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

Ashley Tisdale tried out for the role of Erin but lost it. Vanessa Hudgens auditioned for the role of Julie, but lost to Amanda Crew.

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Goofs

(at around 22 mins) After the real crash of the roller coaster, Wendy is seen at school getting things from her locker, one of which is an umbrella. She turns to look at the memorial wall and then proceeds to throw a bunch of stuff in the trash. Her umbrella, however, has disappeared.

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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

The new 2-Disc DVD contains a feature when you can control what happens throughout the movie. You can make decisions on characters actions, which results in changes through the course of the movie. There is plenty of new, re-shot footage, and different death scenes and survival scenes.

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Connections

Followed by Final Destination 5 (2011)

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Soundtracks

Blitzkreig Bop
Written by Joey Ramone (as Jeffrey Hyman), Johnny Ramone (as John Cummings),
Dee Dee Ramone (as Douglas Colvin) and Tommy Ramone (as Thomas Erdelyi)

User Reviews

Roller Toaster.

Final Destination the series moves into its third instalment without really changing the formula that was working for it. Here the opening disaster involves a Roller Coaster crash that is brought via a premonition to Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). As in the previous two films, the visionary and some friends get spooked and get off the coaster to find it actually does crash and a bunch of horrific deaths befall all those on board. Sure enough the survivors start being killed off in equally gruesome ways, it becomes apparent that the old grim reaper is out to claim the deaths that were denied him.

The opening section of FD3 is superb, the credits roll to a back drop of various carnival/fairground attractions that offer up foreboding terror, all backed by an eerie rumbling musical score. Then the crash itself is excellently stage, so much so that anyone frightened of Roller Coasters can point to this as a reason why! Then we revert to type, the youthful cast get bumped off in more ingenious ways, with more gore and lashings of dark humour pumped up this time (the use of Love Roller Coaster by The Ohio Players is genius). The narrative drive this time involves photographs, which is a nice touch and overcomes the triteness of some dialogue exchanges.

It's a safe entry in the series, and it boasts in Winstead the best young lead actress of the whole franchise. As with all horror films - franchises, some will love it and some will hate it, but ultimately it really does exactly what the previous two films did. So if a fan of those then this does a good job as well. The 2 disc DVD comes with a delightful choose their fate option, which with a bit of playing around gives you a slightly different version of the film. While it is recommended you turn up your home cinema systems for the Roller Coaster segments. 7/10

Details

Official Sites:

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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