My cousin tried to show me an engulfed evil man with fantastical nightmares, but instead of scaring me, all Nightmare on Elm Street did was provide me with a new lens to experience the chaos of my life, and introduce me to the catharsis of experiencing emotions as a child that I once did not understand.

Final Destination Bloodlines breathed some new life into one of the most loved and unfathomably ridiculous fatal franchises. A new spin on the wheel has death lingering through ancestral history, something that could have been brilliantly tied to previous installments but fell short of making meaningful connections, aside from a couple of Easter eggs.