Friday 13th Part 3 3D

Friday the 13Th Part 3 starts off the day after the events of part 2 where Ginny and Jason have their final showdown, this installment in the Friday the 13Th franchise follow a groups of friends Chris her boyfriend Rick, the pregnant Debbie and her boyfriend Andy, Vera who is setup with Shelly and the two stoners Chuck and Chili.


The group of kids are headed out to Chris Higgins family cabin Higgins's Haven for a weekend of fun and... murder, not long after arrival Rick surprises Chris when she comes into the cabin scaring her almost to death and later Shelly almost scares her to death when he pretends he has been murdered.

Vera and Shelly head into town to go to the store and while their are confronted by a bike gang consisting of Loco, Ali and Fox, upon leaving Shelly runs over Ali's motorcycle, the gang then follow Shelly back to the cabin and siphons their gas from the Chris' van so they can burn down the barn, but before any of this happens Jason get to them.

That Night Chris and Rick are out in the woods alone, talking out their problems and this is when Chris tells Rick for the first time what happened to her in the woods a couple of years before(this had been hinted several times in the movies), she proceeds to tell Rick that when he dropped her off a couple of years before from a date, that when she went in her parents were waiting up for her as she was out passed curfew and got into huge fight resulting in Chris' mom slapping her, as punishment to her parents Chris runs away into the woods, as to make he parents worry, well she ends up falling asleep under a tree and then is awakened to the sound of footsteps that she thinks is her father, but turns out to be Jason, she fights and fights and fights but Chris ends blacking out and waking up the next day at home, and the event her parents refuse to even acknowledge even happened.

Well upon Chris and Rick's return they find the cabin empty and the lights out so they begin to investigate, but when Rick and Chris are separated Jason kills Rick by crushing his head and resulting in his eye popping out of his head, Jason then throws Rick's body through the living room window at Chris, who then flees to her van, but it stalls(from the gas being siphoned out earlier) she then runs to the barn, where the final showdown between Chris and Jason takes place, when Chris finally thinks she has killed Jason by hanging him on the rope from the loft and pushing out of the top floor, she goes down and opened the barn down and sees him hanging their and then for the final jump he moves and lifts himself off the rope and revealing his face, which Chris immediately recognizes as the same man who attacked her two years earlier.

Review:

Out of the original 8 Friday the 13Th's Part 3 comes in 3rd out of my favorites, acting not that grand, character development not good, Chris and Rick are hardly in it until the end, Chili and Chuck have like 3 scenes and only 1 that has any substance to it, and also the look to be a lot older than the rest of the group a lot older especially Chuck, Vera is sorta the loner, Andy and Debbie are gone most of the time and then their is Shelly who always aggravates everyone, but he's a good guy, but just doesn't have good self-esteem.

Putting all that aside though its just a lot of fun and it sets itself apart from the other Friday the13Th's, it's not set at a camp, theirs not any counselors, just a group of friends going to a cabin for the weekend and it plays more on suspense in this film, the opening with the husband and wife store owners builds quite a bit of suspense almost on the lines like Halloween, and it also has a completely different feel to it than the 2 before and the 7 sequels following and also lets not forget this is the one where Jason dons the hockey mask for the first and thus making Jason a iconic horror killer and a household name and also IT'S IN 3D!!!!!!

OK, onto the most recent release of Friday the 13Th Pt. 3 that was released I believe last week. The only feature the new release has is the 3D version of the movie that's it, NO behind the scenes, deleted scenes or commentary if you want that buy a another version of the movie or the box set of Friday the 13Th series, picture and sound quality are the same as that which is on the other DVDs and also on the box set version. So if you already have a copy of this and don't want the 3D version then don't buy this cause that's all your gonna get, but if you a big Friday the 13Th fan then this is a must have, so run out and get your copy now.

Stand out 3D moments:

the eyeball the old guy shows the group of friends, the rat on the plank, Rick's eyeball popping out of his head and the spear that goes into Vera's head.


The Kills:

Shelly: Jason slits his throat and takes his hockey mask, which he still wear to this day and made Jason a horror icon

Vera: she gets a spear through the left eye

Andy: He gets split down the middle with a machete while walking on his hands

Debbie: Debbie is stabbed from beneath her hammock(reminiscent of Kevin Bacon's death in F13 part 1) while reading a issue of Fangoria

Chuck: Killed in the cellar while looking at the fuses

Chili: Impaled by a hot fireplace poker

Rick: Jason crushes him with his bare hands and popping his eye out of his head


My Rating:
3 out of 4