Movie review: 'Final Destination: Bloodlines' cleverly raises bar
- Final Destination: Bloodlines, the franchise’s first installment since 2011, premiered in UK theaters on May 14, 2025.
- The reboot follows college student Stefani Reyes as she returns home to uncover family secrets linked to a past Skyview tragedy.
- Stefani's search pulls her relatives into a deadly game of avoiding death, expanding the series' mythology to a generational curse.
- The film dedicates a powerful final scene to late actor Tony Todd, whose William Bludworth character shares advice on dodging Death's clutches.
- Bloodlines revitalizes the franchise with fresh themes and memorable death scenes, implying a darker, more personal horror through family ties.
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Final Destination: Bloodlines directors say IMAX’s unique version of the movie will never be released anywhere else
It’s been nearly 15 years since Final Destination 5, the most recent installment in the horror-movie franchise where someone responds to a premonition about deadly disaster by saving the victims, who death then jealously pursues in the order they should have died, through a series of ridiculous contrivances. The series revives with Final Destination: Bloodlines, which puts a new twist on the gimmick: This time around, one survivor of the origina…
Another deadly surprise destination - BusinessWorld Online
By Brontë H. Lacsamana, Reporter Movie Review Final Destination Bloodlines Directed by Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein MTRCB Rating: R-16 FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES brings back the warm, fuzzy feeling that kids and teenagers in the 2000s got from watching grisly, shocking deaths unfold in the first few Final Destination movies (which we were definitely way too young to be seeing), each one building on the creativity of the last. Physically far-fe…
‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ reinvigorates horror franchise
Debuting on the eve of the millennium in the year 2000, the “Final Destination” franchise gave a generation of millennials some very specific phobias, including lumber trucks, airplane tray tables (a friend still checks hers before every flight to this day), lawn mowers, shower curtains, roller coasters, etc. By weaponizing these otherwise mundane objects into murderous Rube Goldberg machines set into motion by carelessness or random chance, “Fi…
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