Just how hungry are horror fans for a new installment in the Final Destination franchise, fourteen years after the previous one? Pretty damn excited, it would seem, as this week’s trailer for Final Destination Bloodlines has already shattered a massive viewership record.
It was just three months ago that the trailer for 28 Years Later became the second most watched horror trailer in history, and now Final Destination Bloodlines has taken the crown!
Deadline reports today, “the pic’s 24-hour trailer traffic is the second best for any horror movie at 178.7M worldwide views behind New Line’s own It which had near 200M global views.”
“There is a big deal nowadays in regards to measuring trailer traffic whether it includes or doesn’t include TikTok views which can make a trailer soar,” the report continues. “I’m told that these WaveMetrix measurements do include TikTok, but even if you back them out, it still exceeds the 24-hour traffic for Sony’s 28 Days Later (60.2M global views from Dec. 12).”
To date, the highest grossing installment in the five-film Final Destination franchise is 2009’s The Final Destination with $186 million worldwide, while the highest domestic opening was also the 2009 sequel with $27.4 million. That’s the installment to beat, and it sounds like Final Destination Bloodlines will be giving it a run for its money in the coming months.
The newest chapter in New Line Cinema’s hit franchise is said to “take audiences back to the very beginning.” In the upcoming sequel, “Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.”
Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky directed the new installment, in theaters May 16.
