Hello everyone, I'm Evan, known as Evan Games & EvanYT Channel, and welcome back to Review Everything! Reviewing anything I can do.

The last time I did 2 movie reviews was almost 1 year ago, and I'm afraid that I might have forgotten this blog page even exists anymore, so I sincerely apologize for that; it will happen again.

In this, another movie review episode, I will discuss one of my favorite franchises before FNaF, Final Destination.

Premiered in Special Screening: 9 - 10 May
Released on Theatrical: 16 May

What's Final Destination, you might ask?

Final Destination is an American horror franchise that includes six films, ten novels, and two comic books. It is based on an unproduced spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for The X-Files television series, and was distributed by New Line Cinema. All of its films are set around the premise of a small group of people who escape impending death after one individual has a sudden premonition and warns them about a major disaster that is about to occur. After avoiding their foretold deaths seen in the visions, the survivors are later killed one by one in bizarre accidents caused by an unseen force by creating complicated chains of cause and effect, resembling Rube Goldberg machines, and then read omens to avert their deaths again.

In addition to the films, Black Flame published a novel series, which includes the novelizations of the first three films, throughout 2005 and 2006. In 2006, a one-shot comic book titled Final Destination: Sacrifice was released alongside select DVDs of Final Destination 3, and a comic book series titled Final Destination: Spring Break was published by Zenescope Entertainment in 2007.

The franchise has been praised for its innovative premise of Death as an invisible force instead of a usual slasher antagonist, and the creativity of the films' sometimes convoluted and tense death sequences.

I would recommend you to watch all 5 in order, there are no prequels, all only sequels to catch on to this movie.

Now onto this movie topic;

Final Destination Bloodlines is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor, based on a story developed by them and Jon Watts. It is the sixth installment in the Final Destination film series and a direct sequel to The Final Destination (2009).

After the commercial success of Final Destination 5, a new installment entered into development; it was described as a "re-imagining" of the franchise. In March 2020, series producer Craig Perry said the film would be set "in the world of first responders", but in that October, series creator Jeffrey Reddick confirmed it was a sixth main film in the franchise. Filming took place in Vancouver, as did most previous installments.

I got a chance to watch it one day before it was released, as this review was posted online, you can now go watch it in theater. Thanks to Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema btw.

The reasons why I wanna review this movie are - that this movie was made silently for over 14 years, no announcement, no tweet, no social posts, nothing at all.

But I'm not gonna talk about the production yet, so here's the second reason why I wanna review this movie is because I wanna pay some respect to Tony Todd for giving us this and the Candyman franchise, may he rest in peace.

"Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all."

You already know how it goes, alright, it contains spoilers and you are NOT allowed to spoil yourself unless you've watched it in the theater:

In 1968, Iris Campbell and her fiancé Paul attend the opening ceremony of the Sky View Restaurant Tower. At the dance party, Iris is struck by a premonition in which a chandelier's shard cracks the glass floor beneath the guests while a gas heater leaks and ignites a massive explosion, leading to the tower's collapse and killing everyone.

57 years later, in the present, college student Stefani Reyes suffers from a series of nightmare disorders about the collapse. Encouraged by her roommate, Val, Stefani travels home for answers and is greeted by her father, Marty, and her brother, Charlie. The siblings visit their uncle Howard, aunt Brenda, and cousins Erik, Julia, and Bobby. When Stefani asks Howard about Iris, her maternal grandmother, he explains that she not only subjected him and Stefani's mother, Darlene, to a paranoid childhood of overprotection, but also became reclusive and caused Darlene to leave them. Brenda gives Stefani letters Iris sent to Howard, and she goes to a fortified cabin in the woods where Iris resides.

Terminally ill, Iris explains to Stefani that she disrupted Death's plan by warning Paul and the other guests to leave the glass floor before it broke. In response, the tower never collapsed, but Death began to kill the survivors and their descendants because they were never supposed to exist. Paul was among the casualties of the accident, and Iris compiled information about the omens in a book. Though Stefani does not seem to believe her, Iris, terminally ill, leaves her cabin to give Stefani the book and prove her claims as a chain reaction causes a weather vane to fatally impale Iris through her mouth.

