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Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)

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Immediately after his mysterious escape at the end of Friday the 13th, Pt. 2, Jason Vorhees (Richard Brooker, the third of many actors to fill the role) kills a hardscrabble store owner and his nagging wife before heading back to Crystal Lake, this time to terrify rich girl Chris (Dana Kimmell) and her band of summer-cottage guests. Chris, it seems, is haunted by an earlier encounter with Jason, and her romantic entanglements with local boy Rick (Paul Kratka) do little to ease her nightmares.

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Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Martin Kitrosser

Oct 17, 2000

Paramount Home Video

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Critic Reviews for Friday the 13th Part 3

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 Source: Variety
Variety Staff
Variety
Top Critic IconTop 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 Source: New York Times
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3D is a piece of cinema history.

June 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Dread Central
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 Source: Groucho Reviews
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 Source: Movie Metropolis
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 Source: Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
Movie Metropolis

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

March 5, 2009 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | 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 Source: Combustible Celluloid
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 Source: Q Network Film Desk | 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 Source: Cinefantastique | Comment (1)
Steve Biodrowski
Cinefantastique

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

February 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
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 Source: Slant Magazine
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 Source: DustinPutman.com
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 Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
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 Source: DVDLaser

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

October 28, 2005
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony Source: FromTheBalcony

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

October 26, 2004
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan Source: 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 Source: Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Friday the 13th Part 3

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I liked it about the same as the first and a little more than the second. I was getting sick of the first person viewpoint of the killers and it was nice to actually see what Jason was doing for once. He FINALLY gets his mask in this one too (that's when the perspective changes). This was probably the most entertaining one so far, but the formula is getting old. There was no difference in story or setting yet and it's just getting boring. Still get the fake ending (and it's STILL the same thing, I don't understand why they keep doing it other than to joke with the audience) and the stupid 10 minute recap/flashback at the beginning of the movie so that we know the story continues...even though there is a PART III IN THE TITLE.
May 6, 2012
jlewis07
Josh Lewis

Super Reviewer

The sequels to Friday the 13th always have their pros and cons, mostly cons from critics and a mixed bag of both from fans. Some are better than others while some are just not that great. Friday the 13th Part 3 is, to me, one of the very least of the sequels while still having some decent moments. This time around, we're treated to some characters who we don't give a hoot about and are cheering on their eventual demise, which is a gimmick that would flourish throughout the rest of the series. The cast is ok, although some of the actors don't play off of horror very well while others don't seem to know what the hell is going on. Dana Kimmel is ridiculously annoying most of the time while Larry Zerner winds up being one of the most three dimensional characters of the series (in a film that was shot in 3-D, no less). Richard Brooker, who plays Jason, still plays him as human, but more of a superhuman. He can take about as much as he dishes out, even being hanged at one point only to survive. This was the start of the loss of humanity in the character, something that disappeared entirely in the following sequels, and this jarring change of character is very much felt and one of the reasons why this one doesn't work for me. The lack of visuals this time around is no real fault of the filmmakers, including the director of the previous entry Steve Miner, who had to shoot everything in 3-D, leaving the 2-D look of the film out in the cold. I personally prefer to watch the film in 2-D, mainly because the 3-D is so difficult to sit through that it gives me headaches. I suppose if I had saw it on the big screen, I'm sure it would have been properly aligned and worked much better, but at home on TV, it just looks terrible. The special effects are about average for the series with nothing that really stands out. The only death sequences in the film really worth mentioning would be Andy's split in half and Debbie's machete through the chest from underneath. The music here is about the same as previous scores, although the new opening and closing theme is funky and catchy. And that's pretty much it. It's a weak sequel that would be turned around a bit in the next film, but Part 3 is suffers mostly from a plethora of 3-D gimmicks that don't work in 2-D, as well as having weaker characters, story and death sequences.
April 23, 2007
FilmFanatik
Tim Salmons

Super Reviewer

Friday the 13th Part 3 Quotes

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    1. Debbie: May I please have the wallet... MA'AM?
    – Submitted by ramon w (4 months ago)
    1. Shelly: They went skinnydipping and uh.... I wasn't skinny enough.
    – Submitted by Bradley S (6 months ago)
    1. Chuck: How come you never scream when we have sex?
    2. Chili: Give me something to scream about.
    – Submitted by Rocky F (14 months ago)
    1. Andy: God dammit, Shelly, why do you always have to be such an as*hole?
    2. Shelly: Sorry, and I'm not an as*hole, I'm an actor.
    3. Andy: Same thing.
    – Submitted by Creep F (23 months ago)
    1. Debbie: Hey, the van's on fire!
    – Submitted by Creep F (23 months ago)
    1. Loco: Ali's gonna be pissed, if he sees you screwing around. Come on, we got sh*t to do.
    – Submitted by Creep F (23 months ago)

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