Friday the 13th Part III

Cinema International Corporation (CIC) | Release Date: August 13, 1982

6.8	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 84 Ratings

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FilipeNetoJun 29, 2018

This movie is the third sequel to "Friday the 13th", proving that if Jason is tough to kill, the franchise is certainly harder to die. The recipe is like the films that preceded it: in a haunted camp lives a hard-to-kill monster who loves toThis movie is the third sequel to "Friday the 13th", proving that if Jason is tough to kill, the franchise is certainly harder to die. The recipe is like the films that preceded it: in a haunted camp lives a hard-to-kill monster who loves to exterminate stupid teenagers, improving human genetics by preventing such deformed beings from breeding. I'm being ironic, but the truth is that the film is so bad that it allows me that, as well as being no different from the vast majority of slasher films.… Expand

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MoviezNPMar 16, 2019

If you loved 2, you'll probably love this, but a little less. If you're like me who didn't like 2, this is worth a skip. .
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Good : The only positive would be the exclusion of unnecessary nude and perverted scenes. It still has a lot of them,If you loved 2, you'll probably love this, but a little less. If you're like me who didn't like 2, this is worth a skip. .
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Good : The only positive would be the exclusion of unnecessary nude and perverted scenes. It still has a lot of them, but weren't at least as annoying as in Part 2. Some jumpscares are okay. .
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Bad : The acting is just pure stupid. Either they don't act or they are overacting. It opens with the same stupid recap of the ending of the second movie and ends exactly in the same way like the first. Many similarities are there between the second and this one. If you watch the beginning of the movie, that's the way the previous ends, minus some parts, because that'll mean repeating part 2. The entire story is lame as s**t. It follows the exact template and is directed by the same man. It awkwardly mentions sex a lot of times. The characters are still annoying. The main girl is kinda okay. And that's about it. Even the kills are not so great. There are no thrills or tension being built, until it requires the movie to have a kill. It suffers from the same old screenplay and direction probelms. You can read my full thoughts on those issues in my review of other Friday films. I don't want to repeat myself here. .
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Conclusion : It was like they travelled through time, read my review for part 2, and said, "Oh yeah? Here's this!". F**k this movie. .
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clem666May 18, 2021

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 faceI 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.… Expand

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royalguy07Oct 11, 2022

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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