Jason Voorhees, having barely survived a wound to his shoulder from his own machete, is back to revenge on all that visit "his" woods. A new group of friends come over to party at an area close to the campsite. This time, Jason will be stronger than ever, and getting a hockey mask from one of those friends. Written by
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Picking up from the previous events with a flashback sequence, Jason (Richard Brooker) has seemingly survived his attack from Paul and Ginny, and migrates to a store where he changes clothes and then murders the store owners, the henpecked Harold (Steve Susskind) with a meat cleaver into his chest and his shrewd wife Edna (Cheri Maugans) with a knitting needle through the back of her head, before moving on to a nearby lake front property named Higgins Haven.
At the same time, 18-year-old Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell), who was attacked by a mysterious, disfigured stranger in the woods near Crystal Lake two years earlier, returns to the property with her friends; Debbie (Tracie Savage), her boyfriend Andy (Jeffrey Rogers), dim-witted prankster Shelly (Larry Zimmer), Vera (Catherine Parks), and stoners Chuck (David Katims) and Chilli (Rachel Howard). After meeting Abel, an inebriated, religious fanatic derleict who warns them to turn back, the gang meets Chris' boyfriend Rick (Paul Kratka) at their destination; Higgins Haven. Chris intends to face her fears; however, none of her friends know that an unmasked and reclusive Jason has taken refuge in the barn to recover from his wounds.
Meanwhile, Shelly and Vera go shopping at a local supermarket to get food and supplies when they get into trouble with a three-person biker gang, called the Black Widows, led by a brutal woman named Fox (Gloria Charles). When Shelly accidently knocks over their motorcycles outside the store, Fox and her two minions Ali (Nick Savage) and Loco (Kevin O'Brien) follow Shelly and Vera back to Higgin's Haven for revenge. However, they are dealt with by Jason before they can do any real damage except for taking the gas out of the gang's van. While looking around the barn in fascination, Fox is murdered with a pitchfork to her neck. Loco looks for her and gets impaled with a pitchfork. Ali is next when he enters the barn and finds the two's corpses. He attacks the unseen Jason, but gets bludgeoned with a 10" pipe wrench.
At nightfall, Jason continues lurking around the barn while spying on the kids who settle down for a party at the nearby cabin. When Chris and Rick go for a walk in the woods, Jason wanders out of the barn to cause more harm again. At first, Jason only harasses them from a distance. When Chuck goes to an outhouse to take a dump and smoke more pot, Jason walks past and bangs on the walls of the outhouse before retreating.
Later, Shelly, wearing a wet-suit and a Red Wings hockey mask plans another scare prank against Vera who is siting on a pier beside Higgens Lake. After Vera angrily tells Shelly to go off, he wonders into the barn where Jason slits his throat and takes his hockey mask, now concealing his deformity. Taking the spear-gun that Shelly had with him, Jason (fully masked) walks out of the barn and sees Vera wading out in the shallow water to get Shelly's wallet after she accidently drops it in the water. Thinking it's Shelly, Jason shoots Vera right in her left eye, killing her as her body falls in the water, and having Jason to discard the spear-gun.
With Vera killed, Jason finally sneaks into the house, where he continues onward with his killing spree. After Andy and Debbie have sex, she goes to the bathroom for a shower, but gets surprised by Andy, who is walking on his hands. Jason sneaks up to him and horizontally murders him with a machete. Debbie leaves the shower and rests in her hammock in her bedroom, where she soon discovers Andy's horizontally-spitted body hanging from an overhead plank and gets stabbed through the hammock with a kitchen knife. Next, Jason disables the power to the cabin by tampering with a fuse box. When Chuck goes to the basement to fix it, Jason approaches him and shoves his face on the circuit panel, electrocuting him. At the same time, Shelly, whom is still alive and having his neck still slit, stumbles into the cabin before dying where Chilli finds him, but she is quickly attacked and killed by Jason who shoves a hot fireplace poker through her stomach.
When Chris and Rick return they find the place empty, where they split up to find out what's going on. Rick, outside is attacked by Jason who kills him by crushing his head, which one of his eyes pops out.
After finding the corpse of Loco, Jason then confronts Chris with an felling axe, and a climatic chase ensues with the two of them exchanging attacks with Chris trying to keep away from the masked murderer. During the process, she slows him down by dumping a bookshelf over him, then stabs him in his left leg with the same knife used to kill Debbie (Just before Jason throws it at a wall, which nearly hits Chris), and then bashes him with a fireplace log. Chris tries to escape in the van and almost hits Jason, but it soon runs out of gas (due to the biker gang's vandalism), forcing her to run back to the barn to hide.
