The premise of “Final Destination” is delightfully simple: If you somehow manage to cheat death, the grim reaper will claim your soul through a series of lethal, Rube Goldberg-esque traps. But like so many other long-running horror franchises, the rules that guide the “Final Destination” universe have become increasingly complicated over time.

It's been 25 years since we first watched Death wind its wicked design around the throats of the young and old with nasty efficiency in the first Final Destination film. Built upon a series of ruthless Rube-Goldbergian traps that methodically ensnared the survivors of a plane crash after they eluded their fate thanks to the prophetic vision of one Cassandra-like figure among them,

Not only is Final Destination Bloodlines the best entry in the long-running horror series, but it also does something the other movies never did before.