Final Destination Bloodlines


Final Destination Bloodlines is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, and written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor. It is the sixth in the Final Destination film series, and stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana as a college student named Stefani Reyes, who inherits visions of a 1969 premonition that averted a deadly skyscraper failure from her dying grandmother Iris, who warns Stefani that Death is coming for their family. Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, and Tony Todd appear in supporting roles.
After the commercial success of the previous film, a sixth 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". In January 2022, the film was scheduled for release on the streaming service HBO Max, with Lipovsky and Stein directing and Busick joining Taylor as co-writer. 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 caused by the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Final Destination Bloodlines was released in the United States on May 16, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $316 million, becoming both the best-reviewed and highest-grossing installment in the series. In August 2025, it was announced that a sequel was in development.

Plot

In 1969, Iris Campbell and her boyfriend Paul attend the grand opening of the Sky View, a high-rise restaurant tower. Iris has a premonition of a chain of events that causes the tower to collapse, killing everyone inside. She warns the attendees and prevents the collapse but, in doing so, disrupts Death's design.
Fifty-five years later, Iris and Paul's granddaughter, college student Stefani Reyes, is plagued by recurring nightmares of the averted incident and returns home seeking answers. She is greeted by her father, Marty, and younger brother Charlie. The siblings visit their uncle Howard, aunt Brenda, and cousins Erik, Julia, and Bobby. When Stefani asks about Iris, Howard explains that he and Stefani's mother, Darlene, were raised in an overprotective, isolated environment, contributing to family tensions and Darlene's absence. Brenda helps Stefani find letters from Iris that lead to a fortified cabin where Iris now lives, terminally ill with cancer. Iris recounts the Sky View incident and explains that, after she prevented the collapse, Death began taking the lives of the survivors in the order they should have died, along with their descendants. After Paul's death, Iris documented Death's actions in a notebook to protect her family. Stefani doubts her grandmother's story and tries to leave, but Iris follows her outside, gives her the notebook, and allows herself to be impaled by a weather vane to prove her claims.
At Iris's funeral, Darlene returns, but Stefani resents her absence since she abandoned her and Charlie during their childhood. Reading the notebook, Stefani finds a reference to "JB", who discovered someone who defeated Death. During a family barbecue, a chain of events kills Howard with his lawnmower in front of the family. Following Howard's funeral, Stefani tries to warn everyone that Death is coming, but they are reluctant to believe her. A fire breaks out at Erik's tattoo shop, but he survives thanks to his leather jacket. The next day, Stefani and Charlie attempt to protect Erik, believing he is next, but Julia is crushed by a garbage truck's compactor instead. A shame-fueled Brenda discloses that Erik was the product of an affair and is not part of Iris's bloodline, explaining why he was spared.
Darlene suggests tracking down "JB", who turns out to be William Bludworth. Present at the Sky View as a child with his mother and the last to die in Iris's original premonition, he explains that Iris found him years later, and they learned about Death's rules together. He explains to the family that there are two ways to defeat Death: taking another life or being clinically dead and then resuscitated, citing Kimberly Corman as an example. Bludworth departs, expecting his own cancer to claim him after Iris's bloodline ends, and wishes the family luck. Erik persuades Bobby to attempt the second strategy by triggering a fatal allergic reaction with nuts and then reviving him. The plan backfires when a malfunctioning MRI machine rips out Erik's piercings, pulls him in, and a wheelchair impales and crushes him before a coil from a vending machine launches into Bobby's head. Stefani, Charlie and Darlene drive to Iris's cabin to conceal Darlene from Death. They crash through the front gate, and Stefani's seat belt jams. The cabin explodes, sending Darlene's RV into the water, where Stefani begins to drown. Darlene saves Charlie before being crushed by a lamp post, and Charlie rescues and resuscitates Stefani.
One week later, the father of Charlie's prom date, a physician, informs them that Stefani was never clinically dead because she was resuscitated before cardiac arrest. Moments later, a timber-carrying freight train derails nearby, and its cargo fatally crushes the siblings.