Jason enters the barn and arms himself with a machete and confronts Chris on the barn's rafter, but she manages to subdue him by bashing him on his head with a shovel. She seemly defeats Jason by tying him to a rope and hanging him to make sure that he is dead. Jason survives the hanging and briefly shows his real disfigured face to Chris while trying to get the noose off his neck, which she recognizes him as the man who attacked her two years ago. As Jason precedes to attack Chris with his machete, one of the bikers, Ali (who seemingly survived his attack), attempts his revenge on Jason, but Jason severs his right hand and hacks him to his demise. While Jason is hacking up Ali, Chris picks up an felling axe and slams it down to Jason's skull, causing him to stagger and fall over, seemingly killing him. Chris then wanders over to the lake and falls asleep in a canoe that drifts into the middle of the lake.
The next morning, she wakes up in the canoe, when suddenly she sees Jason (now unmasked and bloody from the axe cut) appearing from an upper window, causing him to run outside to the lake to attack, but sees that it was just a part of her imagination. Reliving, suddenly she gets pulled into the water by a decaying Mrs. Voorhees (Whom has her head still intact).
It is revealed that it was just a disturbed nightmare and at some point later, the police take Chris (Mentally disturbed from the events) off the property into the police car as they drive off. The film ends with Jason's deceased corpse, still with the axe intact in his head and showing the lake in peace once again.
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Dan Grant (dan.grant@bell.ca) from Toronto, Ontario
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There are very few horror films that are like Halloween ( the first one ) and Nightmare on Elm Street ( the first one ). That is, horror films that not only scare, but have a good story and great direction. Steve Miner is obviously not in the same league as Carpenter and Craven, but what he does manage to do is make an effective sequel that is much scarier than the first and next to the final chapter, it is the best and scariest among all the Fridays.
This film is laughable in parts, especially in terms of continuity with some of the stories that are told by Chris, but having said that, Steve Miner makes a very atmospheric and very tense film.
The film starts off the day after part two ended. We know Jason is still alive because he kills two disgusting people at the beginning that at least establishes Miner's style to come for the rest of the movie. The false scares, the open doors with no one there, the strange noises, the missing props that the character knows she had just a few seconds ago. The beginning is very well done. But again, the continuity and stupidity of movie characters is at all an all time high here. ( A quick example: Harold is about 5'6, rotund and clumsy. His wife calls out his name when she sees a well built figure standing behind her sheets at night. This figure is at least 6 feet or more in height and he looks squared, not pear shaped like her husband Harold. Plus, on the television is the news about the massacre the night before saying that the killer has not been caught. DUUUHHH!! Should this not click into her brain that who she is seeing may be Jason? )
But what is excellent about this film are some of the same elements that made Halloween good. And that is the use of foreground for false scares. There are numerous times when the camera scans the for-ground and you are so sure that Jason is going to show up, and then he doesn't until whammo, someone loses an eye or their life. It is very effective. There are also numerous shots of Jason in the background waiting for his next victim to turn around to see him. And when we see him standing behind one stoner guy, his pure size really makes him menacing. And that mask....
How he gets the mask is one of the great trivia questions in Friday the 13th folklore.
Steve Miner did a masterful job of directing and why he decided to hand the reins over to Joseph Zito for the final chapter is a mystery
As Fridays go, this is one that you can't go wrong with. It also has ( I believe ) one of the five most gruesome and painful deaths in the series. Watch for Andy walking on his hands, it will make you cringe for quite a while.
Edit: The new remastered edition in 3-D is worth seeing. I found the 3-D to be entertaining in some parts and lacklustre in others, but there is some added footage in the deluxe edition. You get to see more of Fox hanging from the barn and in a truly jaw dropping moment, you get to see all of Andy, chopped up after he gets split in two walking on his hands. In the original version, you just see a glimpse of him as his blood drips onto the magazine, but now, you see his blood, his legs severed, and much more. I would say this alone makes the purchase worth it.
Answer to the question: Shelly
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Gafke from United States
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I liked this sequel. Yes, it's stupid, but it's a guilty pleasure thing.
A van load of stupid twentysomethings head up to Crystal Lake for the weekend for no other purpose than to smoke pot and screw each other cross eyed. Among them are the painfully unattractive Shelly who enjoys immature practical jokes, a newly pregnant girl, a hippie couple who are constantly ensconced in a cloud of pot smoke and the emotionally damaged Chris, who loves Crystal Lake but has terrible memories of it. It seems that, some time ago, Chris was attacked in the woods by a man with a terribly deformed face. During the attack she passed out and woke up the next morning, safe in her own bed at home. She is not entirely convinced that it was all a dream, and so decides that a weekend at her former haven may just be what she needs to deal with the past. Unfortunately, it was not a dream, as all of us already knew. The man who attacked her was Jason Voorhees, and no sooner do the kids settle in and start partying and screwing than he shows up, ready for some post-coital killings. First to go is an obnoxious trio of motorcycle thugs who harassed our heroes. Then Jason gets right down to what he does best - stabbing, skewering, bisecting and impaling anyone who is stupid enough to wander off alone and wait for him to approach.
