‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Trailer Teases Origin of Evil

“Final Destination: Bloodlines” is creeping steadily nearer.

The high priority reboot of the horror franchise that began back in 2000 arrives in theaters (including Imax locations) on May 16. And we have got the brand-new, blood-curdling trailer, which you can watch below.

What is fascinating about this take on the material, directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and based on a story concocted by “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and “Wolfs” director Jon Watts, is that it gives the Rube Goldberg-esque death design a much earlier start date – the 1960s. That’s when, according to the trailer, a young woman cheated death, saving a bunch of youngsters from a cruel fate in a Seattle Space Needle-type structure. Years later, she claims the specter of death is haunting those family members who managed to survive.

It looks to honor all of the movies that came before it (there is an “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”-style journal that charts all the times someone has cheated death), while also creating new mythology all its own. The trailer also teases the return, for the last time, of Tony Todd’s menacing undertaker William Bludworth (Todd passed away in November of last year).

This is the first “Final Destination” entry in more than 10 years, with the last installment, “Final Destination 5,” arriving in 2011. And, tantalizingly, the trailer promises that the movie was shot for Imax, even though the movie was originally earmarked for a direct-to-streaming debut. These elaborately choreographed deaths deserve to be seen on the biggest screen possible.

“Final Destination: Bloodlines” comes for us all on May 16, 2025. You can watch the full trailer in the video above.

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