Friday the 13th Part 3

 

          

         One Nightmare ends another Friday continues, and the greatest miracle of all time since the St. Louis Blues winning the Stanley Cup has finally come around as in the latest Friday the 13th movie, we finally get to see Jason receiving his first Hockey mask. Which hopefully won't be the last time considering there maybe six more movies to go. While I watched this latest Friday, the 13th film on Peacock, what I slowly didn't realize was the film alone was shot in 3D TECHNOLOGY! Honestly, since the beginning of the 1950's technology has its potential but later becomes annoying when it becomes a popular idea for producers. 

          The third installment picks up on the day after the carnage from the second movie with Jason Voorhees (Richard Brooker) stealing clothes as well as killing the store owner and his wife. Meanwhile Chris (Dana Kimmell) hosts a lake house with her teenage friends. Despite a run-in with a local biker gang, they enjoy an amiable weekend together -- that is, until Jason begins to knock off kids and bikers alike. 

           The most interesting thing about the film is Martin Jay Sadoff, the films 3-D effects supervisor, is the one man responsible coming up with Jason's trademark hockey mask. Sadoff always kept a bag full of hockey gear on set and for good reasons, he was an avid hockey fan. While testing potential masks to use for Jason, he pulled out a Detroit Red Wings goalie mask for a test. Upon which, Steve Miner, director of the film, loved the look and, after some modifications to the mask, decided to use that for the film. So, to all Jason Voorhees fans if you want to thank a person for being a Jason fan, thank Martin Jay Sadoff for proposing the Hockey mask idea as well as giving Jason an identity we can all remember and love. I would love to say that the movie has some great moments and sure the bikers do have some good funny moments, but the film alone just has some mediocre and boring moments and the main problem with the movie is that no recuring characters return from the second movie. And one of the original storylines, consist of actress Amy Steel returning for the third installment, though turned it down for which haunts her later in life. And not even the 3-D effects helped the movie out, which is strange to say but 3-D through the years had its moments but later became annoying when wanting to see a movie. Hell, Hollywood tried adapting 3-D effects to a John Wayne movie and it just wasn't great to watch at all despite it's a good John Wayne movie. Furthermore, when you see the film alone on Peacock or without the 3-D effects, some of the effects where a yo-yo or machete is pointing at the screen just becomes sad with the consideration that people in Hollywood thought that this was a great idea when it should have just stayed at Disney parks. Out of the three Friday the 13th films I've seen on Peacock the second one was the decent movie to watch while sure the first film was trying to take the Halloween aspect and take the kills to a whole new level but at times was okay, and the second movie has some good moments as well as some decent characters, but yet some of the characters in the third movie were just unlikeable as well as wanting to see more Jason than the characters. Like the Nightmare films the three films are just an hour and thirty-five minutes in length so, in all fairness it's not a huge pain but deep down I would like to at least have some potential of these movies being worth the watch because as of right now I'm still saying Jason X is still the best one. I would highly recommend watching all three Friday the 13th movies on Peacock while they’re still on Peacock for the month of October because you should always give these movies a worth of your time no matter how bad or good the films are. As of right now I'm not going to give up on finding a Friday the 13th movie worthy of Jason X, mainly because I found four and five on YouTube for free, so as of finding a good Jason movie other than Jason X, the search continues.