Product Details

• Actors: Terry Ballard, Richard Brooker, Gloria Charles, Rachel Howard, David Katims
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: October 17, 2000
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (310 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004WZ0D
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,030 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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The tender, tragic saga of Jason Vorhees, the world's unhappiest camper, continues when yet another batch of hormonally advanced teens decide to ignore past history and spend some time at the woodsy, pine-scented slaughterhouse known as Camp Crystal Lake. It may be a bit of a stretch to describe any of the entries in this interminable series as "good," but this creatively grotesque installment manages to come surprisingly close with a welcome sense of humor and some quick glimmers of real menace (courtesy of director Steve Miner, who would later go on to helm the far more accomplished Halloween: H20). Originally presented in 3-D, which explains the never-ending slew of objects (knives, pitchforks, yo-yos, cats, eyeballs, etc.) that are repeatedly thrust in the viewer's general direction. --Andrew Wright

Product Description
Having escaped in the last episode jason is back hockey mask and all to continue his murderous rampage across crystal lake. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Dana Kimmell Rachel Howard Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R Director: Steve Miner

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BRILLIANT, BEST OF THE FIRST FOUR, October 10, 2000

By	The No Evil Killer "Know No Evil" (Everywhere, Anywhere, Nowhere) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This film is ace. Steve Miner really improved upon his earlier effort in part 2 by making this film in 2.35:1 and in 3D. The DVD is not in 3D, this is no big deal tho.

There are not so many characters in this film. But that gives more time to develope them. My fave is the character of Shelly. He's so cool and I feel so sorry for him. Until I saw this film I never thought any character in the Friday the 13th series would make me like them. Usually they are just idiots spouting cruddy dialogue. I never saw the movies in order by-the-way.

Jason gets his trademark hockey mask here. This is way more scarier and iconic than that pillowcase. Honestly, what was the deal with that. Crystal Lake also seems more tranquil and relaxed here than it did in the other movies. It looks better this way and in widescreen. It's also the only one of the whole lot that generates any kind of atmosphere. Near the end, when the wind picks up, it feels lonely and ghostly. I like that.

The DVD is in utterly terrible mono (why on earth has this been allowed) and is anamorphically enhanced at 2.35:1.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Aspirin not included, February 3, 2009

By	A. Gammill (West Point, MS United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Friday the 13th, Part 3, 3-D (Deluxe Edition) (DVD)

Getting old is hell. It's true. You see, I'm old enough to have seen Friday the 13th Part 3 in the theater back in 1982. There were a handful of pretty bad 3-D movies made during that brief resurgence of the fad. Believe it or not, this was actually the best of them. The film took full advantage of the process, poking every possible object, body part, etc. at the screen. All in polarized 3-D. Polarized? Well, I don't know all the technical details, but the glasses were tinted gray, instead of the old-style red and blue that was used during the early 1950's heyday of 3-D movies. A polarized 3-D movie doesn't just have depth; things literally pop off the screen and, at times, would appear to be inches from your face.

Sadly, this 3-D release of Friday the 13th Part 3 is NOT the same picture I saw all those years ago.

Apparently, the polarized process can't be recreated for the home screen (not yet, anyway. . .if you'd told me ten years ago I'd be able to store thousands of songs on a gadget the size of a cigarette lighter, I'd have called you crazy). So what we have here is a sort of "remixed" cut of the film, with the old-school glasses. And all the headaches those involve.

Disappointments aside, it's not a complete waste. The film itself was made to have depth (as in the third dimension of depth, not the philosophical kind!), and many scenes translate fairly well. The more notorious shock scenes (SPOILERS AHEAD) involving a spear gun and an eyeball rushing toward the camera come pretty close to duplicating the original format's intensity. Objects in the background often suffer some blurriness--hence the possibility of headaches--and the print itself is surprisingly grainy in spots.

The film itself is no better or worse than any of the FRIDAY sequels. But if you were lucky enough to have the film as intended on the big screen, you will almost certainly be disappointed with this presentation. I'm glad 3-D films are making a comeback; I just hope someone is able to improve the process for home viewing.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Widescreen & Chili's uncut death, October 24, 2000

By	Justin Wayne Morris (Fayetteville, AR United States) - See all my reviews

What I felt before was a quite mediocre entry in the series(speaking relatively, of course), I now feel is one of the most superior. What makes the difference? Widescreen. Steve Miner is a master of the form(see the underrated House or Halloween:H20) and injects this sequel with a lot of atmosphere and tension which was not as evident on previous pan-and-scan video releases of the film. For instance, consider the scene where Chris relays her previous experience with Jason to her boyfriend Rick. On video, it had always appeared as if the couple had just stopped at a random spot in the woods to talk. In widescreen, however, the entire left side of the picture is taken up by the side of a cabin and by a drainpipe spilling water throughout the scene. This one small detail adds a whole other layer to the atmosphere of the scene. You also get to see a lot more of Higgin's Haven and the surrounding woods and lake in widescreen. Also, as previously mentioned, the showdown/chase scene that climaxes this film is amazingly suspenseful, especially for an early 80's slasher sequel. Widescreen allows you to see Jason running up along the side of the barn as Chris enters. Creepy!

One last note about the DVD:

For years, Friday fans have lamented the lost death scene footage excised by the MPAA before the films were released to theaters. Well, apparently someone in the DVD department at Paramount is a fan, for Chili's death scene via firepoker in the Friday 3 DVD is the unrated cut. Wherein previous video versions, there is only a shot of the firepoker exiting her back, in the DVD version, a relatively long sideshot has been inserted showing Jason plunging the firepoker all the way through her and then slightly twisting it. This extra shot is worth the price of the DVD. Hopefully unrated death scenes will show up on future Friday releases also. I'd love to see some of the unrated footage from Friday 6 and 7.