![]() As death makes house calls, they study the photos Wendy took before the disaster, desperate for clues about how the survivors will die. She loses her boyfriend and her best friend but does have her best friend's boyfriend, Kevin (Ryan Merriman), to turn to. It's every thrill junkie's nightmare, and not long after Wendy opens her eyes and demands to be let out, it comes true. And what a vision it is: A dozen people harness themselves in and after one passenger's video camera falls onto the rails (in a sly diss to digital filmmaking), kids are hanging on for dear life and being dumped out when the ride stops at the crest of a loop. Sitting in a car of Devil's Flight, Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has a vision that it will send its riders hurtling off the tracks. In ''Final Destination 3," an amusement park roller coaster is the disaster site of choice. Those who escape harm are chased and killed, until the embattled clairvoyant manages to show death the door. The teen warns of doom, no one listens, and nearly everyone dies. A teen has a premonition that he or she will perish on a plane (the first movie) or on the interstate (the nasty sequel) with his or her peers. If you missed the previous two chapters, the series is about fate's inexorable will. Week in and week out, horror movies cheat us, so it's wonderfully cathartic to watch a bunch of kids cheat death in what turns out to be the best installment yet in the ''Final Destination" franchise. Crazy but true: ''Final Destination 3" has come to the rescue. The horror film has been getting away with murder. ![]() ![]() But the filmmakers and the studios don't seem to care - a big opening weekend at the box office is preordained. ![]() Every weekend, horror films lure in millions of kids and usually send them home bummed: That's it? As the end credits rolled after a public showing of last week's moneymaker, ''When a Stranger Calls," the audience made catcalls. ![]()
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