Horror

Final Destination 3

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  • Title: Final Destination 3
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Final Destination 3 is proof that a strong lead and a fun concept will only take you so far. Featuring a similar set up to the first two films of the franchise, a group is saved dying in a roller-coaster accident by the premonition of Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). The survivors then begin to die to odd occurrences throughout the film which are increasingly elaborate, gorier and more mean-spirited, less amusing, and far less fun with every entry into the franchise. You don’t have to look past the airheads (Chelan Simmons and Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe) dying in the tanning salon during an overly-drawn out sequence to see this film isn’t going to end any better for the audience than it does for Death’s victims.

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Final Destination 2

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  • Title: Final Destination 2
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An approvement over the original, Final Destination 2 brings back the same concept with a group of people avoiding death due to the premonition of one character. However, they are continued to be stalked by Death (who never takes physical form but attacks by putting complex sequences of events in motion) throughout the film one by one. As with the original, characters attempt to read the signs as to who is next on the hitlist and avoid their spot in line.

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Rosario

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  • Title: Rosario
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Taking place mostly inside the walls of a single New York apartment during a storm, Emeraude Toubia stars as successful New York stockbroker Rosario “Rosie” Fuentes who returns to grandmother’s (Constanza Gutierrez) apartment for the first time in years after learning of her death. In the middle of a winter storm, alone in the filthy apartment with the death body, Rosie starts having odd experiences resulting in her exploring the apartment and finding a locked room full of skulls, blood, a prayer/spell book, and a sacrificial Palo Mayombe cauldron which ties back to the film’s opening scene showing us Rosie’s last encounter with her grandmother on her first communion where she first got a glimpse of this hidden world.

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Sinners Sins So Well

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  • Title: Sinners
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Featuring Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as dangerous twins who return home to the Mississippi Delta with ill-gotten gains to set up their own juke joint, writer/director Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners is one part period drama which examine the lives of the tightknit community and one part supernatural thriller as something evil is drawn in by the music of the twins’ cousin Sammie (Miles Caton) all taking place during a single day and night.

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Final Destination

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  • Title: Final Destination
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Flashback Friday takes us back 25 years to Final Destination. Filled with young stars of the moment, some of whose careers have turned out better than others, but not great dialogue nor acting, the 2000 horror film is nevertheless notable for its premise. At a time where slashers and monsters still owned the horror market, Final Destination offered something new with victims who escaped death, but still being marked for it, are attacked through elaborate sequences of inanimate objects moving themselves into a position to lead to to a grizzly end.

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