After Iris' funeral, Darlene returns home, but Stefani resents her for distancing herself since they were children. During a family barbecue, Stefani reads the book and learns that someone named JB found a survivor who defeated Death. During the barbecue, Howard steps on a piece of glass and falls into the path of a running lawn mower, killing him. That night, another chain reaction causes Erik's tattoo shop to catch fire, but he survives his burns due to his leather clothing. Now convinced that Death is after the family, Stefani and Charlie warn their cousins, who are skeptical until Julia falls into a trash can and is thrown into a garbage truck, where she is crushed to death. The remaining family members realize that Death is killing them; however, Marty and Brenda are spared because they're not in Iris' bloodline, while Erik is targeted due to being Howard's biological son after an affair with Brenda. Darlene suggests going to the hospital where JB works, who turns out to be William Bludworth, a childhood survivor of the tower's collapse who helped Iris escape her fate. The terminally ill Bludworth reveals two possible ways to defeat Death: by taking someone's life or dying and being brought back to life.

Erik gives Bobby a snack containing nuts, intending for Bobby's allergic reaction to kill him so Erik can revive him with an epinephrine autoinjector. The plan backfires as an MRI machine malfunctions, rips out Erik's body piercings, and crushes him against the machine. In contrast, a vending machine's spring impales through Bobby's head. Stefani, Charlie, and Darlene travel to Iris' cabin in Darlene's RV, but it crashes and Stefani's seatbelt jams. The cabin explodes after a chain reaction ignites a fire; Stefani begins to drown while Darlene saves Charlie and pleads with him to save Stefani before a lamp post falls and bisects her. Charlie breaks the seatbelt to free Stefani and successfully resuscitates her with CPR.

A week later, at Charlie's graduation ceremony, the siblings realize that Stefani was not dead but was merely unconscious at the time of the drowning. Just as they realize the implication, a train derails in the neighborhood; several logs it was carrying fall onto Stefani and Charlie, killing them.

Now, if you watched it but never seen the series before... brutal, ain't it?

In 2011, Tony Todd said that if Final Destination 5 was a success at the box office, then two sequels would be filmed back-to-back. On August 23, when asked whether he would be directing a sequel, Steven Quale elaborated: "Who knows. Never say never. I mean, it'll be up to the fans. We'll see how this one performs internationally, and if it makes as much money as the fourth one, I'm sure Warner Brothers will want to make another one".

In January 2019, a new installment was announced to be in development, from Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema. Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan will write the script, with the plot described as a "re-imagining" of the franchise. In August, Devon Sawa expressed interest in returning to the franchise in the reboot.

In March 2020, it was announced that the film, set in the same canon as the first five films, would focus on first responders, with series producer Craig Perry stating:

We're toying with having it take place in the world of first responders: EMTs, firemen, and police. These people deal with death on the front lines every day and make choices that can cause people to live or die. We rely on their good judgment, expertise, and calm demeanor. So why not put those people in the nightmare situation where every choice can bring about life and death – but now for themselves? We're thinking that world might be an interesting way into a Final Destination movie, and one which can also generate unique set pieces in a very credible way.

The same year in October, series creator Jeffrey Reddick confirmed that a sixth film had been in the works prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, Lori Evans Taylor and Guy Busick were hired to write the script. In January 2022, Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema announced that Jon Watts had also joined as a producer. Additionally, it was revealed that the film would be distributed through HBO Max.

That September, it was announced that Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein would co-direct the film, after the pair staged an elaborate death hoax in a Zoom call meeting with the studio executives. Producers were impressed with the duo's vision for the project and how their presentation evoked the franchise. The draft of the script at that time was co-authored by Busick and Taylor from an original story written by Jon Watts. Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Watts, and Dianne McGunigle will serve as producers.

In June 2023, it was reported that the sixth film was going into production with a start date in mid-July 2023, under the title Final Destination Bloodlines. In August, Reddick confirmed the film would start production once the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike ended. With Christian Sebaldt as cinematographer, filming instead took place in Vancouver from March 4 to May 13, 2024.

Seeing behind the scenes of this film is actually impressive to me, the one in the Skyview Tower, the director said that this was their key to the film. They revealed that the tower part is almost CGI; they used big TVs and moving objects, so it'll make it look like the tower actually falls.

Just like all 5 films, there are many references to Flight 180, characters from earlier films, and many more from the film characters' dialogues.

The directors also revealed that they broke a record to have the oldest woman to ever do a stunt for a premonition kill, that's not a spoiler, you can read it here: https://ew.com/final-destinations-bloodlines-directors-broke-world-record-oldest-person-set-fire-exclusive-11726408.

