Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, October twenty fifth, Halloween
Speaker 1: is just days away, and we got a doozy of
Speaker 1: a horror movie for you. It's so good. It has
Speaker 1: a ninety plus percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and it
Speaker 1: made over three hundred million dollars at the box office.
Speaker 1: So no, you don't have to take our word for it.
Speaker 1: Number seven on our list is a hit. And with that,
Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. Is
Speaker 1: this this year? This movie came out this year? Yes,
Speaker 1: now that's I almost feel bad to include one because
Speaker 1: we seem like we're just caught up in the moment.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: And I actually wanted to make a distinction because we
Speaker 2: have said that this is called deep cuts our Halloween
Speaker 2: horror hit list, meaning it's not necessarily we are not
Speaker 2: going to the classics or the horror movies that everybody
Speaker 2: knows and loves, because it would be impossible, it would
Speaker 2: just the hoholeless would be filled with them and them alone. Yes,
Speaker 2: this was a blockbuster and a box office success. However,
Speaker 2: I hadn't seen any of these movies until the last
Speaker 2: few years. Because of you. You introduced me to this
Speaker 2: line of movies. And I don't know if I just
Speaker 2: had my head buried in the sand or if there's
Speaker 2: just been better promotion recently. But this was not a
Speaker 2: movie franchise chise that I had watched and loved and
Speaker 2: known growing up.
Speaker 1: And they're up to how many in the franchisees at
Speaker 1: six six, but they've kind of been spread out. But
Speaker 1: the movie we're talking about here now was just out
Speaker 1: this summer, Final Destination Bloodlines. It is the latest in
Speaker 1: a horror movie franchise that goes back for some reason,
Speaker 1: I think two thousand and one, but it has been
Speaker 1: around for decades and this installment pretty much brought the
Speaker 1: entire series, all the movies back home in a very
Speaker 1: very special way, including one very very special actor who
Speaker 1: has passed. But Final Destination Bloodlines. We ran out to
Speaker 1: the theaters to see this and it this is one
Speaker 1: I think it lived up No, A exceeded expectations. This
Speaker 1: was better than I.
Speaker 2: It absolutely exceeded expectations because we knew that it was
Speaker 2: probably going to be good. Look, this is a formulaic movie.
Speaker 2: You know what's going to happen, and then you know
Speaker 2: what's going to happen next. And that sounds like a
Speaker 2: horrible premise for a movie, and yet it delivers every
Speaker 2: time because they're creative and how they show the story
Speaker 2: that you know is going to unfold, you just don't
Speaker 2: know quite how it's going to And I think it
Speaker 2: actually makes it more challenging. I would only imagine to
Speaker 2: have to make it that good that you can still
Speaker 2: be wildly entertaining and on and still completely all expectations
Speaker 2: are met, Like there's there aren't a lot of.
Speaker 1: Surprises, even though it's full of surprises. We're about to
Speaker 1: explain that in about sixty seconds. We're gonna explain. But
Speaker 1: this movie was an hour fifty minutes long. It came
Speaker 1: out in May of twenty twenty five, rated R. It
Speaker 1: is a horror movie. Now hit them with the synopsis props.
Speaker 2: The newest chapter in New Line Cinema's bloody successful franchise
Speaker 2: takes audiences back to the very beginning of Death's Twisted
Speaker 2: Sense of Justice. Plagued by a violent, recurring nightmare, college
Speaker 2: student Stephanie heads back home to track down the one
Speaker 2: person who might be able to break the cycle and
Speaker 2: save her family from the grizzly demise that inevitably awaits
Speaker 2: them all.
Speaker 1: Now, if you are not familiar with the series that
Speaker 1: what does that tell you?
Speaker 2: Right, you don't really get it. You don't really know
Speaker 2: what's going on.
Speaker 1: So to help you get it, what we're talking about here,
Speaker 1: the whole premise of every single one of these movies
Speaker 1: is that there is a deadly accident of some kind
Speaker 1: that involved mass casualties. Wanda, there's a plane crash. In one,
Speaker 1: there was a bad accident, a nasty Nascar.
