'Final Destination: Bloodlines' Ending Explained

Cosmopolitan

17-05-2025

If you love movies where plenty of gruesome and bloody deaths are guaranteed, then you've likely been a fan of the Final Destination franchise for quite some time. Well, the latest installment, Final Destination Bloodlines, is finally out and dear lord there's a lot to discuss.
The movie starts with a flashback to 1968 when a young couple, Iris and Paul, are having a nice day out at the Skyview Restaurant tower (kinda like a more shoddily built version of the Space Needle in Seattle). There, Iris has a premonition about the tower falling into total destruction: a little boy steals a penny from a wishing fountain, then drops it into the ventilation system causing a gas leak. A chandelier breaks, causing the glass floor to crack, which sends Paul and some other guests to their deaths. An open flame then catches the whole restaurant on fire, thanks to the gas leak, and more and more people in the tower die. Iris is the second-last to fall to meet her death, followed by the penny-stealing boy.
Back IRL, Iris snaps into action, taking the penny from the little boy, putting out the fire in a pan, and telling people to get off the glass floor. She saves the day and prevents everyone's deaths...for now. But it's only the beginning.
So how does Final Destination: Bloodlines end? Let's get into it.
Cut to 56 years later and Stefani, the granddaughter of Iris, is having the same premonition of the catastrophe in the tower. It's really affecting her life, disrupting her sleep and making her not do well in school. She tries to ask her family about Iris but, honestly, they want nothing to do with her.
Stefani, whose mother, Darlene, left quite a long time ago, decides to go to her uncle Howard (her mother's brother and Iris's only other child) to seek some answers, but he really doesn't want to talk about his mom. He says she's the reason Darlene became so obsessed with death and eventually ran away.
Stefani manages to track down Iris, who's locked herself away in a remote cabin. Iris explains that ever since she stopped the inferno at the tower, death has been coming after not only her, but everyone who survived and any descendants they may have. Children and grandchildren are all fair game. She says the reason Stefani is having these premonitions is because Iris (and her bloodline) are next on death's roster.
Stefani gets freaked out (and rightly so!) and tries to leave, but Iris proves the theory true by following her outside and promptly being impaled through the back of the head by the weather vane falling from the roof of the cabin.
Darlene returns to her family but Stefani and her brother Charlie aren't totally sure how to feel after years of abandonment. Stefanie starts digging into a book that Iris gave her (before her gruesome death, ofc) that lays out who is next in line to die. Turns out death operates by first taking out the oldest child of survivors from the tower and their descendants before moving on to the next child, which means her uncle Howard is next.
Stefani tries to get to Howard to warn him, but it's too late, he's had his face shredded by a lawnmower, killing him. She tries to tell the rest of her family about the fate that awaits them, but they're not necessarily all buying it—especially Erik, Howard's oldest child, who's next on the hit list. We then see Erik at work at his tattoo shop when it bursts into flames. He manages to escape the potentially fatal fire, which only further confirms his theory that Iris and Stefani's predictions are a buncha B.S.
Not long after, his younger sister Julia accidentally falls into a trash can and gets crushed by a compactor, killing her. So why did death skip Erik? Turns out he was the result of an affair his mother had and wasn't really related to Howard, meaning he's not part of the bloodline and death isn't worried about killing him. With Julia dead, that means their younger brother Bobby is next.
Stefani and co. are trying to hunt down J.B., the little boy from Iris' vision. He was the final survivor of the would-be tower disaster. When they find him, he turns out to be William Bludworth—a familiar face from the Final Destination franchise. J.B. tells them that it's possible to stop the chain of death by dying and being revived, but he warns that messing with death's plans can be dangerous.
Erik comes up with a plan to try to save Bobby and end the chain of death. Bobby, who's deathly allergic to peanuts, will eat a few, die, and be brought back to life. Shockingly, the plan does not go well. They do have him eat the peanuts at a hospital, which is one semi-smart idea, but the MRI machine in the room they're in switches on and starts pulling in anything with metal towards it, including Erik and his many body piercings. Erik ends up getting crushed to death—seemingly a punishment for messing with death's plans.
The MRI machine then pulls off the spring from the vending machine where Bobby got the peanuts, and as it's flying through the air, it impales Bobby, killing him.
Darlene, Stefani, and Charlie jump in the RV and flee to Iris's cabin. Darlene says she'll just stay there and hide away so that death can't get to her, or her kids. Once they arrive, Stefani realizes her seatbelt is jammed and she can't get out of the RV. Since she's not next in line to die, she tells Charlie to go get their mom inside. But death is too quick and the cabin explodes, sending the RV into the lake. Darlene tells Charlie to go help Stefani, who's stuck and going to drown, insisting she'll be okay...until she's impaled by a falling lamppost.
Charlie pulls his now-unconscious sister from the water and resuscitates her with CPR. They think that because Stefani died and Charlie brought her back to life, the deaths have to stop, right?
One week after the cabin explosion, Charlie graduates from high school and it's a seemingly happy celebration, that is until one of his classmate's parents hears him saying he brought Stefani back to life and tells him Stefani didn't really die in the lake, she was just unconscious. Charlie and Stephanie realize the chain of death wasn't, in fact, broken.
An old lady who's buying some lemonade drops a penny (the same penny J.B. had at the tower that Iris took away, which Iris then put in the book she gave Stefani, which Stefani then dropped at the hospital and was picked up by said old lady). The penny rolls onto a set of train tracks, causing a train to derail and crash into the neighborhood. Stefani and Charlie manage to not get run over by the train, but when some logs tumble off one of the cars, they're finally killed, because death always wins.