My kids’ love of The Minecraft Movie caused me to discover that for about one dollar more I could get HBO Max instead of the ESPN+ that I never used in my Disney bundle. Having acquired a new app and my kids having watched The Minecraft Movie multiple times I decided to check it out for myself, and so far I have watched a few movies. The latest of which was Final Destination: Bloodlines.
Now I remember the first Final Destination movie. I can’t tell you when it came out but I do remember it and the premise. That people survive some tragedy they aren’t supposed to and then die in some Rube Goldberg catastrophe. That is how things go. Death always gets his prize.
The opening scene did get me. At one point I thought how genius it was. We were watching the reversal of the movie’s main premise. Instead of watching to see how a person would die we were watching how they would live. However that wasn’t the case.
When the movie opened in the 1960’s I fully expected no horror at that point. We were watching the grandmother of our main character after all, but slowly the horror did happen. All thanks to the same convoluted Rube Goldberg type death traps the franchise is known for.
We watch as Iris (the grandmother) narrowly avoids death after death until she doesn’t, and then we’re a little surprised because our main character can’t exist without a grandmother. Later we learn this was the original tragedy that everyone survived. It was prevented and now death is back to destroy the entire bloodline.
It does beg a question though. Do you like your horror where someone gets away? The quintessential final girl. Or do you like it when the bad guy wins and no one survives?
David Huzzard Writes 