After 25 years, horror fans are in for a chilling new twist with the highly anticipated Final Destination: Bloodlines, set to premiere in theatres on May 16, 2025.
Director Zach Lipovsky, who co-helmed the film with Adam Stein, recently revealed that the sixth installment of the iconic franchise will break away from its traditional formula, reported Deadline.
“For this film, the first premonition takes place in 1969,” Lipovsky teased. “There are lots of deaths during the premonition, which is what normally happens in the opening sequence of a Final Destination movie, but we then come out of the eye of a different person in the modern day. That’s new.”
The director hinted that this bold narrative shift will “throw fans for a loop” and keep audiences on the edge of their seats.
“As moviegoers, we love it when you have to lean forward in your seat because a movie is being unpredictable,” he added. “We switch up a lot of the predictability, including who’s going to die next and how they are going to die. You might think it’s one person, but it’s not.”
A chilling trailer recently dropped, showing a grisly death involving a tattoo artist who gets hung by his nose ring on a ceiling fan and burned alive, setting a haunting tone for the film, reported People.
Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, Final Destination: Bloodlines revisits Death’s twisted sense of justice. The story follows college student Stefanie, who, haunted by a recurring violent nightmare, returns home in a desperate attempt to break a generational curse and save her family from an inevitable doom.
The original Final Destination film, released in 2000, starred Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Seann William Scott, and Tony Todd, and became a pop culture phenomenon with its unique take on death and fate.
With Bloodlines, the franchise promises to deliver unexpected thrills while paying homage to the roots that made Final Destination a horror classic.