Erin Ulmer

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Erin Ulmer
Full Name	Erin Ulmer
AKA	Pip
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Red
Eye Color	Blue
Place of Origin	McKinley, Pennsylvania
Born	1988
Age	17
Status	Deceased
Died	Friday June 3, 2005
Cause of Death	Shot several times in the back of the head by a nail gun.
Occupation	High school student Hardware store worker
Relations	Ian McKinley - Boyfriend †
Actor	Alexz Johnson
First Appearance	Final Destination 3
Last Appearance	Final Destination 3 (on screen) Final Destination 5 (closing credits)

So let me get this straight; I'm gonna OD on nail polish, and Ian is gonna be embarrassed to death? Erin sarcastically questioning Wendy Christensen and Kevin Fischer on how she dies.

Erin Ulmer is a main character in the film Final Destination 3. She is a high school goth and a survivor of the Devil's Flight derailment. She is also the girlfriend of Ian McKinley.

Erin is the fifth survivor of Devil's Flight to die.

Biography

Erin lives in McKinley, Pennsylvania, and attends McKinley High School. Like Ian, she is shown to be very intelligent and sarcastic. Erin seems to look up to her boyfriend quite a bit, mimicking his stance on things. They also work together at the Build It hardware store.

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Erin talking to Ian about the roller coaster.

Erin and Ian visit the carnival for their senior class field trip and decide to ride Devil's Flight. Before the ride starts, classmate Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the ride will crash, killing everyone on board. When she panics, a fight breaks out between Kevin Fischer and Lewis Romero. When Lewis accidentally slaps Erin across the face, Ian gets involved as well, and they are all thrown off the ride. Erin follows Ian out, shortly before the roller coaster crashes as Wendy predicted, killing the remaining passengers on board. Weeks later, she and Ian are at their school signing yearbooks when they see a somber Wendy walking alone in the rain.

Erin at Ashley and Ashlyn's funeral with Ian.

Ian and Erin laugh a little when they see Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin try to invite Wendy to the tanning salon. She and Ian later attend their funeral after they are incinerated in the tanning beds. Erin tries to calm Ian down when he causes a scene, and follows him back to his car when Kevin and Lewis walk him out. After Frankie Cheeks and Lewis' deaths, Wendy and Kevin visit Ian and Erin at the hardware store "Build It" to warn them that Death is still after them, and they are next on Death's list, but Ian and Erin are extremely skeptical and continue to mock them. While Erin, Wendy, and Kevin were discussing the absurdity of the photos, Ian shoots at some pigeons and leaves his nail gun on a box unlocked.

Death

As they talk, Ian accidentally causes a box to fall off a shelf and onto a forklift's gear shift. Unbeknownst to them, the forklift slowly begins to follow them throughout the store and impales a large shelf. A hammer falls off the shelf and hits the controls, causing the forklift to raise the shelf. It slowly begins to rise into the air and presses against a set of ladders. After much force, the ladders finally snap, knocking down several planks of wood.

Erin is shot repeatedly in the head by a nail gun.

Wendy pushes Ian out of the way at the last second. Soon after, all of the other items on the shelf begin to fall as well. A wooden board lands on top of the end of a plank, and it is sent flying through the air, puncturing a bag of sawdust, which sprays Erin in the eyes. Erin, blinded and flinching from the sawdust, stumbles back and slams her head against the shelf to the unlocked nail gun that Ian had left on a set of boxes, rapidly discharging twelve nails into her head and hand. She dies from massive internal brain hemorrhaging and bleeding, gasping her last breath. Her death devastates Ian, who believes Wendy was responsible.

Signs/Clues

Erin Ulmer Death Scene - Final Destination 3 (Premonição 3) HD

• Wendy sees several fans while entering the store, reminiscing about Frankie's death.
• In the opening credits, a woman has been painted onto a banner with nails coming out of her nose and ears.
• A soft gust of wind welcomes Wendy when she enters the store.
• The lights in the store flicker for a brief moment.
  • Although this was Ian's doing, it could be noted that because Wendy saved Ian, she was unable to save Erin.
• Wendy took a picture of Ian and Erin at the theme park on the night of the derailment. In the photo, Ian recoils from the flash while holding the toy gun, aiming it at Erin's face, while Erin flips off the camera.
• The double meaning of the word "nail" plays a part in Erin's death:
  • She mocks Wendy's theory by saying that she would "overdose on nail polish".
  • Said nail polish can also be seen in the photo, as Erin shows her middle finger to the camera with her nail visible.
  • Surprisingly and coincidentally, "Kill" (Keel (कील)), the word in Erin & Ian's photo, is the Hindi word for nail.

    

    Erin and Ian's photo with the clues to show how they die.

• Erin is seen picking up nails with a magnet while doing her work.
• The forklift that assists Erin's death is called Unit 081, which may be a reference to Flight 180 and the diner Miro 81. It also foreshadows Train 081.
• Also, in the photograph, the letter "S" in the small flags saying "SKILL" is obscured, leaving the word "KILL."
• The way Erin holds up her hand to her face when the nails penetrate her head is the same as the way she held her hand up in the photo while covering her face from the flash.
• The nail gun that killed Erin was the same gun Ian used not long before she died.
• Erin referred to the customers as pinheads, a reference to Pinhead, a villain from the Hellraiser franchise.
• Ian's nickname for Erin is "Pip", a reference to the 1932 film Freaks.
• In her alternate death, pigeons scare her, and she slips into the nail gun.
• Before she died, she threw away the pigeon that was also killed by a nail gun.
• When Erin tells Ian over the Walkie-Talkie that Kevin and Wendy tried to warn them, she says, "You are gonna trip when you hear this". Ironically enough, Erin trips after getting sawdust blown into her eyes.

Appearances

• Final Destination 3 (portrayed by Alexz Johnson)
• Final Destination 3 (novel)
• The Final Destination (archive footage in opening credits) (portrayed by Alexz Johnson)
• Final Destination 5 (archive footage in ending credits) (portrayed by Alexz Johnson)

Trivia

• The credits montage of The Final Destination, showing deaths from the previous films as x-rays, Erin's death was seen again as archive footage. However, the shots after the nail gun fires cut to her as a skull with the nails piercing through her head all over instead of the back.

  

  Erin's death in skeletal version of The Final Destination.

  • Fittingly enough, her death was shown right before Ian's.
• Erin is referenced in the opening credits of Final Destination 5 by bloody nails flying into the screen.

  

  Erin's death referenced in Final Destination 5's opening credits.

• Both of the opening credits showed references to Erin's death during the credits of Brian Tyler, who was the new composer for the franchise since The Final Destination, as Shirley Walker, the previous composer, passed away in 2006.
• Ashley Tisdale originally auditioned for the role of Erin.
• Amanda Crew originally auditioned for Erin, and Alexz Johnson originally auditioned for Julie, but the actresses ended up switching parts.
• In the novel, her death was more graphic. Her head and hand were riddled with a dozen nails, instead of five. One nail directly stuck out of the middle of her open eye.
• In the script of Final Destination 3, she and Ian (Logan, as mentioned in the draft) are described as: They appear more like brother and sister than boyfriend and girlfriend. Intelligent and quietly intense, Logan wears a Bad Religion t-shirt while Erin has a pair of eyebrow rings. Loners, even together, it is not really by choice.
• In a making-of the film, it is revealed that they built an entire animatronic just for her death scene.
• Erin may be bisexual. In the novel, she is stated to be in an online affair with a girl called Viola November.