What started as a spontaneous birthday celebration for a woman in Argentina quickly turned into a scene straight out of the film she was watching—Final Destination: Bloodlines.
Gnarly: Argentinian woman survives freak accident while watching ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’
Fiamma Villaverde, a 29-year-old from La Plata, had gone to see the newly released horror movie with her 11-year-old daughter and a friend on the evening of Monday, 19 May 2025.
According to Infobae, they were walking through downtown La Plata when they noticed that Final Destination: Bloodlines was about to start at Cinema Ocho, a theater located across from the Buenos Aires Legislature.
Since ticket prices were lower than usual that day, they decided to go in, buy popcorn, and enjoy a spontaneous movie night.
Minutes before the film ended, a loud crash interrupted the movie’s sound effects. At first, Villaverde and other moviegoers thought the sound was part of the film. But then a piece of the ceiling in theater room 4 suddenly fell, striking Villaverde on her shoulder, back, knee, and ankle.
“There was a really loud noise. At first, we thought it was part of the movie because we were so absorbed; but then a huge piece fell on me,” she told Infobae, an Argentinian media outlet.
She added that she avoided more serious injury only because she had been slightly leaning over the armrest.
The injury required medical attention, and Villaverde had to be treated at a hospital. She described the incident as traumatic and expressed frustration with the response from the theater’s management, claiming that a manager asked her, “How do you want to fix it?”
The incident took place during a screening of Final Destination: Bloodlines, the sixth film in the Final Destination horror series. The franchise is known for its plot in which characters survive deadly accidents, only to be pursued by death in unexpected and often gruesome ways.
In this latest installment, released on 16 May 2025 in the United States, the story follows a college student played by Kaitlyn Santa Juana who inherits visions of an earlier disaster that her grandmother had escaped.
She soon learns that death is coming for her family.
Final Destination: Bloodlines has become the most successful entry in the franchise. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and earned $187.1 million globally in its opening weekend.
This makes it both the best-reviewed and highest-grossing Final Destination film to date.
The film, originally planned as an HBO Max release, was later shifted to a full theatrical rollout by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor.
Production took place in Vancouver in 2024 after delays caused by the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Despite the eerie similarity between the movie’s theme and the real-life incident, Villaverde’s injuries were not life-threatening.