Unlike the characters marked for death in a 'Final Destination' movie, Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein's film overcame obstacle after obstacle to bring new life to the series. Now, the latest installment is in the midst of a record-setting run.

Unlike typical slasher films with a masked killer, Final Destination makes Death the villain. Death is dramatic, with every demise resembling a Rube Goldberg machine of doom—escalating tension, plenty of red herrings, and then BAM: a character is sliced, squashed, or skewered, prompting a reconsideration of safety in everything around you.

Final Destination Bloodlines offers everything fans expect, but the filmmakers also put a refreshing stamp on this now 25-year-old horror series.

After 14 years, the franchise returned with Final Destination Bloodlines on May 16. The new installment serves as both a prequel and a sequel, following Iris ( Brec Bassinger) as she saves everyone dining atop the Skyview restaurant, before her descendants begin to feel the consequences.

We have a premonition of the (mostly terrible, often funny) things you’re likely to see in any of the films from the long-running horror franchise. Follow along below, and beware.

After that impressionable scene, Todd’s Bludworth would become the most recurring character in the horror series. He returned for the second 2003 movie, where Ali Larter’s Clear from the OG film visits him to get some additional help about cheating death, and later apepared in the third, fifth, and sixth installments.

One horror fan thinks that an easily missed detail from Final Destination Bloodlines links back to the fourth movie, but others are not so convinced. Warning, this post includes mild spoilers for Final Destination Bloodlines,

Whether it’s taking a flight, getting a tan or driving behind a log truck, Final Destination has had a chokehold on horror fans for 25 years. Craig Perry, who’s been a producer on the franchise since it launched in 2000,