10 Movies To Watch After 'Final Destination Bloodlines'

Fans of the gruesome and creative deaths in Final Destination Bloodlines will get a kick out of The Monkey. Osgood Perkins’ demented adaptation of a classic Stephen King short story, The Monkey’s pitch-black sense of humor offsets the film’s morbid fascination with death, which appears in unexpected forms. I loved Final Destination Bloodlines’ most memorable kills for the same reason.

The Monkey’s gruesome gags still haunt my nightmares. They elicit gasps of horror and laughter at the same time, making it the perfect gory companion piece for fans of Bloodlines and the wider Final Destination franchise.

Until Dawn has a similar love for updating horror movie tropes to Final Destination Bloodlines. The video game adaptation throws a group of teenagers into an ever-evolving horror scenario, with a time-loop mechanic that allows multiple characters to die several deaths.

In a similar way that Final Destination Bloodlines loves playing with the conventions of the slasher genre for dark laughs and brutal deaths, Until Dawn mines the existential dread of the situation for some good character comedy. Fans of the interplay between characters in Final Destination Bloodlines have plenty of reason to dive into Until Dawn on Netflix.

Drop has a similar strong female protagonist under pressure to Final Destination Bloodlines, with familiar arcs against seemingly unstoppable forces. While Bloodlines plays with a malicious form of Death, and Drop is more focused on a seemingly brilliant mastermind pulling the strings behind the scenes, they both keep their attention almost entirely rooted on a woman who is doing everything she can to escape the grasp of an unstoppable force.

Both films have strong performances in their main roles, providing a lot of the movies’ likability and emotional core. I loved Drop as a modern descendant of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller that could be charming and frightening at the same time. Fans of Final Destination Bloodlines will likely have a lot of fun with Meghann Fahy’s performance, too.

Heretic is a great little horror film with existential undertones, making it a good match for those who enjoyed the more existential elements of Final Destination Bloodlines. Both films quietly deal with greater issues of the human condition through the lens of a character thriller and a gory race against the inevitable.

Horror fans who were interested in the quieter moments of Final Destination Bloodlines, where the characters confront their mortality and choices amid the splatter shots, will probably enjoy Heretic’s introspection about religion, faith, and morality. Even if they don’t, they’ll still love Hugh Grant’s delightfully twisted and surprisingly charming villain. 

While the entire Final Destination series is worth a watch for horror fans who appreciate a little bit of gore, Final Destination 3 is definitely the one I’d recommend to those who enjoyed the latest entry in the series. The closest to Final Destination Bloodlines in terms of raw tone and creatively suburban kills, Final Destination 3 has some equally devious deaths that are a blast (if you’re in the mood for that kind of dark humor and jump scares).

It also features a strong lead female performance, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead proving a crucial grounding element amid the stereotypical teens that Death picks off across the 2006 horror film. As with the rest of the Final Destination films, Final Destination 3 can be found on HBO Max.

A powerful metaphor for grief that also happens to be absolutely terrifying, The Babadook is a deeper and darker exploration of flawed motherhood than what appears in Final Destination Bloodlines. The cycle of trauma is an undercurrent of the recent Final Destination film, with Stefani still reeling from her mother’s abandonment, which only becomes more complicated when she learns about the issues she faced with her own death-obsessed mother. 

Those searching for gore and laughs will find plenty to love in something like The Monkey, but The Babadook plays much more seriously. These larger emotional issues are very much at the core of the atmospheric and frightening The Babadook, which takes the metaphor even further to a more overt (and horrifying) place. If you like emotional horror coupled with your jumpscares, I can’t recommend the haunting story of The Babadook enough.

Jason X is one of the most gloriously goofy slasher movies of all time, with a commitment to sudden brutality that fans of Final Destination Bloodlines will probably be over the moon with. Full disclosure, I love this doofy riff on the Jason Voorhees formula, which opens with Jason being blown to bits and then rediscovered centuries later on a space field trip.

It’s campy and loaded with dark comedy, similar to how Final Destination Bloodlines isn’t afraid to use an ironic music sting to score a horrifying sight or crush annoying young adults to death in creatively grim ways. Jason X is one of the ultimate purposefully bad horror flicks, and it is well worth a watch if schlock is your vibe.

A similarly bleak horror movie that balances the horrifying implications of its twists and turns with a sense of grim humor, Smile 2 is a good follow-up to Final Destination Bloodlines. The shared focus of young women facing off with a threat that goes far beyond what they could ever prepare for gives Smile 2 and Final Destination Bloodlines a similar grim tenor that pays off with grislier moments. The sequel to 2022’s Smile, Smile 2 takes things even further by actually giving the Entity following Skye a sense of personality and malice that makes it one of the scariest modern horror movie villains I’ve encountered.

What I love about Smile 2 the most is the lead performances, who play up the comedy, horror, and tragedy of their situations, something Final Destination Bloodlines also does well. If you’re looking for a very unsettling (and still sometimes darkly hilarious) horror movie, make sure to watch Smile 2.

There’s a certain emotional center to the sibling dynamics in Final Destination Bloodlines, giving it the same kind of soft internal core that makes Heart Eyes such a charming riff on the genre. While Final Destination Bloodlines mines a lot of emotion out of the family dynamics that orbit around Stefani, Heart Eyes centers its narrative around a meet-cute rom-com setup that turns potentially fatal when a slasher villain who targets relationships mistakes a business dinner for a Valentine’s Day date.

I had a blast with Heart Eyes, which finds a similar genuine emotional rift to Final Destination Bloodlines. The fact that both films also tickled the part of me that loves a good horror comedy just sealed the deal. Horror and rom-com fans alike should make sure to check out Heart Eyes.

One of the best horror films of the 21st century, The Cabin in the Woods operates with a similar sense of self-aware existentialism for both comedy and theme that made Final Destination Bloodlines so surprisingly engaging. A meta-riff on the nature and tropes of horror movies, The Cabin in the Woods uses those elements for more overt comedy. However, it’s playing with the same kind of grisly horror, dark humor, and existential dread that was quietly at the heart of Final Destination Bloodlines, elevating the surface-level horror tropes with a knowing (and curious) perspective on the sanctity (and potentially meaningless nature) of life.

If you love a horror movie that’s able to play with the format or touch on the fourth wall in clever ways, like Scream or The Final Girls, then The Cabin in the Woods will delight you. I loved The Cabin in the Woods, and I mean it as a sincere compliment that Final Destination Bloodlines is pulling from the same playbook.