FINAL DESTINATION 3

'''Final Destination 3''' is a 2006 horror film, and the third film in the Final Destination series. Distributed by New Line Cinema, the film was directed and written by James Wong, who co-wrote the original. It was produced by Craig Perry. The film was originally scheduled for release date on February 24, 2006; however, the date was altered to February 10, two weeks earlier than the original set release.

Contents

Plot

Characters

Deaths

Coaster seating

Original design

Actual Deaths

Alternate deaths

Trivia

Rating

Response

References

External links

Plot

Six years have passed since the Flight 180 disaster. On what should be one of the happiest days of her life, high school senior Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins her friends for a graduation night celebration at a local amusement park. As they are about to board a roller coaster, Wendy is suddenly spooked. Her boyfriend Jason (Jesse Moss) reassures her that it is merely the act of relinquishing control that is giving her the jitters. Wendy overcomes her fear, but no sooner has the pneumatic harness descended, securing her in her seat, then Wendy experiences a vivid premonition of a fatal accident in which the roller coaster becomes a death trap for her and her friends.
Emerging from her terrifying vision and still on the ride platform, Wendy freaks out and demands to be let off. Her classmate, Kevin (Ryan Merriman), who is seated beside her, feels compelled to accompany Wendy. As they are leaving, Lewis (Texas Battle) taunts Kevin, calling him a wimp. Insults turn to blows and in the fight Lewis hit Erin (Alexz Johnson) forcing Ian (Kris Lemche) to join into the fight, and soon they are forcibly ejected from the ride. As they watch from below, Wendy’s premonition proves nightmarishly true - the coaster careens out of control, and all those aboard perish.
Those who survive the disaster discover that fate is hard to escape. They were meant to die ... and death is not so easily cheated, the first ones to die are Ashlyn Halperin (Crystal Lowe) and Ashley Freund (Chelan Simmons); the two girls are incinerated in tanning beds.
Wendy soon realize that the ones who survive the roller coaster are in danger. It is not long before Death comes to claim its next victim, and it is through this tragedy that Wendy realizes there are clues to the survivors' impending demise contained in photos she took at the amusement park that fateful night.
The next day the kids attend the funeral of Ashlyn and Ashley. After everyone leaves, Wendy tells Kevin about the clues in the pictures, and they try to find out what the cause of Frankie's (Sam Easton) death will be. They stop in a fast food drive-thru. Wendy and Kevin are looking at the pictures when the radio appears to short, turning itself on and playing "Turn Around, Look At Me" by The Vogues. Wendy turns around and sees a large truck with no driver in it rolling down a hill toward them. Wendy and Kevin try to escape, but Kevin's pickup is wedged between the wall of the drive-thru and a beer truck. In a desperate survival move, Kevin breaks the windshield and he and Wendy escape just as the truck crashes into Kevin's truck. The car in front of them contains Frankie’s body, the head sliced open by the cooling fan from the pickup's dislodged engine.
Now Wendy and Kevin want to save the few kids left alive, so they go check on Lewis next. He does not believe them, though Wendy and Kevin keep trying to convince him as he exercises with a defiant attitude. Moments later, two giant weights fall and crush Lewis' head, spurting blood at Kevin and Wendy.
Wendy is depressed because of the gruesome ends of her friends, and she tries to save Erin and Ian. However, like Lewis, both teens refuse to believe the "crazy" theories. As the debate rolls on, they notice that supplies (mainly consisting of wooden stakes) are beginning to fall from the top shelf of the warehouse overhead, heading towards Ian. The stakes continue to crash to the floor after Wendy tackles Ian and saves him. Among them are multiple large boards dropping down from the shelf, landing on Ian and Kevin. Wendy falls and takes cover under a fallen board. A large wooden board lands on the tip of a particular stake, propelling it through a tall bag of sawdust. The sawdust flies into Erin’s eyes, and she slips backwards on sawdust already on the floor. The back of her head meets the nozzle of a (inexplicably powered and aimed) nail gun, which proceeds to pump a round of nails through Erin’s head, pinning her left hand to her face.
Wendy and Kevin freak out because they think that they are next on Death's list, but they discover that behind Erin and Ian were sitting two other kids; however, they don’t know who they are. Wendy zooms the photo on her computer and notices a bracelet that belongs to her sister, Julie (Amanda Crew). She goes to tell Julie of the danger, and remembers too late that her sister is en route to the town fair. Kevin is working there as a security guard, so while Wendy is driving to the fair, Kevin is protecting Julie. Wendy arrives, and with the help of Kevin they save Julie; Death skips her and goes after her friend Perry, who is impaled in her chest. Now is Kevin and Wendy's turn on Death's list.
Wendy and Kevin try to keep away from anything that could kill them, but a horse hits Kevin, knocking him in front of a sure danger. Wendy reacts quickly and saves Kevin from being burned to death. It is now Wendy’s turn to die, but she found from her photo that she can only die if Ian is around her. In fact, Ian should cause her death, and he has been following her because he wants to avenge Erin (he blames Kevin and Wendy for her death). Kevin and Wendy tell Ian to keep far from them, but Ian is so angry that he keeps close to them until unknowingly backing up under a large cherry picker, all the while ranting about curses and Death lists and such. A cart of fireworks tips over (its stabilizer knocked out by an earlier horse accident), launching several charges at the gang of survivors. All the charges miss them, but they hit the base of the cherry picker, exploding. The joints of the arm loosen, and the cherry picker collapses downwards; the basket and sign smash into Ian, killing him.
Five months pass since the gory accidents, and Wendy is in a subway on the way to see the football game with her friends. She starts to feel those weird feelings that she felt the night at the amusement park, and she begins to get paranoid; the feelings become stronger when she finds her sister in the same subway. Things get weirder as Kevin turns up, and Wendy has another premonition of a fatal accident. Wendy freaks out and tells it to Kevin and Julie. The movie ends with the kids trying to stop the train, failing, and the premonition's beginning plays out into a fade-out.