Still, I liked this movie. Jason finally gets to don his signature hockey mask in this one, and I love the ending, when the rotted remains of Mother Voorhees rise from the lake in a nod to the first films shock ending. I'm still not sure how Mother Voorhees got her head back on, but who cares? This isn't a movie you're supposed to think about too much. I also love Jason's unmasked face in this one. A friend of mine succinctly pointed out the fact that he looks like the banjo player from Deliverance all grown up. A scene at films end when his deranged piggy face appears in a window is actually rather shocking. Dana Kimmel does as good a job as she can with the character of Chris, although Chris is not given a whole hell of a lot to do other than scream, act like a whiny wimp and run.
Yeah, this movie is stupid, but its harmless fun. It's not as bad as some of the sequels that followed it, believe me.
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Shawn Watson from The Penumbra
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Last night, the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh, screened an ultra-rare showing of Friday the 13th Part 3 in all it's gore-splattered 3D glory. The cinema was packed, the screening sold out and the audience absolutely loved it. Every scare worked, the 3D effects leaped right off the screen and lovingly poked us in the eye and when the film was over it got the longest applause I've ever seen a film get. For those pretentious cynics who think that the Friday the 13th films are not great then there's nothing like a 350+ audience to prove you wrong.
Since this film was in 'polarised' 3D (see-thru glasses instead of a red-blue blur)then it's not possible to transfer the effect to DVD. Besides, nothing beats seeing this on the big screen with Jason's face 10-feet tall and his massive hands reaching out for you. If there is EVER a 3D screening of this then you really ought to go see, even if you have to sell your own grandmother for a ticket.
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ShadySovereign from Elm Street
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I remember first viewing this "Friday the 13th" sequel on videotape, and in the beginning I thought it was stupid. But now, after seeing it again on DVD, I have changed my mind about the movie. It isn't that bad.
The film starts with a recap of the last scene from Part 2, where Jason is seen getting up after he is assumed dead. Then the movie begins, with a funky and upbeat 80's background song starting the film. Right after the song ends, Jason begins his killing spree, starting with two unsuspecting store owners, and then moving on to unsuspecting teens at a small farm area...
The thing I like about this movie is the fact that Jason first gets his trademark hockey mask in this movie. The mask is a big improvement over the sack from part 2, and makes Jason look much scarier.
Another good thing about this movie is Dana Kimmell. Although her lines & dialog in the film are somewhat cheesy at some points, her character is very convincing as the teen heroine. And whenever she's frightened, she screams the cutest scream ever. I loved how she screamed in the film; she was cute and funny at the same time!
A bad part of the movie is the fact that the rest of the characters are unlikable. The teens are generally stupid and naive, and the biker gang are very mean-spirited. Those characters are so unlikable that you will really want Jason to kill them all.
Another bad thing: Some viewers might be disappointed that they cannot see the film in its actual 3D format. I myself would have liked to see the movie's 3D effects.
Overall, Dana Kimmell and Jason save the movie from being bad. You have to hear Dana's screams to know how cute she is. And you must watch this movie in order to know how Jason gets his hockey mask.
I give this movie a 7/10.
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insomniac_rod from Noctropolis
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"Friday the 13h part III" starts immediately after the events of part II where at the end, Jason gets macheted in the shoulder.
At dawn, police finds the dead bodies of 8 counselors spread over the camp, they also give medical attention to the lone survivor Ginny Field (it's presumed that Jason killed Paul).
After a recap footage of the ending of the previous film, we see a scene where Jason recovers from the injury and escapes after Ginny and Paul leave his cabin in the woods. This time Jason leaves Camp Crystal Lake and heads to an unknown destiny, which later turns to be "Higgins Haven". On his way to the haven Jason murders Harold and Edna (the owners / attendants) of a rural K-Mart like store. This time Jason's unlucky victims include Chris Higgins (owner of the haven), Rick, Chuck, Chilli, Shelly, Debbie, Andy, Vera, and a gang of motorcycle bikers: Ali, Fox, Loco. Highlights of the movie: Jason and the bikers, Chris revealing to Rick about her previous encounter with Jason (not knowing it was him), Chuck watching Jason thinking it's a hallucination, Andy's death, and of course , Jason getting his trademark mask; and at last but not least the great funky groovy opening theme. This tune added some humor to the tension felt towards the beginning of the carnage.
"Friday 3" came in the right moment when the slasher genre was at it's peak. After the box office success of part 2, this sequel was a coming on. This movie has plenty of gore, suspense, and some good scare scenes.
The acting is regular, the best performance comes from Dana Kimmell.
