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- 1982
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 1982
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Having recovered from his wound, Jason Voorhees holes up at a cabin near Crystal Lake. As a group of young people arrive for their vacation, Jason continues his killing rampage. Presented in Reagan-Era 3D!
Directed By: Steve Miner
- 1982
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 1982
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Friday the 13th Part III
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6.8
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Summary Having recovered from his wound, Jason Voorhees holes up at a cabin near Crystal Lake. As a group of young people arrive for their vacation, Jason continues his killing rampage. Presented in Reagan-Era 3D!
Directed By: Steve Miner
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
30
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
As in each of the other recent 3-D movies, of which this is easily the most professional, there is a lot of time devoted to trying out the gimmick. Titles loom toward you. Yo-yos spin. Popcorn bounces. Snakes dart toward the camera and strike. Eventually, the novelty wears off, and what remains is the now-familiar spectacle of nice, dumb kids being lopped, chopped and perforated.
As directed by Steve Miner and shot by Gerald Feil, the film's use of 3-D is spectacularly and viciously effective. (Gray-lensed Polaroid glasses are handed out at the door; this 3-D process works much better than that used on recent 3-D TV broadcasts.) Not only sabers and butcher knives are tossed into the movie house, however; there are also such relatively benign protuberances as popping popcorn, a leaping snake and a blue yo-yo. From the back of a van, a hippie reaches out with a joint, and very early in the film the audience gets poked at with a pair of rabbit ears atop a television set. An opening scene of sheets flapping on a clothesline is attractively eerie, and a later shot of a victim sitting on a pier that juts into a pool of water is actually pretty. The playfulness is so engaging it's really too bad that the gore has to be so unrelenting, but the producers of these films are now trapped in their own excess [17 Aug 1982, p.B1]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 91 User Ratings
6.8
56% Positive
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
30% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
14% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 91 User Ratings
6.8
56% Positive
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
30% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
14% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
Everything about Part III was top tier to me. The audience gets great third-person views of Jason, and there isn't any CGI to derail the creativity of the kills. What really impresses me the most are the production values: the beautiful, but chilling forest setting and the atmospheric tone set a gold standard for unsettling horror. The music is the most fun it has ever been and reminds us that we actually want to see Jason get these high school punks, and it created a trend for spooky 80s tracks.
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Уже больше чем через год, после выхода предыдущей части, с возросшим бюджетом, сняли 3 часть.
Чем она мне запомнилась, тем что наконец-то тут появляется Джейсон в узнаваемой хоккейной маске и начинается дикий экшен. В добавок очень понравилось несколько страшных сцен, где нам показывают не от первого лица, а от 3 что происходит, например где душили чела, а ему так и не помогли, хотя был в метре, ситуация страшная. Немного про концовку, вот это там конечно чел выскочил в нужный момент, вопросы как он выжил, до сих пор. И самая концовка напугала прям, я аж хоть и опять же пересматриваю, но был не уверен, что происходит, хорошая сцена в конце.
И еще наши ГГ и ГЗ оказывается уже когда то встречались, кошмар девушки сбылся.
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The horny teenagers all seem like banal, plastic, eager-to-please refugees from a sitcom, desperately hoping with their every line of dialogue for a canned laugh.
Implicit in the artlessness of this scene is the filmmakers' sense of the formulaic nature of their work, which requires no higher art than bartering with the butcher for spare parts; when the teen van moves out, like a fisheries truck loaded with trout for the spring re-stocking, it's a nod to the genre and a wink for the grown-ups in the crowd. The rest is in your face. [16 Aug 1982, p.B4]
It's still trash.
Friday the 13th Part III is terrible, too...There are some dandy 3-D sequences, however, of a yo-yo going up and down and popcorn popping.
Other than the Hockey Mask, Gore, 3D, and the Funky Fresh Music, it's just another film for Friday the 13th thats the same.
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This suffered a little from being in the middle of the eighties. It took some pop trends on board and didn’t come off better. The 3D effects are really cool on a VR headset ‘huge screen cinema’. One of the best of the eighties 3D horror films. The violence was fine although it felt like it could have been gorier and the story progressed well as we got to see the infamous hockey mask. Follows on from the story of the first closely. Rarely detours from this Friday the 13th saga. Made me jump and held my attention.
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Do NOT even think about staying by the lake or getting frisky on Jason's watch. We get at least a drop of character development in this one, but are still well within the standard set by the first 2.
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I guess we never change a 'winning' team huh? Since the beginnings and the credits we definitely know it is going to be cheesy as hell. The characters are really stupid, some way more than others. At some point I just couldn't stand the face and voice of the famous Shelly, the so-called funny guy of the band. He contributes to induce many unnecessary and terrible scarejumps throughout the film to the point where everything becomes either honestly laughable or excessively boring.
Once again these teenagers are full of invasive sexual hormones pushing them to jump on each other like rabbits. The importance of consent is clearly not as strong as it is today. Some scenes would make some feminists scream (and not only because of fear). We are too often on the verge of voyeurism when the camera languidly follows the long legs of these naked young women. By the way Shelly doesn't manage to find his own place just because he is fat and 'ugly'. The only people of color in the film are dumb thugs, thank you the 80's.
If I always enjoyed sound effects and music of the series I have to admit this movie pushed things a bit too far. Jason, the music and the sounds he provokes are omnipresent, so that the tension can never subside. This fact just makes music silly and misused.
The overall acting is emotionless, not good. Flashbacks are mind-numbing and unattrative. Turns of event are far too often incoherent. Every single murder is committed without any noise. Blood never leaves marks and is rarely saw by the protagonists. Special effects are particularly awful. Jason is overpowered, superhuman, overskilled and overly fast. It is like he can fast-heal the few wounds he has! Especially at the end (without spoiler), things get really over the top and you can really feel Steve Miner's intention to force us to create an irrational fear in ourselves. Personally I couldn't retain a laugh for the heroine who will surely survive with an incurable post-traumatic syndrome. As always the end is tricky, blurred and incomprehensible. But we will remember this movie as the birth of the famous masked Jason.
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Awards
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