Speaker 2: Right, I remember that one.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: Roller coaster?
Speaker 1: The roll Oh my god, the roller coaster. So what
Speaker 1: happens every single one? At the beginning of the movie,
Speaker 1: you see this big disaster happen, and then you realize
Speaker 1: somebody's dreaming it. So then it takes place again in
Speaker 1: that person after having the premonition, says, ah, I gotta
Speaker 1: save everybody, and everybody says, oh, you're crazy. They save
Speaker 1: a couple people. And the idea is that now death,
Speaker 1: you were supposed to die, You cheated death, and death
Speaker 1: is coming back for you.
Speaker 2: And in the most unexpected, twisted ways, like mundane like,
Speaker 2: seemingly innocuous situations suddenly become violently deadly and they become
Speaker 2: hilariously deadly in that sense.
Speaker 1: That is the other big part. If anybody's followed the franchise,
Speaker 1: Creative Deaths is the hallmark of a Final Destination movie,
Speaker 1: and they get creative.
Speaker 2: To the point where you and I will be walking
Speaker 2: down the streets of Manhattan and a penny will fall
Speaker 2: out of someone's pocket and roll down to this and
Speaker 2: you're just all you're thinking is Final Destination because it's
Speaker 2: the simplest, like I said, most mundane thing that could
Speaker 2: happen suddenly triggers a series of events, like if you
Speaker 2: ever played the game mouse Trap that all of a
Speaker 2: sudden results in complete, bloody catastrophe. And a lot of
Speaker 2: times it does happen on a city street, you know,
Speaker 2: somewhere where anything could go wrong. There are there's equipment,
Speaker 2: there's cars, there's whatever all around you, other people and it,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's enjoyable.
Speaker 1: This movie is delicious. And we've mentioned at the top
Speaker 1: as well, this movie wasn't just a hit. It was
Speaker 1: a mega hit.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes, three hundred and fifteen million dollars worldwide, one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty eight million domestically, one hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: seven million internationally, and yes, Tony Todd is the star
Speaker 2: of the show, really a part of the entire series.
Speaker 2: So this was his his nod, his final goodbye. This
Speaker 2: was his final scene perhaps actually in life before his death.
Speaker 1: Before he passed. But probes you said he plays. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of line in any of the movies,
Speaker 1: but you can argue he plays the biggest role. And
Speaker 1: he is, without a doubt the star of the franchise
Speaker 1: because he's the only start the movie.
Speaker 2: That's so true, everybody else done. He's got heart in
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 1: This is he has a very very special scene. It's
Speaker 1: his closing scene, and I mean it will give you chills.
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to write down what he said and
Speaker 1: remember it because he makes a very special message given
Speaker 1: what we all know he was going through at the
Speaker 1: end of his life. It is really well done. It
Speaker 1: is It's.
Speaker 2: Perfect, so wonderful. Like I loved him in Candy Man
Speaker 2: and any horror movie lover is knows exactly how great
Speaker 2: that original movie was with Tony Todd as the candy Man,
Speaker 2: and so yes, just to see him. He's just a
Speaker 2: star in horror movies and it was awesome to see
Speaker 2: him be able to play this role the way he
Speaker 2: played it this one last time.
