Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
Directed by Zach Lipovsky
Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.
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Twenty-five years after some kids decided not to board a flight to Paris only to have Death come for them one by one nonetheless and fourteen years after the last installment, Jon Watts, Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor (screenplay by Busick and Taylor) freshen up the franchise with a family tree twist while honoring the franchise's gleefully twisted but unseen protagonist's Rube Goldberg-esque death delivery.
“Final Destination” (2000) delivers Jeffrey Reddick’s original “X-Files” spec script idea in its purest form, but “Final Destination 2” (2003) enjoys the smartest arc of the first five films and has already gone down in history for its indelible highway disaster.
…seemingly enjoying this new wave of revisited franchise enjoyment (Halloween, Scream, the forthcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer) that allows him to indulge in numerous wicked ways for the crowds wanting a break from elevated, sophisticated horror.
It’s a bit like Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, except, of course, much grislier and, crucially, still laugh-out-loud funny.
There are two ways to get out of it, and one feels borrowed from “It Follows” (2014) or “Smile” franchise, or maybe it is the reverse…?
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It also feels consistent since Iris was willing to save a Black boy (Jayden Oniah) at a time when “Nickel Boys” (2024) showed the other end of the spectrum.