First Trailer for Final Destination: Bloodlines Provides some Vintage, Ridiculous Death

By Jim Vorel  |  February 3, 2025 | 1:49pm
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First Trailer for Final Destination: Bloodlines Provides some Vintage, Ridiculous Death
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Spoiler notice: If you’re a superfan of the Final Destination series of madcap horror films–and there are at least a handful of those folks out there–then you’ll probably want to stop reading and avoid watching the newly released first trailer for the upcoming relaunch of the series, Final Destination: Bloodlines. The sixth entry in the franchise, due to arrive in theaters on May 16, 2025, has gifted us with a full-on death sequence in its revealing first piece of footage, and as you would no doubt expect given the source, it’s a doozy. It really wouldn’t be Final Destination if things were simple.

We open here on a tattoo parlor and piercing shop, where a guy closing up shop at the end of the night becomes ensnared in a series of freakish, “chance” mistakes that sees his nose ring become attached to a chain that is quickly being drawn in by a ceiling fan. Scrambling to avoid traumatic nostril injury, a fire also starts in the room, and … well, it doesn’t go well. Consider this a statement of principles for Final Destination: Bloodlines, arriving 14 years after the last entry Final Destination 5: The series still revolves entirely around the garish and unlikely death sequences, which are of course not random at all–they’re instead he result of the personification of death itself, stalking a series of unlucky victims who previously escaped a fate where they were meant to die.

At least, we assume that everything is the same for Bloodlines, although there’s not really any plot information yet available. We do know that the film will contain one last, posthumous appearance by franchise icon Tony Todd as Death expert William Bludworth, and the movie is presumably dedicated to the legendary Candyman actor’s memory. In our opinion, there are some red flags here as well, such as the ubiquity of the Bloodlines subtitle, which has to be one of the most overused in genre history, or the fact that director Zach Lipovsky’s most prominent past projects have included the likes of 2014’s Leprechaun: Origins or the live-action Kim Possible movie in 2019. Not exactly a sterling background, there.

Regardless, you can at least enjoy the madcap scramble for survival in the trailer below. Final Destination: Bloodlines arrives in theaters on May 16, 2025.

 
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