When a whole auditorium of people screams in disgust at the exact same time, you know you’ve got ’em. And that’s what happened Tuesday night at CinemaCon 2025 as one of the gruesome deaths from Final Destination: Bloodlines was shown in full. It blew the roof off the convention during a presentation that went heavy on cool genre horror.
Warner Bros. put on a solid presentation at CinemaCon with footage from anticipated release, including Superman and F1. But horror was foremost on the agenda with three movies standing above the rest. One was Weapons, the second from Barbarian director Zack Cregger. It’s been shrouded in mystery as it moved around the release calendar, landing on August 8 of this year. Well, in the first footage shown at CinemaCon, we got an idea why.
Weapons centers on a teacher played by Julia Garner. One day, she goes to school and everything seems normal except none of her kids are in class. All the other students in the school are there—but for some reason, hers are all missing. The footage tells us that all the kids in her class woke up at 2:17 a.m., ran into the woods, and never came back. This, obviously, doesn’t sit well with the community, and that’s just the start of the madness at hand.
Next was The Bride!, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. Maggie Gyllenhaal directs the innovative new film and explained that she got the idea after seeing a person at a party with a Bride of Frankenstein tattoo, which made her watch the original movie. She then realized the titular Bride is only in the movie for a few minutes and never speaks. Well, Gyllenhaal’s Bride does speak. A lot. And in the footage shown at CinemaCon, it looked like Poor Things meets Bonnie & Clyde as the Bride and Frank travel around, killing people, dancing, and getting into mischief. The words “electric” and “punk rock” came up a lot and rightfully so. The movie looked beautifully bonkers, and the fact that certain theaters will be able to screen it in full 1.43:1 IMAX is even more exciting.
But, if you’re still reading, you probably want to know about the Final Destination kill and yes, we saved the best for last. On May 16, Final Destination: Bloodlines is coming to theaters, and in it, a whole generation of people has to die. (Watch the trailer to explain.) In the footage shown at CinemaCon (which, if you plan on seeing the movie, is very spoilery so proceed with caution), two brothers try to defy death. They know they can do so by either killing someone themselves—or dying, then coming back to life. After a sinister joke about killing babies, the brothers decide on the second one, and things go from there.
The beauty of a Final Destination movie is the detail and subtlety with which death occurs and this is no different. The brothers go to a hospital, hoping that proximity to life-saving care will make bringing one of them back easier. We learn that one has a deadly peanut allergy, so they go to the vending machine for peanuts. But, if you’re going to die from peanuts, better to do it with something that tastes great, so they choose peanut butter cups (which are generic and not Reese’s brand, for obvious reasons). After some tense back and forth with the heavy vending machine that won’t just release the candy, it falls down, and things continue.
As this is happening, the brothers end up in an MRI room and, miraculously, a few things fall, causing the MRI machine to switch on. They debate the peanut death, completely oblivious to the machine that’s continuing to power up. Eventually, the one brother eats the candy and starts to die. His brother tries to fight him off from using his medicine but the brother persists. In the struggle, the MRI machine continues to build up power and, therefore, becomes basically magnetic. The overrides get bypassed, and things get taken to the next level.
The brother without the allergy starts to get drawn into the MRI machine because he’s pierced everywhere. First, his earrings rip out. Then the nipples. Then, well, other parts are going lower and lower. He’s eventually sucked onto the MRI machine by his piercings when the wheelchair he brought in for his brother smashes behind. As his piercings, from top to bottom, get sucked into the machine, so too does the wheelchair, piercing through his body. He dies but his brother gets his medicine and is free from the peanuts. But, as he gets better, a spring from the vending machine pops out and hits him in the brain, killing him. Death wins.
And reading all that can’t even begin to explain how tense and gross it is. I watched all the Final Destination movies recently, and this death is right near the top of the list.
Final Destination: Bloodlines opens May 16. Weapons opens August 8. The Bride! opens March 16, 2026.
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