at the end of the 1st as well

[@NJTCOMET]

At the end of of FD1 when the 3 survivors actually get to go to Paris after some time has passed, Clear has her hair changed blonde and the front bang eliminated, hence why she looks the way she does in FD2. Apart from trying to show that some time has gone by, I think it’s also meant to symbolize her growth as a character. She was an introverted loner, always wore dark colored clothing and had a low front bang with dark eyeliner. After the events of the first film thinking that they cheated death, it looks like she had a new lease on life. Or maybe it’s none of that 😂

[@vixxxenfoxxx3660]

Maybe she was actually dying her hair darker in high school and by the time of 2 she went back to her original color or let her natural color grow out. Just a random suggestion for the hair color thing.

[@wstine79]

Aside from the highway sequence, this entry was alright. It was a shame Ali larter's character died in the hospital.

[@Nekobaby]

I saw a late night showing of this movie when it came out and the car crash is the thing that stuck with me the most. I honestly was nervous driving home because of that scene and to this day I still get nervous driving behind large trucks carrying logs, rebar, large pipes, etc.

[@adamFIVE88]

This was filmed near where I live, we got to see the log scene being filmed, it was so fun for me, but my mom and cousin hated waiting for them to open up the highway again lmao

[@thiagxooliveira]

Would you be able to send your Instagram?

[@societycrumbles]

This is one of my favorite horror movies and the only Final Destination installment I actively go back to, super underrated!

[@nsthetics7188]

I wonder how they made the perminition

[@franksonador]

3:04 I met Devon Sawa in the summer of 2001, when I was working at Universal Studios’ carnival games. I asked him if he would be in the sequel and he said “no, the studio wanted to pay him less than what he was asking for.”

[@HandsomeLongshanks]

I live in a logging-heavy region and this movie is why entire lanes behind a log truck will be empty and the other PACKED with 10x more cars lol

[@MrBitsilly]

I watched this movie in theaters with a friend when we were in middle school. The days when you didn't need an adult present in our town to watch a rated R movie. I remember being hyped and enjoying this movie. Still do.

[@MikeD974]

My favorite in the franchise I still get freaked out when I see log trucks on the highway

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Crazy to think this changed a whole generations driving habits

[@DarthLotus]

Still the best one of all of the Final Destination films in my Opinion.

[@MavenCree]

It may have made the least money, but it's the one people remember most.

[@s.k6962]

IMAO final destination 2 was the among the series as this was the only movie where most progress happened. This was the only movie where instead of figuring the basics again they used previous knowledge and came close to breaking the design.

[@Wheretheportlandorarealadiesat]

I can’t believe it talk about crazy I feel old and what happened to the 20 years and i miss the good old days

[@ericmcinnes2508]

This one is actually my favorite

[@mikeeddings432]

This is one of those movies you can get sucked into no matter where you start it from

[@Educatingben]

I fell in love after final destination. The second one was the best movie ever. The special features and Director commentary are a hoot. The third one is also a favorite of mine. I really like the rest of them but those first three are really really good. I am in them and watch them at least once a year

[@mikeoppart]

I still remember driving to see this movie with my friends on a highway in upstate NY in a bad winter storm. On the way back we were shook. Did 15 below the speed limit the whole way home.

[@jeffmartin5504]

I love the tongue-in-cheek attitude this movie has. It never takes itself too seriously. Parts 3 and 4 are the worst ones in the series. Part 5 is surprisingly good.

[@bofawhatsbofa4593]

❌❌❌ this film is the very reason I NEVER travel behind log trucks. It’s always “nope” for me

[@MrWhitman]

Something about the car crash scene, why do they ALWAYS load the cars with explosives? I'm sure at least 90% of you have seen car crashes or at least cars that were in crashes on the normal road. How many of them were charred and exploded?

[@donovandelaney3171]

There's three deaths in this movie that upset the fans.

[@nsthetics7188]

Who

[@juniorlks1]

This is by far my favorite one in the entire frachise and I honestly don't understand all the hype people put on 3, which is the second worst for me. The connexion between the characters with the first film and the butterfly effect it caused is just genius, and I can't help but feel most people didn't fully understand it, hence all the dislike. This is a true gem of early 2000s gory horror that paved the way for much of what was to come that decade. I fucking love this movie!

[@moniquee6613]

This was the best one out of the series. I remember going on opening night at 10:00 pm, it was packed. The crowd went crazy during the death scenes. One of the best times I had at a movie theater.

[@Fleato]

what happened to it is that it gave everyone ptsd of lumper trucks from an accident that never even happened to us.

[@ncp-tv]

One of the greatest sequences in cinema.

