‘Final Destination 6’ Plot Details Revealed Ahead of Trailer with Prequel Details

An official synopsis of the new movie (via Feature First) suggests a dual timeline story, which could end up having several ties to the original Final Destination movie. The description reads:

“In the 1960s, a grandmother predicts the collapse of a building and saves a group of people from death. Decades later, her granddaughter also begins to have visions of the death of her family members and later begins to realize that there is a sequence.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines comes from director’s Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky, and stars Brec Bassinger, Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Rya Kihlstedt, Anna Lore, and Richard Harmon, as well as a posthumous appearance by the late Tony Todd returning as creepy mortician William Bludworth. The mix of dual period settings of the 1960s and, presumably the 1980s or 1990s, and the appearance by Todd’s character, is certainly intriguing and something that could help revive the franchise after several lackluster releases.

Can the ‘Final Destination’ Franchise Really Deliver Anything New?

Like many movie franchises built on a single premise of characters dying one by one, after a couple of run outs, it is hard to do anything new with the property other than rinse and repeat several increasingly elaborate death scenes. However, when the death scenes begin to defy all logic, and almost become eye-rolling moments that go beyond incredulous, then the horror and suspense is abandoned in favor of some kind of “death porn” spectacle.

The multigenerational storyline of Final Destination: Bloodlines does seem to be attempting to bring something new to the party, and with a mostly new cast, and coming 14 years after Final Destination 5, the movie can target an audience that was not the right age to see the original saga.

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Of course, it does not take a synopsis to work out that there will be many people dying in some intriguing and brutal ways. However, Final Destination: Bloodlines could face some unexpected competition from Osgood Perkins’ Stephen King adaptation, The Monkey, which reportedly includes some crazy and gory death scenes that have found the film struggling to put together a TV spot that is acceptable to distributors.

Either way, there is not too long to wait until Final Destination: Bloodlines attempts to capture an early summer box office win. If the film is a success, then it is pretty certain that the franchise will become yet another long-dormant IP that is being brought back to life after more than a decade. If it becomes a theatrical dud, there will be a deathly shadow lurking to take it away to a free streaming graveyard soon afterwards.