The reaper holds the score

Every horror nerd has this one subgenre that for some reason he cannot completely shoot. At a certain point you only build enough of a tolerance for ghost stories or slasher strips or zombie mukbangs that your more terrible aspects simply stop having the same effect – you know too much about you, structure, staging, etc. – that even boring tolerance breaks cannot be hit in the same way. from Hollywood and look for small budget or foreign films to get a kick). But there is always this specific type, a subgenre or a franchise or something on that makes the skin crawl. For some it is horror. For others it is a terrible atmosphere that never fully breaks into the comfort of a jump. For me it is that End goal Series of which Final goal: blood lines is a more grateful entry than you would expect after a decade of calm.

Let me be clear: I love this series. It is the most constantly creative and entertaining franchise in the studio horror that does not need the mutilated world building in the world Seen Films, the “heart” of the Conjure upS or the gimmicks that support their successors like the Paranormal activity Features (every time the series tried to transport in Faddish stunts such as CGI Kills or 3D, it failed). The rules are simple: Design the big plans of death and pay the price in a terribly complex way. The cliché description of the kills is bloody “Ruba Goldberg machines”, which it never completely cut for me, perhaps because it captures the essentially cinematic nature of these sequences. When the viewer looked at a Goldberg machine, he delivered his perspective – finally they saw them from static positions – and here the machineations attract attention into a parade of opportunities. Imagine as a chaotic evidence: give them an equation and variables, and it will solve for x. They use and innovate in the many years of cinematic concepts of the tension hitchcocks bomb when it has been made from blood, bones and irony. It is a perfect food for an anxious spirit that is already cursed by pattern recognition, where the puzzle itself is even worse than the solution. Nothing lets me fuck me scream On the screen, more than the setup for a poor bastard can stand to get what comes to him.

Keeping all of these tensions successful without diving into nihilism or a straight black comedy requires a constant hand. The monkey Had Osgood Perkins, who displaced the balance towards the latter. In the case of Final goal: blood linesTwo captains are at the top and they keep the entire ship on a steady heading. In view of Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein's résumés, it was not immediately obvious that they had a final continuation of the target from the park. Sure, you did the little indie hit Freaks with Emile Hirsch, but you did that too Kim possible Film for Disney, which is as different as a ability as a plumber who knows Arama: it is not entirely impossible, but it is certainly unexpected to hear dead languages ​​while someone repairs their waste disposal. One could expect to try to be trendy and take a “increased horror” reef to modernize the franchise, since Barack Obama was the last time in the cinemas, he was still as president during his first term. All, including, should thank Osgood Perkins God that they didn't. Lipovsky and Stein decided to make timeless End goal Film – Sure, the phones and styles may be a little different, but they could see easily 2 Before they were converted into red paste by a huge tree trunk, which was rotated over the highway. The character archet types are more outdated than ever, but they are really well written and often funny. It is important that they do not strive for importance.

Instead, Lipovsky and Stein, like the best horror continuations, decided to answer questions that nobody asked at least one GRAV bong of the consciousness when they were doing it when they thought about them and they are our subjects in the big experiment. For example, what if a person stores enough People from one of these mass events who have thrown a real wrench in the plans of death? Assuming that they save a few hundred people from a collaboration of space as in the (amazing) opening sequence: Death must kill all these people in the order that they should die (as defined according to the rules of the franchise), and the circumstances for a good killing take some time to develop. The potential victim continues and married and has children who shouldn't have had. This means that death killed even more – after all, he is God's gag author and he has to be creative! Another thing: what if one of these children is adopted? Another: What happens to the spouse of dead people? And what if someone finds a way out, how he can keep death on his door?

All of these and more questions are answered in the most entertaining way. This is the funniest adaptation of The body holds the scoreliterally manifest in his suffering in epigenetics and generation trauma and ruin your life. If all of this is a ticking time bomb, it is by far the most interesting way of metaphor for what is something End goal The films have always exchanged – the first came out shortly before September 11th (it was late for a year, the franchise, the franchise would not exist). It is not just Survivor's fault that our protagonist (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) follows this time. It is the fact that its existence would not be possible without a bizarre intuitive intervention and that she lives in stolen times. It is a clever reversal of how the franchise usually works, an admirable change for the formula that pays off, how it makes the familiar fresh.

I don't want to spoil anything of the bloody good stuff you will see Blood linesLeave me with two farewell thoughts. First, this opening sequence-one is a disaster sequence with 60s, which, like a much Gorier Irwin Allen film (minus the celebrities), plays in which no child is really left behind-a period End goal So strict that I am shocked, nobody has shocked green. Second: Tony Todd's appearance in this tribute to the legendary actor (may he rest in peace), but to see on the screen here on the screen in the last months of his illness is really stressful. He still has the fire and effortlessly gives the scene some gravitas, but something is determined by the recognition of A real Death after the giggle, in which, for example, a few people had massacred themselves because a shit child decided not to throw a penny from the emergency needle.

The illusion breaks just enough To ask these unpleasant questions which Blood lines does not want to answer (or must). On the other hand, this reality makes these films scary: You are always one or two coincidences from the meeting with the Reaper itself.