[@jay-jayz]

The fact that most of the movie isn't CGi is amazing. Most movies now look so fake and awkward from it being done digitally

[@micacarnell1430]

I remember watching this movie as a kid either on cable or on VHS/DVD (not sure how young I was) and being traumatized basically. The only way I knew how to reference the movie was to call it “the scary movie with the red truck in it.” My child brain couldn’t even recall that it was a log truck that caused all of the commotion. Ig I was too traumatized to remember anything more than the car she was driving 😂😭🤷🏾‍♀️

[@starrsmith3810]

Final Destination 1 had a literal baby aboard that plane so really it wouldn’t be THAT shocking to see a 9 year old get killed off.

[@nicokings5180]

My fave is Final Destination 3, but I like how in this movie they connected it to the first one and the ending was open. In FD 1, 3, 4 and 5 the characters were like completely doomed the whole movie and was frustrating in a point

[@Resilient_Brilliance]

The highway deaths were the least torturous. All seemed instantaneous, but when they try to cheat death, death came down harder.

[@tatvela6915]

I had my own Final Destination sequel in dream form where the solution was to kill someone out of sequence. The person we decided on was because he was attempting to kill everyone else to appease death. Eventually we manage to have him fall onto the blades of a helicopter taking off in some by the sea oil rig. Pretty cool. Then before I wake, I see his bits starting to move, as if death said no way. My rules, my game

[@Teelirious]

This is an even better crash than "Smashup on Interstate 5" and that was my previous go to cinematic traffic mayhem.

[@stornkolson]

That has to be one of the scariest scenes ever in a movie.

[@radhikarb7047]

Kimberly and thomas had such good chemistry in this one...I really hope they survived and can come back in final destination 6.

[@samhart4205]

Surprisingly good. Wonder if they ended up together. Might be the reason, they survived. Especially if they go the whole nine yards.

[@LoneGamerNerd]

I don't think there will be an FD6? But I also haven't been keeping up with the franchise since 3. But I do believe FD3 had an alternate scene, in Choose Their Fate, where you can find out the two main characters of this film did actually die -- and pretty horrifically.

[@stevenambrose6266]

Final Destination 2 made me 2nd guess logging trucks and Final Destimstion 3 took away the fun of roller coasters.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

The log that changed the world lol.

[@YoungSwaggness]

Such a great vid bro

[@laterferaligatr2947]

"I don't want to die" I felt so bad for Nora...she jus lost her son and then she loses her life being decapitated by an elevator...smh

[@LoneGamerNerd]

Honestly, I find it interesting that the FD movie with the most realistic opening is the one most people seem to forget about. Not saying the opening is actually realistic... But of all incidents in the franchise that could occur, this one is most likely.

[@BrandByAngel]

9:30 it’s champing at the bit, JoBlo, GOSH!

[@vangazon]

It's crazy but I remember this movie more than the 1st one mainly because of that highway accident.

[@nickkaiser7166]

This was the best of the bunch

[@ZavidWebster]

I just found out Ryan's actor was Mickey from Shameless

[@StrickenWithFear]

Love the juxtaposition of this being (surprisingly) the least grossing film, yet also having the most memorable moments for everyone 😅

[@lonellfletcher]

This has to be the most underrated of the franchise yet its my favorite of all them.

[@shaebubblegum3212]

The first 3 were really good!

[@NYGiantsfan230]

First one I saw of the series and still my favorite.

[@RiVer-Parish]

I think about this movie everytime i get on the Internet.

[@nyology2327]

Final destination was my first horror movie when I was like 3 and became my favorite horror franchise of all time. I have them all on dvd and would go see them with my dad and brother on opening nights. I can’t wait for HBO to do part 6!!!

[@earlleary]

To....this.....day: LOGTRUCK= 🔥🔥

[@mrshallowsun]

This movie absolutely fucked me up. Was never into horror as a pre teen. Had a sleep over at a friends house for his birthday it was great monster trucks 3 hot dogs and a bunch of pop. All was good till the older kids of the group put this movie on after the parent went to bed. My eyes were glued to the tv, I couldn’t look away for anything. Death after death I was astonished at the gore but everyone else just laughed. I couldn’t grasp laughing at any of it. After the movie was over I blew chunks all over my sleeping bag. Had to get taken to my grandmas house for the rest of the night. I swear on anything I was terrified to do anything for probably a year or year and a half. I swore I’d never watch this movie or any from the series again. Then a Sunday drive out in my parents mustang and we end up at the movie theater and i was yet again traumatized by final destination 3. We got home and my mom and step dad had prime rib leftovers from the night before. The meat was so rare. I was yet again fucked up! Fast forward literally 20 years I’ve watched / rewatched them all and can say I enjoy them lol some of the deaths in two and three still mess with me a bit though. That’s my story. lol

[@e.j.vkanty4482]

This is actually my favorite of the FD movies.

