Fanservice: There is a gratuitous and graphic sex scene featuring a fully nude, well endowed young woman.Exploding Barrels: The source of the mall collapse.Even when he's impaled in his premonition. Dull Surprise: Bobby Campo's default facial expression throughout the film.In other words, Death is just playing with them, and in the epilogue, he has had enough fun. Downer Ending: Although Nick, Lori, and Janet think they manage to escape Death when Nick stops the cinema disaster from happening, it turns out that Death is the one who gave Nick the premonitions.
Doubly surprising because the director of this film previously directed the second film, which many consider as the darkest (and most realistic) film in the series. Denser and Wackier: The deaths in this film are so over-the-top and ridiculous with many campy dialogues, not to mention Nick's infamous Dull Surprise throughout the entire film that it's as if the filmmakers have finally embraced the fact that the franchise really is camp on paper, whereas previous films have at least tried to be serious horror.Death by Sex: Hunt, who actually came to terms of being next to die by getting laid first.The kicker? Dragging a black man from a car is a known (if uncommon) method of lynching, as seen with the murder of James Byrd, Jr. ( His character is actually listed as "Racist" in the end-credits.) He is given a spectacularly hilarious and humiliating end when he tried to burn a cross KKK-style in front of the black lead's house his tow truck, dragging his burning and screaming carcass, twists the knife by playing War's anti-racism tract "Why Can't We Be Friends?" on the radio before it spectacularly explodes. Death by Racism: The first victim is a redneck named Carter Daniels who has NO compunctions whatsoever about calling African Americans "the N-word".Death by Ambulance: When the security guard is mentioning a feeling of 'déjà vu' and is run down by a careening ambulance twice.Conveyor Belt o' Doom: The escalator, possibly the series' goriest death.In this case, the victim talks about feeling deja vu. The death of George, getting randomly hit by an ambulance, is recycled from the scene in the first film where a character is randomly hit by a bus.