Characters

★ Wednesday "Wendy" Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead):
Although she is the one who has the premonition and warns everyone about the disaster, at first she is skeptical of the idea that Death is still after the survivors of the crash. Her boyfriend's best friend, Kevin (also a survivor of the disaster), convinces Wendy that they are now on Death's list by using examples from the other films (Flight 180 from the first Final Destination movie). She did not take his words seriously until she noticed the omens within the pictures she taken from the amusement park. After Ashlyn and Ashley's deaths, she researched of the Flight 180 incident and also discover that there are similar cases happening before and after the event (including a highway incident happened a year after the Flight 180 disaster, at Road 180) She didn’t notice her sister Julie or Perry in her vision, but later finds out about Julie in time to save her. Wendy would have been the sixteenth and last person to meet death on the roller coaster. She sat next to Kevin, in the second-to-last row.

★ Kevin Fischer (Ryan Merriman):
Kevin aids Wendy in attempting to prevent the deaths of fellow survivors of the crash. They develop a platonic relationship while fighting Death together. He convinces Wendy that Death is after them after reading Flight 180 incident from the internet. He would have been the fifteenth person to meet death on the roller coaster. He sat next to Wendy, in the second-to-last row.

★ Julie Christensen (Amanda Crew):
Julie is not a senior, but joins her two friends (Perry and Amber) at the fair. She is Wendy’s younger sister. She is the "queen-bee" of her little social clique. She is extremely resistant to her older sister and Kevin when they try to save her from Death's list. She and her sister have a rocky relationship. Wendy does not know that Julie was on the roller coaster in the vision, but figures it out just in time. She would have been the thirteenth person to meet death on the roller coaster. She sat three rows from the back, next to Perry.

★ Ian McKinley (Kris Lemche):
Ian is of the Gothic life style. He is extremely intelligent and the boyfriend/best friend of Erin. He is somewhat sarcastic and very skeptical to the idea of Death as an entity, and makes Death's Plan sound like a science experiment, until the point of Erin's death, which hits him hard. He mocks Wendy and Kevin throughout the movie for their belief. Ian's doubts turn to hatred (verging on fear) towards Wendy and he attempts to kill her in order to save the remaining lives. Ian would have been the eleventh person to meet death on the roller coaster. He sat four rows from the back, next to Erin.

★ Erin Ulmer (Alexz Johnson):
Erin is of the Gothic life style. She is intelligent and is the girlfriend/best friend of Ian. She is not as skeptical of the idea of Death as an entity as Ian, but does not admit this, instead following Ian's lead. Erin would have been the twelfth person to meet death on the roller coaster. She sat four rows from the back, next to Ian.