Jason looks menacing, big, and surely very angry. Richard Brooker portrayed Jason in a good way, he knows how to act violent and looks like he's blood thirsty. This time the teens aren't as smart as in the previous film, still I liked some of them. Shelly was a good character, although he was annoying you felt sorry for him at the end. Rick was an unlikeable character, he seemed tough but in the end he couldn't even fight Jason. Debbie's pregnancy was overlooked, I guess that Jason didn't know he killed an unborn. What the heck, even if he knew about it he would still kill Debbie. Andy's death is by far the best in the movie, and one of the best s in the series. Chuck and Chilli (who aren't exactly teens) had potential, but in a 90 minute slasher movie you can't get much character development. The gang situation was unnecessary, I mean there was a lot of hype about a possible confrontation between these guys and Jason. The ending of the movie is great! The chasing scene is the best in the series (even better than part 2's). Jason seemed angry and desperate to kill Chris, who wasn't by no means braver than Ginny but still manged to give some fight to Jason. Unmasked Jason looked frightening, specially if you consider that Jason's unmasked look from part 2 wasn't that creepy at all. Unlike the Jason from part 2 this Jason seems to be invincible, the producers probably wanted to create a Jason that would impose respect, and create fear among the other characters.
Miner's direction is still good. This is where part III didn't improve from the 2nd. movie. Miner's job in part 2 is magnificent, probably the best (apart from part VI) in the series. Still, Miner shows his talent in creating a scary, and dark setting.
"Friday the 13th part III:3D" is a good horror movie, the 3rd. installment in the series is worth a rental for horror fans and if you are a die hard of the series -like me- then you should buy it even IF it isn't the uncut version on DVD. I'm sure that this movie is more effective in the fear factor if you watch it on 3-D. Sadly, it isn't available in that format.
Give a try to this flick even if you're not a Friday the 13th fan, it's surely a great slasher flick. Not the best in the series but delivers some good scares, gore, a cool theme, and a hockey masked Jason!.
4/10 8/10 in the Friday the 13th scale.
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halloweennight1978 from crystal lake
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dont ask me why, but i really really enjoyed "f13:part3". even though it can be cheesy, it also has some great scares and terrifying chills. part 3 doesnt really depend on "on-screen" blood and guts, its more about the killer watching and waiting and not going around cutting peoples heads off and blood splattering on the walls. part 3 is also famous for introducing jasons hockey mask. to me, part 3 is A MASTERPIECE. ITS THE BEST 3RD MOVIE TO EVER BE MADE FOR ANY MOVIE SERIES...
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arturopanduro from Florida
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The last of the scary ones, "Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D" is one of the best in the series. The plot does have some holes in it and sometimes the acting leaves a lot to be desired, but the interesting component of the film is its use of 3-D. Don't let the 3-D aspect fool you into thinking the movie is bad (as in "Jaws 3-D" & "Amityville 3-D"). The film is great; as far as these type of slasher flicks go. Highly recommended.
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lostanddelirious85 from United States
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Obviously, no "Friday the 13th" film is going to be Oscar material. You have to judge a film based on what it set out to do, and decide whether it met that goal or not. I don't think it's fair to judge these films by the same criteria as "The Godfather" or something.
If you go into this movie just expecting to have fun, you won't be disappointed. The story is essentially the same as every other "Friday" film, with a minor twist: this time it takes place on a little ranch owned by one of the main characters. Jason, fresh off his killing spree in part 2, makes his way across the countryside to find a new batch of hormonal kids vacationing at Crystal Lake. Of course, this time it looks nothing like the Crystal Lake from the previous two films, seeing as it was filmed on a ranch in California instead of New Jersey, but oh well.
The kids are all walking stereotypes--pretty much the only way to give them any characterization in a 90-minute movie that has to dispatch one of them every ten minutes. There's a pair of stoners that look older than the rest of the cast and make you question what they're even doing there, a hefty practical joker, and a couple expecting a baby of all things. But they all manage to be likable enough, and thankfully there is no one irritating enough to make you wish they would die already. There is no "mean girl" or "jerk"; they all seem to be friends, which is nice.
Jason gets his hands on the famous hockey mask in this installment, courtesy of one dead joker. The kills are the most creative in the series thus far, obviously taking advantage of the original 3D format this was released in back in 1982: one character's eyeball pops out at the screen in what must have been a pretty cool gag in 3D, an unlucky guy doing a handstand gets split in two, and a harpoon gun is put to deadly use.
The highlight of the film is the chase sequence in the final act. The "Friday" films are known for some of the most entertaining chase scenes, and this one is no exception. It starts out in a cabin and goes all over the place from there, with Jason pursuing our terrified heroine relentlessly. Jason is actually creepy in this film--some form of degenerate who runs (not walks) after his victims with something approaching excitement. Wait until you see him unmasked later in the film--clearly he is not feeling burdened by his work.
