Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

The critic finds it a fun reboot of the franchise with a smart script and peppy direction that delivers splattery mayhem and affectionate nods to prior entries. The extended premonition set-piece opener stands out as a thrilling highlight, alongside a touching farewell to Tony Todd.

The film maintains the series' balance of unsettling but silly while expanding its scope across generations with inventive kills. It is clever, unpredictable and fun, offering a transfusion of creativity that ensures the franchise lives on.

The critic praises the film as a worthy addition to the horror franchise, with elaborate set-pieces, blood-soaked spectacle, knowing nods, humour and a sharp script that satisfies fans. The meticulous murderous mayhem and callbacks to the series are singled out for praise.

The review calls it a slick and ghoulishly entertaining reboot of the franchise that makes a welcome return after 14 years. It singles out the dazzling 1968 opening sequence for praise while noting the eye-watering carnage and gallows humour throughout.

The critic finds the film filled with gallows humour and fan-friendly callbacks, including the logging truck, as it extends the franchise's structure of premonitions and freak accidents across generations. It singles out the generational bloodlines premise, dark comedy in the death sequences, and Tony Todd's final appearance for particular note.

The jubilantly gory horror franchise returns with a hugely entertaining sixth installment which sets up an entire family tree for the slaughter. Directors class the joint up while refusing to let their movie take itself too seriously, with decadence in the film-making that realizes the campy premise's full potential, especially in the stunning opening set piece.

The critic finds the sixth installment delivers exactly the expected grisly fun through ingeniously designed Rube Goldberg-style fatalities that heighten everyday anxieties. It singles out the superbly choreographed opening sequence and Tony Todd's final screen appearance as highlights, while noting the film gets bogged down at times by a tedious family-dynamics plotline.

The sixth installment might be the most self-consciously silly of the bunch, and it is all the better for it. The critic highlights the gleeful direction and the compelling tweak introducing inherited trauma across generations.

This gruesomely inventive sixth instalment in the Death-comes-knocking horror franchise could well be for those with a strong stomach. The film’s entertainment value remains at all times gleefully visceral; it is carnage for connoisseurs, with intricate sadism in the set pieces and a half-century gap twist between sprees of extreme gore.

The review celebrates the film as potentially the best in the series, praising its inventive, gory, and funny kills with perfect comic timing and suspenseful set pieces. It notes the added emotional depth from the family storyline but emphasizes the pure cinematic spectacle of the deaths.

The critic praises the film's inventive and gruesome deaths, noting it offers the expected mix of slapstick and carnage while adding a genetic twist to the curse. They highlight the heartfelt moments and nods to previous entries, calling it a raucously good time with some of the franchise’s best kills.

The review highlights the film's inventive set-pieces, strong performances especially Gabrielle Rose and Tony Todd's farewell, and its balance of terror and humor, calling it a witty, hilarious, and grotesque popcorn flick. They praise the practical effects and new lore.

The critic praises the film's self-awareness and comical tone amid gory set-pieces, calling it a deliriously daft celebration of the franchise's silliness. They single out the inventive kills and Tony Todd's cameo for praise.

The critic finds the film one of the franchise’s best thanks to its gnarly, creative death scenes and the tension built before each kill. They single out the strong family dynamics and Tony Todd’s farewell scene for praise while noting the lead performance can feel overstretched.