Death started somewhere. Sure, audiences first saw some students going to France blow up on a plane. Later, we learned the students died because of coworkers on a bridge. But why did those people die? And the ones before them? The first trailer for Final Destination Bloodlines is here and, besides all manner of terrifying natural disasters, we see where the Final Destination chain of death started.

Directors Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky are at the helm for Bloodlines, which looks like a really good balance of Final Destination lore and chill-inducing incidents where death is coming for an entire family. Here’s the first full trailer.

Having just recently rewatched all the Final Destination films, I was wondering where this one would fit in. And now that we know, I’ve got to say, it’s a very strong idea. The franchise has always been about “coincidences” that aren’t coincidences, so for this installation to trace it back to what looks like 50 or 60 years earlier doesn’t just raise the stakes in this movie, it creates all manner of possible period sequels/prequels that could be made after the fact.

And just that idea that a grandmother was supposed to die, but instead lived and had a big family—and now, after decades, death has finally worked its way back to all of them, is more than a little unsettling.

The cast is largely not that well-known—Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger—but yes, the late Tony Todd makes his return in what was likely one of his final roles. And you have to think, if you asked Todd years ago if he’d be okay with Final Destination being, well, one of his final destinations on film, he’d probably like that very much.

Written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor, from a story by Jon Watts, Busick, and Evans Taylor, Final Destination Bloodlines opens May 16.

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