History Film / FinalDestination3

Wendy and her high school friends are visiting an amusement park with her graduating class. But after a feeling of dread that follows her through the night and hopping on a roller coaster, she receives a premonition that the ride is going to claim the lives of her and her friends. She succeeds in saving most of them, but many still die including her boyfriend Jason. Worse still, Wendy starts noticing the pictures she took of her peers seem to foreshadow their respective demises, and as Death - [[spoiler: who's grand massacre of twenty four people from films ''5'', ''1'' and ''2'' has ''finally'' come to a close]] - starts a new list and chases the survivors to balance the books she takes it upon herself to try and save her friends.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Jason dies in the rollercoaster derailment just as Wendy predicted, which causes her to spiral further into depression and blame herself for his death.

* AssholeVictim: Many of the characters - [[spoiler: Lewis, Frankie, Ian, and Carrie]].

* AssholeVictim: Most of the characters - [[spoiler: Lewis, Frankie, Ian, Erin, Julie (kind of), and Carrie]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A plot point; photographs taken of the various characters show the way that they'll end up dying.

** [[YMMV/FinalDestination3 YMMV]] on whether or not this was intentional, but [[Film/TheShining Wendy,]] [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason,]] and [[Film/Carrie1976 Carrie]] share their names with three other famous horror movie characters (Wendy in particular sharing hers with another iconic final girl).

* ShoutOut: The death-foreshadowing lines on the photographs are straight out of ''Film/TheOmen''.

* NoOSHACompliance: Because otherwise many of the deaths wouldn't work. The hardware store, weight room, and tanning bed in particular.

* MurderByCremation: The tanning bed deaths.

* PunnyName: Ashley and Ashlyn get [[spoiler:burned to ashes]].

* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: A couple of boys who've ducked past the "You Must Be This Tall" sign are kicked off the Devil's Flight coaster by the attendant.

Wendy and her high school friends are visiting an amusement park with her graduating class. But after a feeling of dread that follows her through the night and hopping on a roller coaster, she receives a premonition that the ride is going to claim the lives of her and her friends. She succeeds in saving most of them, but many still die including her boyfriend Jason. Worse still, Wendy starts noticing the pictures she took of her peers seem to foreshadow their respective demises, and as Death - [[spoiler: who's grand massacre of twenty four people from films ''5'', ''1'' and ''2'' has ''finally'' come to a close]]- starts a new list and chases the survivors to balance the books she takes it upon herself to try and save her friends.

Wendy and her high school friends are visiting an amusement park with her graduating class. But after a feeling of dread that follows her through the night and hopping on a roller coaster, she receives a premonition that the ride is going to claim the lives of her and her friends. She succeeds in saving most of them, but many still die including her boyfriend Jason. Worse still, Wendy starts noticing the pictures she took of her peers seem to foreshadow their respective demises, and as Death chases the survivors to balance the books she takes it upon herself to try and save her friends.

* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler: The movie closes with the viewers never knowing if Wendy, Kevin, and Julie manage to escape the train collision, though the sounds of the collision are there for everyone to guess. The chance is high for an unpleasant end.]]

* BrooklynRage: since the movie is set in Philadelphia, there are definitely moments of this, but tame compared to the first and second movies. The only exception are the security guard who says, "NOBODY GETS OFF THIS RIDE", although justified. Ian McKinley and Erin Ulmer, the former who gets more vicious when he witnesses his girlfriends' death and tries to get vengeance, and the latter who acts like a gum-chewing bitch throughout the movie.

* DarkerAndEdgier: this is the first of the franchise where [[spoiler: it's implied that all the main characters at the end are dead. The movie takes a turn towards nihilism. Contrast with the first and second movies, where the main characters prevail and break the chain (and that's definitely the case, which is the official canon [unlike the extra DVD features, which allow you to choose Kimberly and Thoma's fate, hence making it not official canon, so yes Thomas and Burke break the chain and live happily ever after])]] However, the fact that this sequel was more over-the-top and silly than the first sequel, somewhat stains what is supposed to be a movie that's darker and edgier, and unintentionally makes this movie come off as silly a lot of the time (although it's still a good movie).

* DenserAndWackier: An extremely dark example. The deaths in this are far more elaborate and over-the-top than in the previous two. Especially notable is [[spoiler: Julie getting dragged around by a horse at the 4th July celebration]]. Unlike the first sequel, [[spoiler: where the visions are realistic and downright frightening, in a stylish and surrealistic way, the visions here become downright implausible, although it's not until the next sequel that it takes a turn for comical]]. This movie is the equivilent of when the Borg changed completely in [[Series/StarTrekVoyager]], that it becomes downright silly and implausible. This is the first movie to take that leap into downright hilarity. This movie could very well be a white version of the Latin ''Series/Seinfeld,'' with the unintentionally hilarious nature of the movies.

** Ian makes some pretty valid points about how vague the "signs of death" are, pointing out that virtually anything could be interpreted as a sign if you're looking hard enough. Also, his suggestion that the last in line should make the utilitarian sacrifice to break the chain is pragmatically logical, and even followed through with in a deleted ending to the fourth movie [[spoiler: (although it doesn't work).]]

* DenserAndWackier: An extremely dark example. The deaths in this are far more elaborate and over-the-top than in the previous two. Especially notable is [[spoiler: Julie getting dragged around by a horse at the 4th July celebration]]. Unlike the first sequel, [[spoiler: where the visions are realistic and downright frightening, in a stylish and surrealistic way, the visions here become downright implausible, although it's not until the next sequel that it takes a turn for comical]]. This movie is the equivilent of when the Borg changed completely in [[Series/StarTrekVoyager]], that it becomes downright silly and implausible. This is the first movie to take that leap into downright hilarity.

* DenserAndWackier: An extremely dark example. The deaths in this are far more elaborate and over-the-top than in the previous two. Especially notable is [[spoiler: Julie getting dragged around by a horse at the 4th July celebration]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: this is the first of the franchise where [[spoiler: it's implied that all the main characters at the end are dead. The movie takes a turn towards nihilism. Contrast with the first and second movies, where the main characters prevail and break the chain (and that's definitely the case, which is the official canon [unlike the extra DVD features, which allow you to choose Kimberly and Thoma's fate, hence making it not official canon, so yes Thomas and Burke break the chain and live happily ever after])]] However, the fact that this sequel was more over-the-top and silly than the first sequel, somewhat undoes what was the intention and unintentionally makes this movie seem silly a lot of the time (although it's still a good movie).

* DarkerAndEdgier: this is the first of the franchise where [[spoiler: it's implied that all the main characters at the end are dead. The movie takes a turn towards nihilism. Contrast with the first and second movies, where the main characters prevail and break the chain (and that's definitely the case, which is the official canon [unlike the extra DVD features, which allow you to choose Kimberly and Thoma's fate, hence making it not official canon, so yes Thomas and Burke break the chain and live happily ever after])]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: this is the first of the franchise where [[spoiler: it's implied that all the main characters at the end are dead. The movie takes a turn towards nihilism. Contrast with the first and second movies, where the main characters prevail and break the chain.]]

* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: The football player narrowly avoid having his head cut off by ornamental scimitars while on a weight machine. Exuberant, he does another rep on the machine, not realizing that the scimitars have frayed the cables, resulting in them snapping and crushing his head between the weights. [[NoOSHACompliance Who would design a machine like that anyway?]]

* PoliceAreUseless: An interesting example. Cops do notice that something off was going on with all the deaths, and they try to prevent more from happening. Of course, they fail miserably.