While Final Destination Bloodlines is set to finally revive the slasher franchise after 15 years off the big screen, the reboot’s trailer and tagline promise it will offer a new spin on the familiar premise of the series. The Final Destination movies vary in terms of quality, but there is no denying that the franchise has one of the best slasher premises in the history of the subgenre. Each movie in the series begins with its protagonist having a premonition and inadvertently saving a group of strangers from an immense catastrophe, be it a freeway pileup or a roller-coaster crash.
In the following days, Death starts to set up absurdly elaborate Rube Goldberg-esque deaths for the survivors. 2025’s upcoming reboot Final Destination Bloodlines seemed destined to keep this effective approach alive, with another group of short-lived survivors hunted down by vengeful fate and falling victim to some absurd, cartoonishly convoluted deaths. However, the first trailer for Final Destination Bloodlines proves that the reboot may instead make the premise of the series a little more complicated.
Final Destination Bloodlines Seems To Be About Death Going After The Families Of The Survivors
Final Destination Bloodlines Implies Death Will No Longer Just Seek Out Survivors Themselves
Judging by the trailer and tagline of the reboot, Final Destination Bloodlines will see Death go after the family of survivors instead of just the survivors themselves. The trailer sees a disgruntled body art technician complain that his employers expected him to work shortly after his father’s funeral, only for him to close up shop alone and begin tattooing himself with a tribute to his late father. Soon, a series of elaborate coincidences wreaks havoc in the tattoo parlor.
Before long, the unlucky character falls victim to a ceiling fan, a loose chain, some spilled spirits, and a poorly timed fire. This sequence, taken in tandem with the tagline “Death runs in the family,” appears to imply that Final Destination Bloodlines will see Death start targeting the relatives of people who escaped his grasp after killing them off. If the character’s father has already been killed, it is fair to say Death caught up with him first. However, the tattoo artist could be part of a new generation of victims.
Final Destination Bloodlines Could Be About Death Claiming People Who Shouldn’t Have Been Born
Final Destination Bloodlines Lives Up To The Reboot’s тιтle
It has been 25 years since the first Final Destination was released, and 25 years have presumably elapsed in-universe. All the franchise’s earlier outings are connected, and the ingenious twist of Final Destination 5 revealed that the movie ran seamlessly into the story of the original Final Destination. As such, Final Destination Bloodlines may be reinvigorating the familiar premise of the series by killing off the children of survivors from earlier premonitions.
In a long enough timeline, the children of survivors would have children of their own and thoroughly derail Death’s carefully laid plans.
If someone cheated death, they were not supposed to survive. If they weren’t meant to survive, they certainly weren’t meant to have a child. As such, the main characters of Final Destination Bloodlines might be the children of earlier survivors, cursed to die after Death catches up with their parents and finally ends their bloodline. As mercenary as it sounds, this approach makes a lot of sense from the perspective of the franchise’s version of death. In a long enough timeline, the children of survivors would have children of their own and thoroughly derail Death’s carefully laid plans.
Final Destination 6 Needed An Exciting New Premise After Five Movies With The Same Story
Final Destination Bloodlines Can Reinvigorate The Franchise
The Final Destination franchise has always found a way to keep each sequel feeling fresh, but Final Destination Bloodlines has the potential to completely reinvigorate the series after a lengthy absence from screens. It has been a decade and a half since the most recent Final Destination movie was released, and Longlegs director Oz Perkins’ Stephen King adaptation The Monkey looked likely to steal the reboot’s thunder with its similar story arriving a few months before Final Destination Bloodlines.
Final Destination Bloodlines can make the reboot’s villain scarier and more unpredictable while introducing a new twist to the premise of the series.
As such, Final Destination Bloodlines taking a new approach to the franchise is a welcome surprise. Much like Scream 2022 and Scream VI shifted the slasher franchise’s focus away from Scream‘s original heroine Sidney Prescott to center on a new generation of Final Girls, Final Destination Bloodlines can make the reboot’s villain scarier and more unpredictable while introducing a new twist to the premise of the series.
If the main characters are children of survivors of earlier catastrophes, they may not even know they are in danger and viewers will be less equipped to guess who will survive and who will die. This also opens up an opportunity for the franchise to feature cameos from actors seen in earlier movies, who can reprise their roles as survivors. As such, Final Destination Bloodlines can effectively revitalize the franchise by revealing that Death does not just go after the survivors of disasters anymore, but also the children they had in the years after unknowingly escaping their preordained fate.
