Unlike the characters marked for death in a 'Final Destination' movie, Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein's film overcame obstacle after obstacle to bring new life to the series. Now, the latest installment is in the midst of a record-setting run.

The first movie came out way back in 2000, and followed Devon Sawa’s character, Alex, after he had a premonition that the plane he and his classmates were on was going to explode — leading to a bunch of them to get off the plane and suffer grisly deaths after the plane did, indeed, kill everybody who had remained on board.

Final Destination Bloodlines offers everything fans expect, but the filmmakers also put a refreshing stamp on this now 25-year-old horror series.

After that impressionable scene, Todd’s Bludworth would become the most recurring character in the horror series. He returned for the second 2003 movie, where Ali Larter’s Clear from the OG film visits him to get some additional help about cheating death, and later apepared in the third, fifth, and sixth installments.

There is no time wasted in getting to the good stuff in Final Destination Bloodlines. That counts double for its 4DX version, as there’s a whole bunch of subtle effects present while we watch young Iris Campbell (Brec Bassinger) interfere with Death’s plan to claim the lives of all present for the Skyview Restaurant’s opening night.

Find out why the directors chose a blood-soaked ending over an alternate survival storyline in Final Destination: Bloodlines. What changed the film’s fate?