Final Destination Bloodlines

As a staple of the aughts, it’s fitting that the last entry in the Final Destination horror franchise came fourteen years ago. It’s a series of mid-budget horror films with almost no recurring characters spawned from a rejected spec script for The X Files, squarely situating it in another time. While none of the original run lit the box office on fire, it was the definition of dependable, with just about every film delivering a worldwide gross nearly four times its reported budget. So it’s unclear why it took long enough for the sixth installment to get off the ground that it was further delayed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2023 SAG/WGA strikes. But the upshot is a legacyquel concerned with legacy.

Read my full review on Pop Culture Maniacs.