How to be a Good AP History Student 3 (film)

How to be a Good AP History Student 3 (AP3 for short) is the third and final installment in the How to be a Good AP History Student series. Like the previous two installments, it was written and directed by Jacob McAuliffe and stars Mike Dame and Greg Klusacek, as well as newcomers Ethan Magee and Tyler Swett. It was slated for release on March 4th, but due to many unforeseen circumstances it had been delayed. Many regard this time period as a crisis. It's official, non-online premiere was March 18th, 2011, and it was posted on Vimeo.com on March 25th.

Plot
The film begins with Ethan walking down the hall with his friend Tommy, when suddenly a mysterious student jumps out and kidnaps Tommy. After trying to get help, Ethan finds Tommy in the hall the next day, in a bizzare, zombie-like state. The two are found by Tom, who orders Ethan to come with him. The two walk to a back hall in the school, where they find Mike Dame waiting for them. Mike informs Ethan that Tommy was kidnapped by the AP History Guy, and turned into a mindless History Zombie. The AP History Guy, although thought to have died two years ago, recently returned and began turning the entire AP History Student population into History Zombies. According to Mike, Ethan is the only normal AP student in the entire school, and is the AP History Guy's next target. Mike gives him a grenade and tells him that if he should come upon the AP History Guy, to use the grenade to kill him, as it almost killed him the last time Mike fought him. Ethan walks away with the grenade in disbelief.

Ethan is suddenly kidnapped by a mysterious student in white. After waking up, Ethan is confronted by the kidnapper, who reveals himself to be The Second AP History Guy, a former school athlete who decided to start imitating the AP History Guy after a career-crippling injury. While the Second AP History Guy begins trying to teach Ethan history, the original AP History Guy finds the two, and begins arguing with the new AP History Guy over how the best way to force-teach a student is. Ethan quietly escapes.

Ethan later finds Mike in the hall and give him the grenade back, too scared by what he saw to continue with the mission. Upset, Mike rounds up his top-secret organization for taking the AP History Guy down, called The Mike Dame Posse and consisting of Tom, News Director, Adam and Ian, Sound Guy, and a new character known as the Other Guy. Mike tells them the news of Ethan quiting his mission, as well as notifying them about the Second AP History Guy, much to their hysteria. During the meeting, the AP History Guy suddenly appears, resulting in a fight in which the AP History guy beats the entire posse up, except Mike, who managed to escape. He brings them into the school and transforms them all into History Zombies.

Back in the school, Ethan is walking through the halls, depressed, when the Second AP History Guy appears on the school news channel and informs the school that he will be one-upping the original AP History Guy by force-teaching EVERY person in the school over the school news channel. He also plays a video of the school principal taken hostage, and claims he will kill him if everyone doesn't listen to his lessons. Ethan runs down to the the News Room and manages to lock the Second AP History Guy out of the room, much to the Second AP History Guy's chagrin. He begins chasing after Ethan, trying to get the key to the room back.

Meanwhile, Mike finds the AP History Guy in a dark corner of the school, with the now-zombified Mike Dame posse behind him. The AP History Guy reveals that this was his plan all along, to transform all the students in the school into zombies, and that Mike was just an initial "test run" to see if it could be done. After failing to teach Mike twice, he decided to just teach the rest of the school and deal with Mike later, "later being now." Mike throws the grenade at him, but the explosion surprisingly has no effect. The AP History Guy orders the zombies to capture Mike, causing Mike to run away and the AP History Guy to give chase with his zombie army.

The two chases run into each other, with Mike running past Ethan and the Second AP History Guy. Seeing the other two, the AP History Guy orders the zombies to capture them as well, so they can all be turned into History Zombies. The zombies chase after the three, who after a short chase in which the Second AP History Guy is almost captured by the zombies, reach a dead end. The Second AP History Guy locks himself in a nearby room and refuses to let Mike and Ethan in, leaving them to their doom. The two, however, are able to outsmart the zombies by pretending to be zombies, tricking the dimwitted zombies into thinking they are already zombified. The zombies break into the room with the Second AP History Guy, grab him, and carry him off in search of the AP History Guy.

Mike and Ethan go off in search of the AP History Guy but are ambushed, the AP History Guy strangling Mike and locking him in a locker. He then chases after Ethan. In the locker, Mike has a bizzare vision that he's gone to heaven, where he is greeted by Eric (who died in the last film). Eric tells him that the AP History Guy cannot be destroyed by physical means, that he can only die if his heart is destroyed. Mike wakes back up and breaks out of the locker. Suddenly realizing what Eric was talking about, Mike bursts down the hall.

The AP History Guy chases Ethan outside, captures him, and begins brutalizing him, trying to force-teach him AP History. Just when all hope seems lost, Mike runs outside and stops the AP History Guy. He then proceeds to tell him that despite the AP History Guy teaching him AP US History, he only got a 4 out of 5 on the AP Exam, much to the shock of the AP History Guy himself. Mike then elaborates that he never really taught them anything; all he did was force them to mindlessly memorize facts, making him the worst AP History teacher ever. The AP History Guy, unable to take the trauma of this revelation, explodes in a massive nuclear explosion, rendering Mike and Ethan unconcious.

The two wake up later, to find that the AP History Guy is dead. This causes all the History Zombies in the school to revert back to normal, including the Mike Dame Posse. The Posse, realizing they are carrying the Second AP History Guy around with them, panic and begin beating him up. Back outside, Mike and Ethan celebrate the fact that it's all finally over.

In a post credits scene, Mike can be seen walking through a room, only to be stopped by a mysterious man, who says it's time to begin preparing for "AP Government," when suddenly the school AP History Teacher bursts in shouting "NO!!!"

Cast and Production Info
Mike Dame.......... Mike Dame

Greg Klusacek.......... The AP History Guy

Ethan Magee.......... Ethan

Tyler Swett.......... AP History Guy #2

Tom Havens.......... Tom

Justin Craig.......... News Director

Mike Mahoney.......... Sound Guy

Adam Rimawi and Ian Sager.......... Adam and Ian

Alex Rockwell.......... Other Guy

Sean McAuliffe.......... Principal Bridges

Eric Newton.......... Eric/Creepy Guy

Krissy Haag and Kim Ludwin.......... Girls in Hall

Tommy Lloyd.......... Tommy

Sean Maruscsak.......... Unlucky Student

Kayla Hall and Cameron Fredrickson.......... Wrong Place Duo

Ian Mahoney, Nick Morelli, and Zack Savage.......... AP History Students

Richard Hengstermen.......... AP History Teacher

Daniel Hornick.......... Mysterious Man

Jacob McAuliffe.......... God

The movie has the longest production time out of any Chaos Productions film, filming taking four months. It's also the longest film in the series, and Chaos history as well. Two trailers can be viewed online on the official Chaos Productions Youtube Channel. Also, see How to View AP3.