Final Destination 2 (2003)
Directed by David R. Ellis
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
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What critics compared Final Destination 2 to
…the opening disaster is an instant franchise highlight: a jaw-dropping, nerve-shredding sequence that rivals the iconic highway pile-up from Final Destination 2 (this reviewer’s all-time favorite).
One of the most anxiety-riddled moments comes when a character attempts to follow the path of Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) in "Final Destination 2" by intentionally dying in the hopes of being resurrected to "cheat" Death by deliberately going into anaphylaxis.
Taking a page from Final Destination 2, the latest film connects the past and present with Stefani Reyes (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) experiencing nightmares of an accident from 1968 at a high-rise tower that involved her grandmother Iris Campbell (Brec Bassinger).
There are nods to previous films with logs, buses, and fans but they feel like part of a shared cinematic language, not lazy call-backs.
A couple of close calls evoke iconic sequences, including one gruesome closing nod to the series’s highpoint, Final Destination 2.
…terrifying disasters, like the log truck of Final Destination 2…
This idea worked well for films like Jaws or Final Destination 2, taking beaches and the highway and giving us something to fear.
First off, Final Destination 2 pretty effectively took the piss out of this kind of horror movie scene more than fifteen years ago.