Horror fans the last time I reviewed a film from the Friday The 13th film franchise it was on March 13th of last year so it almost exactly a year ago to the day that I last reviewed a film from the Friday The 13th film franchise. As such I thought that i'd set that right today by taking a look at one of my personal favourite films from the Friday The 13th film franchise and so join me as I review the film that is called simply Friday The 13th Part 3 which is otherwise known as simply "Friday The 13th Part III" enjoy.
The plot of this film is Chris and her friends go for a weekend get away at a house near near Camp Crystal Lake and while there they must survive Jason Voorhees who has taken refuge in the barn near the house where Chris and her friends are staying. In terms of what I thought of the plot to this film I honestly really did enjoy the plot to this film since it kind of avoids the whole camp setting while at the same sticking to what made the Friday The 13th film franchise so popular to begin with and it helps that the plot of this film is really well told in my opinion.
Starring in the film is Dana Kimmell as Chris Higgins , Paul Kratka as Rick and Tracie Savage as Debbie. Also starring in this film is Jeffrey Rogers as And , Catherine Parks as Vera Sanchez , Larry Zerner as Shelly , David Katims as Chuck Garth , Rachel Howard as Chili Jachson , Nick Savage as Ali , Gloria Charles as Fox , Kevin O'Brien as Loco , Cheri Maugans as Edna Hockett , Steve Susskind as Harold Hockett , Perla Walter as Mrs. Sanchez , David Wiley as Abel and Richard Brooker as Jason Voorhees.
In terms of what I thought about the acting in this film in all honesty the acting that's in this film isn't really that good but at the same time the acting in this film isn't that bad either. Since there are clearly some actors in this film who are trying and in my opinion succeeding to make the script but then there are other actors who are in this film who either just can't act or just can't make the script work and as such their performances really do suffer in my opinion.
The best thing in this film as well as the must funniest thing in this film is the terrible run that Chili Jachson does. Heck the character runs so slow inside of the house that Chili Jachson and her friends are staying at that Jason Voorhees could have very easily have slowly walked up to her and killed her heck I don't know why Jason Voorhees didn't just kill her there and then since he would have had more then enough time heck he could have made himself something to eat and had a drink she'd still only be a few feet away because that's how slow she was running you'd think that since you just found out three of your friends are dead you'd pick up the pace and run as fast as you can since her life literally depends on her being to run quite quickly away from Jason Voorhees but nope Chili instead chose to take her sweet as heck time which meant that she got killed.
The best character in this film (apart from of course Jason Voorhees) is Shelly just due to how likable Shelly is. Heck in my opinion Shelly should have been the films main character because he was a lot more interesting then Chris who is this films main character as well as this films final girl since Shelly has confidence issues and in my opinion is really well written where as while Chris does have a tragic backstory it doesn't make her an interesting character since the film does nothing with that tragic backstory and it doesn't form who Chris is a character where as Shelly is a regular guy who is just trying to get the girl (the girl in this case being Vera)and that makes Shelly alot more relatable as well as likable in my opinion.
Like many horror franchises that started life in the nineteen eighties this film was originally released in 3D and while I would have very much have liked to comment on the 3D aspect of the film. I sadly do not have a copy of the 3D version of the film but from I can tell the 3D in this film is just the kind of 3D where the film makers have random objects in the film pointed at the camera and hell the 3D even took priority when making the film since actress Tracie Savage had this to say about the films 3D effects "The key priority in every scene was making sure that the 3-D effects worked. It didn't matter how the lines were delivered. It didn't matter if we stumbled or fumbled. It didn't matter if our performance was not perfect. We never did a second take... [the 3-D effects] were a very technical, difficult thing to do." So yeah instead of putting the story first or the characters first or the acting first or anything that would have helped the film be even better then what it already is went out of the window because making sure the films 3D effects worked was deemed more important when that should have been the least important thing in my humble opinion.
Now then for that one person who has only heard of the Friday The 13th film franchise has only seen pictures of Jason Voorhees this is the film in which Jason Voorhees gains his famous hockey mask. The hockey mask is so iconic that not alot of people now that when Jason debuted in Friday The 13th Part 2 he wore a potato sack over his head with a small hole so he could see through it but in my opinion the hockey mask just looks better and i'm not just saying that because that's what Jason is more known for wearing i'm saying it because it's honestly true.
This film has a running time of one hour and thirty five minuets and fourteen seconds which in my opinion is the exact right running time for this film. Since the film really isn't doing that much new plot wise and so it really doesn't make sense to have the film be anywhere even close to two hours or even close to one hour and forty minuets since all this franchise does is repeat the exact same story over and over again for most of the films and while that isn't a bad thing in the case of the Friday The 13th film franchise it also means that the films don't have to or even need to be that long in my humble and honest opinion.
Now then boys and girls since this is a slasher film that means there are kills in this film which means that I have to talk about the kills that are in the actual film itself and if im being honest the kills in this film are pretty good. While there are some kills that don't really hold up like the death of Rick for example there are plenty of deaths still look good like for example the the death of Fox which is a really good kill in my opinion it's just a shame that we don't get to see the actual kill tho but that's just what I think tho.
Overall this is a really good film but at the same time it's a film that has alot of issues but tho alot of issues don't stop the film from being entertaining infact they help make the film entertaining in my opinion. Since i've talked about both the good and the bad things that are in this film in this very review this film gets a 6.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got all of the images that I used in this review from either Google Images or the official Friday The 13th fandom wiki page and for once I really don't have a preferred website to use if you guys want to use images from this film since the quality of the images on both websites is roughly the same but Google Images does have more of a verity of images tho and as always we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.
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