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You can't beat death. That's been the message of the final destination movies since the first film came out in 2000.

Now, almost 15 years after the last new installment, the franchise is back with Final Destination Bloodlines,

a movie all about the fact that you really, really, really can't beat death.

It will come for you, and in fact, it may come for your whole family

in the most convoluted, bloody, gnarly ways it possibly can. I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're

talking about Final Destination Bloodlines on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining me today is Walter

Chow. He is a writer, critic, and film instructor at the

University of Colorado. Welcome back, Walter. Thank you so much for having me. Delightful to see you.

Also with us is freelance music and culture journalist Rana Cruz. Hello, Rihanna.

Howdy, Linda. Happy to be here. Delightful to be here with you both. So final destination

bloodlines begins in the late 1960s with a long set piece about a disaster at a restaurant

that, of course, comes to involve the cheating of death. We then make our way to the present

where college student, Stephanie,

played by Caitlin Santowana, is haunted by dreams of that disaster and goes in search of her

reclusive grandmother to get the scoop. She learns that her entire family is in death's

crosshairs, and even though they know it's coming for them, there is little they can do to stop it or is there.

Stephanie, her estranged mother, her brother and her cousins decide to band together and try to avoid their

terrible fate. Are people going to die? Oh yes. Are they going to go through a lot of almost

dying before actually dying? Very much so, yes. Final Destination Bloodlines is in theaters now. Please drive carefully on your way to the theater and do not walk under anything heavy. I'm going to start with you, Rihanna. You are a connoisseur of these films, as I understand it. Oh, yeah.

How did you like this one?

I really enjoyed it.

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