Friday the 13th Part III
Short description
Friday the 13th Part III continues the slasher series at Crystal Lake, where a group of young friends arrives for a weekend in the countryside. Chris Higgins, her boyfriend Rick and their companions are unaware of the area's violent history, and a couple living nearby become the first to encounter the killer. Jason Voorhees, who survived an earlier attack, has returned, and one by one the visitors fall victim to him.
Steve Miner directed this second sequel, following Friday the 13th Part 2 the previous year. It was his second film as director, ahead of House in 1985. Joel Goodman wrote the treatment, with the screenplay credited to Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson, and Frank Mancuso Jr. produced. Dana Kimmell leads as Chris, joined by Paul Kratka as Rick, Richard Brooker as Jason, Catherine Parks as Vera, Tracie Savage as Debbie and David Wiley as Abel. The production cost about 2 million dollars and returned roughly 37 million worldwide, a strong result against its budget.
On TMDB the film holds a rating of 5.9 from about 1,650 votes, while a critics' rating of 3.7 from 27 reviews places it below the audience response. Two years after the original, this sequel settled the series into a regular annual pattern.
What's left behind the scenes
- Jason's signature hockey mask was conceived by Martin J. Sadoff (a producer, director, screenwriter, and composer who was responsible for the 3D effects in this film). A passionate fan of the game, Sadoff always kept a set of hockey gear with him. Once, when it became necessary to find a mask for Jason, Sadoff pulled out a Detroit Red Wings goalie mask from his bag; director Steve Miner liked it, so some modifications were made to the mask's design, and it was used during filming.
- The total number of corpses is 13.
- According to some reports, it cost Paramount Pictures between $8 million and $10 million to get the film into theaters. The money was spent on creating and installing custom lenses and special screens required in each of the 1,079 cinemas where the premiere took place during the first weekend of August 1982. It was also necessary to train projectionists and organize a 24-hour hotline for theaters to call in case of problems with the 3D screening.
- Due to its proximity to Hollywood, where the experts needed for a film hoping to breathe new life into 3D cinema were located, this installment of the franchise was filmed in California rather than Connecticut. Steve Dash (who played Jason in the second film of the franchise) was told that if he wanted to continue in the role, he would have to pay for his own plane ticket to California. Dash was outraged, and Richard Brooker was cast instead; Brooker was capable of performing all his own stunts and had the appropriate physique.
- In this installment of the franchise, Jason's costume finally took shape: the hockey mask, olive-colored shirt, and khaki pants remained virtually unchanged for the next seven parts.
- Not counting the opening with scenes from the second film, this is the only installment in which the characters never once say Jason's name.
- After the third film, Jason Voorhees appeared on bookstore shelves – the screenplay formed the basis for books first by Michael Avallone, and later by Simon Hawk, who described the first four "Friday the 13th" films.
- Among all the 3D films released in the early 1980s, this film proved to be the most successful in terms of box office revenue.
- Larry Zerner was cast as Shelly while he was handing out promotional brochures for some other horror movie, and he was offered a role in a horror film himself.
- According to the established chronology, the events of the film begin on Thursday, July 12th, more precisely in the evening, when the store owner and his wife were killed. The events of the rest of the film take place on Friday the 13th.
- To avoid leaks of information about the film's plot, the creators used the working title "Crystal Japan" in honor of David Bowie's song. It was from that time that the creators adopted a practice of using Bowie songs as working titles for different parts of the franchise for this purpose.
- The house and shed were built, and the lake was dug specifically for filming. During the very first week of shooting, all the water drained out of the lake through the bottom.
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