★ Lewis Romero (Texas Battle):
Lewis is an African-American jock. He is extremely athletic and has a big ego. He scares lesser people into doing his bidding (as shown in the opening sequence of the movie). In each Final Destination movie, there is always a character that is the biggest skeptic and does not believe that Death is coming at all. Lewis is the skeptic of this movie. He would have been the tenth person to meet death on the roller coaster. He sat alone in the seventh row.

★ Ashlyn Halperin (Crystal Lowe):
Ashlyn is a stereotypical beauty queen. A bit more bright and sensitive than her chum, Ashley, and definitely the brains of the pair. She would have been the seventh person to meet death on the roller coaster. She sat four rows from the front, next to Ashley.

★ Ashley Freund (Chelan Simmons):
Ashley is a stereotypical head cheerleader. All she cares about is winning, looking great, and getting guys. Ashley is with her best friend Ashlyn at the fair. Her clumsiness indirectly causes her and Ashlyn's actual death. She would have been the eighth person to meet death on the roller coaster. She sat four rows from the front, next to Ashlyn.

★ Franklin "Frankie" Cheeks (Sam Easton):
Frankie graduated from school two years ago, but continues to go to the school fair. He was stalking Ashlyn and Ashley (fellow survivors of the crash). He would have been the ninth person to meet death on the roller coaster. He sat six rows from the back.

★ Perry Malinowski (Maggie Ma):
Perry is not a senior, but joins her two friends (Julie and Amber) at the fair. She is only in a couple of scenes with Julie and Amber but plays a part in the climactic ending. Wendy and the other characters do not know that she was on the roller coaster in the vision until seconds before she dies. She would have been the fourteenth person to meet death on the roller coaster. She sat three rows from the back and was sitting next to Julie.

★ Carrie Dreyer (Gina Holden):
Carrie is Kevin's girlfriend and Wendy's best friend. She remains in the roller coaster after Wendy's vision. In Wendy's premonition, Carrie is one of the first to die when the front part of the coaster derails and she is ejected out of her seat. She sat next to Wendy's boyfriend Jason in the front carriage. She was to break up with Kevin but stayed on the roller coaster.

★ Jason Robert Wise (Jesse Moss):
Jason is Wendy's boyfriend and Kevin's best friend. He remains in the roller coaster after Wendy's vision against his will; the operator refused to release his safety restraint. He is one of the first to die on the roller coaster. He is sitting next to Kevin's girlfriend, Carrie, in the front carriage when it derails.

★ Amber Regan (Ecstasia Sanders):
Amber is not a senior, but goes to the fair with her two friends (Julie and Perry). Amber is not a major character, but appears in scenes with Julie and Perry. She was not on the roller coaster and is not on Death's list.
Note: The seven people in carts one and two are not main characters since they remain on the ride and die. If one looks closely at Wendy's computer when Julie steals back her bracelet, you can clearly see their names printed on post-it notes. They are (in addition to Jason and Carrie): Marcus, Jill, Scott, Elle, and Rob.

Deaths

Coaster seating

According to the post-it notes on Wendy's computer, the people who got onto the Devil's Flight coaster sat in the following order:

★ 'Row One:' Jason and Carrie

★ 'Row Two:' Marcus and Jill

★ 'Row Three:' Scott and Elle

★ 'Row Four:' Rob

★ 'Row Five:' Ashley and Ashlyn

★ 'Row Six:' Frankie

★ 'Row Seven:' Lewis

★ 'Row Eight:' Erin and Ian

★ 'Row Nine:' Julie and Perry

★ 'Row Ten:' Kevin and Wendy

Original design

Death's original design on the roller coaster ride is Ashlyn, Ashley, Frankie, Lewis, Ian, Erin, Julie, Perry, Kevin, and then Wendy. The order in which they actually die is different because some characters' deaths are prevented by other characters and they are moved to the end of Death's list. It should be noted that in the roller coaster scene, you do not actually see the order. They may die directly or in the aftermath (i.e. not instantaneously, or in the hospital) thus explaining Ian's death being out of order.
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Actual Deaths

★ 'Carrie Dreyer:' Dies on the roller coaster. She is the first to be ejected out of her seat to plummet and die.

★ 'Jason Robert Wise:' Dies on the roller coaster. Jason is the second to die after Carrie is ejected.