Speaker 1: But you know what they you know, I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: it there. They did. They did write by him in
Speaker 1: this movie, in this script, this entire story. They do
Speaker 1: write by him. I applaud them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, Tony Todd, Caitlin Santiwana, and Breck Basinger. They
Speaker 2: have familiar faces, they're young starlits and they all do
Speaker 2: a great job. Everyone here. I thought the acting was
Speaker 2: actually really really good. The act the directors Adam b
Speaker 2: Stein Zachlepowski directed these or this final one. And the
Speaker 2: Rotten Tomatoes score you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: I was surprised. It was a high for the critics
Speaker 1: ninety two. Wow, I was surprised.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the audience scored not that far behind eighty
Speaker 2: six percent. So this was beloved by all and the
Speaker 2: critics consensus sums it up pretty pretty well. Adding some
Speaker 2: surprising emotional layers onto the ghoulish bones of final Destinations mythology,
Speaker 2: Bloodlines ingeniously executes grizzly set pieces with precision and turns
Speaker 2: impending doom into outrageous fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they did it. I think this was the
Speaker 1: best job they did in all of the movies in
Speaker 1: making you look one way and then something else happens
Speaker 1: that you're not expecting, because they have all these little moments,
Speaker 1: these little edits where a glass breaks, you're like, ooh,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be it. Oh you hear a bottle pop, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be it. Watch out, and you never see
Speaker 1: it coming.
Speaker 2: It's so fun. And I'm even thinking the score, like
Speaker 2: the audio in this films, in these films actually plays
Speaker 2: such a role in the anticipation of what might end
Speaker 2: up being the undoing of a character. It's great. All right,
Speaker 2: here's some critic reviews. These were fun, I think really
Speaker 2: actually in the spirit of this movie, I almost I
Speaker 2: loved almost everything people wrote. This latest installment is one
Speaker 2: of the best in a consistently entertaining series. Everything from
Speaker 2: garden rakes and wind chimes to garbage compressors and intimate
Speaker 2: body piercings are weaponized in eye watering fashion. It's an
Speaker 2: absolute blast.
Speaker 1: Uh, it'll make you never stay alone in a tattoo parlor.
Speaker 1: That tattoo parlor scene.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was thinking of the MRI scene.
Speaker 1: Oh God, bless omragon. That's awful.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's Oh, I'm remembering all the depths right now, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's another one. A good send off for Tony Todd
Speaker 2: and a fresh twist on the formula. Bloodlines takes the
Speaker 2: franchise in an unexpected direction, and it weirdly works weirdly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense. They brought it all back together.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that maybe somewhere down the line they'll
Speaker 1: do another one, but they really If you're a fan
Speaker 1: of this franchise, they completed this and put a beautiful
Speaker 1: bow on.
Speaker 2: It's funny you should me that because one of the
Speaker 2: reviews said this Final Destination Bloodlines might be trying to
Speaker 2: close the door on the franchise, but unintentionally it ends
Speaker 2: up giving it a fresh new life that could sustain
Speaker 2: more sequels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you kind of start this whole thing over,
Speaker 1: I'm in for it. If you just put Final Destination
Speaker 1: at the front of the we'll be there.
Speaker 2: I thought this last one from the critics was really good.
Speaker 2: It's this movie is everything intense, hilarious, nostalgic, and absolutely unrelenting.
Speaker 2: Whether you're a longtime follower or just ready to see
Speaker 2: why everyone's scared of log trucks, Bloodlines delivers the goods.
Speaker 2: I'll remember the one with the backup on the highway.
Speaker 2: I don't remember which one that was. I mean, they're
Speaker 2: all so good. We say we love this latest installment
Speaker 2: the most. But we assure you, if you were like
Speaker 2: me just a few years ago and had never watched
Speaker 2: these movies, go back and watch them all. They're awesome.
Speaker 1: They the formula is exactly the same, and you're going
Speaker 1: to see a few familiar faces in there along the way,
Speaker 1: with some actors who've been in some of these movies.
Speaker 1: You just start watching them, start with number one and
Speaker 1: go right through.
Speaker 2: We did that and it was so fun.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So this one is a long one from an audience review,
Speaker 2: but it was so well thought out I wanted to
Speaker 2: read it. It didn't just end with people being killed
Speaker 2: like pieces in a mechanical device. It successfully added real
Speaker 2: storytelling depth, turning death into something meaningful rather than just
Speaker 2: a form of consumption. The gradual build up toward each
Speaker 2: death was presented in a way that made it genuinely
Speaker 2: engaging to watch the protagonists. The other characters weren't there
Speaker 2: just to serve the plot. Their humanity was clearly portrayed. Overall,
Speaker 2: the script was solid. The storytelling was remarkably well executed,
Speaker 2: leaving no dull moments. It was a highly satisfying and excellent,
Speaker 2: excellently crafted piece of work.
