I love the Final Destination movies. As someone with generalized anxiety, they’re borderline cathartic. Watching a sink disposal get turned on by accident and making paella of someone’s arm? Makes me want to stand up in the theater and yell, “SEE? SEE?!?!” It’s like one of those Instagram Reels of a cool marble maze, but with arterial spray. A snuff film directed by Rube Goldberg.
I think that most people who enjoy them would also argue they’re definitely a form of black humor. I know that we’re not supposed to say someone getting their head cut off by a decorative suit of armor is funny anymore because of woke, but I’m paying $16.50 and buying popcorn every time. The marketing team for the new Final Destination: Bloodlines clearly got the message, and have been cranking out some top-notch stunts to promote the newest installment. First was the fake logging trucks referencing one of the series’ most famous kills, received to appreciative nods across the board.
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Their latest move is to take some unsuspecting romantic comedy fans and place them in the line of fire. Don’t worry: just to raise their heart rate, not eliminate it. For Mother’s Day, they arranged special screenings of a romantic comedy called Love at the Sky View, and invited fans to bring their moms along. Promoting a different movie would obviously go against their own ends, or at least it would, if that movie actually existed. Once the rom-com loving moms were seated, Junior Mints in hand and hope in their hearts? The film that was projected onto the screen wasn’t something anyone would describe as a romantic comedy, unless maybe they’re that car crash lady from Titane.
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They were instead treated to the new Final Destination in its entirety, with hidden cameras capturing their reactions.
Dishonest? A violation of familial trust by mischievous offspring? Perhaps. It’s one I’m personally prepared to forgive, however. Sure, your mom might walk out when the bones start crunching, but imagine the other possibility: that you find out your mom has fucking ruled, this entire time. In fact, some of the moms actually really enjoyed the movie, possibly to the surprise of their kids.
Now, when you’re home for Christmas, you can watch Longlegs instead of A Christmas Story for the thousandth time. Everybody wins.
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