Final Destination: Bloodlines (15)
Cast: Tony Todd, Brec Bassinger, April Telek, Kaitlyn Santa JuanaGenre: Horror
Author(s): Guy Busick, Lori Evans Taylor
Director: Adam B Stein, Zach Lipovsky
Release Date: 14/05/2025
Running Time: 110mins
Country: US
Year: 2025
The horror franchise goes back to the beginning to expose the chain of events that set the deadly curse in motion, directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B Stein. College student Stefanie Reyes is plagued by a violent recurring nightmare that suggests her entire family could be cursed. Stefanie is determined to break the tragic cycle and she heads back to her hometown to track down the one person who knows the shocking truth.
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Final Destination Bloodlines (15) Film Review from LondonNet
Dedicated to the memory of actor Tony Todd, who has portrayed soothsaying mortician William Bludworth in the Final Destination films since the ghoulish franchise took flight 25 years ago, a belated sixth chapter directed by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky goes back to the beginning to expose the chain of events that set the deadly curse in motion. Cue a nerve-jangling set piece inside a 494-feet tall restaurant tower, which completed construction months ahead of deadline and is clearly signposted as a deathtrap before the gore flows freely in Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor’s squelchy screenplay…
Johnny Cash’s Ring Of Fire trills from a parking valet’s transistor radio and a totemic bad penny is plucked from a watery grave, foreshadowing the domino rally of devastation, evisceration and incineration that has become the series’ trademark. Stein and Lipovsky’s picture is more of the same, replete with visual callbacks to previous stomach-churning instalments.
Like its predecessors, Final Destination Bloodlines gleefully encourages us to predict how each character will meet their grisly demise from a dizzying array of potentially lethal props littered around each location. A summer barbecue in a residential back garden and a bout of after-hours inkwork in a tattoo and body-piercing parlour offer seemingly limitless options.
High-achieving college student Stefanie Reyes (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) is plagued by violent nightmares of her grandmother Iris (Brec Bassinger) more than 50 years ago and a disaster at the Skyview Tower where Iris’s sweetheart Paul (Max Lloyd-Jones) proposed on bended knee. Unable to sleep or focus during lectures, Stefanie is placed on academic probation and risks losing her scholarship. In desperation, she travels home to reconnect with her father Marty (Tinpo Lee) and younger brother Charlie (Teo Briones) and learn more about her family’s past.
Stefanie ignores the pleas of her uncle Howard (Alex Zahara) and aunt Brenda (April Telek) and tracks down Iris (Gabrielle Rose) to a safehouse in the wilderness. The sleep-deprived teenager learns about the tragic curse – “Death is coming for our family” – and attempts to warn incredulous kin that the Grim Reaper will pay them a visit in chronological order by birth. Thus, cousins Erik (Richard Harmon), Julia (Anna Lore) and Bobby (Owen Patrick Joyner) nervously look over their shoulder while Stefanie tracks down the one person who has successfully evaded the jinx.
Final Destination Bloodlines stitches a flimsy narrative thread through the series timeline to connect the premonitions of an exploding airplane, motorway pile-up, derailed rollercoaster, race car circuit crash and bridge collapse. Special effects and make up don’t stint on the ruptured flesh and innards. Characters’ ham-fisted attempt to cheat the prophecy inside a hospital – surely the safest refuge – elicits the biggest whoops and cheers. Within staggering distance of a mortuary slab, the carnage is to die for.
– Kim Hu
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