The first teaser trailer for Final Destination: Bloodlines has been released, and it shows a gruesome death fitting with the franchise, but it’s also a sneaky reference to a Final Destination 2 Easter egg. The trends of reboots and legacy sequels have revived some of the most popular horror franchises, and joining them in 2025 is the Final Destination saga. Over a decade after the release of Final Destination 5, the franchise is getting a sixth movie that is already standing out with a twist in its main character’s connection to the visions.
What has been revealed about the plot of Final Destination: Bloodlines points to the new main character, Stefanie, not being involved in the catastrophic event that triggers every Final Destination movie. Instead, Stefanie is haunted by a recurring vision and sets out to save those involved – and as an extra twist, her grandmother had a vision in the 1960s of a collapsing building and saved as many people as she could. The first teaser for Final Destination: Bloodlines doesn’t reveal the plot, but it does have a sneaky reference to what could have been Alex’s (Devon Sawa) death.
Final Destination 2 Almost Had Alex Browning Killed By A Ceiling Fan
Death Eventually Caught Up With Alex
The first Final Destination: Bloodlines teaser is all about a chaotic death sequence, very on-brand with the franchise. The teaser is set in a tattoo and piercing shop, as a tattoo artist (played by Richard Harmon) prepares to close the shop. As he cleans his space, Death’s plan kicks in with a series of events that leads to a chain attaching itself to his septum ring and getting tangled in the turning blades of the ceiling fan, while spilled fluids cause a fire as he hangs over it. The guy ends up falling along with the fan, burning himself.
The Final Destination movies have been very creative with their deaths, and when it seems like the characters are going to die one way, something else happens and they die in an entirely different way – however, the death in the Final Destination: Bloodlines trailer is a nod to what could have been Alex’s death. Alex survives the first Final Destination movie, but it’s revealed in the sequel that he was killed by a falling brick, though that wasn’t always the plan.
A version of the script of Final Destination 2 (via IMSDb) had Clear (Ali Larter) revealing to Kim (A. J. Cook) that Alex was killed by a ceiling fan, and even showed Kim a pH๏τo of his body with the blade of a ceiling fan on his head. In the final cut of Final Destination 2, however, there’s still a reference to this alternate death for Alex.
As pointed out by ComicBook, there’s a sH๏τ in Final Destination 2 of Clear’s wall with notes and newspaper clippings that shows a piece of paper where Clear wrote that Alex died of head trauma due to a ceiling fan. Alex ended up having a different death, but the tattoo artist in Final Destination: Bloodlines wasn’t so lucky.
Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Reference To Alex’s Unused Death Is Good News For The Sequel
Final Destination Seems To Be Going Back To Its Roots
As mentioned above, Death has to get very creative in the Final Destination movies to claim the lives of its targets and make them look like accidents (though very weird ones). The deaths in the first movie are strange but still somewhat believable in their creative mess, but as the saga continued, the deaths got more and more exaggerated. The point of the Final Destination movies is to have shocking and creative deaths that would be very hard to explain to those unaware of Death’s plans, but even in that, there’s a limit to how bizarre they can be and still work.
The death at the tattoo shop in the Final Destination: Bloodlines teaser trailer is reminiscent of the deaths in the first movie: creative, believable, and horrifying. What Final Destination: Bloodlines needs for a successful return is going back to the saga’s roots in terms of bizarre and creative deaths, without going so far that they will provoke laughter at how unbelievable they are instead of shock and unlocking new fears.
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Final Destination 2 Has The Saga’s Only Two Survivors
Final Destination’s ending showed that Death’s plan can’t be cheated and Alex and Clear were still in danger, yet there was still some hope that they would be spared. Final Destination 2 crushed all hope with the reveal of Alex’s death and Clear’s death happening on screen – however, this movie has the only two known survivors of the saga, though there’s a catch. Kim saves herself and Burke by drowning herself and later being brought back to life, and there’s no mention of their deaths in the movies that followed.
However, a bonus edition of the Final Destination 3 DVD includes a feature called “Choose Your Fate” that shows a newspaper revealing Kim and Burke were killed after being run over by a Camaro that knocked them into a nearby woodchipper. However, as this is a feature, it’s debated if it can be considered canon. It’s to be seen if any characters in Final Destination: Bloodlines will successfully cheat Death, but the deaths are already looking very creative.
Sources: IMSDb, ComicBook.
