Scene from the Skyview nightmare in “Final Destination Bloodlines.”
The Final Destination movie saga continues with Final Destination Bloodlines. Is there a post-credits scene at the end of the film that adds to the mayhem?
The beloved horror franchise began in 2000 with Final Destination, which was followed by four sequels. Since the last Final Destination movie was in 2011, Final Destination Bloodlines is considered a reboot of the series under the direction of Freaks filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein.
The logline for Final Destination Bloodlines reads, “Plagued by a recurring violent nightmare, a college student (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) returns home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them.”
Final Destination Bloodlines also stars Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger and the late Tony Todd.
In the film, Juana plays Stefanie, who is tormented by a recurring nightmare, which takes place in 1968.
Stefanie has horrific visions of the Skyview restaurant and lounge — which sits atop a structure akin to the Seattle Space Needle — bursting into flames and breaking apart, sending dozens of patrons falling to particularly gruesome deaths.
After asking questions of her family, Stefanie learns the young woman at the center of her nightmare, Iris (Bassinger), is her future grandmother. Iris, as it turns out, had a premonition about the Skyview’s collapse and warned everyone to flee the structure before explosions caused it to crumble.
Like in Final Destination movies past, however, death has a way of claiming those who cheat it. In the case of the latest film chapter, death wants everybody in the Skyview survivors’ family bloodlines, too.
Rated R, Final Destination Bloodlines contains references to previous films in the Final Destination franchise. But as the film looks back, is there anything in the end credits that suggests the film series has a future?
Note: The next section reveals spoilers for “Final Destination Bloodlines.”
What Happens During The End Credits Of ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’?
Generally, end credits or post-credits scenes serve one of two functions. Either they wrap up loose ends from a scene earlier in the film, or the scene gives an indication whether there could possibly be a sequel.
For fans hoping for more of the movie once the end titles begin to roll, they may be disappointed to learn that Final Destination Bloodlines does not have a post-credits scene. Still, the main set of end credits presents an interesting scenario that suggests the franchise has a chance of continuing.
During the film, Stefanie locates the older version of her grandmother, Iris (Gabriel Rose), who staves off death by becoming a recluse in a heavily fortified compound.
Hoping she can help Stefanie find a way to break the cycle of death that began with the Skyview’s collapse, Iris gives her granddaughter a book of notes and newspaper clippings of all of the people death has claimed in the decades following the Skyview disaster.
After that, Stefanie traces the bloodlines of the families who died by taping all of the newspaper clippings together to form what essentially mimics a morbid family tree.
Kaitlyn Santa Juana in “Final Destination Bloodlines.”
After the wild third act in Final Destination Bloodlines, the credits begin to roll with a view of the newspaper clippings that Stefanie assembled. Rolling down the middle of the middle of the clippings is a penny, which plays a pivotal part in how the disaster began and how it continues to wreak havoc.
As the penny rolls, viewers are able to see some of the stories of death that were compiled by Iris after she survived the Skyview mishap. The penny then rolls into the darkness, perhaps suggesting that the Final Destination story and death’s quest to claim those who cheat it will continue.
In a recent Zoom conversation with Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, the directors told me that the idea of a post-credits scene for Final Destination Bloodlines was definitely on their minds.
“There was one that we debated, but I’m not sure we can talk about it, though,” Lipovsky said with a laugh.
“There was one [idea] that was very intriguing, but in the end we didn’t shoot it,” Stein added with a smile.
Rated R, Final Destination Bloodlines is playing in theaters worldwide.
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