Review of Friday the 13th Part III (1982) by David B — 07 May 2012

[font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000]?Be a man, man.? I can?t really dog ?Friday the 13th Part III? for the terribly and possibly unintentionally humorous dialogue, especially when they?re talking to themselves (2x: ?Where?s this (blood) coming from??) Or the stereotypically bad actors playing stereotypically bad characters.

Or the completely overlong and pointless death of a couple you actually wanted to die in the opening. These are just trademarked ? or soon to be ? ?Friday? clichés. But I can rip on the hideously bad idea of the 3-D (and hilariously awful and annoying props when initiating the 3-D ?magic?) when that?s generally a gimmick to bring people back to a dead series.

This series was just beginning (not that they knew there would be another eight additional films to feature Jason Voorhees) and already had a cult following ? hence the fact that one new ?Friday? movie was released each year (or less.

) And people complain about the recent ?Saw? films that have severely trumped Jason?s box office year after year. This all being said, this was the first ?Friday? movie I saw as a kid. I remember getting our first VCR and taping this off of network TV ? edited out scenes I wouldn?t be able to see until years later ? and falling in love with the Jason myth.

I had no idea the audience wasn?t privileged to see the psycho up to this point, so I took for granted we can finally see the killer Jason (for about 1/3 of the film, but still) and that this is one where he finally dons the hockey mask.

If they only knew what an actual icon they were creating. ?Part III,? despite its flaws, does pick up a lot of steam once the man behind the mask shows up and even digs up some absolutely decent chills.

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