In Jeffrey Reddick’s new movie, Don’t Look Back, a bunch of strangers stand and watch as a man is beaten to death in a public park. Someone films the murder and the clip goes viral. The witnesses are named and shamed on TV by the victim’s brother, then they start dying, one by one …
So far, so superficially familiar to Reddick’s most famous creation, Final Destination, the slasher movie that cuts out the middleman. Instead of teens being chased by psychos like Freddy or Jason, the bogeyman is death itself. The endlessly exploitable franchise formula (five films and counting; a reboot in the works) is someone having a premonition
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