You already know this entire franchise was known to have practical effects for the disasters and building suspense on what death is trying to do here and there. But this movie was edited by Sabrina Pitre, she did all the synchronized CGI, soundtracks, and much, much more stuff in a 1-hour 40+ minutes film. It's actually insane to discover that this is the longest Final Destination movie we've had so far.

I don't have to talk about the edit for too long, but I will talk about it more later, so I will talk about the lighting now. Just like the other FD films, they kept the tradition of changing the lighting depending on where and when this movie takes place. This one took place in our generation, but also the 1960s for the premonition.

This whole section has a lot of spoilers, which contain kill details. So again, watch them in theater before reading it:

Unlike all 5, there are no opening scene, just straight into the movie, so I'm going to talk about the kills in details now;

• There are a lot of foreshadows in the opening and a lot of kills, but I wanna talk about that one kill in this opening part is the elevator kill. It already happened in the second one but this is even more brutal, when the old man trying to get in an elevator that's already full, he forced himself to get in but the staff said NO to that man, I was panicking and shouting in my heart to NOT get in the elevator but it breaks anyway and led them to their fall but this one old man stood in between GET CRUSHED into a meat pretzel. and that almost made me gagged so hard.

• Julia, who literally don't believe Stefani at all, she got thrown inside a garbage truck crusher and that led them into panic. Stef run after Julia, while Charlie and Erik runs after the driver to try stop the kill / cheat death. Stefani is trying to get Julia a hand but it was too late that the crusher is closer to her face that it crushes her head like a pumpkin, severed into half and her one arm out, which led to Stef screaming, cut to a teapot steaming and yelling just like her scream.

• Alright, alright, I know you're about to mention the MRI machine part, so here we are. There are 2 kills actually, Erik and Bobby. Erik knows Bob is allergic to peanut (obviously), so to die, he has to eat the peanut. Erik forced Bobby to stay inside to get a seat, like bro... there's literally a seat, right next to him or something, just get him in that seat- anyway, he got the wheelchair and get Bob to sit and eat. He tasted it and thought his allergy has gone away, but his breathing started to choke him out, he gave Bobby a few minutes to die so he can rescue him with his epipen and breaks the death cycle. But Bob gets off the chair and Erik tries to get him back to the chair, the MRI starts to increases the magnet rapidly, Erik's piercing pulled out from his skin, nose, and ears, while distracted, the wheelchair starting to move. The wheelchair pinned and pulled Erik inside the machine, crushing him in half.

• the plan failed, Bobby crawls all the way to his hand to get his epipen, successfully grabing it, using it, but as soon as the nurse stepped in, a Vending Machine spring PULLED aggresively, breaking the machine glass, all the way to a headshot, impaled his brain out into pieces, and falls to the ground. There you go, folks.

• one last kill I wanna talk about is how badass Iris death was, after one argument about how death will come after the family one by one, Stefani tries to leave but Iris already told her to not leave so she can avoid / cheat death. After one try to get her inside, she sacrifice herself to make her believe that death is coming for them, by saying to get back and getting impaled by a weather vane.

The soundtracks were composed by Tim Wynn, another replacement for Shirley Walker, and Brian Tyler. But he gave us (yes, you and me, us) a lot of references to the first film in just the soundtracks. There are 32 in total, which is a lot more than the other FD films' OST albums. But just like the others FD films' OST albums, they are all messed up in order, so you have to figure it out by watching it in theat- ok I'll stop.

But you have to admit that he did a great job of doing what he's doing, bringing Final Destination back to its original form in FD 5 style.

Now onto the Sound Effects, bro- where do I start?

Sound Effects were made by many, including;

• Jeremy Peirson (sound designer)

• Scott Aitken (Production Sound Mixer)
  With help from Kristian Bailey (PSM Second Unit)

• Phil Barrie (Sound Effects Editor)

And 15 more people helped with the sound effects, they also did a great job. I just wanna mention the details on the sound effects for the environment, the crunch, the building collapse, and blood splattering, they did a good job there.

You already know all the cast are stacked as ever, but not a lot are known for some movies they're in. But I'm just gotta include them anyway, so here are a few casts that have appeared in film;

• Tony Todd
  He was an American actor known for his distinctly deep and gravelly voice. He was known for playing as Candyman in Candyman films, but in this one, he was Mr.Bludworth, a mysterious character from the Final Destination franchise.

