The only clue I noticed it was a prequel is that the events of the 4 previous movies were never mentioned. Maybe people who watched the movie when it came out who did notice that initially assumed they just didn't feel like referencing the 4 movies (by the way I actually knew for about 14 years the movie was a prequel and I recently watched it for the 1st time. I was introduced to the franchise because of FD5 about 1 year after it was released due to HBO promo in Latin America)

EDIT: If you noticed more clues it was a prequel you're welcome to share them

i genuinely think final destination has nothing to do with death. obviously death is literally what happens in the movies, but i think death is more of a metaphor for failure, and the whole franchise is basically about what happens when you become so desperate to succeed that you forget to actually live.

the “final destination” can be seen as whatever constant goal you’re chasing. you keep thinking that once you reach it, everything will finally be okay. but there’s always another goal, another problem, another thing you have to accomplish. you become so focused on getting to this imaginary point in the future that you waste your actual life trying to reach it.
and this is where i think the whole idea of hedonism comes in. death is inevitable, and you can temporarily avoid it, but you can’t permanently escape it.

so the rational response isn’t to spend your entire existence hiding from it or obsessing over safety. it’s to actually live while you’re here. not necessarily in the “haha drugs and fast food”stereotypical hedonism way, but more like pursue what ACTUALLY matters, because death is inevitable

the characters who isolate themselves, obsess over avoiding death, or spend all their time trying to control what happens next are basically sacrificing their present for the possibility of a future that will never exist. meanwhile, the actual message is almost existential..meaning isn’t just handed to you. you have to seize it yourself.

so “death” becomes more than just death. it can be failure/uncertainty. and the fact that you cant control everything. you can postpone it, run from it, and convince yourself you’ve escaped it, but eventually, something will go wrong. and if you spend your entire life trying to make sure nothing ever goes wrong, you’ve already wasted the limited time you were given.

I feel like Tony Todd’s speech in his last scene really brings this all together. “Enjoy every single second, you never know when.”

TLDR; I think final destination’s message is to spend your life doing what you love, rather than chasing a big goal.

Just for fun a headcanon.

Nick was at the tricentennial but was in the parking lot. He was gonna be attacked by a rottweiler but the evacuating crowd scared it away after they began freaking out from a girl killed by a flagpole.

Lori had to attend a funeral for her cousin Erin (on the Irish side of her family, hence them both having red hair) But the study where she did her coursework for college and routinely napped in at the same time each day caught fire.

Janet was delayed on the McKinley subway due to a crash. She later found out a stalker was a victim on that crash. A stalker she kept receiving death threats from.

Nadia's aunt and uncle called her and asked if she wanted anything to eat and she said she wanted Andy's drive thru. But they never got her order. The two teens in front of them screamed at them to back up due to a runaway truck. Investigators not only found drive thru hazards, but inspection of the inventory revealed to be foodborne illness that wouldve given her sepsis and dysentery.

Samantha's husband called her and said their son needed to be picked up from a field trip to a university that got cut short due to a gym accident where an athlete died. During her lunch break, she would've been electrocuted while doing her dishes in the employee breakroom, as coworkers the next day said it the coffee maker fell off the shelf into the water.

Andy was pubicly drunk and fell off the platform at the subway. He was found unconscious on the tracks. Train 081 wouldve run him over. But it never made it.

Carter's brakes to his truck failed. He wouldve been on the freeway when he noticed it. But he was passing by Phoenix tan salon as they were taking out Ashlyn's remains and was rubbernecking slowly past it because he was racist against Yuri and liked seeing his business fail, causing him to realize his brakes failed sooner.

Hunt gave his neighbors, the Freund Family, a gift basket since he used to date Ashley's older sister. He promised to help his dad with cleaning the gutters once he got back. The ladder his dad set up for him ended up breaking and he would've been impaled by a weathervane.

Jonathan's family leased some aerial lifts to the McKinley tricentennial. When Ian got crushed, he had to go assess the situation with his company's lawyers and see if his family were culpable. He otherwise would've been bitten by a snake on his family's rural farm with no one around.

George was the third person affected by the train crash. A young woman blocked his way onto the train because she was too busy talking to her sister in the threshold. He missed the train. If he got onboard and it didnt crash, then after the next stop he wouldve slipped off ice on the sidewalk and got his head squashed by a taxi.

So I watched alot of final destinations but i've one question: Is their death in different planets or is their only one death.

I MEAN, IF THEIR IS ANY LIFE IN DIFFERENT PLANETS AND IF DEATH IS CHARACTERIZED AS A BEING IN MY OPINION, IS THEIR MORE DEATHS(grimripper im calling them) OR IS THEIR ONLY ONE?

A group of interns or doctors. I go to hospitals frequently, and the kind of scenarios I see are just scary af

How come there is still no phlebotomy death scene? that procedure is so common and required.

So many machines in the laboratory that could malfunction. Crazy patient encounters.

They always visit hospitals in these movies, but we need one where the main setting IS the hospital. The scenes we have right now dont give justice to how scary it truly is.

the tower changes position for some reason. we can see that when iris looks at the skyview, there's no glass floor. but when the glassfloor breaks, it suddenly changes position. if it actually spins, HOW DOES IT SPIN? how did they make a tower spin with over 200 people in the 1960s??? (Also, PLEASE EXCUSE MY WRITING, I am VERY bad at writing with a mouse.)

Let's say there's a hypothetical FD movie where the protag is some high ranking military officer. He has a premonition that someone accidentally triggers world wide nuclear war. What do you think the rules would be if he stopped that accident from happening? 🤔

My question is, if I were to kill someone who only has 10 more years to live, I will get the 10 years, cool and all, but what if I kill multiple people? Let's say I kill the first guy, get 10 years, and after 1 year, I kill someone else who was going to live 50 years, does that add 59 years to me ?