This is a perfect movie to put on with friends. It's entertaining, fun, and you'll have a blast watching these goof-balls bite it in interesting ways. You'll laugh at the dialogue, chuckle at some of the acting, and jump at some of the scares. So order a pizza, grab some beer, and just sit back and enjoy.
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allgood_2000 from Abingdon, VA
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Although this installment was not too original, I thought it stood out from the others. If you watch the series in order, this is the first time the victims are just vacationing teenagers and not camp counselors. I also thought the character developement was better than the first two (yes, I know "character developement" and "slasher movies" aren't birds of a feather, but I though it worked in this particular slasher). I actually became attached to some of the characters and didn't want them them to die. Most people, however, think the time spent developing characters slowed the pace and made the movie boring. This was also the first Friday the 13th movie to have it's climax in a barn. I thought the fact that it took place on a ranch was kind of neat, I was getting kind of tired of camp.
Most of the death scenes were original, the gore level was average, not a whole lot of suspense (but what do you expect? This is Friday the 13th, not The Sixth Sense), but the characters were really cool. It had some continuity errors with the previous movies, so I'm deducting one point. 9 out of 10.
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Ed Moorehouse from Everett, WA
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This is The Best of The Endless Friday the 13th Sequels. It Pleased me most because Jason picked up his Hockey Mask Logo in this film. I also Enjoyed The Terrfying Climaxes and the Un-Forgettable Ending. Jason Seems a Bit more Human than he does in Films after this. When we enter his House we find a Beat-Up Shack with a Ran-Down Toilet and some old Tables. This Film Seems to Label him as a Retarded Freak, Rather than a Vicious Monster. Rent it if you like Horror.
This was the first of the Friday the 13th films to use the hockey mask, which has been in every sequel since.
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The Royal independent movie theater in Toronto, Canada, which closed in 2006, had owned one of the few copies of the movie in its original 3D format. They used to screen the film once every Halloween.
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The house, barn, and lake were all purpose-built on location. The man-made lake wasn't properly sealed, and, subsequently, the water drained into the soil during the first week of filming.
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Actually takes place the day after the events of Part 2, making it Saturday the 14th. While the beginning of the movie takes place on the evening of Saturday the 14th, when the store owner and his wife are killed, the majority of the movie takes place on the following day, making it Sunday the 15th.
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The film was released on a Friday the 13th
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To prevent the film's plot being leaked, the production used the fake title "Crystal Japan," after a David Bowie song. This began an on-again, off-again tradition of giving "Friday the 13th" films David Bowie song titles during filming.
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The film made $36,985,198 with a budget of $4,000,000.
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Former English trapeze artist Richard Brooker was chosen to play Jason simply because Steve Miner needed a big man for the role. Being tall, at 6'3", but not that bulky, the slim and toned Brooker wore foam padding under his clothes, and did all of his own stunts.
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Several scenes in this film are identical or are like to the scenes in the original Friday the 13th: Debbie sees drops of blood falling from above, she looks up, and a knife goes through her throat. This scene is much like Kevin Bacon's scene in the first film. After Chris thinks she has killed Jason, she goes to sleep in a canoe on the lake much like Alice did in the first film. When Chris awakens in the canoe, Pamela Voorhees comes out of the water and drags her under water much like what Jason did to Alice in the first film.
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Larry Zerner was cast as Shelly in this movie when the producers spotted him handing out fliers for a horror movie and asked him if he'd want to star in one himself.
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Amy Steel, who starred in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), was offered the opportunity to reprise her role for the third film, but she declined.
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The 3-D version contains a title card not seen in 2-D home video releases (for obvious reasons): after the Paramount Pictures logo fades out, the card reads "Ladies and gentlemen: The first few minutes of this picture are not in 3-D. However, you will need the special 3-D glasses." The film then continues as normal with the recap of the ending of Part 2, presented in 2-D. The 3-D begins with the shot of Jason removing the machete from his shoulder.
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Body count: 12
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Although it appears sunny and warm, the film was shot during a January/February winter. Several night scenes were trimmed in order to conceal the actors' visible breath appearing on screen.
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In the original script the character of Rick was called Derek. It was changed to Rick as it was one less syllable and therefore easier to scream.
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This is the third Friday the 13th film where Jason starts off with no mask. The other's being Jason Lives and Jason Takes Manhattan.
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Originally released in 3D.
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Paul Kratka (Rick) originally auditioned to play Andy but the filmmakers thought he would make a better Rick.
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Able (the old man) is much like Crazy Ralph from the first two films.
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At the scene in the store at the start of the film, you can clearly see copies of Ghosts#112 (May 1982) and a couple of issues of the Master of Kung-Fu series, featuring Fu Manchu's son Shang-Chi, published by MVL.
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The character Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell) coincidentally shares a very similar name with actor Chris Wiggins, who would go on to appear in the television series Friday the 13th (1987).
