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Final Destination: Bloodlines



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2025
Runtime: 1h 50m
Country: USA ,Canada
Language: English
Genre Tags: Horror, Thriller
Plot Summary: Plagued by a recurring violent nightmare, a college student returns home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Delighfully silly and gory! Has quite a bit of so-so CGI, but in retrospect that almost adds to the cartoonish feel of everything. The cast does a great job of remaining serious and really selling the preposterously funny death scenes. If you're a fan, you will cackle gleefully for most of the running time. Tony Todd, RIP, appears in his last role and essentially addresses the camera with his final words to fans. I would definitely watch another one of these.


Outside Reviews:

Matt Zoller Seitz
3.5 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

There's a lot of craft and wit on display here, all in service of an aesthetic not too different from the one that was ascribed to director Sam Raimi back when he was making films like "Darkman" and "Evil Dead" movies: what would it look like if the Three Stooges really poked each other's eyes out? Like, if Moe jammed his fingers knuckle-deep into Larry's eyesockets, then Curly came over with a chainsaw to finish him? This movie isn't afraid to go too far, and I mean waaaay too far, from the very start, and keep pushing the outer edge of the envelope, giggling the entire time.


Jacob Oller
Grade: B- - In Final Destination Bloodlines, giddy death traps run in the family

Final Destination Bloodlines embraces this late-period slasher-minus-slasher construction, with Lipovsky and Stein eagerly constructing deaths into applause moments celebrated with the same bursts of bloody confetti. These movies are built to be splattery supercuts showcasing the warped imaginations of horror filmmakers and special effects professionals, exploiting the call of the void that everyday objects can sound throughout our lives. Bloodlines does so playfully and lightly, without getting bogged down by franchise lore or pesky cinematic tropes like "characters." The long gap between series entries means the film doesn't need to subvert expectations, but merely play into them—in doing so, it's a success as simple as its death traps are convoluted.