Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)

All Critics (24) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (25) | DVD (23)

Friday the 13th was dreadful and took in more than $17 million. Friday the 13th Part 2 was just as bad and took in more than $10 million. Friday the 13th Part III is terrible, too.

August 6, 2008 Full Review

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

Eventually, the novelty wears off, and what remains is the now-familiar spectacle of nice, dumb kids being lopped, chopped and perforated.

August 30, 2004 Full Review

Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3D is a piece of cinema history.

June 25, 2009 Full Review

Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton

Dread Central

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

June 25, 2009 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

...at least Jason gets his hockey mask and doesn't have to wear that silly sack on his head anymore. (Blu-ray Edition)

June 18, 2009 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

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

June 18, 2009 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

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

March 5, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

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

February 20, 2009 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

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

February 14, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

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

February 13, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Steve Biodrowski

Cinefantastique

So bad it's good, or so bad it's mind-numbing? You decide.

February 4, 2009 Full Review

Jeremiah Kipp

Slant Magazine

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.

February 4, 2009 Full Review

Jeremiah Kipp

Slant Magazine

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

October 9, 2008 Full Review

Dustin Putman

DustinPutman.com

Funky fresh disco chi chi chi

February 20, 2008

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

So appallingly, overwhelmingly stupid that it is stupid even by the standards of the Friday the 13th franchise.

September 14, 2007 Full Review

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

its only distinguishing feature is the way that the sharp objects are continually thrust at the camera, before and after skewering the victims

July 21, 2006

Douglas Pratt

DVDLaser

Another lousy 3-D gimmick that is just plain laughable on home video.

October 28, 2005

Bill Clark

FromTheBalcony

Let's see...13th x 3 = at least 39 beheadings.

October 26, 2004

Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan

The endless shots of idiots and stoners randomly thrusting long and/or sharp objects directly into the camera lens are absolutely hysterical.

September 25, 2004 Full Review

Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

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