The Films: Friday the 13th Part 3: 3-D

Starring: Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, Tracie Savage
Directed by: Steve Miner
Screenplay by: Carol Watson & Martin Kitrosser
Based on Characters Created by: Victor Miller and Ron Kurz
Produced by: Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Co-Producer: Tony Bishop
Associate Producer: Peter Schindler
Editor: George Hively
Music by: Harry Manfredini and Michael Zager
Make-Up Effects by: Make-Up Effects Labs
Art Director: Robb Wilson King
Director of Photography: Gerald Feil
3-D Supervisor: Martin Jay Sadoff
MPAA Rating: R
Theatrical Release Year: 1982
Running Time: 95 minutes
Soundtrack: Mono
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

A new dimension in terror.

THE STORY

While newscasts report the mass murders at Crystal Lake, a mysterious stalker continues his bloodshed at a roadside market owned by Harold (STEVE SUSSKIND) and Edna (CHERI MAUGANS). Harold is dispatched with a meat cleaver that is imbedded in his chest, and Edna dies when a knitting needle is pushed through her head.

As these murders are committed, a group of friends are headed for a week-end at a lakeside cottage, at the invitation of Chris (DANA KIMMELL), who is driving the van wherein the group is assembled. Inside are the lovers Andy (JEFF RODGER) and Debbie (TRACIE SAVAGE), Andy's roommate Shelly (LARRY ZERNER) and his blind date Vera (CATHERINE PARKS), and the pot-smoking Chili (RACHEL HOWARD) and Chuck (DAVID KATIMS).

When the group nears the lake, they are warned to "go back to where you came from" 147 the eccentric Abel (DAVID WILEY), who pulls an eyeball out of his duffel bag to frighten them. They ignore him, and continue on to the two-story house by the lake, with its red barn, an outhouse, and a knotty old dock. An unidentifiable figure watches them arrive; all but Chris go skinny-dipping.

Chris has lived here years earlier, but an incident several years earlier where she was dragged through the woods by a grotesque figure has kept her away. Inside the house, Chris is surprised by Rick (PAUL KRATKA), a former beau who wants to resume their romance. Outside, the shadowy figure of the demonic Jason (RICHARD BROOKER) watches them.

An intruder has rummaged through the master bedroom. Shelly, the overweight prankster in the group, pulls one of his tricks by pretending to have an axe imbedded in his head. The group is momentarily frightened by his latest joke. Vera and shelly then borrow Rick's car to get supplies at the local store, where they are confronted by three tough-talking motorcyclists, Ali (NICK SAVAGE), Fox (GLORIA CHARLES) and Loco (KEVIN O'BRIAN). Their windshield is smashed by Ali, but they make good their escape, although they destroy Ali's cycle by running over it.

The motorcyclists trail the car to the lakeside cottage, where they plan to siphon gas from the group's vehicles. While playing in the barn swinging on a rope, Fox is impaled with a pitchfork. Searching for her, Loco is also jammed by a pitchfork. Ali goes to the barn to find his friends, but Jason smashes Ali's face with a large plumber's wrench, bashing in his skull. The motorcyclists have now been destroyed.

Vera goes down to the dock, where she dangles her legs into the water. Shelly pulls one of his pranks by swimming underwater and grab- bing her legs to frighten Vera. He leaves, but has left his wallet, which Vera accidentally drops into the water. While attempting to retrieve it in the water, Vera is killed by Jason, who pulls the trigger of his spear-gun which is aimed at Vera's head. The arrow penetrates her skull.

Inside the house, Debbie and Andy have been making love in a hammock. When they finish, Debbie decides to take a shower while Andy, showing off his athletic prowess by walking on his hands, goes to get a beer from downstairs. Wearing Shelly's white mask, Jason poises his machete above his head and thrusts down between Andy's legs, slicing through his upside-down body. He places Andy's body around the rafters in his room. Awaiting her boyfriend while on the hammock, Debbie is startled when blood drips down on the book she is reading. Underneath her, hidden by blankets, Jason emerges and uses a carving knife to drive through the back of her neck and out the front.

