Erik Campbell (Final Destination)

Erik Campbell is a supporting character in the supernatural horror film Final Destination Bloodlines (2025), the sixth installment in the Final Destination franchise. He was created by Guy Busick, Lori Evans Taylor, and Jon Watts and portrayed by Richard Harmon. Erik is introduced as a tattoo artist and a descendant of his grandmother Iris Campbell through his father Howard; Iris had a vision of the high-rise restaurant tower the Sky View collapsing in 1968 and was able to prevent the disaster, saving herself and numerous other people. As Erik and his family were never supposed to exist, Death targets their family, forcing the Campbells to figure out a way to save themselves. While attempting to help his brother Bobby defeat Death, Erik ends up dying by getting sucked into a malfunctioning magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine by a wheelchair that crushes and impales him.

In developing the characters of Bloodlines, Lipovsky stated that they wished to avoid creating one-dimensional characters and wanted to feature characters with layers to them. The reveal about Erik's parentage came from the crew wanting to subvert audience expectations regarding the order of the characters' deaths, with one discarded concept involving twins. Initially, Erik was envisioned as an online streamer who died while livestreaming a virtual reality game. A lifelong fan of the franchise, Harmon was cast as Erik eight months after his first audition, with the delay being due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Harmon helped influence many of his character's scenes and dialogue by improvising his lines and actions or making suggestions to the production crew. From the beginning, Lipovsky and Stein hoped to feature a death scene involving an MRI machine, but were unsure where to place such a sequence in the film; they also questioned its ethical implications. In the end, they included the concept as it received a positive response from the production team. For both the tattoo shop and MRI sequences, Harmon performed the majority of his own stunts.

Following the release of Bloodlines, Erik became a fan favorite. Critics often singled out Harmon's performance as among the best in the film, recognizing him as a scene stealer and praising him for adding comic relief. Erik's fake-out death scene at his tattoo shop and his actual death involving an MRI machine were also praised by critics, with the latter deemed the best death scene in Bloodlines. Erik's death was also analyzed for its scientific accuracy by experts.