Butterfly Effect 3 - The Revelation

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Movie
German title Butterfly Effect 3 - The Revelation
Original title The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
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Director Seth Grossman
script Holly Brix
production AJ Dix ,
JC Spink
music Adam Balazs
camera Dan Stoloff
cut Ed Marx
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Butterfly Effect 2

Butterfly Effect 3 - The Revelation (Original title: The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations ) is a thriller and horror film based on a story by Holly Brix under the direction of Seth Grossman from 2009. It is the third part of the Butterfly Effect series, whose film plots are independent of each other.

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Sam Reide has the rare gift of traveling wherever he wants in space and time. All he has to do is concentrate on the exact dates of what happened. With this ability, he has already helped the police convict 22 criminals and is considered a kind of clairvoyant . One evening he receives a visit from Elizabeth, the sister of his murdered friend Rebecca Brown. She asks him to help Lonnie Flennons, who for ten years as a suspect sitting in jail and now by a lethal injection executed to be. Sam should find the real murderer for her.

At first Sam declines the offer and talks to the former physics teacher Goldburg. This reminds Sam never to violate the basic rules of time travel: Firstly, not to change your own past and, secondly, not to travel through time without supervision. Sam decides to help Elizabeth after all and visits Lonnie in prison, who refuses to help.

Sam travels back to 1998, when Rebecca was murdered. He meets Elizabeth in front of her house and asks her to wait in her car. He finds Rebecca, already dead in her bed, while Elizabeth is ambushed and murdered in the car. Sam then returns to the present, but a lot has changed. He no longer works for the police, but is himself a suspect in the "Rebecca Brown" murder case and there are seven other murders. These are attributed to the "Pontiac killer" that has existed since Sam returned.

Lonnie is now in a wheelchair and works as a lawyer . Sam questions him about the night of the murder, and Lonnie explains that he saw Sam speak to Elizabeth. Since he was having an affair with Rebecca, which Sam didn't know about, he drove home.

When Sam "jumps" back to the year 2000, he witnesses a "robbery" on Anita Barnes, the third victim of the serial killer. However, it turns out that the perpetrator is Anita's friend and the robbery is an RPG. When Sam is discovered and beaten by the man, he returns to the present. Goldburg has since disappeared; he had found evidence of Sam's guilt for the murders that he wanted to bring public. Anita, however, is now alive again. Instead, Lonnie became the third victim of the "Pontiac Killer". Sam's sister Jenna is afraid that his time travel could turn Sam into a murderer and asks him never to jump again, whereupon he agrees. Vicki, the bar girl Sam had once spent the night with, was murdered in a manner similar to Elizabeth. Sam is arrested and interrogated as a suspect by the police. Jenna gets him out of jail. While he is briefly unattended, he steals the notebook from Detective Glenn, which he uses to travel back to September 2004. In a warehouse, Sam discovers a trail of blood in a room with "WELCOME HOME" on the wall.

When he has returned to the present, he goes to the warehouse. There he is expected by the police and overwhelmed. In jail, he calls Detective Glenn and asks for help. He convinces him that he has supernatural abilities by telling him the first thing his wife said to him: "Are you MC Hammer?" Glenn then gives him a few hours to convict the Pontiac killer.

Sam jumps back into the past and now finds the injured Goldburg in the warehouse. When he wants to get help for this, he gets stuck in a leg iron . While he is trying to free himself, a person with a linen bag over his head approaches - the "Pontiac Killer". This turns out to be Sam's mentally ill sister Jenna, who killed Rebecca out of jealousy. Jenna also has the gift of jumping and was able to follow Sam into the past. She killed Elizabeth because she wanted to get involved in the story. Lonnie died after injuring Sam. The other girls like Anita Barnes died because Sam would have met them in the future. Jenna didn't want to be left alone by Sam, so Vicki had to die too. Goldburg had actually found the evidence against the "Pontiac killer," which is why Jenna erased him too. Whenever Sam tried to catch the killer, there was more evidence in the present, so Jenna had to kill more people to never be caught. Sam created the serial killer herself.

Finally, Sam jumps back to the fire in his youth in which he saved Jenna's life. This time he doesn't, but locks her door and shouts to her that he would always love her. Jenna is killed as it would originally have happened.

When Sam finally wakes up, he is in a car. In the driver's seat he sees Elizabeth, with whom he is now married. Jenna, his daughter, who is named after his dead sister, sits in the car. The film ends with a close-up of the girl laying her doll on the grill unobserved, where it starts to burn and melt while she smiles.

background

The world premiere was in January 2009 at the After Dark Horror Festival. Like Butterfly Effect 2, the film was distributed directly on DVD . It was released in Germany on November 20, 2009 by Warner Home Video on DVD and Blu-ray . The German premiere on television took place on July 22, 2011 on ProSieben .

criticism

“Third part of a fantasy series, staged from a bumpy script. Mostly photographed dignified, but with hardly comprehensible twists. "

- Lexicon of international film

“The DVD premiere lacks the surprise effect of the smart original, but it also lacks the insignificance of Part 2. The story of a time traveler who accidentally creates a serial killer offers upscale B-movie suspense. "

- Cinema

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Butterfly Effect 3 - The Revelation . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2011 (PDF; test number: 118 852 V).
  2. ↑ Butterfly Effect 3: The Revelation on moviepilot.de, accessed on August 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Butterfly Effect 3 - The Revelation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ film review on cinema.de