The trailer for Final Destination 6 (2025) opens with an unsettling calm. A montage shows a group of coworkers boarding a luxury cruise ship, laughing and taking selfies against the backdrop of a sparkling ocean. Among them is the protagonist, Eva (played by Jenna Ortega), a reserved yet perceptive young woman who hesitates before stepping onto the gangplank. Her unease is underscored by a series of ominous visual cues: a frayed rope swaying in the breeze, a lifeboat creaking under its weight, and the ship’s name, Erebus, a reference to Greek mythology’s personification of darkness.
As the ship sets sail, Eva’s premonitions begin. The trailer escalates in tension with a frenetic sequence where Eva experiences a terrifying vision: the ship’s stabilizers fail during a storm, causing the vessel to capsize. Explosions rip through the dining hall as passengers are crushed under collapsing ceilings or swept into the icy water. The vision ends with Eva gasping awake just as she and her coworkers prepare for a team dinner.
Eva’s desperate warnings to her friends set the stage for the film’s core tension. The trailer showcases glimpses of their disbelief and frustration, but the terror quickly becomes undeniable when the first death strikes. A coworker is gruesomely impaled during a freak accident involving a malfunctioning deck chair. The other survivors slowly realize they are part of Death’s design, and chaos ensues as they scramble to decipher Eva’s vision and evade their fate.
The trailer is packed with nail-biting sequences, including a harrowing escape in a malfunctioning elevator, a character narrowly avoiding decapitation in the ship’s engine room, and a tense moment where a lifeboat harness snaps, leaving Eva dangling over jagged rocks. Each scene is accompanied by the series’ trademark Rube Goldberg-style chain reactions, where ordinary objects become deadly instruments of fate.
The final moments of the trailer deliver a shocking twist: Eva discovers that the shipwreck wasn’t the true inciting event. In a chilling voiceover, Tony Todd’s iconic character, Bludworth, warns her, “This was never about the ship—it’s about what comes next.” The teaser ends with a cryptic flashback of Eva narrowly surviving a tragic event in her childhood, hinting that her connection to Death’s design may go deeper than anyone realized.
With its high-stakes setting and inventive deaths, Final Destination 6 promises to deliver a thrilling and fresh take on the beloved horror franchise.
