#generational horror

Final Destination: Bloodlines doesn’t just reboot the franchise—it injects it with chaotic, operatic energy that blends nostalgic carnage with fresh emotional weight. After 14 years, the death-defying saga is back, and it’s gorier, smarter, and surprisingly heartfelt. A Glorious Return to Death’s Design Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, this sixth installment opens with a visually…

The Undertow, and They That Dwell Therein, by Clint Smith

“Of course, the mid-’80’s decor matched just about everything Gwen associated with Florida: out-of-date pastel aesthetics, innocuously campy beach-bum trinkets. Beneath the Jimmy Buffet facade, though, there was a sense of everything being scoured and scrubbed. Sand-eaten, as though the Gulf Coast were just one slender, eroding jawbone.”

—Clint Smith, “The Undertow, and They That Dwell Therein”