"Final Destination Bloodlines" and "Hurry Up Tomorrow": A tale of two vibes

"Final Destination Bloodlines" debuted atop the box office with gusto, especially for a horror movie being released early in summer movie season. This is as opposed to "spooky season," a term for Halloween we just made up and trademarked. The film made $51 million domestically, plus another $51 million overseas. For a horror movies with zero famous actors in it, that's basically sufficient in and of itself.

It's even more impressive when you consider how long the franchise laid fallow. Granted, even if one was not familiar with the franchise, you see a dude get his nose ring caught on an a chain and then catch on fire in his tattoo shop and you get the gist. That's not a spoiler, either, as they just straight-up made that kill the trailer to the movie. 

Beyond that, though, the word-of-mouth was strong before the movie even hit theaters. The studio trotted out those classic horror movie ads showing people in the theater going nuts and freaking out over the film. The critical reviews were strong, and then you tell your horror-loving friends on social media or IRL that there's a gory new horror movie to see and they're going to go check it out. "Final Destination Bloodlines" is a significant success.

"Hurry Up Tomorrow," meanwhile, got bad reviews. At present, it sits at 13-percent on Rotten Tomatoes. We don't like delving into CinemaScore ratings, but it got a C-, which is about as bad as it gets. There are a lot of A's, but occasionally there's an F, but F's are interesting and tend to be more polarizing. Darren Aranofsky's "mother!" is the classic example. A C- is basically "It's bad and we're apathetic about it."

"Hurry Up Tomorrow" made $3.3 million on over 2,000 screens. That's woeful, and also maybe will get Tesfaye to stick to music? 

We said it recently, and we'll say it again: If you think a movie is dope, tell people.