The sixth film in the franchise, Final Destination Bloodlines, will be out this week, and it seems to be surprisingly good. The Final Destination movies were never high art, but over the years, the premise of inventive deaths due to Death’s design seemed to lose its mojo, and the franchise was on hiatus for fourteen years.

However, the latest film’s high Rotten Tomatoes score indicates a change in pace for the horror movie franchise. Final Destination Bloodlines’ fourteen-year gap from its predecessor seems to have worked in its favor and given the franchise a new lease of life. Other franchises, which constantly churn out content, can take a lesson.

Final Destination Bloodlines’ critic scores prove that time gaps are not a death knell to franchises A still from Final Destination Bloodlines | Credits: Warner Bros.

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