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Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part 3<\/strong> (1982)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount Pictures\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence and gore, nudity, sexual content, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Steve Miner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Harry Manfredini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Gerald Feil\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 13, 1982 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, Tracie Savage, Jeffrey Rogers, Catherine Parks, Larry Zerner, David Katims, Rachel Howard, Richard Brooker, Nick Savage, Gloria Charles, Kevin O\u2019Brien, Cheri Maugans, Steve Susskind, Perla Walter, David Wiley.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $36.9 million (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Body Count: 12<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part 3<\/strong> marks a few milestones in the series. First, it\u2019s the one where deformed killer Jason Voorhees first dons his trademark hockey mask (about an hour into it). Second, it\u2019s the one where he decides that his preferred weapon is a machete. Third, it\u2019s the only one to be released in 3D. I saw it twice in theaters that summer and thought it was way cool. I loved it when Jason squeezed a guy\u2019s skull so hard his eyeball came flying off the screen. I\u2019ve always wanted to see it again in 3D and was delighted when I found a DVD copy that offered the gimmick. Alas, it\u2019s the cheap polarized kind (one red lens, one blue) that offers little more than a headache and strained eyes. Luckily, I caught it at a 3D film festival in 2022 along with Jaws 3D and Amityville 3D.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n All in all, Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part 3 <\/strong>is a pretty good entry in the series. I probably would have liked it better if the heroine (Dana Kimmell) wasn\u2019t so damn annoying. Also, and I know I\u2019m going against what I pointed out in my review of the first movie, some of the acting is terrible; in particular, Kimmell (Lone Wolf McQuade) and Paul Kratka. Listen to how he reads his lines. Watch how he carries himself. He\u2019s pretty stiff. She fares a little better, but still sounds like she\u2019s merely reciting dialogue. All that aside, I do like Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part 3<\/strong>. The storyline is pretty good and the characters are an odd assortment. Plus, it has a few cool kill scenes. Isn\u2019t that what the F13 movies are all about?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It picks up right after the events of the previous installment with Jason (Brooker) showing up at a convenience store and murdering the husband (Susskind) and wife (Maugans) owners. He also kills the husband\u2019s pet rabbit. Meanwhile, Chris (Kimmell) and her friends are heading off to her childhood home (Higgins Haven) for a weekend in the country. Her companions are pregnant best friend Debbie (Tracie Savage) and her boyfriend Andy (Rogers), fat practical joker Shelly (Zerner), a beautiful Latina girl named Vera (Parks) and stoner couple Chuck (Katims) and Chili (Howard). They meet up with Chris\u2019 old boyfriend Rick (Kratka), a farmhand who can\u2019t understand why she left home so abruptly two years earlier. Uh huh, something traumatic happened to her. And yes, it involves a frightening encounter with a certain deformed maniac in the woods. She freaks out when Shelly plays a morbid joke. Additional danger rears its head in the form of a motorcycle gang that Vera and Shelly encounter at a local convenience store. After Shelly runs over their bikes with Rick\u2019s car, they show up at the house to exact revenge. Jason makes quick work of the trio- Ali (Nick Savage), Fox (Charles) and Loco (O\u2019Brien). Rick and Chris go for a drive, leaving the others at the house. So begins the slaughter! As expected, Chris is the lone survivor and must overcome her trauma if she wants to live.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0What are the methods of murder in Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part 3<\/strong>? Jason comes up with some good one this time around. A guy gets it with a meat cleaver to the chest, a girl gets shot in the eye with a harpoon gun, two people die by pitchfork, a guy gets cut in half, a woman has a knife shoved through her chest while she lies on a hammock and another guy gets electrocuted. One poor chap has the misfortune to be killed twice. Then there\u2019s the flying eyeball scene. LOVE IT!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0One of the coolest things about Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part 3<\/strong> is Harry Manfredini\u2019s opening theme. It\u2019s a bit different this time. It sounds like something the progressive rock band Goblin would compose for an Italian giallo<\/em> film. The 3D effects looked good on the big screen, but we\u2019re talking 80s 3D. As long as a lot of stuff came at me, I was satisfied. The gore effects are nicely done. Unfortunately, the MPAA struck again and demanded cuts before allowing it to be released with an R rating (as opposed to X). It\u2019s fairly bloody as is, but I subscribe to the theory of \u201cthe more, the better\u201d when it comes to gore. Such is the curse of the gorehound. We always want more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0What\u2019s good about the F13 flicks is that they\u2019re old school splatterfests. I prefer good old fashioned stage blood over the CGI gore that shows up in today\u2019s super-violent movies (e.g. Machete Kills). On that level, Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part 3<\/strong> delivers. It\u2019s a good movie that doesn\u2019t quite measure up to its two predecessors. It\u2019s still very watchable, but stick with 2D when you watch it at home.<\/p>\r\n Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount Pictures\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence and gore, nudity, sexual content, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Steve Miner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Harry Manfredini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Gerald Feil\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 13, 1982 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, Tracie Savage, Jeffrey Rogers, Catherine Parks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Friday-the-13th-Part-3-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Friday-the-13th-Part-3-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C924&ssl=1\")
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