Synopsis for
Friday the 13th Part III (1982) More at IMDbPro »

Picking up almost directly where Part 2 left off, Jason (Richard Brooker) has survived his attack at the hands of Paul and Ginny, and migrates to a store where he changes clothes and then murders the store owners, the henpecked Harold with a meat cleaver slammed into his stomach, and his shrewd wife Edna with a knitting needle through the back of her head, before moving on to a nearby lake front property named Higgins Haven.

At the same time, 18-year-old Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell), who was attacked by a mysterious, disfigured stranger in the woods near Crystal Lake two years earlier, returns to the property with her friends; Debbie (Tracie Savage), her boyfriend Andy (Jeffrey Rogers), dim-witted prankster Shelly (Larry Zimmer), Vera (Catherine Parks), and stoners Chuck (David Katims) and Chilli (Rachel Howard). After meeting Abel, an inebriated, religious fanatic derleict who warns them to turn back, the gang meets Chris' boyfriend Rick (Paul Kratka) at their destination; Higgins Haven. Chris intends to face her fears; however, none of her friends know that an unmasked and reclusive Jason has taken refuge in the barn to recover from his battle wounds.

Meanwhile, Shelly and Vera go shopping at a local supermarket to get food and supplies when they get into trouble with a three-person biker gang, called the Black Widows, led by a brutal woman named Fox (Gloria Charles). When Shelly accidently knocks over their motorcycles outside the store, Fox and her two minions Ali (Nick Savage) and Loco (Kevin O'Brien) follow Shelly and Vera back to Higgin's Haven for revenge. However, they are dealt with by Jason before they can do any real damage except for taking the gas out of the gang's van. While looking around the barn in facination, Fox is killed with a pichfork to her neck. Loco comes looking for her and gets impailed by another pichfork. Ali is next when he enters the barn and finds the bodies. He attacks the still-unseen Jason with a wrench, but gets clubbed.

At nightfall, Jason continues lurking around the barn while spying on the kids who settle down for a party at the nearby cabin. When Chris and Rick go for a walk in the woods, Jason wanders out of the barn to cause more harm again. At first, Jason only harasses them from a distance. When Chuck goes to an outhouse to take a dump and smoke more pot, Jason walks past and bangs on the walls of the outhouse before retreating.

A little later, Shelly, wearing a wetsuit and a goalie hockey mask plans a another scare prank against Vera who is siting on a pier beside Higgens Lake. After Vera angrily tells Shelly off, he wonders into the barn where Jason slices his throat and takes his hockey mask. Taking the speargun that Shelly had with him, Jason (now fully masked with the goalie mask) walks out of the barn and sees Vera wading out in the shallow water to get Shelly's wallet after she accidently drops it in the water. Jason shoots Vera right in her left eye with the spear gun, killing her.

Now, Jason finally sneaks into the house and begins killing with rapid succession with robot-like profency. After Andy and Debbie have sex, she goes to the bathroom for a shower, but gets suprised by Andy, who is walking on his hands. Jason sneaks up to him and slices him in two with a machete. Debbie leaves the shower and rests in her hammock in her bedroom where she soon discovers Andy's biceted body hanging from an overhead plank and gets stabbed through the hammock with a knife.

Next, Jason disables the power to the cabin by tampering with a fuse box. When Chuck goes to the basement to fix it, Jason approaches him and shoves his face on the circut panel, electricuting him. At the same time, Shelly, whom is still alive despite his slashed neck, stumbles into the cabin before dying where Chilli finds him, but she is also quickly killed by Jason who shoves a red-hot fireplace poker through her abdomen.

When Chris and Rick return they find the place empty when they split up to find out what's going on. Rick is attacked by Jason who kills him with his superhuman strenght by squeezing his head so hard his eyeball pops out.

Jason then confronts Chris with an axe, and a climatic chase ensues with the two of them exchanging attacks with Chris trying to keep away from the masked killer. First she slows him down by dumping a bookshelf over him, then stabs him in his left leg with the same knife used to kill Debbie, and then bashes him with a fireplace log. Chris tries to escape from the ranch in the van, but it runs out of gas (due to the biker gang's vandalism), forcing her to run back to the barn to hide.

Jason enters the barn and re-arms himself with a machete and confronts Chris on the barn's rafter, but she manages to subdue him by bashing him on his head with a shovel. She seemly defeats Jason by tying him to a rope and hanging him to make sure that he is dead. Jason survives the hanging and briefly shows his real disfigured face to Chris while trying to get the noose off his neck... and she recognizes him as the man who attacked her two years ago. As Jason precedes to attack Chris with his machete, one of the bikers, Ali who survived his attack eariler, attempts his revenge but meets his doom. While Jason is busy hacking Ali, Chris picks up an axe and strikes Jason on the head, apparently killing him for good.

Chris then wanders over to the lake and falls asleep in a canoe that drifts into the middle of the lake. She subsequently suffers a nightmare of first a revived Jason running out to the lake to attack, and then being grabbed and taken into the water by a decomposing Mrs. Voorhees.

It is revealed that this was all a nightmare and at some point later, the police take a clearly mentally disturbed Chris off the property as the camera shows Jason's supposedly dead body... still laying on the floor of the barn with the axe to his head. The final shot is of Higgens Lake... finally at peace.