{"id":332619,"date":"2025-12-05T19:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332619\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:54:13","slug":"final-destination-bloodlines-is-john-waters-favorite-horror-film-of-2025-a-new-realm-of-exploitation-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332619\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Final Destination Bloodlines&#8217; Is John Waters&#8217; Favorite Horror Film of 2025: &#8220;A New Realm of Exploitation Art&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cult icon John Waters published his annual list of the year\u2019s best films via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/john-waters-best-movies-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vulture<\/a>, and an unlikely horror sequel ranked near the top.<\/p>\n<p>Final Destination Bloodlines is the Pope of Trash\u2019s second favorite movie of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best sequel to the coolest cinematic franchise ever,\u201d said Waters. \u201cFerocious, fractured, and filled with so many scary, twisted surprises \u2014 this picture goes beyond trash into a new realm of exploitation art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arti Aster\u2019s satirical pandemic western thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3888371\/eddington-review-ari-asters-pandemic-western-conspiracy-thriller-offers-empty-provocation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddington<\/a> topped the list, with Waters joking, \u201cIf you don\u2019t like this film, I hate you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dag Johan Haugerud\u2019s Oslo trilogy, Oliver Laxe\u2019s Sir\u0101t, Mathias Broe\u2019s Sauna, Dennis Cooper &amp; Zac Farley\u2019s Room Temperature, Alain Guiraudie\u2019s Misericordia, Fran\u00e7ois Ozon\u2019s When Fall Is Coming, Mariska Hargitay\u2019s My Mom Jayne, and Bruno Dumont\u2019s The Empire round out Waters\u2019 favorites of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In Final Destination: Bloodlines, plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, a college student 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. <\/p>\n<p>Zach Lipovsky &amp; Adam Stein (Freaks) direct from a script by Guy Busick (Scream 2022, Scream VI) and Lori Evans Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, and the late Tony Todd star.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth installment in the horror franchise became the series\u2019 highest grossing entry with over $315 million at the worldwide box office. <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3907351\/new-line-eyes-night-call-director-to-helm-final-destination-7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A sequel is in development<\/a> with Michiel Blanchart (Night Call) in talks to direct from a script by Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cult icon John Waters published his annual list of the year\u2019s best films via Vulture, and an unlikely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[7656,88,37677,36383,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-332619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eddington","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-final-destination-bloodlines","11":"tag-john-waters","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}