Final Destination: Bloodlines timeline, explored

Every Final Destination movie reminds us of one chilling fact — even in Final Destination: Bloodlines, you can't run from Death forever. It always finds a way, no matter how clever you think you are. But in the newest film, Final Destination: Bloodlines, things get a lot more complicated.

Unlike the earlier movies, which were either sequels or prequels, Final Destination: Bloodlines starts in the past (1968) and jumps to the present day (2024). It adds a deep backstory and reveals some shocking new rules about how Death works. This movie isn’t just about random accidents anymore — it’s about consequences that echo through generations.

In 1968, a young woman named Iris Campbell goes on a romantic date at Sky View, a fancy restaurant with a glass floor and a breathtaking view.

While enjoying the date, Iris suddenly has a terrifying vision. She sees a chain of events that will cause the entire building to collapse. Everything starts with something as simple as a champagne cork hitting a chandelier and ends in massive destruction.

Instead of just running away, Iris in Final Destination: Bloodlines actually stops the disaster from happening. She warns the people around her and manages to get them out safely. This is huge, because in all the previous movies, people usually just escape their own deaths. Iris saves dozens of lives.

Who is Eve Bloodworth in Final Destination: Bloodlines?

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One of the people who dies in Iris’s vision (but is saved in real life) is Eve Bloodworth, the mother of William Bloodworth, the mysterious coroner who appears throughout the Final Destination series. Saving Eve changes everything about Death’s plan.

In past movies, only a small group cheats Death. But Iris saving so many people messes up Death’s schedule in a big way. Death now has a much longer list to finish — and it’s not happy.

Here’s the twist in Final Destination: Bloodlines: some of those survivors had children. That means Death now has to deal with an entirely new generation. This movie introduces a terrifying idea — cheating Death doesn’t just affect you. It affects your kids, too.

Bloodlines introduces a new and terrifying rule: if you were supposed to die and didn’t, and you later had kids, your children are added to Death’s list.

Death doesn’t go after your kids immediately. It waits until you die first, and then starts picking them off in the order they were born.

Because of Iris’s brave act in 1968, Death now has a decades-long list — including children, grandchildren, and maybe more. It’s playing the long game.

Iris and William’s lifelong mission to outsmart death

After the Sky View disaster, Iris and William (a boy she saved) spend years researching Death’s patterns. They become obsessed with understanding how it works.

They study disasters from the previous movies, like Flight 180 and the highway pile-up from Final Destination 2. They find disturbing links and new rules hidden in the chaos.

They discover something critical: Kimberly Corman, who died and was revived in Final Destination 2, is the only person who truly escaped Death. That becomes a key part of their research: “New life defeats death.”

By 2024, Iris is old and hiding in a heavily protected cabin. She knows Death is coming. To prove her point to her family, she steps outside and is immediately killed in a freak accident.

With Iris dead, Death turns its attention to her children and grandchildren. One by one, they meet gruesome fates in accidents that are too specific to be random.

The Deaths in 2024 – A Bloody Chain Reaction in Final Destination: Bloodlines

Iris’s son Howard is killed when a lawnmower blade flies off and decapitates him.

Howard’s daughter Julia gets knocked into a garbage truck after chasing a soccer ball — she’s crushed inside.

The youngest son, Bobby, dies when a vending machine spring flies out during an MRI. It goes right through him.

Iris’s daughter Darlene hides in a “safe house.” But when the house explodes, she runs outside and is cut in half by a falling lamppost.

Iris’s granddaughter Stephanie tries to cheat Death by drowning herself and being revived. But it fails — her heart never completely stops. A week later, she and her brother Charlie are killed by logs from a train derailment, caused by, believe it or not, the same penny from 1968!

The updated rules of death

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People die in the order they were meant to — unless something changes it.

If you save someone else, Death skips you for now, but it always comes back.

There’s a dark trick: if you kill someone who wasn’t supposed to die, you get their leftover time. But this is morally messed up and has dangerous side effects.

Like Kimberly Corman, if you die and get brought back, you may escape Death’s list. But if the process fails even slightly, it doesn’t work.

If you survive Death and then have kids, they’re automatically targeted once your turn is over.

Your kids won’t be hunted until you die first. But once you’re gone, they’re next.

Trying to outsmart Death only makes things worse. The more you fight it, the more violent and bizarre the deaths become.

The movie ends with the last names on Death’s list crossed off. But just like always, Death never truly stops. It just waits.

Given how well Bloodlines is doing, another movie is almost guaranteed. Why? Because Death always finds a way back.

Final Destination: Bloodlines gives the franchise a much-needed makeover. It’s not just about cheating Death anymore — it’s about how your actions echo through time. By stretching across generations, adding new rules, and tying everything back to the mysterious William Bloodworth, this movie might be the most ambitious and terrifying entry yet.