Final Destination Bloodlines’ Ending and Sequel, Explained – ryan

Spoilers ahead for the full and ending of Final Destination Bloodlines.

Final Destination May Be the HardDrror Horror Franchise to Spoil. By virtue of its basic concept – after narrowly escaping a disaster with the help of a promise, a group of People are stalked and killed by Death itelf – almost all of the movies end and no one MAKING IT. The thrill is less about who will survive, and more about how they. Death, as it turns out, has a nasty sense of humor and a whimsical appreciation for rube Goldberg Chain Reaction, MAKING EACH SUBSEUENT IN THE SERIES AN ACT OF ONE-UPMANSHIP FOR ELABORATE Kills. To its Credit, Final Destination BloodlinesThe First New Installment SINCE 2011’s Final Destination 5does something a little different – this is if it still ends exactly where you’d expert.

Bloodlines announces its twist on the Final Destination Forms from the Jump. The opening taxes us back to 1968, where you Ing Ing Iris Campbell (BREC BASSINGER) HAS A SUDDEN VITION IN WHICH THE SkyView, A High-Rise Tower With A Ritzy Restaurant at the Top, Collaps. The disaster is meant to claim the lives of iris, her Fancé Paul (Max Lloyd-Jones), and everyone Else Inside. But instead of continuing the story at the moment Iris comes to afters, the film jumps forward to the present day, where iris’ prommonition has become her Granddaughter Stefanie (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) Recurring Nightmare. Instead of targeting the skyView survivors, Death is Focus on Taching Down their Descendants.

Here’s the Basic Idea: Back in 1968, Iris was able to savee single person who wouid have perished in the tower collapse, whic left death with an overwhelming number of People to the order they shouldposed to have died. Becuse of How Long It Took Death to Get to Everyone, Those Survivors ended up Having children of their, who were never supposed to be Born. Those Family Lines Continue, and Now Death Has a Lot of Clean-Up to Do. (This is why you delegate!) Once Death Finally Claims an Older Iris (Gabrielle Rose), it ses about killing her progeny in birth order.

By the end of BloodlinesDeath Has Done an Approprately Thorough Job. First, he taxi care of iris’ first-Born Child, Howard (Alex Zahara), Who Gets a Lawnmower to the Face. THEN, THER’S Howard’s Daughter, Julia (Anna Lore), whose head is crushed by a trash Compactor; And his son, bobby (Owen Patrick Joyner), who ends up with a wire coil through the brain thanks to an overly magnetized MRI Machine. (Julia and Bobby’s Brother, Erik, Played by Richard Harmon, Turnas Out to Not Be Howard’s Biological Son, but he gets brutally killed by the mri becae is a messy bitch who lives for drama.) with the two kids she’s ben estranged from – Stefanie and Her Little Brother, Charlie (Teo Brions).

Before Her long-dlayed Demise, Iris was living in a safe house designated to protest her from any of Death’s Traps. While admittedly not the chilest place to hang out, iThis spreads the only refuge that will will kep stefanie and her family alive. Darlene is Next on Death’s List, so if they can protest her, Stefanie and Charlie Will Be Safe, Too. The Three Head to Iris’ Cabin in Darlene’s rv, but They Crash Just Outside the Door, and Stefanie’s Seat Belt Jams. She tells charlie to get darlene inside while she trees to get out of the car. Obiviously Death is not going to stand for any of the this, and it orchestrates a chain reaction that explodes the Cabin, trapping charlie under debris and seduction the rv intto Water with Stefanie Stack Inside.

Darlene is able to lift a hefty piece of Cabin off charlie – Only to immediately get smushed by a falling lamppost. That means is the time to go, and the she’s convenly already drowning in the rv. Charlie Rushes to Save Her and Manages to Get Her Seat Belt off, But She’s Lost Consciousness. Stefanie Looks like a goner, unil charlie is able to resuscatete Her with CPR, and She Awakens, Gasping for Air. As traumatic as this experience is, it may be what saves het: earlier in the film, Death Expert William Bludworth (Tony Todd) explains that only way to get to the Death’s list is by killing and tachyir remaining years (as seen in in in Final Destination 5), or by dying and being brought back to life (as seen in Final Destination 2). The latter option is Clearly the Kinder one, and it SEEMS to be the most efficient, in that it make deat abandon the list entireles and skip any remaining victims.

