‘Final Destination’ Franchise Is a Streaming Hit on Max Ahead of New Sequel

It’s been nothing but good news for Final Destination fans lately. Not only has the long-awaited sequel, Final Destination: Bloodlines, been in the news this week thanks to the recently released teaser that has everyone pumped, but to top it all off, the entire series was recently added to streaming, and has been dominating the Top 10 charts ever since.

Per Max, the Final Destination franchise has taken over its Top 10 movie chart at the time of this writing, with the original 2000 classic sitting at #4, Final Destination 2 at #6, Final Destination 3 at #9, and Final Destination 5 at #10. Absent is 2009’s The Final Destination (a.k.a. Final Destination 4), but we’re sure that it’ll eventually make its way there as the week progresses. It’s no surprise, really, as after 14 years of radio silence, horror fans are eager to either watch the series for the first time, or just indulge in a refresher before Bloodlines hits theaters on May 16.

Released in 2000, critics didn’t have many positive things to say about the original Final Destination, which currently holds just a 37% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Starring Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Tony Todd, and Sean William Scott, to name a few, the film focuses on a group of teens who manage to cheat Death after narrowly avoiding an airplane crash, and the gruesome and creative ways the Grim Reaper catches up with them. Produced on a budget of $23 million, it managed to gross $112 million at the box office and – critics be damned – capture the hearts of die-hard horror fans everywhere, leading to its many sequels.

‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Aims To Put a Fresh Spin on the Franchise

While the Final Destination franchise has always been fun for what it is, it eventually seemed to devolve into just a ritualistic retelling of the same thing over and over: People having premonitions, avoiding Death, and Death killing them anyway. You might say that’s what makes them fun, but honestly, how many times can we watch just a bunch of kills without getting bored to death (see what we did there)? For Bloodlines, the franchise at least seems to be trying something new, as – based on the synopsis – it appears the film will either have dual timelines, or at least open decades earlier than the main story we’ll eventually follow:

“In the 1960s, a grandmother predicts the collapse of a building and saves a group of people from death. Decades later, her granddaughter also begins to have visions of the death of her family members and later begins to realize that there is a sequence.”

Hey, at least they’re keeping it in the family, right? The teaser above shows us that directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein aren’t skimping on the gore, and once more have no shortage of creative ways to kill off its many stars, which consist of the likes of Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, and Brec Bassinger. Look for Final Destination: Bloodlines to open nationwide on May 16, and watch the entire franchise streaming now on Max.