[@bigjax731]

Great video

[@eddiemix8007]

Its been 20 years!? I still panic when a water bottle falls near the pedals when I’m driving 💀

[@willyboods5197]

This movie rocked idc

[@37Kilo2]

This movie spawned a generation of youth who are still afraid of logging trucks. Any time there's a truck with even a single log, one of us will inevitably make a comment about this movie. Without fail. That said, I could have sworn this movie was even older than 20 years. Also, I find it weird that killing off a bunch of teenagers is always acceptable, but not a 9 year old kid. God forbid! It's just a movie!

[@feck2594]

What is that song in the beginning of this video? Please help , it's driving me insane. Side note the crash is still one of the best scenes in any movie . Aside from just that this is one of the best sequels ever .

[@lilz]

The logging truck haunted me but let me tell you I just got out of a lease of an apartment building where the elevator sensor didn’t work. YEAH.

[@chad-harris]

I got behind a semi full of pipes this weekend.... scared me because of this movie.

[@Abreil]

I never understood how the cop died first but “death” never came back for him .

[@PlumbPitiful]

In Final Destination 2 Death is coming after the crash survivors in BACKWARDS order because the Flight 180 survivors in the first film defeated Death's original design which changed how it works. In Kimberly's vision the cop died first and she and her friends died last. But when it happened for real it happened in REVERSE. Instead of dying last her friends were killed first when the truck hit her car. So that means the cop would have ended up dying last after everyone else instead of first.

[@BleachBath-fr8ps]

Final Destination 2 still lives rent-free in my head.

[@stanleyshady9465]

lmao yea everytime i'm behind a logging truck or something of that nature, instinctively I'm like I ain't drivin behind that shit

[@JusticeOuinn420]

Weren't they going to Daytona Beach, Florida?? I remember seeing a pamphlet that said Daytona Beach on it kinda in the beginning

[@JackOfAllRAIDs]

I laugh at the log truck effect. First the logs are going outward from the truck, then they bounce inward. LOL

[@Sesamestreet9080]

They were trynna use practical with the logs but the logs never went where they wanted so cgi it was

[@DoomRay666]

This was a solid horror movie

[@quietkrys2705]

The people that claim this movie is "underrated" need to look up the definition of that word. You don't have to be a fan to know that FD 2 is far from underrated. I personally hate this movie but I'm aware that it's beloved.

[@smashleymcbashley6250]

The high way scene alone is just terrifying, still

[@LibertyFrancisco-di6kb]

Everyone talking abt the logs but for me jts the bottle under the break thing

[@Pop_Shepski]

After watching this movie in grade 9, I wrote a short story about final destination in English class. My teachers must have thought I was a psychopath growing up

[@shanekixmiller2133]

To this day, I still get leery everytime I'm behind a semi truck with a trailer full of logs strapped down on it. Good to know now that they don't bounce that high though, lol.

[@hdufort]

The opening scene is clockwork perfection.

[@adrenalinex4]

I love all these final destination movies.

[@dark12ain]

They don't make movies that stick with you for life anymore 🤣. I do not fuck with log trucks at all 🤣🤣

[@natalieousley9815]

OG Kratos!

[@donovandelaney3171]

Her computer would not have exploded.

[@YSO992]

Ah yes... The movie that traumatized an entire generation (some people by the trailer alone) and made log trucks persona non grata everywhere. I've seen a lane full of cars switch lanes because they were behind a log truck with all the drivers looking at each other and laughing because we all knew why we were doing it. Lol

[@PlumbPitiful]

Smallville fans may recognize the blonde girl who gets killed off in the beginning of the film..She is Sarah Carter who appeared in 3 episodes as teleporter Alicia Baker.

[@naarahjanemorris3121]

I had my own encounter of a truck with wood logs on basically I saw a crash with my foster parents car & this truck I scared everyone but I saved lives I saw the crash before it happened so I guess there is some truth to seeing a premonition before it happens.

[@MrHereWeGoYo]

Still the 🐐crash sequence. Overall FD3 is my favorite.

[@rash9488]

Legit watching this in theaters, Tim getting smashed with the pane of glass outside the dentist office, I laughed out loud when it happened. I was the only fucking person to react to it in such a way. I do not regret it.

[@ProfezorSnayp]

A whole generation is now scared of log trucks on a highway. 😏

[@vintagecherriesss]

Does anyone know the song in the beginning of this video?

[@Wheretheportlandorarealadiesat]

Alex browning was smart cool and savage

[@jacobwallace9002]

Awesome intro