Speaker 1: It was and I hate to say, like the most
Speaker 1: recent something is my favorite, and certainly in a franchise
Speaker 1: this story at least for horror movie fans, but it is.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite one in the It's well done. I
Speaker 1: mean you can tell it was different production value and
Speaker 1: whatnot in some of the other ones and earlier ones.
Speaker 1: This one is just.
Speaker 2: It's so good. Yes, well, the next audience review will
Speaker 2: back you up. This is definitely one of the best
Speaker 2: movies in the franchise and is an excellent send off
Speaker 2: for Tony Todt. I love this next one. I may
Speaker 2: have missed some of the middle ones of this series,
Speaker 2: but I felt like this one had a lot of
Speaker 2: the other feel of the OG movies. Great seeing candy
Speaker 2: Man say Goodbye worth a watch for that alone.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, oh my goodness, this scene, and I just
Speaker 1: applaud the writers and the director for making sure this
Speaker 1: was done that way. It was just beautiful.
Speaker 2: So rarely things are so it's so nice when you
Speaker 2: do see it.
Speaker 1: Happen and his voice, I mean his voice. Every time
Speaker 1: you hear it, usually in a horror movie, is you
Speaker 1: know it's dreadful. Yes, he's just given hominous news and
Speaker 1: it's just authoritative always, and he has that again in
Speaker 1: this one. But there was a different sweetness and a
Speaker 1: peace to him, a reminder how to live. Hit this guy.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you all this scene. What was he in there?
Speaker 1: Five minutes?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But look everyone everyone in that movie is chasing death,
Speaker 2: right or running from death. Excuse me? I said that
Speaker 2: the absolute wrong way, running from death. And he also
Speaker 2: was doing the same in his life as he was
Speaker 2: living it. It was art imitating life. But his words
Speaker 2: of wisdom were about savoring the moment, and it was
Speaker 2: just cool in a movie about people trying to get
Speaker 2: another moment, trying to evade death's there is a life lesson.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily like to watch to horror movies for that,
Speaker 2: but it's cool when there actually is a genuine one there,
Speaker 2: and he brought it home.
Speaker 1: We knew his personal story to see him. As soon
Speaker 1: as he gets on screen, you will stop what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You will tell anybody in the room to shut up.
Speaker 1: You're going to sit up. And listen to every word
Speaker 1: he says.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, And one final audience review, never watch
Speaker 2: it if you have a weak's stomach. But honestly a
Speaker 2: fantastic movie.
Speaker 1: Some of the death is over the top that they
Speaker 1: don't even seem gross or gooryous, like something a kid
Speaker 1: would row up.
Speaker 2: Even I yes, yes, you have to watch it to
Speaker 2: understand why death seems even grewsome ones can be funny.
Speaker 2: All right. When we come back, we'll talk about why
Speaker 2: it made our list, who it's for, who it's not for,
Speaker 2: what to pair it with, and a tease ahead to
Speaker 2: what's next. Welcome back to Amy and TJ and our
Speaker 2: Halloween horror hit list and number seven on our countdown
Speaker 2: to Halloween. Final Destination Bloodlines. It is the latest in
Speaker 2: the Final Destination series or franchise. It's the sixth installment
Speaker 2: and if you well, we recommend this highly. So if
Speaker 2: you watch it and you love it like we know
Speaker 2: you will, then we encourage you to go back and
Speaker 2: watch all of the movies in this series. They're all
Speaker 2: the same, follow the exact same premise, and yet each
Speaker 2: of them delivers something a little different and fun. And
Speaker 2: it's all I let you use the word delicious earlier.
Speaker 2: That really is a good way to describe it. I
Speaker 2: like a formulaic movie, you know it's I don't understand
Speaker 2: why you don't like rom comms. Then it's the same concept.
