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“Friday the 13th Part 3” cements Jason in the pantheon of movie killers! Another group of unwitting teens are headed out to Crystal Lake, and Jason is going to continue his rampage. Through local grocers, cabins and lake side barns, Jason will have his blood. Even if it means arbitrarily writing a small biker gang into the script.
Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982):
Following the events of the previous film, a seriously injured Jason Voorhees goes to a lakefront store to find clothes. While there, he kills the store owners. Harold is killed with a meat cleaver slammed into his chest, and his wife Edna is impaled with a knitting needle through the mouth.
Meanwhile, Chris Higgins and her friends travel to Higgins Haven, her old house on Crystal Lake, to spend the weekend. The gang includes pregnant Debbie, her boyfriend Andy, prankster Shelley, his blind date Vera (who does not reciprocate his feelings), stoners Chuck and Chili, and Chris’ boyfriend Rick.
Shelley and Vera get into a confrontation with bikers Ali, Loco, and Fox at a convenience store. Ali smashes Rick’s car windshield, and in retaliation Shelley runs over their motorcycles, impressing Vera. When the bikers show up to burn down the barn to get even, Jason comes out of hiding and murders Loco and Fox with a pitchfork before beating Ali with a club, seemingly killing him. Later that night, Chris and Rick head out. While they are out, Chris tells Rick about how she was attacked by a disfigured man two years earlier, causing her to leave Crystal Lake in order to escape the trauma. Jason appears and slashes Shelley’s throat before stealing his hockey mask and harpoon gun (off-screen). Now with a hockey mask to conceal his face, Jason proceeds to murder the rest of the gang. Vera retrieves Shelley’s wallet from under the dock and is shot in the eye with a spear. Jason enters the house and slices Andy in half with a machete. Debbie has a knife shoved through her chest while resting on a hammock. When the power goes out in the house, Chuck goes down to the basement where Jason hurls him into the fuse box, electrocuting him. Chili is impaled with a hot fire poker.
When Rick’s car dies, Chris and Rick are forced to walk back to the house to find it in disarray. Rick steps outside to search the grounds, but Jason grabs him and crushes his skull with his bare hands. When Chris discovers bloody clothes in the overflowing bathtub upstairs and finds Loco’s body, she hides inside the house before Jason throws Rick’s corpse through a window.
Chris narrowly escapes the house and tries to escape in her van, which breaks down due to its gas being siphoned by the bikers earlier. She makes her way to the barn to hide but is attacked again by Jason, whom she hangs. Jason unmasks himself temporarily to free himself, and Chris recognizes him as the man who attacked her two years ago. A revived Ali tries to attack Jason, but he is quickly dispatched. The distraction allows Chris to take an axe and strike Jason in the head with it, who staggers momentarily towards her before collapsing. Exhausted, Chris pushes a canoe out into the lake and falls asleep.
Waking up the next morning inside the canoe, she panics when she hallucinates Jason running towards her from exiting the house, but is soon taken off-guard when the decomposing body of Pamela Voorhees – her head reattached – emerges from the lake and pulls her in, which turns out to be a dream. The police later arrive and escort the disturbed Chris from Higgins Haven. Jason’s body is shown to still be lying in the barn as the lake is shown at peace once again.
Summary:
Jason hits his stride in this instalment. He definitely has his weapon of choice (the machete) and in this instalment (albeit happenstance) he finds his famous hockey mask. Is this a random story with people randomly being killed for no real reason? Yes. Does that make Jason any less frightening? No. People may differ and argue about the quality of this movie, but for me (Cory) this ones a lot of fun and Jason it hitting his pace just fine.
We really thank the fan sites out there for everything they do. They really help us with our research! Check out the Friday the 13th Wiki which have pieced together the timeline and the Horror Wiki for the list of kills! Fun for everyone!
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