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Only sequel to open with the ending of the previous film.
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Despite the number "3" used in the title on all cover art, the opening titles use roman numerals.
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Only film in which Jason shoots someone. He uses a spear gun to shoot Shelly.
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Last film in the series to have a "final girl."
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Steve Miner: voice of the TV newscaster.
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Several deaths in the film had to be cut to avoid an X rating from the MPAA, which include the following: Andy's death, which showed his leg being cut off and his stomach being ripped open; Vera's death for too much gore and looking too real; Enda's death was cut because of excessive blood flow; Chili's impalement was cut because of a shot showing steaming blood hitting the floor; Debbie's death scene was also cut, which originally showed blood running down her chest and splattering on her face.
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There was two alternate endings to this movie that were actually shot. One had Chris doing the same thing to kill Jason, except Ali barely survives (he dies in the used ending), both of them escape, and Jason walks away--or the viewer assumes so--because when the police arrive, Jason's body isn't there. The other ending had Chris kill Jason, then go out in the canoe and fall asleep. In her dream, Jason decapitates her with a machete.
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Jason gets his clothing for this installment from the clothesline in the opening scene. However, when Chris has a flashback involving him, he's wearing this newly obtained outfit.
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Shadow on Chuck's shirt as he walks downstairs to check the fuses.
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As the female driver of the van gets out of the van to go to Vera's (Shelly's date) house, the boom mic is reflected on the side of the van.
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When the van is parked, after the two people are killed, a microphone is reflected in the side of the van.
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Reflection in the car windshield when Shelly is starting it up to leave the store.
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The position of unconscious Jason's legs changes.
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Jason has no wound in his shoulder, despite being stabbed deeply with the machete at the end of Part II, which took place the day before.
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In the TV report in the beginning, the newscaster says there were 8 victims of the previous attack. There were actually 9 victims not including Alice in the beginning of the second movie. Victims in order: Crazy Ralph, Policeman, Scott, Terry, Mark, Jeff, Sandra, Vickie, and Paul. Paul is not seen killed in the second film but Ginny is focused on as the only survivor in the TV report.
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Part 3 is supposed to take place 24 hours after part 2, yet Jason's appearance changes drastically: he is noticeably taller and no longer has any hair or beard.
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Jason could only have gotten Andy up onto the beam by standing on the hammock, yet there is no blood anywhere.
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Jason stabs Debbie with a knife so long it goes through her and extends a few inches. Chris pulls it from her and stabs Jason with it, yet it is shorter. It is even shorter when Jason throws it at her.
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After Ginny and her boyfriend leave the Jason's shack in the opening there is an insert shot of Jason setting the machete on the ground. However, when Jason jumps through the window at the end of Part 2 the machete is still embedded in his shoulder.
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When Jason moves to spear Loco with the pitchfork, the prongs are curved down. But when it goes through him, the prongs are suddenly pointing upward.
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After Ali smashes the windshield, you can see the Olympia beer truck behind him is parked parallel with the road. But when Shelly turns the car around and drives back at him, the truck is now diagonal to the road.
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Jason approaches Loco with a five-pronged pitchfork, but when Loco is stabbed, he is stabbed by a four-prong pitchfork.
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After yelling at Harold, Edna closes the window, getting the curtain stuck in it. In the next shot, the curtain is no longer stuck but is hanging inside the window.
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When Harold is stabbed with the meat cleaver by Jason, the blood goes all the way down to his stomach, but when he falls on the floor, there is only blood around the cleaver.
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When Chili is handing Andy the joint, the way she is holding it changes between shots.
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When Chris shows Debbie the hammock, between shots the way the net hangs and the position of the net changes.
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The quilt, as Debbie is killed, loses its 3D design.
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The number and position of tires on the metal tire rack outside the store change.
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The design of chair which Chris throws through the window changes.
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The sign by Harold's fishbowl disappears in close shots.
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When Chuck makes the popcorn the amount of popcorn in the pan and around the stove differs between shots.
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When Chris comes out from the green door waving a knife at Jason, the green door closes all the way behind her. It cuts to Jason and then back to to Chris, and behind her in the background the green door is now wide open.
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Between shots when Chili walks in, the pan goes from on the stove, to on the table.
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When the kids stop for the police cars who rush by, we get to look out the back window of the car. You can see a car and a road sign there. These two weren't there when they pulled over.
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After Chris wakes up in the boat, the front of the boat gets stuck in some logs. The logs change position around the front of the boat between shots.
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Chris puts her lantern down on a table in the sitting room, before going upstairs and finding the flooded bathroom. Later when Rick's body is thrown through the window, the lantern has vanished.
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In the recap of Friday the 13th Part 2, Ginny removes Jason's head cloth and leaves it by his head. In the newly filmed shot of him moving the machete, the cloth is suddenly by his chest.
