Well, this leads me to a few weeks ago, when I was actually just minding my own business and taking Warner Bros. 2025 live blog notes when the studio decided to show off new footage from Final Destination: Bloodlines at CinemaCon.

After 14 years, the franchise returned with Final Destination Bloodlines on May 16. The new installment serves as both a prequel and a sequel, following Iris ( Brec Bassinger) as she saves everyone dining atop the Skyview restaurant, before her descendants begin to feel the consequences.

The short answer: yes, even the freak accident franchise's most out-there deaths are totally plausible. Few contemporary movies have left audiences with images quite as visceral as the one that opens “ Final Destination 2,” one that has been making drivers avoid logging trucks on the freeway since 2003.

There is no time wasted in getting to the good stuff in Final Destination Bloodlines. That counts double for its 4DX version, as there’s a whole bunch of subtle effects present while we watch young Iris Campbell (Brec Bassinger) interfere with Death’s plan to claim the lives of all present for the Skyview Restaurant’s opening night.

For over 25 years, the Final Destination franchise has haunted audiences with its unique brand of horror, the terror of cheating death.

We have a premonition of the (mostly terrible, often funny) things you’re likely to see in any of the films from the long-running horror franchise. Follow along below, and beware.

Whether it’s taking a flight, getting a tan or driving behind a log truck, Final Destination has had a chokehold on horror fans for 25 years. Craig Perry, who’s been a producer on the franchise since it launched in 2000,

Bloodlines offers everything fans expect, but the filmmakers also put a refreshing stamp on this now 25-year-old horror series.