Sunday, December 11, 2022

Movie review - "Friday the 13th Part 3" (1983) **

 The one in 3-D. It's cheesy, but the 3D effects are fun - brooms shoved forward, an eye, poles, apples. Some of the female cast have a bit of spunk about them and I hope they went on to have a career. The men not so much.

I enjoyed that random gang who appeared to harras the kids then turned up at the house to be murdered. 

Lots of bits feel unfulfilled- like an idea they wanted to develop but didn't. Such as the kids all eating marijuana (why not have that pay off), Tracie Savage's character being pregnant (she's still murdered, in a Psycho homage), having two of the group be stoners.

Full of odd things like two male characters go to the toilet and get killed, neither having wiped; the history of the final girl returning to Crystal Lake - was she meant to have been attacked by Jason? (I think the script was meant to focus around the survivor of Part 2, which would've made more sense - but if the actress didn't want to return why not change it more. I've also heard the character was meant to have been raped. This is unclear).

Directed by Stephen Miner. I got a few jolts.

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