DON'T FEAR THE REAPER

DEATH COMES FOR ALL GENERATIONS OF ONE CURSED FAMILY IN LATEST CHAPTER OF GLORIOUSLY GORY HORROR FRANCHISE

- REVIEWS BY DAMON SMITH

DEDICATED to the memory of actor Tony Todd who has portrayed soothsaying mortician William Bludworth in the Final Destination films since the ghoulish franchise took flight 25 years ago - a belated sixth chapter goes back to the beginning to expose the chain of events that set the deadly curse in motion.

Cue a nerve-jangling set piece inside a 494-feet tall restaurant tower, which completed construction months ahead of schedule and is clearly signposted as a deathtrap before the gore flows freely.

Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire trills from a parking valet’s transistor radio and a totemic bad penny is plucked from a watery grave, foreshadowing the domino rally of devastation, evisceration and incineration that has become the series’ trademark.