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When Chris is put in the police car at the end of the film, the car window rolls itself up higher between shots.
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When Chris runs into the bedroom away from Jason, there is a long decorative picture hanging to the left of the window, and between shots a long piece of brown string, hanging down the painting, alternatively appears/disappears.
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When Ali punches the car windshield, the whole pane of glass is smashed out, but in the next shot the pattern of the missing glass is completely different.
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When Nick walks into the room, after Chris discovers Shelley in the cupboard, he leaves the door wide open. When the others enter the door is half shut.
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Between shots, as Harold spits the fish food out, the position of the figurine fisherman's wooden rod changes.
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When they arrive at the lake and get out of the van, Chris gets out and slams the door twice.
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When Shelley grabs Vera's ankle, she shakes her shoe off in the over-the-shoulder POV, and it's only held on by the strap around her ankle. In the front shot, it's back on her foot again.
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When Shelly throws the wallet to Vera in the store, he is wearing a watch. But that shot is the only shot he has a watch on.
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When Chris spots the ax in the barn, it is resting on the ground. But in the shot where she picks it up, it is resting on a metal object.
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When Chris is being choked by Jason in the van, the window is rolled all the way down. Chris turns it one full-turn, and in the next shot, it is rolled all the way up.
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Chris stabbed Jason all the way through his left hand. But in all subsequent shots, his hand only shows blood and damage on the back.
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When Andy is killed, the shot from below shows his head hitting the ground, but the next shot shows him still on his hands and then falling.
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When Debbie enters the shower, she still has her necklace on. But when she gets out, the necklace is no longer there.
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Vera puts Shelly's wallet in her tan pants outside of the store. Later on the dock, she pulls the wallet out of her red pants.
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In the barn towards the end of the movie, Chris is being chased by Jason and the main pathway in the barn is clear of obstacles. However, in the closing shot showing Jason lying with the ax in his head, there is all sorts of clutter behind him with no explanation of how it was placed there.
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Harold has an apron on when he brings the rabbit into the barn. Then he runs out and in the next shot he's running by Edna, but he doesn't have the apron on.
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When Loco is about to be killed in the barn, Jason lunges toward him with a five pronged pitchfork. In the next shot he is being stabbed in the stomach with a four pronged pitchfork.
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When Vera drops the wallet, it falls straight off the dock. Yet seconds later, it has floated several yards away and is not moving.
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When Chris and friends stop at Vera's house to pick her up, she comes outside with no suitcases or bags, yet she is able to change her clothes throughout the movie.How can this be if she took no luggage to the lake with her.
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Chilli pours popcorn into a sieve and opens the salt and sets it on the table, she then hands a flashlight to Chuck and tells him to go check the fusebox. In the very next shot you see her opening the salt again.
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When Chilli leans down to check on Shelly she stands up and her hand has blood on it, yet when she runs from the room screaming for Debbie and Andy her hand is clean.
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In the newscast at the beginning of the film, we are told "Ginny Fields miraculously survived repeated attacks by the ax-wielding killer." In "Friday the 13th: Part 2," Jason did not use an ax in any of the death scenes. Jason doesn't kill anyone with an ax until "Friday the 13th, Part IV: The Final Chapter."
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When they pull over to the roadside for the police cars, the van clearly comes to a stop. But when the camera cuts straight to inside the van, the view out of the back window shows the van is still moving.
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When Shelly comes out of the water, he holds the mask with his arm at an angle. In the next shot his arm is at his side and almost straight.
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When Andy stuffs the pot into his mouth, he starts to wipe his face. It then cuts to a different angle and his hand is not near his face.
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It's obvious that Harold is wearing a chest pad when he is killed by Jason with the meat cleaver.
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When Chris is on the wooden beam in the stable, as she jumps down to land on Jason you can see a safety wire to the bottom left of the screen.
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When Loco, Fox and Ali stand by the van before they steal the gas, the long black boom pole is clearly reflected in the back window of the van.
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The wires controlling the snake, harpoon, eye, and the knife Jason throws at Chris are all visible when they come at you on the screen.
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After Vera says "uh-oh," as she and Shelley sit in the car outside the grocery store, the camera pans around to the side window. You can see a hooded cameraman reflected in the small triangular window, as the camera pans.
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When the camera pans past the door, as Chris walks to the cabin, the camera is reflected in the glass windows of the door.
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Set lighting visible in the van windshield as Chris begins driving away.
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A cameraman is reflected in the back window of the car, when Rick and Chris go for a drive.
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One can actually see members of the crew reflected on the side window's car at 00:36:00.
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After Chris puts the noose around Jason's neck and throws him from the loft of the barn to hang him, she goes down to the ground floor to leave the barn, but the door is secured with a piece of 2-by-4 as a cross board. Chris hits upward with a metal object to release the board. Just as she finishes removing the board, you can see movement of a crew member through the barn door cracks.
