After a 14-year hiatus, the Final Destination franchise is back on the big screen with Final Destination Bloodlines. Since 2000, the franchise has delighted viewers with its unseen antagonist, Death, who comes for those who cheated it in brutal, bloody fashion.
The latest film serves as a soft reboot of the series, though it’s set in the Final Destination universe and all the prior films remain canon. Viewers looking to get into the 25-year-old horror franchise can use our guide to find out how to watch all the Final Destination movies in order on platforms like Max, Hulu, and more.
Final Destination (2002)
Final Destination follows Alex Browning (Devon Sawa), a young man with a premonition that the airplane he’s boarding will explode during flight. He and his friends leave the plane and evade death, but when the survivors start dying in freak accidents, Browning realizes they can’t just cheat Death. Final Destination set itself apart from other slasher films with its premonition premise and decision to make the killer the unseen entity, Death. The fact that there are real-life stories of premonition saving lives made the premise even more chilling. It’s especially intriguing because it blends a unique concept with an otherwise over-the-top, gory thriller, giving viewers depth and campiness.
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Final Destination 2 centers on a new protagonist, Kimberly Corman (A. J. Cook), who saves a group of travelers from a highway pile-up. As in the first film, Death begins picking off the survivors, but in reverse order this time. Final Destination 2 produced one of the franchise's most infamous and recognizable scenes with its log truck death, which still haunts drivers on the highway to this day. In some ways, the sequel was scarier than the original, as close calls involving cars are something many viewers have experienced in real life. Final Destination 2 utilized the same concept as the original, but with just enough changes in order, deaths, and setting to stand apart.
Final Destination 3 (2006)
The standalone sequel, Final Destination 3, follows amusement park accident survivor Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who realizes photos she took before the incident include clues of how Death will claim the survivors. The film offered another unique lore expansion with the idea of a survivor catching on to Death’s scheme and methods. While Final Destination 3 was a little more predictable regarding order and cause of death, it ramped up the shock factor significantly with the brutality of the deaths, including giving some viewers a lifelong fear of tanning beds.
The Final Destination (2009)
The Final Destination is the fourth film in the franchise and, as one may guess by its title, was initially intended to be the final film. In the movie, Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition of a racecar accident and saves himself and his friends. When Death comes for them, Nick relies on omens to try to survive his fate. Like its predecessors, The Final Destination is over-the-top with its brutal racecar crash scene and creative, gruesome deaths. However, it was one of the most ill-received movies among critics due to its reliance on formula without expanding the lore or developing its characters.
Final Destination 5 (2011)
Due to the financial success of The Final Destination, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema greenlit Final Destination 5. The film centers on Sam Lawton (Nicholas D’Agosto), an office worker who saves his colleagues after having a premonition of a bridge collapse on a work retreat. Per usual, Death targets the survivors, although one final twist surprisingly connects Final Destination 5 to the first film. In addition to the clever twist, Final Destination 5 comes close to topping the original with its sophisticated visual effects, character development, and creative, shocking deaths. Its opening tragedy is also one of the best in the franchise in terms of shock and cinematography.
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. revived the franchise after over a decade, bringing Final Destination Bloodlines to the screen. Rather than a direct sequel, the film serves as a soft reboot or standalone sequel. It follows college student Stefani Lewis (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), who has recurring nightmares about her family’s death, realizing the answers may lie with her grandmother, who cheated Death decades earlier. The film is the first in the franchise to significantly change the formula and rules of Death as it follows a longtime survivor who not only cheated Death, but produced generations of family that were never meant to exist.
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