  He reprised his role for Bloodlines for the last time we ever saw Tony Todd playing as Bludworth, I thank god for them for including this character to be in this film. The reason he chose this film is to conclude his character's story and reveal many things that many fans (including me) had been theorized about Bludworth. May he rest in peace, legend.

• Kaitlyn Santa Juana
  She's a Canadian actress and singer, played as the main character, Stefani Reyes. She's pretty new to acting, and I'm gonna let that slide cause I said so. I don't have anything to say about her character. Stefani is a college student who is suffering from her grandma's premonition and tries to stop death from happening to her family.

• Teo Briones
  He's an English actor, played as a recurring character, Charlie Reyes. Charlie is Stefani's brother, helping Stefani to also stop death from happening to his family.

  Teo was also known for a Chucky character named "Junior Wheeler" and also a new upcoming sequel to Five Nights at Freddy's, which we have never known his name yet, so let's see what's his character is like.

• Richard Harmon
  He's a Canadian actor, played as Erik Campbell, the grandson of Iris Campbell. A character who doesn't trust anything Stefani says (not a spoiler, it's in the trailer), and dies inside a shop, burning alive (also not a spoiler, it's in a teaser trailer).

  He's also known for played as Alex Wright in Grave Encounters 1 and 2. And a vampire kid in Trick 'r Treat.

Love their acting, but... do you guys ever think it's a bit strange to see something's wrong with their acting, it just... looks wrong, but I can't point it out where and when. But my final thoughts on their acting, I think it's safe to say that it's good enough, at least be happy with what we have now.

That took a while, alright- Just like the other review episode, let's recap of what I'm about and trying to say.

The plot is nice and "friendly", The production (Cinematography Replacement) is amazing, The editing is absolute insane, the lighting is decent, the soundtrack sounds amazing, the sound effects are a chef kiss, and the acting is.. eh, pretty decent.

This is my first time watching Final Destination in a theater since I've watched all of it on DVD and Digital. I wanna thank again to New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. again for letting me enjoy this last, or not the last FD film.

It has been 14 years since Final Destination went on hiatus after Final Destination 5, the fans had been begging for the 6th film for years, and then it came, a movie titled "Final Destination: Bloodlines" finally released, say with me now, go watch it in theaters. Yeah, added those little "s" over there, anyway-

This returned franchise, I'm giving this film

"8.9/10"

Final Destination had finally returned into its original form in a great way possible, now filmed with IMAX, you can go watch it there, or if you wanna watch and feel the suspense, go to 4DX.

And, with the gradings, I'm giving this film

A-

The acting are a little bit strange but I let it slide, for now

Final Destination Bloodlines has grossed $51 million in the United States and Canada, and $51 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $102 million, which led to another successful mission in keeping their eye on their box office target. I'm just gonna leave a few others' ratings on how good this movie was;

1. Rotten Tomatoes

   93% on Tomatometer, with Certified Fresh badge
   90% on Popcornmeter/Audiences Ratings

2. IMDb

   7.2/10 on the Ratings

3. metacritic

   75 on MetaScore, with a subtitle "Generally Favorable"
   8.8 on User Score, with a subtitle "Universal Acclaim"

4. CinemaScore

   B+ from a rating scale A+ to F

5. IGN

   8/10 with a quote:

   Final Destination: Bloodlines amps up the absurdity of Death’s design, and the resulting horror-comedy will have you dying laughing.

6. The Guardian

   4/5 on the star rating, with a quote

   The jubilantly gory horror franchise returns with a hugely entertaining sixth installment which sets up an entire family tree for the slaughter

CONCLUSION

And that is all, ladies and gentlemen, for another movie review, done. The last and final episode of this season will be a game review (this time), and it's special. So, keep an eye on this page to see the final episode announcement and wait until it comes out.

And for my game, that game has gone renovating, a few re-writing, and upgrading because I want it to be more passionate than you've seen in these screenshots and I want YOU to be patient with the game surprise releases, just forgot to tell (Thank you Rockstar for delaying GTA 6, now I can develop the game slowly and in peace).

And that's all I could say anything about something, and this review episode, thank you so much for reading it, and I'll see you again on the other side.

In Memoriam of Tony Todd