Ashlyn Halperin

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Ashlyn Halperin
Full Name	Ashlyn Halperin
AKA	Jessica
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Brown
Place of Origin	McKinley, Pennsylvania
Age	17
Status	Deceased
Died	May 27, 2005
Cause of Death	Incinerated in a malfunctioning tanning bed
Occupation	High school student (formerly)
Relations	Ashley Freund－Best Friend; Deceased Frankie Cheeks－Alumnus; Deceased Wendy Christensen– Friend; Deceased
Actor	Crystal Lowe
First Appearance	Final Destination 3: Choose Their Fate

It's way too warm in here now, huh? Ashlyn, before her death.

Ashlyn Halperin is a character in the film Final Destination 3. She is a high school student and a survivor of the Devil's Flight derailment.

Biography

Ashlyn lived in McKinley, Pennsylvania, and attended McKinley High School. She and Ashley Freund were two ditzy best friends who were very popular among their classmates. Ashley and Ashlyn cared a lot about each other, as shown in the rain scene, where, when Ashley was giving her phone number to Wendy, Ashlyn covered Ashley's head with a notebook instead of covering her own. As stated by Ian McKinley during her and Ashley’s funeral, she never did anything bad to any of her classmates, and he was adamant that her death was unfair.

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Ashlyn and Ashley looked at Wendy.

Ashley and Ashlyn visit the carnival for their senior class field trip and board the Devil's Flight roller coaster. Before the ride starts, Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the roller coaster will crash, killing everyone on board. When she panics, a fight breaks out between several other students, and Ashlyn and Ashley leave in annoyance, shortly before the roller coaster crashes as Wendy predicted, killing the remaining riders. Weeks later, Ashley and Ashlyn are at school signing yearbooks when they see a distraught Wendy walking alone in the rain. They decide to invite her to the tanning salon, but she declines the offer.

Ashlyn is the second survivor of Devil's Flight to die.

Death

Ashlyn's high-pitched scream.

When Ashley and Ashlyn enter the tanning room, Ashley leaves her iced beverage sitting on a table, unaware that the VAC machine controlling the tanning beds is underneath it. Ashlyn decides to turn up the heat to 73 degrees, stating that "a few degrees won't hurt." Ashley decided to look through the CDs on a wooden shelf above one of the tanning beds. While doing so, she accidentally pulls the shelf loose. As the temperature in the room rises, the iced beverage cup perspires and begins to drip onto the machine under it, causing it to malfunction. The VAC then rises, and the two girls notice something is wrong when it starts to get too hot. Meanwhile, the air coming out from the vent causes a coat rack to tip over. The coat rack knocks over a potted tree, which falls and knocks the CD shelf off the wall and onto Ashley's tanning bed. When Ashlyn realizes she set the temperature too high, she attempts to leave her bed, which in turn causes it to slide over into the opening slot of her bed and then slide into the opening slot in Ashley's bed, preventing them from escaping.

The glass explodes, emitting fire that hits Ashlyn's head.

The girls continue to pound on the tanning beds and scream for help, but to no avail. As the temperature continues to rise, Ashlyn's skin peels and tears, and her goggles melt and fuse to her eyeballs, causing her intense pain. Her tanning bed begins to rumble until the bulbs burst and ignite, shattering the glass and setting Ashlyn on fire, burning her alive. Ashlyn's hand sticks out as she is burned to death.

Signs/Clues

The overexposed photograph of Ashley and Ashlyn. The picture also shows how they died.

