This Is the Movie I Regret Not Seeing at the Theater in 2025
I loved Final Destination: Bloodlines when I streamed it at home, but it would have been more fun to watch with an audience in a theater.
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I loved Final Destination: Bloodlines when I streamed it at home, but it would have been more fun to watch with an audience in a theater.
Liz Kocan
Liz Kocan has spent the last 20 years covering TV, entertainment and working behind the scenes in digital production. While at VH1.com, she won a Webby Award and was nominated for a Shorty Award as a producer. She has also contributed her writing to USA Today, Decider, Vulture, and many other publications, and has seen every episode of 30 Rock more times than her mind grapes can remember.
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As the year comes to an end and the entire world is creating some variation of a personally curated Best of 2025 list, I'm here to say that it's okay if you haven't seen every single movie or show on each of these superlative lists. And it's okay if your personal best lists contain some outliers, stuff that either fell under the radar this year or isn't what you'd call a prestige hit.
While I did love critical hits like One Battle After Another and Sinners, for me, one of the most fun and entertaining films of 2025 was the one where — spoiler alert — a guy's face is mangled by a lawnmower and a woman's head is sheared off inside the compactor of a garbage truck. And I laughed when it all happened! I'm not sorry!
I'm talking, of course, about Final Destination: Bloodlines. My biggest regret though, is not watching it in the movie theater where an adrenaline-spiked audience could have enhanced the experience, but I still had a blast watching it home where at least I didn't need to be self-conscious about my clammy, sweat-soaked palms.
I ended up watching Final Destination: Bloodlines after it came to HBO Max (and it'll be included on Prime Video starting Jan. 1). The sixth installment of the Final Destination franchise (the seventh one is in ) is not just a vehicle for creatively killing off all of its characters, it's also a little reward for anyone who has been a fan of the 25-year-old film series, featuring subtle nods to past films and the infamous deaths they spawned.