Cast:Kaitlyn Santa Juana as Stephanie, Teo Briones as charlie, Rya Kihlstedt as Darlene, Richard Harmon as Eric, Owen Patrick Joyner as Bobby, Anna Lore as julia, Alex Zahara as Howard, Tony Todd as William John Bloodworth, Brec Bassinger as Young Iris, Gabrielle Rose as iris

Written By:Guy Busick (Ready Or not), Lori Evan’s Taylor (Cellar Door), Jon Watts (Spider-Man: homecoming)

Directed By:Zach Liprovsky and Adam Stein

Notable producers: Toby Emmerich, Jon Watts

Original Score By: Tim Wynn

Studio: Warner Bros/new Line Cinema

Release Year: 2025

Runtime:110 minutes

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What Is It?: The sixth installment in the Final Destination franchise bookends the series, introducing us to a horrific tragedy in the past that may have set forth a domino effect of death that worked its way through the casts of the other films, and now seeks to finish its task. In Bloodlines, death is coming, whether you see it or not.

What Works: Horror fans will love the menagerie of gore in store. Final destination became more about topping itself with each film, in terms of elaborate deaths, and scenes that make you squirm. Here they basically embrace the idea you’re here to watch people get killed off one by one in creative ways. Previous films have given you the illusion of someone managing to cheat death, or have it skip over them, but while this brushes by that concept, it is far more interested in just relentless gore. Whether the death is earned, silly, scary, stupid, or mortifying, it does not care. Death is coming. It’s also the final performance of series regular Tony Todd.

What Doesn’t Work: One death was a bit much. And, it happened to one of the people it shouldn’t have happened to, in the least spoilery way possible. Otherwise, I did think previous iterations did a bit of a better job of character development, but this one has its own identity. One character is hiding from death, in a house that looks super dangerous as it is. This is a franchise where characters have died in some pretty amazing jump scares, but every death is pretty well telegraphed. So, if you like to be surprised, this isn’t that kind of film.

The Audio description: A terrific track that embraces the gory kills one after another. People die in absurd and horrifying ways, maimed, splattering, and getting crushed for your viewing pleasure.

Why You Might Like It: Gore. you came here for gore. if you enjoyed the previous films, this one is certainly on par, if not better than some of the sequels.

Why You Might Not Like it: more than any film in the series, this one is extremely obvious about the order of death sequences. So, if you like to be surprised, or want that jump scare kill, this really is not that film. this is the film where they set up this wonderfully complex path full of dominoes, and you can see where it begins and ends, but the fun is still in watching every domino fall.

Final Thoughts: Final Destination: Bloodlines might be trying to close the door on the franchise, but unintentionally it ends up giving it a fresh new life and identity that could sustain more sequels.

Fresh: 7.9/10