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. Nearly every instalment of Final Destination includes several hints and clues as to how each character will die after they evade death. 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.
Tod's death scene wasn't cut altogether, which is approximately five minutes of the character struggling to free himself. While it is a very brief scene, it could be triggering for viewers. in 2015 we've confirmed, who must have made the edit themselves. This version was delivered to Netflix from Warner Bros. 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. Since its release, Netflix has removed the scene from the episode due to viewer responses.
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. It is likely that this scene was cut out due to its triggering contents, but we've reached out to Warner Bros. He suffers the fate he mimicked on the plane, which was cut out of the current streamable version of Final Destination. As the invisible presence manipulates his surroundings, Tod dies from an accidental hanging in his bathroom. 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. 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. When they board the plane, Tod is asked to switch seats with a fellow classmate.
Related: Why Horror Movie Parodies Were So Popular In The Early 2000s As it shifts from character to character, there are subtle hints at how each character will die, but Tod's is particularly morbid. 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. It introduced the concept of fate and destiny in regards to death's grand design. Within that change, Final Destination was a major milestone that went on to define the atmosphere of teen-oriented features. As the twenty-first century began, horror moved away from stale slashers, overdone zombies, and traditional hauntings. In that same year, the Scary Movie horror comedy franchise began with comedic parodies of some of the genre's most popular flicks.
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. 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. 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.
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.
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.