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Our on-staff movie buff Leanne McGrath shares her latest candid DVD review. Email feedback to her at [email protected].

The Final Destination ***

Stars: Bobby Campo, Shantal Van Santen

Director: David R. Ellis

Rated: R

Runtime: 82 minutes

Horror/thriller

The fourth instalment in this great, gory horror series is the best yet, largely thanks to the 3D effects.

Nick O'Bannon is at the racetrack with his friends when a vehicle spins out of control and crashes into the crowd at 200mph.

People are crushed, one gets their head ripped off by a flying tyre and a massive explosion causes utter devastation before the entire stadium collapses, crushing every spectator.

But Nick has just had a vision of what is about to happen and has just seconds to flee the stadium with his friends before they die in the upcoming carnage.

They get out and cheat death - but a very angry grim reaper soon comes looking for them and one by one they are picked off in a series of increasingly gruesome freak accidents.

It's a great concept - forget psychos with razor gloves or in Halloween masks, this time the serial killer is death himself.

Director David R. Ellis also helmed the second - and arguably the best before this - movie in the Final Destination franchise and his experienced hand serves up a string of bloody and originally inventive ways to meet your maker. Most of them are hilarious in a wonderful black comic way.

There is nothing original in the plot but the 3D effects make this movie stand out from its predecessors and are spectacular, especially the flying tyres in the initial crash scene.

It's great fun and should be a big hit with fans of teen slasher movies.

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