‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Official Trailer: Death Comes for Those Who Survived

It has been 14 years since a Final Destination film has hit theaters—namely, Final Destination 5, which is far and away our favorite in the series. Per Slant’s Ed Gonzalez: “There’s a gallows humor to the death sequences that giddily invites our applause, but the film also wants us to be appalled by how and when death can come to us.”

Now, with Final Destination: Bloodlines, the franchise is set to scare a new generation of viewers. In the film, a college student named Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), tormented by recurring nightmares about dying in a tower accident in the ’60s, discovers that her visions are linked to her grandmother Esther, who cheated death 50 years ago. As death now targets their family, the young woman races to break the lethal cycle and save her loved ones.

Like everyone else, we’re hoping for deaths that are brutal and inventive, but if truth be told, the teasers thus far have us a little worried that the ones here may be among the more dubiously constructed in the series. More specifically, the deaths in these films really sting when you feel that they have little to nothing to do with human invention—that it’s all a matter of haphazard fate. Something about a barkeep failing to check if a piece of glass didn’t land in the ice trough next to which he broke a glass has us giving some of the clips from the film the side-eye.

Then again, the Final Destination films are also known for sneaking red herrings into their set pieces, so if human folly and the agents of fate dance a deliriously gaggy, Looney Tunes-esque tango throughout Bloodlines, we won’t be complaining.

See the trailer for the film below:

Warner Bros. releases Final Destination: Bloodlines on May 16.