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I’m a big fan of the Final Destination series, so I was honestly surprised to hear that another installment was in the works. Part 5 wrapped things up in such a neat little bow that it felt like the story had come full circle. So when Bloodlines was announced, I was hesitantly optimistic. Could they recapture the magic (and mayhem) of the originals without running the whole thing into the ground? I’m glad to report—it was worth the price of admission. Image by Pacific Science Center Not Shakespeare, But It’ll Do Let’s just be clear up front: this is not some masterpiece of screenwriting. The plot is about as flimsy as ever, and no one here is giving an Oscar-caliber performance. But let’s be real—if you’re showing up to a Final Destination movie expecting award-winning drama, you’ve already wandered into the wrong theater. That said, the writing didn’t make me want to claw my ears off either, which is more than I can say for a lot of recent horror flicks. It was… fine. Image by The...

To say the very least, I'm a bit of a horror fan. Jason, Michael and Fred are my main guys like most horror fans, but Ghostface was never far behind them. I still remember when Scream was released back in the '90s and it was such a fiasco. Yeah, we'd all seen slasher films in the past, but none of them had been as creative as Scream yet. Scream was really the first non-comedy/horror to push the Meta of horror movies right into the viewers' faces. A "Whodunnit" plot mixed with a new iconic killing machine and the saga was born. The original trilogy followed all the steps you would expect from a trilogy. Ironically, these steps were even told directly to the audience during the 3rd film.  Photo by Variety Then, the hiatus. Scream was one of the "big" horror franchises to actually pump the breaks after the 3rd film. A bold move to say the least. Nowadays, this would never happen. Production companies are way too greedy to let something simmer like Screa...