New trailer for Final Destination: Bloodlines takes franchise back to the beginning

The first five Final Destination movies arrived in theaters between 2000 and 2011, and audiences haven’t seen a new installment in 14 years. That changes this May with the sixth movie in the franchise, Final Destination: Bloodlines. What makes the franchise unique compared to Halloween, Friday the 13th, Scream, and A Nightmare on Elm Street is the villain. That’s Death itself, which never materializes except in the form of killing off characters in the method of a classic Mousetrap game–Rube Goldberg setup disaster situations concocted carefully through happenstance and the chaos of science–which amounts to fate or destiny–you be the judge. In this supernatural construct, Death has a plan–and more importantly an order–to things.

Yet each story arrives with a hero or heroine that thwarts the plan, individuals with a premonition of the events that lie ahead and the ability to avoid death, but never for very long. The villain is a classic mystical “pusher”–able to subtly affect reality in ways only chaos could dictate. It’s no wonder the movies began as an idea for an episode of The X-Files.

Now in the new trailer for Final Destination: Bloodlines we see the franchise is going back to the beginning–into prequel territory–and it looks fantastic. The Jenga game is the perfect symbol for the franchise. Check out the new trailer for Final Destination: Bloodlines:

Final Destination: Bloodlines stars Tony Todd along with Stargirl’s Brec Bassinger, The Imperfects and The Mandalorian’s Max Lloyd-Jones, and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Rya Kihlstedt.