The original Final Destination was and is the West’s best response to J-Horror, so in tune with the sublime - a perfect ode to the hair on the back of your neck standing up. 25 years on, technology has vacuumed up our curiosity of anything other than what’s directly in front of us; the series, too, has devolved from scary melancholy to video game cut scenes.
Bodies as a disposable resource; Violence and destruction as critical forces for transformation; the malleability of the human body as an essential component for total metamorphosis. Not a single concept in this movie is by any means new — it certainly has been done before (and better.. see Cronenberg Crash)
On the way home, I was trying to think about what bugged me the most about TITANE. I think I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t its ferocious violence that…
