After the success of Friday the 13th Part II, (in which producer and director Steve Miner, who worked on the last two horror movies, directed the third movie in 3-D; Frank Mancuso, Jr., served as the producer), the third movie also has Harry Manfredini composing the music, as the movie begins with flashbacks from Part II until the Part III begins...
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Part III starts in the town of Crystal Lake where a couple, Edna, (Cheri Maugans), who is a house wife, and her husband Harold, (Steve Susskind). Harold is overweight, and gets on her nerves. On TV, she hears the newscaster, (Steve Miner), tell off the previous attacks by Jason Voorhees. When they fall victim to Jason, he heads off to Camp Crystal Lake.
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Cut to a group of campers who see the police carrying the bodies of the previous victims. Chris, (Dana Kimmell), Debbie, (Tracie Savage)-who's pregnant, her boyfriend Andy, (Jeffrey Rogers), Shelly, (Larry Zerner)-the actor/prankster, and Vera, (Catherine Parks), whose mother, Mrs. Sanchez, (Perla Walter), doesn't want her daughter to go there, and two twenty year old hippies, Chuck, (David Katims), and Chilli, (Rachel Howard), who like to smoke dope. Chris is driving to Higgins Haven, (near Camp Crystal Lake), and attempts to get over an attack two years' ago, which drives a wedge between her and her boyfriend Rick, (Paul Kratka).
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The writers this time are Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson. 3-D movies were popular in the 1950's; by the 1980's, there were other horror movies in the decade: Jaws 3-D, (Joe Alves, 1982); Amityville 3-D, (Richard Fleischer, 1983), that had killer sharks, to haunted houses. Friday the 13th Part III had snakes, baseball bats, a clothes line, and so on, to create suspense. As the campers enjoy themselves, Shelly continues the pranking theme by pretending to be 'dead', which further alienates himself. He then gets a ride with Vera in Rick's van, and head into town to get food and supplies. As they did so, they meet a small group of bikers, led by Ali, (Nick Savage); Fox, (Gloria Charles); and Loco, (Kevin O' Brien). After their altercation, Shelly drives over the bikers' motorcycles, that leads to Ali smashing the glass of the van with his knuckle dusters. Shelly then drives back to the camp. When Rick gets angry, he wonders what kind of friends Chris has.
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Earlier on, the campers meet Abel, (David Wiley), an old man who takes over from Crazy Ralph, as the bringer of doom. When they leave him, the horror starts once more.
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