FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES
.Final Destination Bloodlines is a 2025 American supernatural horror films directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor, based on a story developed by them and Jon Watts. It is the sixth installment in the final destination film series following final destination 5 (2011). The film stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana as a college student who inherits visions of a previous premonition that averted a deadly structural failure in 1968 from her dying grandmother and is warned that Death is coming for her family. Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, and Tony Todd appear in supporting roles.
After the commercial success of Final Destination 5, a new film entered development, described as a "re-imagining" of the franchise. In March 2020, series producer Craig Perry said the film would be set "in the world of first responders" and in October that year, series creator Jeffrey Reddick confirmed it was the sixth film in the franchise. In January 2022, the film was planned to be released on the streaming service HBO Max, with Lipovsky and Stein as directors and Busick joining Taylor as co-writer for the film. In March 2024, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that the film would instead receive a theatrical release. Filming took place in Vancouver from March to May 2024, following delays due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Final Destination Bloodlines was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 16, 2025. It received generally favorable reviews from critics, becoming the best-reviewed film in the franchise, and has grossed $116.9 million worldwide.
Plot
In 1968, Iris Campbell and her fiancé Paul attend the opening ceremony of the Skyview, a high-rise restaurant tower. At the dance party, Iris has a premonition of a chandelier's shard cracking the glass floor beneath the guests while a gas leak explodes, collapsing the tower and killing everyone.
In the present, college student Stefani Reyes suffers from recurring nightmares about the collapse. Realizing that the nightmares are linked to her maternal grandmother, Iris, she returns home seeking answers and is greeted by her father, Marty, and her estranged brother, Charlie. The siblings visit their uncle Howard, aunt Brenda, and cousins Erik, Julia, and Bobby. When Stefani asks Howard about Iris, he explains that Iris subjected him and Stefani's mother Darlene to an overprotective upbringing, then became reclusive, causing Darlene to abandon the family. Brenda helps Stefani find letters from Iris, leading her to a fortified cabin where Iris now lives.
Terminally ill, Iris tells Stefani she disrupted Death's design by preventing the tower's collapse, saving the lives of everyone there that night. As a result, Death began killing the survivors in the order they would've died at the Skyview, along with their descendants who were never meant to exist. Paul later died in an accident, prompting Iris to document Death's omens in a book and live in isolation to prevent it from going after her family. Though Stefani is skeptical, Iris leaves the cabin to give her the book and allows herself to be impaled by a weather vane to prove her claims.
After Iris's funeral, Darlene returns, but Stefani resents her for being absent since childhood. Stefani reads Iris' book and sees a reference to someone Iris knew named JB, who found someone that defeated Death. During a family barbecue, a chain reaction causes Howard to be killed by a lawn mower. That night, another chain reaction causes a fire at Erik's tattoo shop, but he survives due to his leather clothing. Stefani and Charlie meet Erik on the road to protect him from street hazards, but Julia is crushed to death by a garbage truck's compactor. The family realizes that Death is coming for them in order of age, starting with Howard's branch of the family before moving onto Darlene's. Marty and Brenda are spared, as they are not blood relatives, and Erik is spared due to being the result of Brenda's affair.
Darlene suggests visiting JB at a hospital, who turns out to be William Bludworth. Present at the Skyview as a child and the last to die in the premonition, he reveals that he spent most of his life exchanging ideas with Iris to learn Death's rules. He explains two ways to defeat Death: taking another life or dying and being revived, citing Kimberly Corman as a successful example. Retiring from his job as the coroner, Bludworth leaves the hospital, expecting to succumb to his own illness after Iris's bloodline dies, and wishes the family luck before departing.
Erik convinces Bobby to employ Bludworth's second strategy, where he feeds Bobby a snack containing nuts, which he is allergic to, so he could be subsequently revived. The plan backfires when a malfunctioning MRI machine rips Erik's piercings out, pulls him in, and impales him with a wheelchair. A coil from a vending machine is also launched and drilled into Bobby's head. Despite Erik seemingly being safe, Stefani reasons that his intervention trying to help Bobby put him on the list too. Stefani, Charlie and Darlene decide to drive to Iris's cabin, intending to hide from Death. The RV crashes, and Stefani's seatbelt jams. The cabin explodes after a chain reaction, sending the RV into water as Stefani begins to drown. Darlene saves Charlie and pleads with him to rescue Stefani before a lamp post bisects her. Charlie breaks the seatbelt and successfully resuscitates Stefani with CPR.
A week later, the father of Charlie's prom date tells the siblings that Stefani was not dead when Charlie revived her since her heart never stopped. At that moment, a train derails into the neighborhood, causing several logs to fall onto Stefani and Charlie, killing them.
