It has been 14 years since a Final Destination film has hit theaters—namely, Final Destination 5, which is far and away our favorite in the series. Per Slant’s Ed Gonzalez: “There’s a gallows humor to the death sequences that giddily invites our applause, but the film also wants us to be appalled by how and when death can come to us.”

Now, with Final Destination: Bloodlines, the franchise is set to scare a new generation of viewers. In the film, a college student named Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), tormented by recurring nightmares about dying in a tower accident in the ’60s, discovers that her visions are linked to her grandmother Esther, who cheated death 50 years ago. As death now targets their family, the young woman races to break the lethal cycle and save her loved ones.

Like everyone else, we’re hoping for deaths that are brutal and inventive,...