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“Final Destination” is one of the most endless horror franchises around, with so memorable killing that they traumatized whole generations – a Turn into great marketing stunts.
Part of the magic of this franchise is how it equips common concerns – fear of flying, roller drink mats, and the general uneasy feeling that something bad is about to happen. The films are about very transferable fear of death: the information it can occur at any moment, in any way. And that’s also where the dark humor of the signature “Final Destination” comes in, as it stares at death in the face and presents the most ridiculous killings similar to Rube Goldberg to the audience.
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The latest entry in the franchise, “Final destination blood lines,” may well be the best. This is a film that ties the entire franchise together, offering as many ridiculous and fun killings as it makes a fairly emotional story about a family. And yet, this is also the film that has the darkest single joke not only in the franchise, but 2025 so far.
Heavy spoilers for a “final destination” ahead.
Would you steal a child’s lifetime?
Each “final destination” film adds something to the mythology, including ways to (perhaps) survive the design of Death. The central concept of the franchise relating to death has a prestigious design, with whom people usually mess up by having preliminaries of forthcoming disasters, preventing deaths, and then dying in the order in which death was coming for anyway. The second film introduced the idea that new life can foil death – for example, you can break free from the design of death by clinically dead, then be resuscitated.
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“Final Destination 5” added another idea. What if you could take someone’s place on a death list, kill someone to claim their lives, thereby balancing the books? It was a cool concept that made that film unique by its predecessors, and also made a funny dark scene where a man thought he had killed a colleague and stole his years, only to find that his victim was already close to a death of unnecessary brain spread. The franchise has a certain dark sense of humor, one that turns even the most horrific deaths into shameless creative moments that are as funny as they are funny. “Final Destination 2” specifically got some of the best killings in the franchise – Some who understood how to use humor without reducing the effect of the killing scenes.
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This takes us to “bloodlines,” which goes back to the idea of killing someone to steal their lives. The characters learn that line while in hospital, when they meet William J. Bludworth of Tony Todd, who gives a poignant speech about death and life. Erik (Richard Harmon) seriously considers the killing as an alternative to saving his brother Bobby (Owen Patrick Joyner), who is not so sure.
Then they both walk to the right at the maternity ward, and spend a few seconds also Long just watch the babies there, considering the possibility. They do nothing, but the fact that they (for a short moment) consider new -borned killing to steal their life is the funniest and darkest thing that a “final destination” has made.
