I’m all for immersive movie experiences, but when watching a horror about unavoidable death, I would prefer some degrees of separation.
While watching Final Destination: Bloodlines, an audience member almost suffers a fate fitting for the film as the theatre ceiling collapses on them. The film was being screened in La Plata, Argentina, and the audience was pretty packed.
However, toward the end of the film, Fiamma Villaverde heard a sound. She was sitting peacefully with her daughter and a friend when disaster struck. In a moment straight from Final Destination, the ceiling fell, narrowly avoiding hitting her in the head.
“At first, we thought it was part of the movie, because we were so involved; but then a huge piece fell on me,” she recalled. But, thankfully, the piece of ceiling “didn’t hit my head because I was leaning slightly over the armrest.”
She left the cinema, bruised and in pain, and got a full refund for her ticket as she waited for the ambulance. But the manager didn’t care too much that the ceiling had collapsed on her during the movie. He asked her what she wanted him to do about it. “Imagine if they hit my daughter in the head?” she asked him.
Movie Goer Is In Her Own ‘Final Destination’ Ceiling Situation
The plot of Final Destination is pretty simple, as horrors often are. A group of people narrowly avoid death, but now they are on borrowed time. Fate had decided they were to die, and it’s only a matter of time before it catches up.
Now, if I had been watching Final Destination, like this woman, and narrowly avoided being killed by a bit of falling ceiling, I don’t think I would be able to relax. I would be looking over my shoulder for that grim reaper running me down on the street.
Villaverde clearly feels the same. She already felt a bit agoraphobic before the movie theatre ceiling fell on her. “I have a hard time being in crowded places,” the doomed lady said. “I haven’t been to the movies in years, but I went because it was my birthday, and look what happened to me.”