Summary
Final Destination Bloodlinesis the first entry in the series in over a decade. Instead of a reboot, it is canonically the sixth movie in the franchise. However, it does plenty to mix things up to keep viewers on their toes in the theater.
Without getting too much into the weeds,Final Destination Bloodlinesis about a family outliving the typical curse plagued by every main character in this franchise:a disaster movie’s worth of chaos. However, after one tragic death, the dominoes of Death’s design are starting to fall again. There are plenty ofEaster Eggs and nods to the series inFinal Destination Bloodlines,so let’s take a look at them.
7The Finger Prick
Blood Will Tell
Right before a disaster starts in theFinal Destinationmovies, the main character typically cuts their finger. For example, Alex cuts his finger on a plane seat in the first movie, and when he comes out of his vision, it happens again. It’s a way to show characters they are ina time loop of sorts.
InFinal Destination Bloodlines, Iris cuts herself on a rose in the past, which Stefani similarly does later. While this is good news for Iris, Stefani doesn’t get to be so lucky, as her demise follows shortly after.
6Erik’s Almost Accident
Never Back Into Traffic
Once Stefani figures out her family is in danger and Erik is next,Final Destination Bloodlinesplays with fan expectations. Erik almost dies in his tattoo shop after being brutalized and then set on fire. Fortunately for him, firefighters come to the rescue, and he lives to see another day.
He almost dies by backing into a street as well, where a car almost hits him. This is a callback to the first movie when Terry is killed by backing into traffic and actually does get hit by a vehicle. Again, though, Erik doesn’t die here, as his actual death is far more brutal.
5Iris’ Book
She Loves Sketching Tragedies
Stefani eventually tracks her grandma, Iris, down in a cabin that looksstraight out ofThe Walking Dead. As a gift, Iris gives Stefani her notebook, which is filled with details of people who died from the curse, along with ways to avoid Death’s design. There are a few sketches in there that are callbacks to past tragedies in the movies.
There’s the plane from the first movie, the logging truck from the second, and the grill, which could either foreshadow an event inFinal Destination Bloodlinesor refer to the third movie’s final death. There are certainly more references in there,but without the ability to pause and rewind, the movie will have to come to streaming before this scene can be fully picked apart.
4The Penny
Toss A Coin To The Campbells
Coins have teased death in a few of theFinal Destinationmovies, with one of the worst related deaths happening in part four,The Final Destination. Hunt loses his lucky coin in a pool when it gets sucked into a drain. When Hunt goes to find it, he gets his butt sucked into the drain and, well, the rest is bloody history.
The coin inFinal Destination Bloodlinesis much more vindictive, though, as Iris saved it from her past incident and taped it to her book. In the movie, Stefani drops it out of the book, and later, an old woman picks it up. She then drops it, and it finally gets jammed into some train tracks.Soon, a traincomes along and derails, killing the rest of the Campbell family.
3Double The Logs
Still The Greatest Killer
Many fans deem thecar crash scenein the secondFinal Destinationmovie to be an all-time death scene for the franchise and for horror movies in general. A logging truck causes the whole disaster to go down, a scene which is immortalized several times inFinal Destination Bloodlines.
There was the aforementioned sketch in Iris’s book, and then Stefani’s mom, Darlene, almost drives into a logging truck. Lastly, the aforementioned train that derailed was hauling logs, which would then go on to kill Stefani and Charlie.
2Blowing Up The House
Never Gets Old
To escape death, Irisbuilt a compoundthat looks wild from the outside, but her plan was actually genius. That’s why it seemed like a good idea for Darlene to live out the rest of her days there. If Death can’t get to Darlene, then it can’t come for her kids anytime soon, either.
Death was thinking five moves ahead. Once those kids reach the house, a swinging plant opens up a gas valve, which then catches on fire and blows the whole place up. This is definitely a callback, or at least a reused type of surprise, from the firstFinal Destination,as in that movie, Alex’s teacher, Valerie, has her house explode.
1Finally Explaining Bludworth
Farewell Tony Todd
Perhaps the biggest nod to the series was also a fond goodbye inFinal Destination Bloodlines.William Bludworth is the cryptic mortician played by the late Tony Todd in several of these movies. Many fans have assumed for years that Bludworth is actually Death, as he always knows way too much.
It’s finally revealed why he knows so much inFinal Destination Bloodlines,and it’s not because he is Death. It’s because Bludworth survived the incident after Iris saved him, which kept him alive all these years later. Explaining the connection was like a nice little bow on the series, the character, andTony Todd as an actor.
