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
Crystal Lowe	...	Ashlyn Halperin
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 the roller coaster, resulting in her and her friends' deaths, she instantly begins to panic and gets off the ride, causing a few 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:

bare breasts | blonde | panties pulled down | mini skirt | voyeurism | 

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Taglines:

This Ride Will Be The Death Of You.

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

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:

$19,173,094, 12 February 2006, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$54,098,051

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$117,719,158

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:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of the first times that the director and DVD team collaborated from inception to DVD release. 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 37 mins) The position of Ashley's earphones changes as she panics when they are trapped in the tanning bed.

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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

Referenced in Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (2009)

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Soundtracks

ACF
Written and Performed by Matt Ellis

User Reviews

Chilling and thrilling sequel with emphasis on increasing the luridness of the set pieces death scenes

Entertaining follow-up and again with horrifying killings . Eerie chiller with portentous special effects and results to be a nasty piece of work . This sequel of successful original by James Wong deals with a beautiful student of a High School senior named Wendy Christensen ( Maria Elizabeth Winstead ) who along with her friends go to a theme park and decide to go on a large roller coaster . There Wendy has a vision and aware which by avoiding it, she and others ( Ryan Merryman , Texas Battle, Chelan Simmons , Amanda Crew ..) around her have saved but soon begin dying in bizarre accidents . The girl's premonition of a deadly roller-coaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself which seeks out those who escaped their fate . Amusement and entertainment resides from attempting to guess which of the ludicrously over-determined potential hazards will deliver the creepy killings .

In this third installment of the ¨Final Destination¨ series appears none character repeating from former entries , it displays suspense, tension, thrills, and creepy deaths . The chief excitement lies in seeing what new and astonishing victim can be dreamt by the believable FX technicians . Movie exist for only aim of murdering its protagonists and all around in terrifying realistic detail . Death seem to dispatch new weird killing every few minutes of movie, throughout crashing, beheading , blowing up , crushing, burning , etc . Here death is a mere computer generator FX , the ultimate gross-out show . It's frightening and entertaining though predictable but we have seen the original with similar and interesting premise . Although its predictability is redeemed in part by the charismatic acting of protagonists and all around . Colorful and appropriate cinematography by Robert McLachlan . Thrilling musical score fitting to action and suspense by Shirley Walker . The motion picture is written by Glen Morgan and professionally directed by James Wong , though without originally because of going on the similar argument to former outings , being a fresh fodder . Wong has a long career as writer , producer : X-files and finally filmmaker , directing Box office success such as ¨The one¨, ¨Final destination¨ and the flop ¨Dragon ball¨. Followed by more sequels.