Cast

  • Kaitlyn Santa Juana as Stefani Reyes, a college student haunted by nightmares of a tower collapse
  • Teo Briones as Charlie Reyes, Stefani's younger brother who is a high school senior
  • Richard Harmon as Erik Campbell, one of Stefani's cousins who works at a tattoo parlor
  • Owen Patrick Joyner as Bobby Campbell, one of Stefani's cousins who has a peanut allergy
  • Rya Kihlstedt as Darlene Campbell, Stefani and Charlie's estranged mother and Iris's daughter
  • Anna Lore as Julia Campbell, one of Stefani's cousins and a former friend
  • Gabrielle Rose as Iris Campbell, Stefani's grandmother who had a premonition in 1969
  • * Brec Bassinger as young Iris
  • Tony Todd as William Bludworth
  • * Jayden Oniah as young Bludworth
  • Tinpo Lee as Marty Reyes, Stefani and Charlie's father
  • April Telek as Brenda Campbell, Stefani's aunt
  • Alex Zahara as Howard Campbell, Stefani's uncle and Iris's son
  • Max Lloyd-Jones as Paul Campbell, Iris's husband
  • Brenna Llewellyn as Val, Stefani's college roommate
Yvette Ferguson, Mark Brandon, Natasha Burnett, Travis Turner, Bernard Cuffling, Megan Hui and Noah Bromley appear as survivors of the Sky View tower collapse.

Production

Before the release of Final Destination 5 in 2011, Final Destination series actor Tony Todd said that if the film were successful, two sequels would be filmed back-to-back. In January 2019, New Line Cinema announced a new installment was in development. Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan wrote the initial script, described as a reimagining of the franchise; they ultimately received off-screen credit for additional literary material. In March 2020, series producer Craig Perry said the film would be set "in the world of first responders" and feature EMTs, firefighters, and police officers. When asked if it was in the same canon as the previous installments, he said, "Reboot is probably too strong of a word... it makes it sound like they're going to change everything, but it's definitely a Final Destination movie".
In October 2021, Lori Evans Taylor was reported as the new writer for the film. In January 2022, HBO Max announced it would distribute the film; Jon Watts joined the project as a producer, and Taylor was confirmed to have written the screenplay alongside Guy Busick. In July, Jeffrey Reddick said the film would differ from the franchise's formula. In September that year, Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein were selected from more than two hundred candidates to direct the film. During a pitch meeting with New Line executives and producers, they staged a mock accident inspired by the series using prerecorded footage and visual effects; they were subsequently hired.
In September 2023, Todd officially signed on to reprise his role as William Bludworth, and the film was said to explore the character's backstory. Despite Todd's death in November 2024, Warner Bros. confirmed that he had completed all of his scenes. The film is dedicated to him.
In March 2024, it was announced that Warner Bros. Pictures would release the film theatrically in 2025. Most of the cast was also revealed. Seventy-one-year-old stuntwoman Yvette Ferguson came out of retirement for a fire stunt in the premonition scene; director Lipovsky described it as a potential world record for the oldest person set on fire on camera. In developing the production design, the directors used circular motifs to suggest Death's ubiquity, beginning with the circular architecture of the Sky View Tower and the penny that undoes it.
Image:Museum of Vancouver.jpg|thumb|The opening disaster set at the Sky View Tower in Cloverdale, New York, used the Museum of Vancouverlocated in Vancouver, British Columbiaas the tower's base.
Principal photography was scheduled to take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, from July to October 2023, but production was delayed in mid-July due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. With Christian Sebaldt as cinematographer, filming instead took place in Vancouver from March 4 to May 13, 2024. Tim Wynn was hired to compose the score in December 2024.

Music

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to Final Destination Bloodlines was released by Lakeshore Records on the same day as the film's release. The soundtrack contains 32 tracks composed by Tim Wynn. It is the third Final Destination soundtrack album to be released.
Commercial songs from the film, but not on the soundtrack