Final Destination 3 (2006)

A student's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from Death itself, which seeks out those who escaped their fate.

Director:

James Wong

Writers:

Glen Morgan, James Wong

Stars:

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche

6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mary Elizabeth Winstead	...	Wendy Christensen
Ryan Merriman	...	Kevin Fischer
Kris Lemche	...	Ian McKinley
Alexz Johnson	...	Erin
Sam Easton	...	Frankie Cheeks
Jesse Moss	...	Jason Wise
Gina Holden	...	Carrie Dreyer
Texas Battle	...	Lewis Romero
Chelan Simmons	...	Ashley Freund
Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe	...	Ashlyn Halperin (as Crystal Lowe)
Amanda Crew	...	Julie Christensen
Maggie Ma	...	Perry
Ecstasia Sanders	...	Amber
Jody Racicot	...	Bludworth
Patrick Gallagher	...	Colquitt

Storyline

When Wendy Christensen has a vision of an accident on a roller coaster, resulting in her and her friends' deaths, she instantly begins to panic and gets off the ride, causing some of her friends to get off as well. The remaining friends, including Wendy's boyfriend, are stuck on the roller coaster and find themselves involved in the accident. With Death waiting around the corner, Wendy and Kevin Fischer must try and work out Death's plan, before they and the remaining survivors end up dead.

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Plot Keywords:

benjamin franklin character | reference to spongebob squarepants | pink panties | no panties | wolf | 

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Taglines:

This Ride Will Be The Death Of You.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong horror violence/gore, language and some nudity

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is one of the few films that the director and DVD team collaborated from the film's inception to its DVD release. The film was shot with the DVD interactive features in mind so many scenes were filmed several times with varying outcomes.

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Goofs

(at around 1h 10 mins) Kevin's photo shows a shocked expression as a camera flash has gone off close to his face. However, when Wendy takes this photo (at around 4 mins), he throws his head back, making this expression after the flash has gone off, therefore after the picture was taken, resulting in a completely different picture.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Wendy Christensen: Oh my god!

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Crazy Credits

At the end of the credits you will hear the mortician (William Bludworth) laugh.

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Alternate Versions

German retail DVD is available in two versions: the uncut version (rated "Not under 18") and a cut version for mail order (it misses ca. 39 seconds and is rated "Not under 16").

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Connections

Referenced in Planned Accidents (2006)

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Soundtracks

Love Rollercoaster
Written by Willie Beck, Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner (as Leroy Bonner), Marshall E. Jones (as Marshall Jones),
Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce (as Marvin R. Pierce), Clarence Satchell and James 'Diamond' Williams (as James L. Williams)
Performed by Ohio Players
Courtesy of The Island Def Jam Music Group
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

Another pretty good sequel...

Now, it's Wendy's (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) turn to have a dream of horror, this time on a roller coaster. So her and a few others get off of the coaster but of course, a few die. Well, of course there has to be a neat little twist and this one is: Clues of her friend's deaths are in pictures taken on the night of the accident.

6.5/10 In my opinion, each film just keeps getting better... by .5 points. The first, IMO, was a 5.5, the 2nd was a 6, now this one is a good 6.5.

Why do I like this one the best? It tries hard not to sag as much as the others. While the first one left us in utter confusion, and the 2nd one tried hard to be tricky, this one really gives us a fun task: Trying to guess HOW the person will die based on the picture.

The opener is the 2nd best one in the series (Nothing beats the original's opener), and the Quantity of the deaths are better (3 good death scenes) but the Quality of them is best in the first (2 GREAT deaths)

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

USA Germany

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 February 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Final Destination 3-D

Filming Locations:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$20,125,000, 12 February 2006

Gross USA:

$54,098,051

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$118,890,272

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, Hard Eight Pictures, Kumar Mobiliengesellschaft mbH & Co. Projekt Nr. 1 KG

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min 86 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1