★ 'Ashlyn Halperin' and 'Ashley Freund:' Death by Incineration and Electrocution
Ashley and Ashlyn decide to get a tan at Phoenix Tanning Salon to look their best at graduation. When they arrive, the owner of the salon, Yuri, is talking on his cell phone. Yuri allows the girls to manage the tanning beds themselves. Ashley sneaks her Slurpee in to the tanning room (Yuri forbids drinks near the tanning beds) and places it on a shelf above the control box of the tanning beds. Ashlyn decides that the room is "chilly" and decides to raise the temperature by a few degrees. Ashley leans over a shelf to get some music but unknowingly loosens a few screws attaching the shelf to the wall. The two undress and get into their tanning beds.
Due to the increase in temperature, the Slurpee begins to drip. A bit of water from Ashley's Slurpee drips into the control box, causing a short circuit that leads to an increase in the voltage being fed to the tanning lamps, raising the temperature. (A close-up of a warning label establishes the maximum safe voltage to be 250 volts, but the voltage eventually exceeds 300 V.) Ashlyn decides that the tanning beds are getting a little too warm, but Ashley continues to listen to her music. Wendy attempts to warn them of the danger via Ashley's cell phone after figuring out a clue from the photos taken the night of the roller coaster crash. The phone vibrates in Ashley's coat pocket, causing the coat rack to wobble slightly.
The rising temperature of the room prompts the air conditioner to kick in, and the flow of air from the vent blows the coat rack over, beginning a domino effect. The rack crashes into a palm tree, which topples onto the loose shelf. This knocks the shelf off the wall and onto Ashley's bed. Both girls attempt to get out of their beds, but the shelf slides off of Ashley's bed and jams into Ashlyn's bed handle, locking it shut. It then does the same to Ashley's bed. Both attempt to open the beds, but are unsuccessful. Ashley begins to struggle violently and desperately to get out, while Ashlyn screams and tries to get out from above her head, where a fan is blocking the way.
Outside, Yuri hears the screaming, but realizes that the heavy door had squeezed the sun tan lotion tube he had used as a door stopper and locked shut. He then goes around to the front entrance, but the door is also locked shut (by Ashley and Ashlyn, who didn't want anyone to come in and see them naked). Meanwhile, inside, the bulbs on top of Ashley's bed explode and the hot glass shatters all over her. As both girls continue struggling, their skin becomes blistered and burned. Ashley's violent struggling to get out causes the bulbs underneath her to shatter, and she falls into electrical wires. An electrical wave causes Ashley's tanning bed to erupt in flames, engulfing her in an instant, just as the glass above Ashlyn breaks and fire erupts from the bulbs. Moments after Ashlyn dies, Ashley screams as she gets burned. Ashley and Ashlyn both end up getting burned to death.
'Clues/Notes:' The picture that Wendy took of Ashley and Ashlyn foreshadows their death. It shows the girls smiling as they hold an inflatable palm tree in their arms (this foreshdows the miniature palm tree that played a roll in their deaths). Aside from the palm tree, however, the picture has been blurred due to a flash of light emmiting from the neon sign of one of the roller coasters, staining the picture of the girls a reddish-orange color, making it seem as though the two of them are on fire.
The jar which Ashley takes her and Ashlyn's goggles from has a lable on the front that reads; "Sterilized Goggles-Caution. Alchohol is flammable."
While in the tanning booths, Ashley and Ashlyn listen to the song 'Love Rollercoaster' by the Ohio Players, which foreshadows the roller coaster crash earlier in the movie.
After Wendy unsuccessfully tries to contact the girls, the light on her bedroom desk blows out, foreshadowing the lights in the tanning beds blowing out.
Prior to them getting on the Devil's Flight coaster, Frankie Cheeks comments about how they are 'smokin' hot!'.
It is a bit strange that both of the girls have the word "Ash" in their names.

