If you missed them: Retrospective intro, part 1, part 2, part 4, part 5, part 6

After two successful movies, the Friday series got a bump in the budget. What better way to blow the budget than to move Jason into the third dimension? Answer: None, in theory.

The story takes place right after the second movie. We have a group of teens and two pot-smoking adults heading up to a cabin. Our main character is Chris. We soon find out she wants to go to the lakeside cabin because she was attacked there two years prior. Remember, that was only three years after the events of the original Friday. I’ll give you two guesses who the attacker was.

That’s where the story stops being interesting. The characters are pretty weak. I found that I wanted the characters to die just so we wouldn’t have to suffer through scenes with them in it. The acting isn’t that bad, but the characters feel like cardboard. Even the character development they had was where the true horror came out. We find out Chris’ back-story all in one scene. She hints that things had happened to her before she dumps her sob story on us, but it was annoying every time. I’m not trying to over analyze the movie, it’s just that bad. It probably would have been better if they cut it out all together. I wont even comment on the story of the fat, curly haired kid. No one went to see the movie for character development. So why bother? There are a million other reasons to get six people to go to a cabin near a serial killers stomping ground.

The movie is just blah. It’s not scary or fun, just bad. Unfortunately, it wasn’t bad enough to make it good. They also seem to forget how awesome the POV shots from Jason’s eyes where. It would have been great in 3D too. Have the window or foliage in the foreground and the prey in back. No instead we get yo-yo’s dropped on us.

There has to be something good? What was the best part of the third Firday? What do you need to know from this chapter? Jason gets his mask. That’s it.

Rating: 2 Bloody Machetes
Body Bags Needed: 12
Survivor(s): Chris