The following contains spoilers for Final Destination Bloodlines.Final Destination Bloodlineshas already become one of the year’s most hypedhorrorfilms.Early reviews confirmthat it was worth waiting for the sixth installment in the franchise, ever since we saw death itself hunt helpless victims in 2011’sFinal Destination 5. Naturally, for the franchise’s return, things are noticeably more epic than they once were. And proof of that is what directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein have managed to achieve. Not every day you can break a world record with an extreme stunt, can you?
The directors sat down to talk aboutBloodlineswith Entertainment Weekly. Their spoiler-ridden conversation contains several details about how they designed some of the movie’s most complicated kill scenes withstate-of-the-art special effects. Lipovsky shared how they made 71-year-old Yvette Ferguson come out of retirement to shoot a single scene in which a world record was broken because they basically lit her on fire:
“We lit so many different people on fire, including breaking the world record for oldest person on fire with Yvette Ferguson, who did that full-body burn in the silver dress. That was the oldest person ever on fire, on camera.”
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Brec Bassinger, one of the film’s stars, joined the conversation with EW, and remembered the day of Ferguson’s death-defying stunt. “Oh, I was on set when they lit her on fire! I was within her vicinity. God, it was beautiful. Everyone started clapping…She was so pumped,” Bassinger remembered. The scene in question opens the movie in fullFinalDestination-style. Per the actor, her visible fear in the movie was sometimes not part of her acting chops:
“We had different stages of the restaurant, but then once it breaks in half, Adam and Zach wanted to do everything that they could practically. So literally, I was on wires falling out of a building, and even to go up to the set, every single person had to be locked in just because it was so high. The risk of literally falling, honestly, helped with acting because at some point, I wasn’t even acting.”
‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Continues Franchise Trend of Fantastic Opening Sequences
AllFinal Destinationmovies are famous for Rube Goldberg machine-like kills that show how creative a director and a writer can be. We have never ridden a roller coaster the same way, and after part II, getting on a highway always requires us to check first and see if there’s a log truck around. ForFinal Destination Bloodlines, Lipovsky and Stein made sure to follow up on the trend that makes theFinal Destinationfranchise unique in its execution. Stein said the following about finding the proper setting that would end up in agruesome massacrefor the film’s opening sequence:
“We’re always looking for things that can happen in your everyday life that we can ruin. So, fear of heights seemed like a really fun thing to play with and start as a foundation. We were very excited to bring that to IMAX because when you see it on a 60-foot screen, you really feel the vertigo of being 400 feet in the air.”
Source:Entertainment Weekly
Final Destination Bloodlines opens in theaters on July 04, 2025.
Final Destination Bloodlines
