Friday the 13th - Part 3 (1982)

Not since Psycho has a movie taken such advantage of the phallic nature of slasher horror. [Blu-ray]

...the casting director continued to find young performers who were wonderfully cute people and woefully bad actors.

With this film, there's more sex, more nudity and more creative kills.

The gore is surprisingly suggestive, rather than blatant, and therefore the audience doesn't quite get what it pays for.

easily the worst film in the series up until that point, partially because it was so redundant, but also because it is the most technically clumsy

The funny thing is: as lame as the story and characters are, the movie actually works as a crowd-pleasing piece of junk entertainment.

Shot in such a way to capitalize on the brief fad of Reagan-era 3D movies, there's less memorable POV shots from the killer and more images from the perspective of the victims.

As a tried-and-true slasher film, it has its moments, but ... it grows tedious by the end.

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