Why Final Destination Is Missing A Vital Scene on Streaming Services

Why Final Destination Is Missing A Vital Scene on Streaming Services

Final Destination is missing a major scene from the movie’s iconic plane crash on Netflix & HBO Max – Why is it missing despite being vital?

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Why Final Destination Is Missing A Vital Scene on Streaming Services

Update: The article has been edited to include more information on who made the edits to Final Destination and when, and where it’s currently available to stream.

Longtime fans of the Final Destination franchise may have noticed that one particular scene was cut out from the streaming version of the film, specifically from the iconic plane crash that kickstarts the movie’s events. It is a key scene, as it foreshadows one of the character’s deaths well before it actually takes place, but the streaming giant has chosen to excise it. Here’s what happened to the scene where Tod (Chad Donella) mimics hanging himself from the version of Final Destination sent to Netflix in 2015 from Warner Bros. and what appears in the HBO Max version.

The year 2000 was an incredible year for horror movies not least because Final Destination released and spawned an entire franchise that is currently composed of five movies with a sixth in the making. In that same year, the Scary Movie horror comedy franchise began with comedic parodies of some of the genre’s most popular flicks. As the twenty-first century began, horror moved away from stale slashers, overdone zombies, and traditional hauntings. Within that change, Final Destination was a major milestone that went on to define the atmosphere of teen-oriented features. It introduced the concept of fate and destiny in regards to death’s grand design. Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a premonition that the plane taking his high school class on a field trip to Paris, France explodes during take-off. As it shifts from character to character, there are subtle hints at how each character will die, but Tod’s is particularly morbid.

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When they board the plane, Tod is asked to switch seats with a fellow classmate. After he makes an excuse for why he can’t, she asks Alex, who looks at Tod only to see him mimic the motion of hanging himself. He gets off the plane with Alex, but he is the first in Final Destination’s version of Death’s grand design to take back the original victims of Flight 180. As the invisible presence manipulates his surroundings, Tod dies from an accidental hanging in his bathroom. He suffers the fate he mimicked on the plane, which was cut out of the current streamable version of Final Destination.

It is likely that this scene was cut out due to its triggering contents, but we’ve reached out to Warner Bros. for comment. This isn’t uncommon for some streaming services, as Netflix – as an example – have been held under a microscope since the release of the controversial first season of their own original series 13 Reasons Why. The finale featured a brutal depiction of suicide, which wasn’t entirely necessary, and it became a major source of controversy. Since its release, Netflix has removed the scene from the episode due to viewer responses. In the case of Final Destination – which is only available in Australia and Japan currently on Netflix, it wasn’t them who edited Final Destination. This version was delivered to Netflix from Warner Bros. in 2015 we’ve confirmed, who must have made the edit themselves.

While it is a very brief scene, it could be triggering for viewers. Tod’s death scene wasn’t cut altogether, which is approximately five minutes of the character struggling to free himself. If the two-second scene on the plane was cut, why didn’t they remove his death as well? Perhaps the answer there comes down to intent: while it was an incredible use of foreshadowing on the director’s part, the scene feels like a joke at the expense of suicide and tonally it’s off. Nearly every instalment of Final Destination includes several hints and clues as to how each character will die after they evade death. When Sean William Scott’s Billy looks at the exploding plane, fire reflects on his face in the exact spot it will be cut in half. During the same scene, Terry Channing (Amanda Detmer) appears in front of a picture of a bus, foreshadowing how she dies as well. These hints are integral to tying in the concept of fate, destiny, and death’s design, but Tod’s is far more overt than anyone else’s.

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Ultimately, not every character has an instance of foreshadowing, and removing Tod’s scene wasn’t detrimental to the movie, but it did take away a clever moment even if were removed it in order to avoid controversy. At the same time, since the actual scene that depicts his gruesome death remains, the edits feel a little counterintuitive. Regardless, the current version of Final Destination is missing important scenes, which means there may be other edits that have gone unnoticed as well on streaming services, with no warning or notice to viewers.

We’ve reached out to Warner Bros. to find out more and will update accordingly.

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