★ 'Franklin "Frankie" Cheeks:' Death by Head Trauma
After Ashley and Ashlyn's funeral, Wendy and Kevin head to a drive-thru. Ahead of them, there is a man in a convertible; behind them, a bickering couple in a truck. A large beer truck backs up into Kevin’s truck from the passenger side, and Wendy is trapped. As the two sit and wait, the radio malfunctions, and "Turn Around, Look At Me" by The Vogues plays. Paranoid as she is, Wendy turns around and sees a large truck with no driver rolling down the steep street behind the drive-thru. Kevin’s door cannot open because it is against the wall of the drive-thru. Kevin honks to get the guy ahead to pull up, but he only responds by giving them the finger. The car behind Wendy and Kevin begins to back out of the drive-thru as Kevin breaks the windshield; he and Wendy escape just as the runaway truck smashes into Kevin’s vehicle. His pick-up truck is then mounted onto the convertible, and the running engine is torn from its mounts and flies through the hood, the spinning cooling fan slicing through the head of the driver in front. Wendy and Kevin look up, and notice that the person ahead of them was Frankie. The engine turns over once more, further slicing open the back of Frankie’s head.
'Clues/Notes:' The picture that Kevin took of Frankie at the fair foreshadows his death. The picture was originally supposed to be a below shot of Stacy Koyayashi's camel toe, but Frankie was in the background. Behind him, their was a fan suspended from the ceiling which, from the angle Kevin took the picture, looked as though it was slicing into the back of Frankie's head.
While in the drive-thru at Andy's Burgers, the word 'control' flickers out on the order panel, signifying Wendy's loss of control over matters.
After the word 'control' flickers out, Kevin's radio turns on by itself and the song 'Turn Around, Look at Me' by the Letterman starts playing. Wendy turns around and sees a large semi-truck rolling down the hill behind them, with no driver in it...
Prior to Frankie's death, Kevin almost hit the man driving the semi-truch responsible for Frankie's death.

★ 'Lewis Romero:' Death by Crushing and Decapitation
In Wendy's roller coaster premonition, Lewis is thrown from his seat and tries to grab hold of several people. After holding onto Kevin, a piece of flying cart hits him and sends him into a support beam. While lifting weights, Lewis' arms extend upwards with a Bowflex-like machine and hit the wall containing his school motto ("What doesn't kill you / makes you stronger") and two metal swords. Every time Lewis hits the wall, the unstable swords shift. A man lifting weights sends part of a stuffed bear's claw into the air, which hits the eye of a man lifting a heavy dumbbell. As the heavy dumbbell falls to the ground, it sends the swords to finally loosen and fall as they slice the wires holding the weights in mid-air. With the weights disconnected from the machine, he lifts the weights once more while telling to Kevin: "Fuck death, I just win!" in triumph. The two giant weights fall and crush Lewis' head, spurting blood at Kevin and Wendy.
'Clues/Notes:' The picture that Wendy took of Lewis at the fair foreshadows his death. It shows him at a common strong-man game at the amusement park, hunched over as he brings the hammer down on the platform of the game. However, due to the angel that Wendy took the picture and the timing that Lewis hit the platform, the weight looks as though it is coming down on his head. There is also a cardboard sultan holding a pair of scimitars above his head(foreshadowing the pair of scimitars that cut through the ropes of the Bowflex machine and cause the ropes to crush his head) and there is also a crying Teddy bear in the corner of the picture (which foreshadows the giant stuffed bear that also takes part in Lewis' death

★ 'Erin Ulmer:' Death by Impalement/Head Trauma
In the premonition she is one of the people who fall in the loop after the restraints give out. Wendy and Kevin stop by Erin and Ian's place of work, a home-improvement supply store. While Wendy and Kevin explain what has been happening, Erin and Ian restock equipment. Somehow, a spare forklift is started forward. It rolls slowly through the store, slowed briefly by a rack of washer fluid bottles, and pierces a tool rack with its forks. Tools fall, hitting levers in the unmanned lift; its forward motion stops, and the forks begin to rise, tilting the shelf they are stuck through. Lumber begins to fall from the top shelf.
Wendy and Kevin notice the supplies (mainly consisting of wooden stakes) beginning to fall, heading towards Ian. The stakes continue to crash to the floor after Wendy tackles Ian and saves him. Among them are multiple large boards dropping down from the shelf, landing on Ian and Kevin. Wendy falls and takes cover under a fallen board. A large wooden board lands on the tip of a particular stake, propelling it through a tall bag of sawdust. The sawdust flies into Erin’s eyes, and she slips backwards on sawdust already on the floor. The back of her head meets the nozzle of a (inexplicably powered and aimed) nail gun, which proceeds to pump a round of nails through Erin’s head, pinning her left hand to her face.

★ 'Perry Malinowski:' Death by Impalement
In the premonition, she is killed off-screen. When Julie barely gets saved after being almost dragged into the spikes of a hay baler by a horse, Wendy immediately asks Julie who was sitting with her on the roller coaster, and Perry stands up in fear. The horse that was dragging Julie along has been tied to a flagpole, but is again frightened by some fireworks. It breaks free, sending the flagpole shooting up into the air at full speed, and as Perry stands, the flagpole spears her from behind, splattering blood everywhere.

