#friday the 13th: part 3

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Friday the 13th Part III (1982)

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I re-watched Friday The 13th Part 3 (1982)

Since I started this list with the original Halloween and the creation of Michael Myers, I figured I'd watch the film that made Jason Vorhees the killer we all know today. That film is the third film in the Friday the 13th series.

Jason Vorhees, King of mommy issues, returns to kill a bunch of unsuspecting people at a lake house.

If you don't know already, the original Friday the 13th movie barely features Jason. He's not the killer. In the second film, Jason is the killer, but dons a simple bag over his head. It wasn't until this film, originally released in 3D by the way, that Jason put on his trademark hockey mask and became a truly iconic horror character.

The Friday the 13th series is the mother of all 1980's slashers. Yes, Halloween and others came before it, but Friday the 13th really developed the tropes and cliches that would run through the genre. The gore, the pointless stories, the heightened poorly acted characters, pure summer camp/wilderness horror.

Now that's not to say it's a necessarily good series. They're cheap movies with nothing else in mind than gore and sex. They can certainly be fun, but if you've seen one you've kind of seen them all. Personally, I'm more of a big fan of the concept and character than the movies themselves.

Part 3 is nothing more than a pointless sequel, meant to cash in on the 3D craze of the 1980's and the success of the first two Friday the 13th movies. The characters are terrible, the story is non-existent, the whole thing is an endless spew of nothingness. At one point a character just drops a yoyo at the camera, simply to show off the 3D effect. It's 30 seconds of dead space, especially when viewed in 2D.

But, maybe it's nostalgia, or just the absolute simplicity of not having to pay too close attention, but I did have a fine time watching this. I laughed more than I thought I would and honestly SOME of the shots weren't bad, despite the need to film for 3D. (others, not so much.) It's an okay "So bad it's good" movie and this series has worse movies in it.

The lead Girls Oak Tree story is an absolute highlight of bad writing. I loved it, in all it's awfulness.

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10 Movies From The 1980s To Consider For October/Halloween

[petercushings]

He wanted me to warn you! Look upon this omen and go back from whence ye came! I have warned thee!

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART III (1982) dir. Steve Miner

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DRAWTOBER DAY 24 - SERIAL KILLER

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Richard Brooker as Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Part III 01/?

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Friday The 13th VHS Spines

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Friday The 13th Part III (1982) // Dir. Steve Miner

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“Kill for mother…”

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Friday the 13th Part III (1982) Directed by Steve Miner

[brokehorrorfan]

Gutter Garbs has released four button sets designed by Beyond Horror Design: Friday the 13th Part 3, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, zombie-thon, and grindhouse. Each set of five 1.25" pins cost $7.

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F13 Fan Posters!

The first 4 Friday the 13th movies in fantastic fan poster form! Which of the 4 films is your favorite?

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Thinking of doing a “what if” series of posters, depicting Jason having retained his “baghead” look throughout the films. This being part 1 (well, “Part 3” really, but part 1 of this series).

[petercushings]

From the minute we got here, I've been seeing things and hearing things. It's probably just my imagination... I shouldn't have come back here so soon.

DANA KIMMELL as CHRIS in FRIDAY THE 13TH PART III (1982) dir. Steve Miner

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My personal favorite scene from any film with Jason...