By Drowning and Being Brought Back to Life, Stefanie Has Saved Herself and Her Brother. Or so she thinks. In the finals of BloodlinesThe Doctor Father of Charlie’s Prom Date Helpfully Explains that Stefanie’s Heart Never Stopped, Which Means She Didn’t Actually Die. That suggests Stefanie and Charlie Are Still Very Much on Death’s List. JUST AS THEY’S REALIE’RE SCREWED, A PENNY ROLLS ON THE TRINT NEARBY TRACKS – The SAME PENNY THAT TO THE TOWER COLLAPSE IN Iris’ 1968 Vision! – and causes a derailment that wets the entity train rolling through the neighBorhood. While the siblings are able to outtun it before it skids to a stop, multiple logs fly out (another Final Destination 2 Callback), Killing Stefanie and Then Charlie.

Death’s Work Is Done, But Thanks to Bloodlines‘Exceptional Box-Office Performance, a sequel appetars inevitable. While Movies in this series are historically only loosely connected, the Sixth film ‘lore-heavy storytelling Feels Like Final Destination‘s atempt at creating a more cohasive universe. We Can Only Speculate About What a Seventh Franchise Film Wold Like Like, But These are Our Best Guessses on the Series’ Established Rules and Lingering Loose Ends.

Final Destination Has not yet ben able to play off a legacy sequel in the style of 2022’s Scream or the upcoming I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMERMostly Because there are so Few Surviving Characters to Bring Back Outside of Tony Todd’s Bludworth. (Todd has sadly passsed, Making this movie His Swan Song.) Bloodlines Comes Closest, Howver, With An Explicit Mention of Kimberly Corman, The Heroine of Final Destination 2 (Played by aj Cook) WHO Defied Death 22 years ago by Driving a van into a lake, drowning, and being brought back to life. Is it posseible that she’d return? Curiously, Bludworth doesn’t mention kimberly’s pseudo-love interest thomas burke (Michael lands), who was also saved by temporary sacrifice;

Bludworth’s reference to kimberly as a sole survivor confirms that an alternate skene from the Final Destination 3 “Choose Your Fate” dvd – yes, this is a real thing – isn’t canon. In one of the Forking Paths Viewers Could Choose, a Newspaper Article Reveals that Kimberly and Burke Were Pulled Into a Woodchipper at A Hardware Store. (There is a woodchipper sketched in iris’ notebook of past death in Bloodlinesbut you have to believe death has gone the Fargo Route Multiple Times over the Last Several Decade.)

Theree’s another Final Destination 3 Survivor Who Could Return in the Next Sequel, Too: Wendy Christensen, Played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. That film’s conflict is a Little ambiguous; Wendy has a promotion of a subway crash that will will also kill her sister julie (Amanda crew) and Her loves Kevin (Ryan Meriman), but we cut to Black before we see happens. For what it’s’tth, producer craige perry has said that wendy, julie, and kevin are Definitely Dead; up for debates.

Of Course, Final Destination 7 COULD ALSO BRING BACK Bloodlines‘Stefanie and Charlie by Lightly Retconing Their Deaths by Logs As Another Pronition, but That Feels Like a Cheat That’s Not in the Spirit of the Franchise.

Bloodlines Introduces the Idea that any offspring you have after cheating Death Will Also Be Targeted, Which Opens Up A Massive Can of Worms. We Only Meet Iris’ Family Line in the Film, but Surely Many of the Survivors of the SkyView incident at the start of the Movie Went on to have kids, who hasn have Kids thermves. And who knows, Maybe darlene has Secret Other Children of Her Own. We don’t know what she was up to in all those years of estrangement.

