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FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES – Tim Wynn
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
The inexplicable longevity of the Final Destination horror movie franchise is such that the latest instalment, subtitled Bloodlines, is the sixth in the series that began some 25 years ago, in the year 2000. I remember seeing the first film in the theater, and my notes tell me that I saw at least some of the third film, Final Destination 3, from 2006, but beyond that my knowledge of them is limited to what I have read over years. Broadly, the core idea of the films is that you can’t cheat death. Each film follows a similar structure; someone has a vision of a deadly disaster – maybe a plane crash, or a highway pile – prevents it, and then the survivors start dying in the exact order they would have originally. The deaths are not caused by a villain per se, but by “death” itself as an unseen force, correcting the disruption to its plan. Read more…
THE FINAL DESTINATION – Brian Tyler
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
As if they hadn’t squeezed enough life out of this franchise yet, The Final Destination – the fourth film in the horror movie franchise – again follows the fortunes of a set of teenagers who cheat death, but then find that Death doesn’t like being cheated, and sets out to claim them anyway. The film is directed by David R. Ellis and stars Bobby Campo as college student Nick O’Bannon who, while attending a NASCAR race, has a premonition that a car wreck will cause a stand to collapse, killing himself and his friends; he convinces everyone to leave before the disaster occurs, but in the weeks following the event, his friends all die one by one in freak accidents.
The late, great Shirley Walker set the musical tone for the first three Final Destination films prior to her untimely death in 2006, and her mantle has now been picked up by the resourceful Brian Tyler Read more…
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