Speaker 1: Well no, no, no no, within the same franchisees ila like
Speaker 1: formula Like James Bond movies. It starts with an action
Speaker 1: sequence and.
Speaker 2: It got it. Yes, Okay, okay, I'm gonna keep trying.
Speaker 2: All right. Here's why Final Destinations Bloodlines made our list.
Speaker 2: We obviously love the series, as we were just saying,
Speaker 2: but even bigger fans of Tony Todd so as a
Speaker 2: lot of at least two movie reviewers, said it's worth
Speaker 2: it for that alone, just to watch his scene and
Speaker 2: to see his send off. It is phenomenal. But there
Speaker 2: is so much heart to this and so much fun
Speaker 2: gore to it. And it's just I loved anticipating all
Speaker 2: the creative ways the characters were gonna die. That was fun,
Speaker 2: you know what.
Speaker 1: I got invested in a few characters as well. I
Speaker 1: kind of did.
Speaker 2: It's fun to root for people who are probably gonna die.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again, I can't say it enough. If you
Speaker 1: have watched the franchise, this is the perfect button. If
Speaker 1: you're a fan of the franchise, you've probably seen this already, yes,
Speaker 1: but we're talking to you folks maybe who are looking
Speaker 1: for a movie. This will make perfect sense to you
Speaker 1: to have to see all the others. And it's just
Speaker 1: it's a fun ride. That will it will almost make
Speaker 1: you like you're in on it. You know this is
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. You know that death, all these that
Speaker 1: coincidents of that coincidence. Of course, it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But when you start to find yourself in different scenarios,
Speaker 2: driving over a bridge and something, I'm telling you, you start
Speaker 2: thinking of Final Destination, it does stay with you. It
Speaker 2: might not scare you in the moment, but I'm telling
Speaker 2: you you will think about it. You think about it
Speaker 2: throughout your life. And it's funny because in terms of
Speaker 2: its popularity, neither one of my daughters had heard of it.
Speaker 2: They didn't know about the franchise. I think the name
Speaker 2: didn't sound scary, so they were.
Speaker 1: Kind of like Final Destiny.
Speaker 2: I think it sounded like an action movie. It's funny.
Speaker 2: They just weren't interested. So that's I think another reason
Speaker 2: why we wanted to put it on the list in
Speaker 2: case anyone was hesitating or thinking that it was silly, stupid,
Speaker 2: or more action oriented. This is a horror movie that
Speaker 2: is for horror movie fans.
Speaker 1: This is why I was a big deal. The last
Speaker 1: one that came out, the one before that was thirteen
Speaker 1: years prior, so that was such a huge gap in
Speaker 1: between the movies. There was kind of an excitement of
Speaker 1: this coming out. But the first one was in two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, and you said, I.
Speaker 2: Thought it was two thousand. Oh wow, I thought I
Speaker 2: saw one.
Speaker 1: Oh sure that was Final Deascination the three years later. No, No,
Speaker 1: it was ahead. You're one hundred percent right. Yes, two
Speaker 1: thousand was the first one and the second was three
Speaker 1: years later. But so we are. They all did pretty well.
Speaker 1: Forty million, forty six million, fifty four million, fifty four million,
Speaker 1: sixty six million.
Speaker 2: I think maybe I don't know why I didn't. It
Speaker 2: just wasn't on my radar. I think I thought of
Speaker 2: it as like a guy's movie, like an action movie.
Speaker 2: I didn't think of it as a horror movie that
Speaker 2: I would like. So it's cool to kind of be
Speaker 2: reintroduced to something that has been around for a while.
Speaker 2: So That's another reason why I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people listening might not have taken the time to watch this.
Speaker 2: So who is it for? You? Know who you are.
Speaker 2: If you love to watch creative death scenes and you
Speaker 2: like the concept of the movie that we just laid out,
Speaker 2: obviously you're gonna love it. This is for you. Who
Speaker 2: it's not for.