★ 'Ian McKinley:' Death by Bisection and Blunt Force Trauma or Crushing
In the premonition he falls to his death when the coaster is stuck on the loop and the restraints give out. After following Wendy to the fair, Ian tries to intimidate her, unknowingly backing up under a large cherry picker. A cart of fireworks tips over, launching them at the gang of survivors, missing all of them, but exploding at the base of the cherry picker. The joints of the arm loosen, and the cherry picker collapses downwards, the basket and sign smashing into Ian. The force of the falling basket cuts him in half at the shoulder down, crushing his right half (right shoulder, arm, and leg under the basket) and sending the left half (head, left shoulder, arm, and leg) flying out from under the basket. His left middle finger spasms, flipping the remaining survivors off.

★ 'Julie Christensen:' Possible Death by Blunt Force Trauma
Killed off-screen in the premonition. Five months after Perry & Ian were gruesomely killed, the remaining survivors meet up by fate in a subway train. A candy bar on a nearby platform falls to the railway tracks. A rat attempts to steal this snack, but accidentally moves between two broken wires, causing a short and its own immediate death. The short causes a switch to change and send the train in the wrong direction. The train the survivors are on immediately loosens from the tracks in a similar way to the roller coaster in the opening sequence. The train becomes a death trap and is bumping against the sides of the subway tunnel. Julie experiences quite a few close calls before her eventual downfall. The back carriage detaches from the front carriage, swerving around the front carriage, eventually leaving the train in a V shape. The front carriage crashes into what looks to be support columns in the tunnel, splitting the carriage in half. Julie is standing where the column hits, but she manages to duck for cover just in time. The top half of the front carriage is now completely on its own, spiraling down the subway, with Julie, Kevin and Wendy the only remaining survivors of the destruction so far. Julie steadies herself and stands up, dangerously close to the opening of the carriage. A wheel of the carriage flicks up through the carriage door and takes out Julie through the next door in a flash with gory results. However this turns out to be a vision, leaving their fate up to the viewer.

★ 'Kevin Fischer:' Possible Death by Decapitation, Incineration, and Blunt Force Trauma or Bisection
In the original premonition, he's bisected by a rail on the roller coaster. In the clues, he was supposed to die by a fire in the face but Wendy pulls him back at the last second. A few seconds after Julie 'dies', Kevin is thrown against a window. The bucking train made it difficult for him to regain his balance, and eventually the window shatters, dragging his head and body through the tiny space between the wall and the subway. However this turns out to be a vision, leaving their fate up to the viewer.

★ 'Wendy Christensen:' Possible Death by Blunt Force Trauma
In the original premonition, after everyone else is 'dead', the detached last coaster car flips off the tracks, carrying Wendy, and she is about to hit a horizontal support beam when she wakes up. At the end of the carnage following the subway wreck, Wendy wakes up with a broken leg and on the opposite tracks. Helpless and immobile, she sees an oncoming train and screams. It doesn't stop in time. However this turns out to be a vision, leaving their fate up to the viewer

Alternate deaths

Within the DVD's special "Choose Their Fate" feature, there are moments where you are able to change the outcome of the characters' deaths. This is set before starting to play the movie. The following are the changes that occur:

★ 'The roller coaster:'
Before Wendy has her premonition, you can change what happens through a coin toss. If you choose heads, the movie progresses as normal; if you select tails, Wendy has her vision before getting onto the ride and she, along with Kevin, her friend Carrie, and boyfriend Jason, walk out of the ride area without getting on the ride, ending the movie. There is a quick synopsis of what happens to each character before you are given the choice to toss the coin again.

★ 'Ashley and Ashlyn:' Electrocution
In this scene, you have an option of having Ashlyn set the thermostat three degrees higher than what she does in the original film. By doing this, the room gets hotter faster, thus giving time for Ashlyn to get out of her bed earlier. Just as the board is going to lock the two girls in their beds, Ashlyn successfully gets out of her tanning bed but is knocked out by the same board. Ashley gets locked in and is trying to get out. Ashlyn finally wakes up and tries to save Ashley, but when they grab arms they both get electrocuted to death because Ashley falls further into her bed resulting in an electrocution for the both of them.

