A big Hollywood studio should not be using my pain to promote a new movie, and yet here we are. Final Destination 2 scared me in a way no other film ever has. It’s the only horror movie I’ve ever seen that resulted in me developing a lifelong phobia. It’s a very specific dread, and if you know what I’m referring to, you almost certainly have it, too. (How could you not?!) Obviously I am about talking about logging trucks, the most terrifying monster ever put on a big screen thanks to Final Destination 2. I simply cannot be near on a highway. I can’t even be near a vehicle that reminds me of one. See, I know what can happen. I know what can happen.
Obviously Warner Bros. Pictures know the power of that iconic horror movie automobile, too, because it’s promoting Final Destination Bloodlines by sending a blood-splattered logging truck across the United States.
……No.
Nooooooooooo. I do NOT like this. I don’t think it’s clever, fun, or appropriate. Now, you might disagree. You might think this is a brilliant marketing strategy, a way for the film to not only rouse interest in the new sequel by hearkening back to the film’s best installment, but as a way to indicates Bloodlines will tie together each installment in the series.
If you think those things you can go to hell, because if I come across this gas-powered nightmare I might have to turn in my driver’s license for good.
Imagine actually alongside this thing? You don’t have to, because some poor unfortunate souls already have AND IT’S AWFUL(LY GOOD).
Like I said, my pain should not be a promotional tool no matter how clever that promo might be. Final Destination 2 will scare me for the rest of my life. The fact Final Destination Bloodlines wants to use that against me is just another cruel joke by Death. And also some pretty smart people at Warner Bros. marketing department.
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