Downstairs, the stoned Chuck and Chili are popping corn when the lights suddenly go out. Chuck goes to the cellar to investigate. Chili is frightened when Shelly falls through the door, his neck slit open, but she thinks it's another one of his pranks and ignores him. In the cellar, as Chuck finds the light switch, Jason grabs him and throws him into the open fusebox with a pool of water underneath. Chuck is electrocuted as the lights blink furiously on and off.

In the confusion, Chili realizes that Shelly really is dead, and running upstairs, she discovers the bloodied bodies of Andy and Debbie. Jason dispatches her, too, with a sizzling poker from the fireplace that he stabs through Chili's chest.

Chris and Rick, who have driven a distance away from the cottage in order to talk privately, have had to walk back when the battery of Rick's car goes dead. They are surprised to see the house pitch black except for the glow from the fireplace. No one seems to be in the house. Rick goes to the barn to check the main electrical circuits, and he is grabbed by Jason who crushes in his skull with his bare hands.

Going upstairs in the house to find the cause for the water leaking through the ceiling, Chris finds blood-stained clothes floating on top of the tub. Running outside, she is petrified when Loco's dead body hanging from a rope swings at her. Chris runs back to the house, locking herself in. Derek's corpse is thrown through the window, crashing on top of her. Moments later, Jason squeezes his immense frame and head through the broken window. In one hand, he brandishes an axe.

Chris runs upstairs, pushing a huge bookcase over the balcony on top of Jason. As a diversionary tactic, she slams all the upstairs doors shut, and hides in the closet at the end of the hall, but lets out a brief scream when Debbie's body falls on her. Jason charges at the closet, his axe aloft. Chris pulls the knife from Debbie's neck and stabs wildly at Jason as he unlocks the closet. The knife becomes imbedded in Jason's thigh; Chris manages to kick in a bedroom door in an attempt to escape. She lowers herself out of the window. Jason grabs her collar, but she wriggles free and plunges to the ground, hurting her ankle.

Chris grabs a wood log and positions herself to the left of the porch door. When Jason runs out, she bashes him in the back of his head. She manages to get to her van, but it stalls on the bridge, plunging into the bed of rocks below. Jason grabs at her through the open window, but she grips his wrists by rolling the window up. She flees through the passenger door, and runs to the barn, where she discovers the bloody carnage there.

Chasing her, Jason maneuvers the barn door open, determined to murder her. A frenzied battle between the two begins, with Chris finally getting the edge on him by securing a rope fashioned into a noose around his neck, then pushing him down from the hayloft, his body pulling the rope taut around his neck, hanging him.

Chris escape from the barn, but when she looks back, Jason has hoisted himself up by the rope. In the process, his mask is pulled off, revealing the grotesque face Chris has never forgotten from years ago when she had been dragged through the woods. The motorcyclist Ali reappears, bloodsoaked, and Jason uses his machete to mutilate him.

Jason turns to Chris, who is running at him with an axe held aloft in her hands. She imbeds the axe in Jason's head, but his form continues to stagger towards her, reaching for her neck with his hands, but he falls forward with a thud at her feet.

Chris runs to the lake, where she takes refuge in a canoe that she paddles deep into the darkness away from the shore. At sunrise she awakens from a coma-like slumber, her face awash with confusion and tears. She thinks she spots Jason at the cottage, bloodied from the axe wound in his head. She tries to row further away, but runs the canoe into a large, submerged tree.

The water next to the canoe explodes. Mrs. Voorhees, shriveled, her eyes sunken into her hideous face, slime and muck dripping from her rotting flesh, rises and grabs Chris, pulling her from the canoe into the watery depths...

Policemen are leading the hysterical Chris into a police car. Among themselves, they talk about about her being the only one who has made it. Away from the house in the barn, Jason's body lies on the ground, an axe implanted in his head. His extended hand suddenly twitches...and from the depths of the lake, the still and serene water is momentarily disturbed by escaping air bubbles.