14. Bathtub Strangulation (Final Destination)
The bathtub strangulation in the original Final Destination is the franchise at its most implausibly clumsy. After slipping in the tub, Tod Waggner (Chad Donella) becomes entangled in a clothesline that coils around his neck with the perfect amount of force and positioning to strangle him—without snapping, slipping, or triggering any kind of instinctive reaction to save himself. The setup is slow and the death is awkward, relying on a wildly improbable Rube Goldberg sequence that stretches the rules of physics and common sense. Instead of dread, it plays like a parody of what the series does best: grounding the supernatural in the everyday.
