Generational trauma meets gore in 'Final Destination Bloodlines'

The Final Destination franchise has a proven-and-tested formula that has traumatized generations since the first film came out in 2000: one person experiences a premonition, wakes up from reality, warns others that Death is coming for them, they escape, the rest die, and Death eventually comes for them because they were not supposed to survive.

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It's a franchise that prides itself on claiming its victims in full bloody glory. As such, it may be too much to ask for something substantial when viewers come for the extravagantly violent, yet entertaining deaths.

But in its return to the big screen after a decade, it has to catch up with the times, and what better way to reintroduce "Final Destination" to the public consciousness than to incorporate generational trauma, a recurring theme in many films these days.

‘Final Destination Bloodlines” marks the franchise’s return to cinemas after 14 years. It had sneak peek screenings last weekend in the Philippines via Warner Bros. Philippines, and is now being widely released today, May 14.

In its sixth and latest entry, the film starts with Stefani Reyes (played by Filipino-Canadian actress Kaitlyn Santa Juana) having constant nightmares of her grandmother Iris’ (Brec Bassinger) premonition at the opening of a skyview restaurant in the '60s.