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After Ali breaks the windshield, the shot from the front of the car shows the glass breaks like a regular window indicating it isn't automotive safety glass. Safety glass has been required by law for new and replacement windshields since the 1940s.
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When Andy is cut in half by Jason, blood spurts everywhere yetwhen his girlfriend gets out of the shower and walks past the spot she doesn't notice (or tread in) the floor covered in blood. Even though Andy's bisected body is hanging over her head she doesn't notice until a few small drops of blood drip down, despite the massive wound.
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In the van, Shelly has brought a small box which presumably contains masks and make-up for his pranks. Yet he somehow also fits a spear gun, wet suit, and hatchet in there.
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Fox is moving as she hangs dead from the roof.
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When Debbie strips naked to get into bed with Andy, you can see that she is wearing skin-colored pants.
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When Chris is getting her bags out of the van and Shelly surprises her, you can see Rick waiting in the driver's side rear view mirror waiting for Chris to scream, which is his cue to enter the frame.
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When Jason crushes Rick's head, it is obvious the head is made from wood and is resting on a metal shoulder frame.
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Right before Chris stops the van to avoid hitting Abel, you can see there is no one in the back of the van.
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Obvious stunt double when Chris is hanging from the window. The double has curlier hair.
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During the opening sequence involving Harold and the clothesline, there is a foreign object on the lens of the camera - noticeable in the bottom left corner in several shots.
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When Loco looks up to where Fox is for the second time, after he has told her to get down and has grabbed the container of gasoline, she is gone, but we can see a foot (probably Jason's) stepping out of view of the camera in the lower right corner of the upper barn doorway.
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Jason's white foam padding (giving him a more bulky and pot belly appearance) is visible under his shirt several times throughout the movie.
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On the back cover of the DVD it says "for another group of naive councilors". The cast in the film are not cast as councilors, they are just friends of Chris, who is taking them for a getaway holiday to her parent's retreat in the woods.
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When Jason falls from the barn loft it's obvious the rope that is supposed to be around his neck in a noose is really a harness.
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When Jason gets through the window to chase Chris, both his eyes look normal behind the mask.
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When Chris picks up the axe to kill Jason, the way she holds the axe shows that it is actually very light, and possibly made of plastic, rubber or foam.
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AKAs Titles:
Argentina - Martes 13: Parte 3
Brazil - Sexta-feira 13 - Parte 3
Canada (French title) - Meurtres en 3 dimensions
Czech Republic - Ptek trinct ho 3
Denmark - Fredag den 13. 3. del
Spain - Viernes 13, parte III
Finland - Perjantai 13. piv, osa 3
France - Meurtres en 3 dimensions
France (video title) - Vendredi 13, 3e partie
France (video title) - Vendredi 13: Le tueur du vendredi II
Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title) - Paraskevi kai 13 meros 3
Croatia - Petak 13.: 3. dio
Hungary - P ntek 13. - III. r sz: V res kirnduls
Italy (video title) - Venerd 13: parte III: Weekend di terrore
Italy - Week-end di terrore
Mexico - Martes 13, parte III
Mexico (video title) - Viernes 13, 3ª parte
Mexico (DVD title) - Viernes 13, parte 3
Netherlands - Vrijdag de dertiende - Deel 3
Peru - Martes 13, parte III
Poland - Piatek trzynastego III
Portugal - Sexta-Feira 13 - Parte III
Serbia - Petak 13-ti, 3. deo
Sweden - Fredagen den 13:e del 3
Sweden (DVD title) - Fredagen den 13:e del 3 - Alla fasors blodiga dygn
Soviet Union (Russian title) - Ÿ‚ни†а 13 - Ча‚Œ 3
USA (fake working title) - Crystal Japan
USA (poster title) - Friday the 13th Part 3
USA (trailer title) - Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D
Uruguay - Martes 13, 3ª parte
West Germany - Und wieder ist Freitag der 13
Release Dates:
Certifications:
Argentina:16 / Australia:R / Australia:MA (Cable TV rating) / Brazil:14 / Canada:R / Canada:18+ (Quebec) / Finland:K-18 / France:-12 / Germany:(Banned) / Ireland:18 / Italy:VM18 / Mexico:C / Netherlands:16 / New Zealand:R16 / Norway:18 (video premiere) (1993) / Norway:(Banned) (1983-2003) (cinema release) / Singapore:(Banned) / South Korea:18 / Spain:18 / Sweden:15 / UK:X (original rating) / UK:15 (re-rating) / UK:15 (re-rating) (2008) / UK:18 (video rating) (1987) / USA:R (certificate #26764) / USA:Unrated (uncut) / West Germany:18 (Banned)
Movie Details:
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