Bloodlines final destination: the alarm clock (critic)
Guaranteed without monster and irony, the reboot of the most fun saga of US horror is a real success.
Fourteen years after a premature “death”, the most playful franchise in Hollywood resuscitates. Good news, Final destination: Bloodlines transcends its formula by renewing its mechanisms and fully embraces its recreational nature. It all starts … in the past. In the 60s, the day of the inauguration of a very modern tower, a young woman struck by a premonition will prevent the disaster. Flashforward. Years later, this woman’s daughter was in turn assaulted strange nightmares. Only his mother (recluse) can explain to him the meaning of these dreams and above all make him understand that there are now only two to be able to save the family … Lipovsky and Stein, director of the evil Freaks (2013), perfectly understood the essence of the saga: the best antagonist in the bottom is invisible.
Where other franchises are exhausted to laboriously reinvent their monster or highlight messages, Final destination has always bet everything on its simple pitch (and b) and on death itself-omniscient and creative perverts. Here is a festival. A ray of sunshine that strikes a metal plate? An alliance or piercing? A fan? Each daily object becomes potentially deadly. But that would be nothing without an inventive staging, to the frank execution, and to the pure line, rid of the slightest irony. By playing finely between tension, dread primary degree and black humor, Bloodlines stands out as the great horror success of this early 2025.
Of Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein with Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Brec Bassinger, Tony Todd… Duration 1h49. Released May 14, 2025
