Technically, the video below is a teaser for Final Destination: Bloodlines, the latest film in the long-dormant Final Destination series. But really it’s a clip: a single scene in which a piercer and tattoo artist meets his end via a series of increasingly absurd coincidences. As one does—in a Final Destination film, anyway.
The series began in 2000 and ran through five movies, winding up (at least temporarily) with 2011’s Final Destination 5. In short, the gist of the films is that someone has a premonition about a very bad thing happening; assorted folks avoid the very bad thing and their presumably terrible deaths, only to meet death in maybe even worse ways afterwards. The first film starred Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, and Tony Todd. Todd has been in every film in the series since; he died in 2024, but filmed Bloodlines before his passing.
Bloodlines “takes audiences back to the very beginning of Death’s twisted sense of justice,” according to the summary, which continues:
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.
What that has to do with this doomed piercer, I couldn’t say. But fans of The 100 may get an extra kick out of this clip, given that it starts John Murphy himself, the actor Richard Harmon. Murphy was “the cockroach” of The 100: no matter what hellish new situation the gang faced, he just kept surviving. But not this time.
Final Destination: Bloodlines is directed by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky. The screenplay is by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor, who came up with the story along with Jon Watts (yes, of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.) It’s in theaters (and IMAX!) May 16th.
