How to Watch the Final Destination Movies in Order

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A viewing usher to the Warner Bros. horror-disaster franchise.

Final Destination has made its bones bringing audiences’ worst fears to the large screen. Through a twisted premix of fearfulness and absurdity, the franchise explores the cosmic equilibrium of beingness and death, gathering stories (and tension) astir the thought that disasters are not averted, lone delayed, and Death cannot beryllium cheated.

For those who privation to ticker oregon rewatch the afloat Final Destination saga up of Bloodlines, we’ve compiled this chronological database of the series’ six movies.

How Many Final Destination Movies Are There?

Six Final Destination movies person been released since the franchise debuted 25 years ago. Outside of film, determination are besides six archetypal Final Destination novels (not counting novelizations of the movies) and 2 comics.

Final Destination 5-Film Collection

Which Final Destination Movie Should You Watch First?

There are 2 imaginable starting points: Final Destination (to presumption the movies successful merchandise order) or Final Destination 5 (to presumption them successful bid of their communicative chronology). Given Final Destination isn't a franchise with a important throughline, we urge starting with the original.

Final Destination Movies successful Chronological Order

The pursuing blurbs incorporate wide spoilers for each movie.

1. Final Destination 5

The earliest-set movie successful the franchise is Final Destination 5, which takes spot successful (or conscionable before) the twelvemonth 2000. Like the 4 movies prior, it introduces a radical of radical who debar a deadly catastrophe — this time, a span illness — acknowledgment to the protagonist's premonition.

Final Destination 5 is purposely hazy with its spot connected the timeline until the precise end, erstwhile we observe it leads consecutive into the archetypal Final Destination.

2. Final Destination

The opening of Final Destination connects to the extremity of the 5th movie done the Flight 180 disaster. High schooler Alex Browning has a imaginativeness of his combat exploding midair, kicking disconnected a bid of events that pb him and respective others to deboard the plane. The imaginativeness comes to fruition, and the radical is near to evade Death and its relentless pursuit to reclaim their lives.

3. Final Destination 2

Set a twelvemonth aft the archetypal movie, Final Destination 2 introduces a caller radical of characters and different averted disaster: a monolithic postulation mishap initiated by the series’ infamous logging truck. The movie connects to Final Destination done Flight 180 subsister Clear Rivers, who attempts to assistance the caller radical cheat Death.

4. Final Destination 3

Final Destination 3, acceptable successful 2005, features an all-new formed of characters (excluding Death). The inciting mishap present is each amusement parkland goer’s worst nightmare: a deadly roller coaster malfunction. As the look goes, the survivors, led by precocious schooler Wendy Christensen, walk the movie trying to forestall Death from collecting its debt.

The events of the archetypal 2 movies are referenced successful Final Destination 3, though it features nary returning characters.

5. The Final Destination

The franchise’s 4th film, The Final Destination, is acceptable astir 2008-2009 and follows a caller radical of survivors led by assemblage pupil Nick O'Bannon. Nick foresees a disastrous clang astatine a racetrack and saves himself and a fistful of different spectators, thrusting the radical into Death's all-too-familiar crippled of feline and mouse.

6. Final Destination: Bloodlines

2025’s Final Destination: Bloodlines, released 14 years aft the erstwhile movie, straddles the series’ timeline; it chiefly takes spot successful the present, though its intro country is acceptable successful the 1960s, depicting a catastrophe astatine a fictional mentation of Seattle’s Space Needle. Unlike erstwhile Final Destination movies, Bloodlines’ protagonist (college pupil Stefani Reyes) has visions of the past alternatively than the future. The movie explores her familial transportation to and the present-day consequences of that 1968 disaster.

Bloodlines is notably the last movie successful which the precocious Tony Todd appears. Todd reprises his relation arsenic William Bludworth, who antecedently appeared successful Final Destination 1 and 2.

Final Destination Movies by Release Date

Final Destination (2000)
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Final Destination 3 (2006)
The Final Destination (2009)
Final Destination 5 (2011)
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

What's Next for Final Destination?

After astir 15 years, Final Destination is back. Whether Final Destination continues from present volition apt beryllium connected however the caller movie performs, but it seems similar the slasher franchise is headed successful a coagulated direction.

Jordan covers games, shows, and movies arsenic a freelance writer for IGN.

Originally posted:

May 16, 2025 11:00 pm