Footage from Final Destination: Bloodlines has been revealed at CinemaCon. The upcoming movie will be the sixth installment in the popular Final Destination movie franchise, and the first since 2011’s Final Destination 5, and pits yet more unsuspecting victims against Death’s pursuit. The movie focuses on a college girl who keeps having visions of her family’s death and returns home to find answers. The movie stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana, alongside Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joynor, Gabrielle Rose, and Tony Todd, who reprises his role from the previous movies. The film will release on May 16.
Fresh footage from Final Destination: Bloodlines dropped at CinemaCon, where ScreenRant’s Mansoor Mithaiwala was in attendance. The footage revealed the gory demise of two brothers trying to cheat death. Read a description of the footage shown at CinemaCon below:
The two brothers are walking down the hallway in a hospital. They’re wondering how they can choose to kill someone, not knowing how much time those people have left. Then they look to the side and they see an NICU and briefly question killing a baby…very briefly.
Then they go to a vending machine and choose something to eat – presumably to feed to one of them to kill, revive, and cheat death – and the bar doesn’t fall through the chute. So one of the brothers starts punching the vending machine, which cracks and hurts his arm. Then they try to tilt the machine, which almost falls on the other brother.
They go into a room and one of the brothers leaves. The brother that remains in the room starts to notice something happening: the MRI machine in the room turns on by mistake. He gets nervous, knowing something is wrong. At that point, the second brother comes back inside with a wheelchair. They start planning how the brother in the room, who’s now sitting on the wheelchair and eating the vending machine snack, is going to die and be resuscitated. (It’s ᴀssumed that he’s allergic to something in the food.)
All of this is happening while the MRI is powering up in the background. The brother (named Bobby) starts to react to eating the food. The other brother’s phone gets pulled to the MRI screen and hits something, turning the MRI on overdrive. That brother starts to get pulled apart. The wheelchair smacks him in the back and launches him towards the MRI, and it begins crushing him, bending his body into the machine.
The other brother, Bobby, crawls over, grabs an EPI pen, and injects himself. As he tries to walk away, a metal piece from the vending machine launches towards the machine and goes through Bobby’s head. Both brothers are now ᴅᴇᴀᴅ.
What This Means For Final Destination: Bloodlines
The Installment Looks To Be More Of The Same…With A Twist
The Final Destination franchise has a reputation for ridiculous deaths, coming up with increasingly inventive, if far-fetched, ways of being able to kill off its characters. Judging by the footage, Bloodlines looks to me more of the same kind of concept, but with a twist – some people cheat death, only to then wind up dying in increasingly convoluted and grisly ways. This is certainly formulaic, but it seems to work for the franchise, and this sixth installment would be expected to lean heavily on the franchise legacy.
There has been over a decade since the last Final Destination movie, and this could be seen as an opportunity to reignite the franchise and take the narrative in a fresh direction.
The upcoming Final Destination: Bloodlines is set to have more of a familial angle than previous movies, and the twist that Death is specifically targeting the Campbell family (due to Iris Campbell cheating Death decades earlier) could be a game-changer. This could mean that all the previous characters in other movies could have been targeted for the same reasons, and this might be something that the franchise looks to explore in future installments. While it is likely that Bloodlines is going to be very much focused on stylistic kills over substance storytelling, this could be an important narrative twist.
Our Verdict On Final Destination: Bloodlines & Its Place In the Franchise
The Movie Could Be Reignite The Franchise
Up to now, the Final Destination’s rules for death have been fairly well established, but Bloodlines could change this. It has been over a decade since the last Final Destination movie, and this could be seen as an opportunity to reignite the franchise and take the narrative in a fresh direction. If the footage is anything to go by, the movie will show more fun and stylish death scenes, but there could some interesting storyteling. Final Destination: Bloodlines should be plenty for legacy fans to enjoy, while aficionados of far-fetched horror will likely also take something from the movie.
