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All 6 Final Destination Movies, Ranked
Bloodlines revives the notoriously nasty franchise and gets almost … sentimental?
It’s a parting cameo by the late Tony Todd, the franchise’s mortuary master of ceremonies, who was facing his own date with oblivion when he shot this affectionate, faintly touching farewell — surely the only time the series has treated death with anything approaching tenderness, rather than as one big, sick joke. There’s a comparative restraint to the carnage in Glen Morgan and James Wong’s original, which ingeniously tweaked the slasher-movie formula by subjecting doomed teenagers not to the knife of a masked maniac but to bizarre freak accidents that are actually anything but accidental. Energetically directed by former stuntman and blockbuster second-unit veteran David R. Ellis, Final Destination 2 refined the original’s chain-reaction logic of impending annihilation into a ruthless gallows humor.
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