'Final Destination: Bloodlines' Review: Death's Got a Giddy New Design

'Final Destination: Bloodlines' review: Death's got a giddy new design

It's been 25 years since we first watched Death wind its wicked design around the throats of the young and old with nasty efficiency in the first Final Destination film. Built upon a series of ruthless Rube-Goldbergian traps that methodically ensnared the survivors of a plane crash after they eluded their fate thanks to the prophetic vision of one Cassandra-like figure among them, its mix of goofiness and gore was immediately embraced. Five hit …

Final Destination Bloodlines — Adam B. Stein & Zach Lipovsky [Review]

The Final Destination franchise is anything you want it to be. Its six not-so-varied variations of death engaging in a cruelly one-sided game of chess versus life make it a less verbosely existential version of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957). Sure, its primary concern may not be to decode the grand “design of death” [...] The post Final Destination Bloodlines — Adam B. Stein & Zach Lipovsky [Review] appeared first on In Review Online.

Final Destination Bloodlines Ending Explained: Who Avoided Death's Design?

Image courtesy of New Line Cinema Final Destination Bloodlines remixes the franchise’s mythology by introducing the idea that Death’s design can extend towards descendants of its original victims. More than offering a fresh perspective on the series of overly complicated accidents that turned Final Destination into a hit horror franchise, Bloodlines uses its premise to revisit the rules of Death’s design and help iron out inconsistencies introdu…