Final Destination: BloodlinesSlashes Its Way to Franchise Glory
So let’s talk about the movie that everyone’s buzzing about— Final Destination: Bloodlines . Yep, the long-dormant franchise is officially back, and not only did it come back with a vengeance, it’s crushing the box office and actually managing to impress both fans and critics alike. I didn’t think I’d say this about a Final Destination film again, but here we are.
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Opening this weekend, Bloodlines scored a jaw-dropping $43 million at the domestic box office, easily securing the number one spot and setting a new franchise record for opening weekend grosses. That’s no small feat, especially considering it's been over a decade since the last installment. Even more impressive? It made $20 million on Friday alone, with $5.5 million just from Thursday night previews. That’s better than The Nun and almost neck-and-neck with some of Warner Bros.' biggest horror hits this year. Clearly, audiences were ready for Death to return.
What makes Bloodlines such a standout is how it reinvents the familiar formula while still giving fans exactly what they came for—creative, horrifyingly elaborate death sequences that somehow manage to be both ridiculous and mesmerizing. But this time, there’s an emotional core that earlier entries didn’t fully explore. The story introduces us to Stefani Reyes, played by Kaitlyn Santa Juana, who begins having haunting visions connected not to her, but to her grandmother's past. Yep, we’re getting multigenerational death omens now. This adds a fascinating "family curse" twist to the story and raises the stakes beyond just a group of teenagers trying to outrun fate.
And let’s not gloss over the production quality here. Bloodlines dials down the camp and amps up the atmosphere. The tone is cooler, sleeker, and more emotionally grounded. Critics are actually responding positively—this is the first Final Destination to get certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s kind of wild for a franchise built around Rube Goldberg–style fatalities. But the performances are solid, especially from Gabrielle Rose as Iris, the grandmother hiding from Death for decades in a bunker. Her line—“Death doesn’t like it when you fuck with his plans”—might just go down as one of the best in the series.
The franchise has always leaned into the idea that death has a plan, and if you somehow escape it, it’ll come back around, methodically, mercilessly. But Bloodlines takes it a step further—it doesn’t just punish those who cheated death, but their descendants too. Death, apparently, holds grudges.
And audiences are clearly eating it up. With a killer mix of nostalgia, clever reinvention, and some of the best death scenes since the original, Final Destination: Bloodlines proves that this franchise still has plenty of life left in it—even if its characters don’t.
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