My greatest recollection of this film was the hokey use of 3D. I never saw it in that format because it was only available that way in cinemas, but you can spot the moments in the film that are meant to have shit popping out of the screen into your face.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
Friday the 13th
Part III was part of the 1980s’ short-lived craze with 3D cinema
exposition. That incarnation of the technology was nothing like the more
immersive 3D we see so often today. It was a rehashing of the old 1950s style
of having things pop out of the screen at your face. Watching a movie like that
on TV means having to endure shot compositions contrived to have knives,
pitchforks and eyeballs directed toward the camera. Its artificiality calls
attention to itself in a way that instantly draws you out of the film. Even
without such antics, Part III would
still be a spectacularly bad movie.