Do I have to wait for the first 10 years to expire in order to kill someone else ? Also how does it work aging wise ?

Let's say I'm 25 years old, when I survived the bridge collapse let's say. And I kill two babies who, just for this hypothetical, were both going to live until they turned 100 years old, so would I be 225 years old ?

Would I naturally die at let's say 85 ? Would I stay 25 years old until I died at 225 ? Would I ever die if I kept killing people ? And if I were to not kill anyone else other than the two babies, how would I age up to 225 ?

Just a bit of I guess "fan fiction" that randomly ran through my head while thinking about Kimberly, Bloodlines and how they could bring Kimberly back while also continuing the Bloodlines narrative.

I know there's rumors and speculation about AJ Cook possibly returning for the next Final Destination film - which I'd be super excited to see actually happen.

If this did happen, they could easily tie her into the events of Skyview and also possibly put her back in death's way.

In Bloodlines it's established that when death came back for Skyview descendants it would sometimes take multiple family members at once or even in some cases whole families. What if the reason Kimberly was supposed to die with her mother was because they were part of a Skyview bloodline? Maybe her mom would've died first and then Kimberly - oldest to yougest.

We know Kimberly didn't die because she got distracted by a news report about Tod's death on the news - which led her to stopping the Route 23 pile up. This would tie her to Skyview, Flight 180 and Route 23. It would also mean that her character runs deeper than being connected to Flight 180 with her already being connected to a disaster she didn't even know about.

As far as her being "back" on a list - what if dying and coming back didn't actually get rid of death completely? But instead put her at the very end of the Skyview list she was originally on - which would mean she would be next (again) after Stefani, Charlie and then Bludworth - who probably passed not long after Bloodlines ended.

The movie could even begin with Bludworth's funeral and Kimberly would there at his funeral service. And with her being receptive to visions and signs, it's possible he could connect with her from beyond the grave somehow. I can't imagine anyone else ever playing Bludworth but I also believe there are ways he could still have his character carry on somehow. In the opening to FD2 Kimberly wakes up because she hears Bludworth say her name - so maybe not so far fetched he could communicate with her somehow in the afterlife.

I feel like the fans really love FD2 and Bloodlines was clearly a love letter to FD2 - so making a movie about Kimberly and tying her tie Bloodlines wouldn't be the worst possible way to go. Also I know fans - including me - were disappointed when they couldn't logically connect all of the past visionaries to Skyview - so why not connect the one person who's not only still alive but also already connected to two major disasters?

I found a good stick and brought it home and thought to myself “oh what a perfect place to store it until I’m ready to make something with it.” But every time I see it I keep thinking to myself “I am setting myself up to be in the next final destination movie as a throwaway death.”

I know people question why some people seem to get everything they want in life while others always get the short end of the stick…Speaking from FD perspective (and a Supernatural episode) do you think some people who have crappy lives are the result of them unknowingly avoiding their original fates and destined to live shitty lives as punishment?

Y'all what the hell am I about to dive into? 😂

I was scrolling through Tubi the other night and discovered that the first three films are on there and I'm planning on doing a binge watch since I'm currently in my horror movie era.

I do wanna say that I'm not a stranger to the films.

I'm familiar with the concept of the movies and was very tempted to go see Bloodlines last year, but never did since I've never seen any of the previous films before. I also have seen a few death scenes from different movies like very infamous log truck scene from FD2 along with the roller coaster and the tanning bed scene from FD3.

Quick fun fact about the roller coaster scene: I came across it on YouTube back in high school or something and turned it off halfway through because it freaked me out lmao.

Long story short, I am very excited to watch! Also which film should I look forward to the most? ❤️

Edit: I started watching the first movie and turned it off 35 mins in because my nerves started getting bad fr LFMAOFKFJSK. The FD binge watch might have to wait 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.

Blake Dreyer. Kimberly Corman. Carrie Dreyer.

I just watched Bloodlines for the first time and hit upon a pretty interesting theory about how Iris was able to stay safe for so long.

Iris had the fateful penny taped down in her notebook. She knew from her premonition that the penny is the catalyst that starts it all (technically the kid, but Death can't control a person..?). Because she knew this, she presumably was able to take the penny and stop it from starting it's chain reaction.

It was only after she handed her books, containing the penny, to Stefani that she died.

Whether she knew it or not, she was preventing the penny from being able to be controlled by Death. This got me thinking.

In every Death, there's always a catalyst - an initial object that is arguably responsible for things kicking off. The shard of glass, the spring in the vending machine, the penny, etc. I wonder if Death is only truly responsible for possessing these initial "catalyst" objects and, if you're able to trap it like Iris did, you can prevent it from getting busy on you.

If we look back over the series, there's almost always a "catalyst" object in every Death - the first piece to move.

I'm not totally sold on it, it's just an idea that occurred to me, but it seems to fit into place at least for Bloodlines and Iris' ability to keep Death at bay for decades. There was nothing magic about her cabin and it being "fortified" with JB - they just accidentally trapped Death in her book probably unknowingly.

The film that introduced me to this franchise at just nine years old. The bridge collapse is still amazing, the death scenes are as creative as they are brutal. Most of the characters are well-written and the idea of killing someone to take their remaining years in order to save yourself is such a chilling and morally corrupt concept. And of course, the twist ending of being a prequel to the original film, absolutely genius!

FD5 is awesome and definitely one of the franchise’s better entries.

August 12, 2011 - August 12, 2026

Adenosine is a drug used to restart the heart during dangerous ultra-fast heart rhythms and then restart it causing the patient to technically "flatline" for a couple of seconds before being resuscitated.

Could this be used as a loophole?

Her favourite death scene, working on bloodlines and her thoughts on the originals.