★ 'Frankie Cheeks:' Neck Injury
In this scene, you have an option of having Wendy honk the horn a second time rather than only once as in the original film. By honking twice, Frankie turns around to flip off Wendy and Kevin. So they realize that they have to save him. Once they free themselves from Kevin's truck, Kevin pulls Frankie to safety. Frankie does not die, instead only suffering a neck injury. He will later be seen after the police station scene, having been arrested for the voyeuristic videos on his camera.

★ 'Lewis Romero:' Crushing and Decapitation
In the scene preceding Lewis' death, you have an option of having Wendy and Kevin view the photos on Wendy's computer a second time. If you choose this option, Lewis' death scene is significantly reduced. When Wendy and Kevin go into the gym as they do in the original, they are not able to have the conversation with Lewis because Lewis' head is crushed as soon as they enter.

★ 'Erin Ulmer:' Impalement and Head Trauma
In the scene preceding Erin's death, you have an option for Ian to kill a pigeon or only fire a warning shot. If a warning shot is chosen, instead of having sawdust fly into her eyes, pigeons fly into her face. She still slips and slides to her death being impaled by a nail gun.

★ 'Perry Malinowski:' Impalement
Since she is not a major character, she still dies by getting impaled with a pole.

★ 'Ian McKinley:' Crushing
In this scene, you have an option of jumping to the left or right. If you choose right, his whole body is driven into the ground by the cherry-picker rather than being bisected. The trio get up after Ian's death and Julie shows the school camera and cries to Wendy, "I didn't take any pictures. I swear!" and says she'll bring it back to school. However, Wendy snatches it and crushes it under her foot. They are all walking away when the destroyed camera takes a picture of them, implying that they are still going to die...

