Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

Trailer

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2000s nostalgia.

Would flamboyant homosexuals watch this movie?

Write In: Watch at home when it's available. I'm not THAT nostalgic for this mess.

I hope that do another traffic-related death scene. That part in Final Destination 2 with the log truck is unforgettable.

Mid-May release date. Warner Brothers must be confident in it.

This looks good.

JESUS CHRIST- I am a horror nut and found this franchise GOOD but nothing more.

HOWEVER, THIS ONE LOOKS EPIC!!

Poor Tony Todd. I can’t tell if his scenes were filmed before or after he died.

I’m a huge horror fan but consider these movies to be emblematic of everything that’s wrong with the genre. Movies like FD are why many people consider horror to be the trashiest genre.

So I really resisted watching this, but eventually folded and am pleased to report this one isn’t half bad. I consider it to be the only one in the franchise that isn’t garbage.

It starts very strong indeed, back in the late 60s when Iris and her boyfriend go to a brand-new, space needle-like tower restaurant that’s wildly implausible in design. This is the best part of the movie. We know things are going to go very sideways indeed, and the anticipation of how and when it’s going to start is delicious. Also iris and her beau are adorable so we care about them right off the bat, despite scanty character development.

The fun of knowing this is a FD movie and the camera lingering on all the mechanical things that COULD end up killing people is the exhilarating joke we are all in on.

Even up to the last scene it’s pretty good. It doesn’t crater. But after the thrilling open, the rest is just a series of deaths, and we’re even told the sequence. That and the constant Rube Goldberg series of occurrences leading up to each death flattens out the narrative a bit.

Acting perfectly ok. Loved Brec Bassinger’s sweet performance in the 1969 sequence.

If I were curious what the FD movies were all about, this is the one I’d watch, and skip the rest. Bloodlines is pretty fun and doesn’t take itself too seriously, and can be clever and engaging.

A minor irritation I didn’t mention is the typical “tinkling piano” sequence after someone dies and is missed. I mean, I get it — you need to show family members are sad, but it’s so hokey in a movie we are watching to see people die.

Also, like most schlock horror, things are crammed into the narrative to move it along even though they don’t make much sense. Like, why would Stefani, iris’s granddaugghter, have the same premonition iris had in 1969, when the real events already occurred long ago? Wouldn’t she have premonitions about future events, likely ones in her own life? It makes no sense, and is just shoehorned in there to get Stefani to seek out Iris.

And likewise, why would Iris have premonitions about timber carrying trains? I won’t mention more about that but it doesn’t make any sense. It’s just there to patch the story together.

I am horror fan. I thought it was alright. I hate spoilers but one death was pretty good (hospital)

Overall I was disappointed. Even the opening was TOO CGI and repetitive.

The best moment was the Tony Todd moment- It was genuinely moving and I really appreciated it.

5/10 for me.

Zombie films, Ghost films, 28 Days Later type films, Saw, and this chain are ones that don't really do anything for me. I liked The Conjuring at first, and then less and less until I was utterly over it.