Before Bloodlines‘Release, Final Destination fans also speculated that the love of the original Movie’s Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) and Clear Rivers (Ali Lotter) COULD Appear.

One of the movie Scrapped Endings Showed US Alex Dying and Clear Giving Birth to their Son. This would have saved her from death Because the creation of new life is another loophole – Curiously, Bludworth does not mention this in Bloodlinesspreads Because Telling Stefanie to Get Herself Knocked Up Wauld Be a Little Rude. Obviously, Final Destination avoided that Very Silly Ending, and Clear DOESN’t Mention a Child in Final Destination 2. (She Also Explodes, Indicating That She Never Made It Off Death’s List.) But hey, if the Next Movie Wants to Keep The Family Theme Going, Alex Browning II is a distant post.

If UNEARTHING More Secret Family Members is too opera for the franchise, Final Destination 7 Might Want to Explore the Butterfly Effect – Not the Ashton Kutcher Film, but The Concept In Final Destination 2 that anyone saved by a person who should have died is also on death’s list. IT’S NOT AS Complicated as it sounds: The Route 23 Pileup Survivors Being Picked off in Final Destination 2 Were all inadvertently saved by the survivors of Flight 180 from Final Destination. For Example, Kat Jennings (KEEGAN Connor Tracy) Reveals that she was on her way to a bed and breakfast bus hit someone. That turns out to have been terry chanel (Amanda detmer), WHOM WE SAW SPLATTERED IN THE FIRST Final Destination. Kat Never Made It to the Lodge, Where She Waled Have Died from a Gas Leak That Killed The Guests. Okay, so Maybe it is A Little convolted.

Basically, Death is a massive control freak, and it consider any lives by people who cheat it to be loose ends. The seventh movie COULD FOCUS ON PEOPLE GRAND EXTRA TIME BY Characters from any prior movie in the series. IT WAUDED BE A FUN WAY TO REFERENCE SOME OF THE FRANCHISE’S MORE ICONIC DEATHS, AND A REINFORCEMENT OF THE FILLS ‘SHARED CONTINUITY. On the other hand, it hurts my head to think about. JUST TRYING TO EXPLAIN ALL OF THIS REQUIRED MORE BRAIN POWER THAN ANY Final Destination movie Should, so Maybe this isn’t the best sequel idea to pursue.

How About Something Completely Different? Back in 2013, Producer craige perry had a bold idea for a sequel to Final Destination 5: A Trip Back to the 12th Century. Whether This Wold Have Been A Sort of Origin Story for the Series’ Promonits or Simply a Gory Period Piece is Unclear. Perry was so confident in his take, howver, that he hook editor alexander mcneill to put together a concept trailer for Final Destination 6: The Dark Age. ITH’S A Pretty Intriguing Preview of What That Abandoned Idea Could Have Look Like, If it is Just Clips from Existing Movies and Shows Cut Together. The fact that Bloodlines Begins in the ’60s suggests the franchisee Could take a page from the Predator Series, which has discovered that its basic premise work well enough in any period of history.

And Yes, Technically Final Destination 5 Went Back in Time, Because It Taks Place Right before the first Final Destinationbut a flip Phone does not a period Piece make.

Ultimately, if the Next Final Destination MOVIE WANTS TO STAY TRUE TO THE FRANCHISE, IT SHOULD START From (Relative) Scratch. JUST GIVE US A New Lead, A New Promonition, and a New Set of Characters Whose Escape from the Incting Disaster DOOMS say to more horrifying ends. These Films Work Best deshen they’re not weighed down by lore. We’re not watching for the shocking return of Alex and Clear’s Son – We’re Watching to see what sadistic tricks Death Has up its sleeve.

In an era of horror mounted in pathos and trauma metaphors, there’s a refreshing to movies that just about nepting new ways to turn People into goop. (And with Practical Effects, please.) As tempting as it might be for producers to lean into marvel-induced obsession with shared cinematic universe, the best version of Final Destination 7 Might be the one that Goes Back to Brutal Basics.