★ 'Julie Christensen, Kevin Fischer, Wendy Christensen:' Blunt Force Trauma

Trivia

In the subway scene, you have a choice of not looking at the map. If you do this then Wendy never has a premonition and the events that happen are actually real.
There are many instances of product placement pertaining to Apple, Inc.'s products. The main character uses a Mac (an Apple Cinema Display sits prominently on her desk displaying the MacOS X interface) while iPods are shown prominently throughout the film. This is the second movie in the Final Destination series to contain Apple products for product placement.
In the Subway car at the end of the movie, Wendy looks on the map where we see the stops named "Booth", "Oswald", "Ruby Drive", "McVeigh", "Hidell", "Tippit", and "63rd". These are all names of well-known assassins. John Wilkes Booth (assassin of Abraham Lincoln), Lee Harvey Oswald (assassin of John F. Kennedy), Jack Ruby (night-club owner who killed Oswald), Timothy McVeigh (terrorist of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995), Alek Hidell (Oswald's alias), J. D. Tippit (slain by Oswald following Kennedy's assassination), and 63rd (referring to a Chicago serial killer known as "The Monster of 63rd Street", Dr. H. H. Holmes).
Zac Efron auditioned for the role of Kevin, but lost it. Ashley Tisdale auditioned for the role of Erin, but lost it. Vanessa Anne Hudgens auditioned for the role of Julie, but lost it. They all star in High School Musical and High School Musical 2.
Ian's last name, the high school's name, and the town's name, McKinley, refer to President William McKinley, who was assassinated.
The choose their fate menu is narrated by Kristen Cloke who played Valerie Lewton in the first movie.
The only two references to the second movie are the pictures of the Route 23 pile-up that Wendy shows Kevin, and the Hice Pale Ale truck seen on the freeway that boxes in Kevin’s truck at the burger drive-thru. And still one direct and "hidden" reference was afforded in the DVD version's special features. At the end of the movie, a homeless person is sleeping on a subway bench, blanketed by newspapers reporting the death of the final two people involved in the "Route 23 Pile-up". They were originally meant to die in the train, but the actors couldn't make it to the movie set because of scheduling problems.
Wendy Christensen was originally intended to be a cousin of Kimberly Corman from Final Destination 2.
The title was previously known as Cheating Death: Final Destination 3 and Final Destination 3-D. 3-D was considered for the film, but it was deemed too expensive and complicated.
The Devil's Flight roller coaster featured in the movie is actually the "Corkscrew" at Playland in Vancouver, Canada. In the opening credits, the name Corkscrew is seen up in lights.
Ian McKinely and Erin Ulmer's pet names for each other, "Zip" and "Pip," were once the stage names of Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow, who suffered from microphaly and were a sideshow attraction (appearing in Tod Browning's Freaks as being called "pinheads") This hints at Erin's death as well as an ironic statement when she comments to Ian about "pinhead" customers.
The names, "Zip" and "Pip," may also refer to one of the oldest U.S. wooden rollercoaster, the Zippin Pippin (now dismantled) that existed at Libertyland in Memphis, Tennessee. It was said to be Elvis Presley's favorite roller coaster, which he spent several hours riding the week before his death.
In the original script, Ian McKinley was a female character who tried avoiding her boyfriend. Erin was originally a male character.
When Ashlyn and Ashley lie in the tanning beds they listen to the song "Love Rollercoaster" by the Ohio Players, referring to the rollercoaster that could have killed them. A common urban legend surrounding the song is that the scream heard during the song was left in as a tribute to a model murdered by the band's manager while the song was being recorded. [1]. The scream is edited into the tanning salon scene twice, the second time just before the girls realize the danger they are in.
The tagline of the movie "This Ride Will Be The Death Of You" is also from a lyric of the song "Queen of Apology" by The Sounds (which plays in the lobby of the tanning salon), "This will be the death of me." Final Destination 3 is a product of New Line Cinema and The Sounds are a product of New Line Records.
As revealed in "Kill Shot: Making Of Final Destination 3," the actors in the rollercoaster scene had to ride the roller coaster various times to get it right.
Erin's death can be foreseen in the opening credits when we see a picture of a lady with nails in her face.
During the scene where Frankie dies, the truck that is reversing into Kevin's truck is the same as the truck in the pile up on the second final destination.
In Japan, the film is renamed as Final Deadcoaster.
Depending on the 'Choose Their Fate' feature, either Ashley or Ashlyn get a slightly worse death than the other. In the original scene where they are both burned, Ashlyn gets the worse death as Ashley inadvertantly breaks the glass on her tanning bed due to struggling and thus stops the heat. But Ashlyn's bed continues to pump out heat, scorching her worse than Ashley. In the alternate scene, Ashlyn simply gets knocked out by the shelf whereas Ashley is trapped and burned in addition to being electrocuted later on.
The song played during Ashley and Ashlyn's funeral is the same song played during the memorial service of Flight 180 in "Final Destination".
Writers paid tribute to the band The Ramones in each installment of Final Destination.
Kris Lemche had to take forklift driving lessons for two days to learn how to drive one.
Helga Ungurait, the script supervisor, referred to Texas Battle as "the king of adding the word 'fuck'" for ad-libbing the word so much.
Tony Todd who plays the mortician in the first two Final Destination installments is the voice of the subway conductor in the third film as well as the voice for the Devil at the fair.
The music in the opening credits is the same music from the opening credits in the first film.
On the roller coaster premonition, Kevin is bisected, but in the final scene when its about to flip over Kevin's corpse is nowhere in the shot despite being next to Wendy.

Rating

''Final Destination 3'' was rated R by the MPAA for strong horror violence/gore, language, and some nudity. It received a 15 certificate for the same reasons in the United Kingdom. In Germany, it received an 18 certificate, in contrast to the 16 received by the first two installments, due to the increased relative intensity of violence and gore.

Response

''Final Destination 3'' was successful both on film and DVD. The film was released in the United States on February 10, 2006, and opened at #2, showing across 2,880 screens with an opening weekend slightly under $20 million U.S. dollars averaging to a little under $6,940 per theater. As of April 16, 2006, FD3 had made $54,098,051 stateside, though the movie continued to screen across the country for another seven weeks after domestic tallies closed. The film grossed even more in foreign markets, raking in over $59 million as of Early August. Worldwide recorded gross has now reached approx. $113,270,000 so far, outperforming both the original and first sequel in the series. As of late October 2006, Japan gross tallies have yet to be calculated. The DVD rentals reached nearly $45 million, making FD3 the longest running video in the top 50 chart of October 29 (boxofficemojo) and the 4th best grosser of the 50 films on the list.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film was rated at 46%.^[1], the original two films received equally poor scores. Besides deriding the film for the high level of violence and the reference to the attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, a common complaint directed at the film was that it failed to offer anything new. The BBC awarded a rare 1 star out of 5^[2], after awarding the first installment four stars and the second three.

References

1. Rotten Tomatoes
2. BBC Review

External links

★ Official site

★ Trailer

★ Movie Stills

★ Video comparing the roller coaster used in the film to the real coaster

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★ Discussion board with details on the choices given in the "Choose their fate" DVD option