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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Review: Franchise Refresh Continues Fun, Creative Deaths And Adds A Familial Twist
Final Destination: Bloodlines offers everything fans expect, but the filmmakers also put a refreshing stamp on this now 25-year-old horror series.
Writers Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor understand the expectant pleasures of the IP they’re working with and, rather than sink into the quicksand of much of modern horror’s predilection for more psychologically skewed spooks, indulge in just a metric ton of carnage. But just before he does so, Iris is knocked back with a vision of everyone’s future death, a Spielberg-ian run of actions involving a penny stolen from a wishing fountain, an overly flambéed dinner entrée and passionate dancing to ‘Shout’ by the Isley Brothers. Between the now elderly Iris (Gabrielle Rose), who lives in a isolated fortress deep in the woods, and her recluse and largely absent mother Darlene (Rya Kihlstedt), Stefani’s life has been ruled by disappointing parental figures.
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