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.

One horror fan thinks that an easily missed detail from Final Destination Bloodlines links back to the fourth movie, but others are not so convinced. Warning, this post includes mild spoilers for Final Destination Bloodlines, so make sure you are all caught up. But first, read our Final Destination Bloodlines review.

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?

Refresh for chart and more analysis…Remember how we use to space horror movies out on the calendar? Not any more. Absence indeed makes the heart grow fonder and we have New Line’s Final Destination: Bloodlines via Warner Bros coming in with a massive $21M,