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  In 1968, Iris Campbell and her boyfriend Paul attend the opening of the Sky View, a high-rise restaurant tower. Iris has a premonition of the glass dance floor cracking beneath the guests at the same time a thrown penny gets stuck in a fan and then strikes a gas pipe, leading to a leak which then ignites, collapsing the tower and killing everyone.
  
  In the present, Iris' granddaughter, college student Stefani Reyes, suffers from recurring nightmares about the collapse. Realizing that the nightmares are linked to Iris, she returns home seeking answers and is greeted by her father Marty and younger brother Charlie. The siblings visit their uncle Howard, aunt Brenda, and cousins Erik, Julia, and Bobby. When Stefani asks Howard about Iris, he explains that Iris subjected him and Stefani's mother Darlene to an overprotective and isolated upbringing, resulting in the kids being taken from her. The trauma caused Darlene to abandon her own family. Brenda helps Stefani find letters from Iris, which leads her to a fortified cabin where Iris now lives.
  
  Terminally ill, Iris tells Stefani she disrupted Death 's design by preventing the tower's collapse, saving the lives of everyone there that night. As a result, Death began killing the survivors in the order they would have died at the Sky View, along with their respective descendants. Paul later died in an accident, prompting Iris to document Death's behavior in a book and live in isolation to prevent Death from going after her family. Though Stefani is skeptical and tries to leave, Iris follows her outside the cabin to give her the book and allows herself to be impaled by a weather vane to prove her claims.
  
  At Iris's funeral, Darlene returns, but Stefani resents her for being absent since childhood. Stefani reads Iris's book and sees a reference to "JB", who found someone who defeated Death. During a family barbecue, a chain reaction causes Howard to be killed by a lawnmower. After Howard's funeral, Stefani tries to explain to her family that Death is coming for Iris' descendants in order of age, starting with Howard's branch of the family before moving onto Darlene's, but they are skeptical. Another chain reaction causes a fire at Erik's tattoo shop, but he survives. Stefani and Charlie meet Erik the following day to try and protect him as he is next in line, but Julia is crushed to death by a garbage truck's compactor instead. The family is confused at Erik being skipped, but Brenda reveals that he was the product of an affair and not part of Iris's bloodline.
  
  Darlene suggests visiting "JB" at a hospital, who turns out to be William Bludworth. Present at the Sky View as a child and the last to die in the premonition, he reveals that he has spent most of his life exchanging ideas with Iris to learn Death's rules. He explains to the family that there are two ways to defeat Death: taking another life or dying and being revived, citing Kimberly Corman as a successful example. Retiring from his job as the mortician, Bludworth leaves the hospital expecting to succumb to his own illness after Iris' bloodline dies, and wishes the family luck before departing.
  
  Erik convinces Bobby to employ Bludworth's second strategy, giving Bobby a snack containing nuts to trigger a fatal allergic reaction and be subsequently revived. The plan backfires when a malfunctioning MRI machine rips out Erik's piercings, pulls him in, and impales him with a wheelchair. A coil from a vending machine is then launched into Bobby's head. Stefani reasons that Erik's intervention, trying to help Bobby, put him on Death's list too. Stefani, Charlie and Darlene decide to drive to Iris's cabin, intending to hide from Death. The RV crashes, and Stefani's seatbelt jams. The cabin explodes after a chain reaction, sending the RV into water as Stefani begins to drown. Darlene saves Charlie and pleads with him to rescue Stefani before a lamp post bisects her. Charlie breaks the seatbelt and successfully resuscitates Stefani.
  
  One week later, the father of Charlie's prom date tells the siblings that Stefani's heart never stopped, meaning she was not dead when Charlie revived her. Soon after, a log-carrying train derails in the neighborhood, and the cargo crushes and kills Stefani and Charlie.
  
  In 1968, Iris Campbell and her boyfriend Paul attend the opening of the Sky View, a high-rise restaurant tower. Iris has a premonition of the glass dance floor cracking beneath the guests at the same time a thrown penny gets stuck in a fan and then strikes a gas pipe, leading to a leak which then ignites, collapsing the tower and killing everyone.
  
  In the present, Iris' granddaughter, college student Stefani Reyes, suffers from recurring nightmares about the collapse. Realizing that the nightmares are linked to Iris, she returns home seeking answers and is greeted by her father Marty and younger brother Charlie. The siblings visit their uncle Howard, aunt Brenda, and cousins Erik, Julia, and Bobby. When Stefani asks Howard about Iris, he explains that Iris subjected him and Stefani's mother Darlene to an overprotective and isolated upbringing, resulting in the kids being taken from her. The trauma caused Darlene to abandon her own family. Brenda helps Stefani find letters from Iris, which leads her to a fortified cabin where Iris now lives.
  
  Terminally ill, Iris tells Stefani she disrupted Death 's design by preventing the tower's collapse, saving the lives of everyone there that night. As a result, Death began killing the survivors in the order they would have died at the Sky View, along with their respective descendants. Paul later died in an accident, prompting Iris to document Death's behavior in a book and live in isolation to prevent Death from going after her family. Though Stefani is skeptical and tries to leave, Iris follows her outside the cabin to give her the book and allows herself to be impaled by a weather vane to prove her claims.
  
  At Iris's funeral, Darlene returns, but Stefani resents her for being absent since childhood. Stefani reads Iris's book and sees a reference to "JB", who found someone who defeated Death. During a family barbecue, a chain reaction causes Howard to be killed by a lawnmower. After Howard's funeral, Stefani tries to explain to her family that Death is coming for Iris' descendants in order of age, starting with Howard's branch of the family before moving onto Darlene's, but they are skeptical. Another chain reaction causes a fire at Erik's tattoo shop, but he survives. Stefani and Charlie meet Erik the following day to try and protect him as he is next in line, but Julia is crushed to death by a garbage truck's compactor instead. The family is confused at Erik being skipped, but Brenda reveals that he was the product of an affair and not part of Iris's bloodline.
  
  Darlene suggests visiting "JB" at a hospital, who turns out to be William Bludworth. Present at the Sky View as a child and the last to die in the premonition, he reveals that he has spent most of his life exchanging ideas with Iris to learn Death's rules. He explains to the family that there are two ways to defeat Death: taking another life or dying and being revived, citing Kimberly Corman as a successful example. Retiring from his job as the mortician, Bludworth leaves the hospital expecting to succumb to his own illness after Iris' bloodline dies, and wishes the family luck before departing.
  
  Erik convinces Bobby to employ Bludworth's second strategy, giving Bobby a snack containing nuts to trigger a fatal allergic reaction and be subsequently revived. The plan backfires when a malfunctioning MRI machine rips out Erik's piercings, pulls him in, and impales him with a wheelchair. A coil from a vending machine is then launched into Bobby's head. Stefani reasons that Erik's intervention, trying to help Bobby, put him on Death's list too. Stefani, Charlie and Darlene decide to drive to Iris's cabin, intending to hide from Death. The RV crashes, and Stefani's seatbelt jams. The cabin explodes after a chain reaction, sending the RV into water as Stefani begins to drown. Darlene saves Charlie and pleads with him to rescue Stefani before a lamp post bisects her. Charlie breaks the seatbelt and successfully resuscitates Stefani.
  
  One week later, the father of Charlie's prom date tells the siblings that Stefani's heart never stopped, meaning she was not dead when Charlie revived her. Soon after, a log-carrying train derails in the neighborhood, and the cargo crushes and kills Stefani and Charlie.