Final Destination 3 Ashley And Ashlyn's Death Scene

• Wendy's photo of Ashley and Ashlyn is overexposed, making it look like they're on fire.
• Ashlyn’s eyes are hardly visible in the aforementioned photo, which hints at the damage to her eyes during her death.
• After Ashley wins at the water gun booth, her prize is an inflatable palm tree, which represents the potted palm that knocked over the loose shelf that locks the tanning beds, trapping Ashley & Ashlyn.
• She and Ashley listen to the song "Love Rollercoaster" by The Ohio Players before their deaths, a reference to Devil's Flight.
• Her name contains the word "ash".
• When Wendy is in her room, her lamp's light bursts at the same time Ashley and Ashlyn get incinerated.
• Before getting into the tanning bed, Ashlyn turns up the heating in the room, stating that "a few degrees won't hurt."
• In the opening sequence, there are two women, known as "The Electric Sisters," who were electrocuted in electric chairs, causing their skin to be overexposed.
• When Ashley's phone rings, it plays the tune from The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
• During the "Love Rollercoaster" song, you can hear one of the singers say "High!" again and again in the scene where the tanning bed temperature rises higher and higher.
• The name of the salon is "Phoenix Tanning Co.". According to mythology, phoenixes are associated with fire.
• If you look at the picture closely of Ashlyn, her head is lying on the palm tree. It represents the wooden plank that knocks her out in a deleted scene.
• Frankie tells them they're "smoking hot".
• Wendy leaves Ashley a message on her phone saying, "Sorry I was too late."
• The slushy drinks that Ashley and Ashlyn drink resemble blood.

Quotes

• "A few degrees won't hurt." Ashlyn while increasing the room temperature.
• "Girls with asses like mine don't talk to guys with faces like yours" Ashley to Frankie.
• "It's way too warm in here now, huh?" Ashlyn realizes that Tanning Bed's temperature has increased than usual.
• "I fucked up. I set it too hot in here" Ashlyn regrets increasing the room temperature.
• "Where are you going to see a dick that big?" Frankie to Ashlyn and Ashley. "I'm looking at one right now." Ashlyn's reply.

Appearances

• Final Destination 3 (portrayed by Crystal Lowe)
• Final Destination 3 (novel)
• The Final Destination (opening credits) (CGI image, not actor)
• Final Destination 5 (archive footage in ending credits) (portrayed by Crystal Lowe)

Trivia

• Although not featured on-screen, Ashlyn's death is referenced when Ashley's death appears in the opening sequence of The Final Destination.
• Ashley and Ashlyn are referenced in the opening credits of Final Destination 5 by the tanning bed bulbs breaking on the screen.
• Ashlyn's last name is a reference to the Halperin brothers, two men who directed White Zombie (1932), the world's first zombie movie, and its sequel Revolt of the Zombies (1936).
• Ashley and Ashlyn were going to be sisters, according to the direction commentary. This was also mentioned in an early draft of the script: Two fraternal twin sisters, JENNIFER and JESSICA HALPERIN are perfectly tanned wearing low-cut spaghetti strap Von Dutch drift T's and low riding shorts exposing whale tails.'
• They both have some scenes focusing on their hips, e.g., water gun booth, drinking slushies, etc., which could be what fascinated Frankie to record them.
• During Ashley and Ashlyn's funeral, the song "Hundred Grand" by Pete Atherton plays, which is the same song that played at the unveiling of the Flight 180 memorial in Final Destination.
• The scene taking place in the tanning booth was a closed set. Only the camera operators were in the same room with Chelan Simmons and Crystal Lowe, and black curtains were draped to keep onlookers out.
• There's a possibility that both Ashlyn's and Ashley's deaths were based on the urban legend that a bride cooked herself in a tanning bed before her wedding.
• In the television version of the film, Ashley and Ashlyn are wearing bathing suit tops, and their dialogue is altered to suit the change.
• She and Ashley almost won the Golden Chainsaw in the Dead Meat kill count video, but they lost to Erin Ulmer.
• In real life, tanning beds have on and off buttons inside.
• Ashlyn's death is more painful than that of her best friend. She suffered a lot of burns because the tanning machine's heater got much hotter before it caught fire, which didn't happen to Ashley, which broke seconds after it heated up. In addition to the fact that the goggles that Ashlyn wore during her tanning session melted and fused to her face, probably blinding her moments before killing her.
  • Most likely, the fire spread to Ashlyn's face due to the fire exploding in her face.