Speaker 1: You gotta have a little bit of a twisted sense
Speaker 1: of humor almost to watch this and to understand and
Speaker 1: to appreciate because it, Yes, creative deaths are made funny.
Speaker 1: You remember the girl in the street, just the image
Speaker 1: in your head right actually running see you see everybody
Speaker 1: she's laughing. Just by me mentioning a scene.
Speaker 2: I actually want to go back right now and start
Speaker 2: watching File and Destination no the first one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 2: Just start like we've already rewatched them, but I would
Speaker 2: do it again. That's how fun these movies are. And
Speaker 2: then yeah, and I think also if you're somebody who
Speaker 2: and there was some of this on the reviews who
Speaker 2: are complaining about the predictability of it, Okay, the fact
Speaker 2: that everyone who is who cheated death is probably going.
Speaker 1: To die, Well, yeah, the first five movies went that way, correct, So.
Speaker 2: It's funny that people are like, can you mix it up? Like,
Speaker 2: you know, they don't like that. They already know what's
Speaker 2: going to happen. They already know the outcome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's question the people who've been successful enough to
Speaker 1: get five previous movies out of it.
Speaker 2: Ye, yes, I hear you, all right, So what to
Speaker 2: pair this with? So here is I can tell you
Speaker 2: probably more what not to pair it with than what
Speaker 2: to pair it with. But I would avoid pizza or
Speaker 2: any kind of stew. Just there's a lot of gruesome deaths,
Speaker 2: and like those kinds of foods might not texture wise
Speaker 2: feel good when you're watching some of this stuff, you see,
Speaker 2: I would what else you got? And so then I
Speaker 2: was thinking, just like popcorn, salty snacks like pretzels, just
Speaker 2: keep it kind of crunchy and salty and that'll help
Speaker 2: a little bit if you feel a little queasy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but keep the drinks fun and flowing. That's I mean,
Speaker 2: I think that's one of the number one suggested suggested
Speaker 2: pairings I would give it is just keep the drinks
Speaker 2: fun and flowing and without ice.
Speaker 1: There's a and maybe you could do a little like
Speaker 1: backyard barbecue type stuff. There is a there's a very
Speaker 1: wonderful backyard barbecue cookout scene, and you know it might
Speaker 1: make you want to not have ice in your drink.
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 1: That some fun stuff, and you won't want to do
Speaker 1: yard work.
Speaker 2: Oh no, a ard work. No, that's you know what.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing to watch on a weekend night
Speaker 2: because then you can just say, yeah, I just I'm
Speaker 2: I'm triggered. I'm triggered by lawn work. I don't think
Speaker 2: I can do it this weekend. All right, So where
Speaker 2: can we watch this movie? Amazing?
Speaker 1: I got the name rate they've officially switched back to
Speaker 1: HBO Max.
Speaker 2: I think so. Yes, it's HBO Max now.
Speaker 1: The artists or the app formerly known as max Max.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's now HBO Max. So that is where you
Speaker 2: can watch it and our next episode. This would be
Speaker 2: number six on our list. Wow, we're really getting there.
Speaker 2: This is from the makers of one of the other
Speaker 2: movies on our list. It's one of the scariest movies
Speaker 2: we've seen over the past few years, to the point
Speaker 2: where I mean I have a hard time. I have
Speaker 2: to look away and I already know the scenes. I
Speaker 2: have to look away because it is just entirely too much.
Speaker 2: This is intense, it is scary, and and it involves
Speaker 2: the supernatural in a way I have not seen it
Speaker 2: play out. It is and there's just brilliant acting.
Speaker 1: On that point. First, if there was another potential Oscar
Speaker 1: worthy performance, it was from the lead in this way, all.
Speaker 2: Right, And with that, everyone, we hope you'll stay tuned
Speaker 2: for our number six. But in the meantime, thank you
Speaker 2: for listening to us. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ.
Speaker 1: Holmes.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you soon.