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By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 04 Nov 2024 01:05:36 +0000

The original “gutting” ending seemed to go right into this, which I’m fine with either ending. I think the explanation of the theatrical Part III ending is that it’s a spirit in Chris’ subconcious. I mean, Mrs. Voorhees wouldn’t like it if someone killed her beloved Jason, would she?

By: Kirk Magnum

Kirk Magnum — Tue, 12 Oct 2024 05:05:59 +0000

I prefer the 3rd ending; well actually the first one shot for “Friday III”…where Jason get’s his belly slit open and his guts spill out on the camera.

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By: WitheredCarnation

WitheredCarnation — Fri, 01 Oct 2024 00:25:47 +0000

Petch and Jasonlives, I love where you’re going with that. I’ve always believed the Crystal Lake campsite has something terribly wrong with it. Jason is its deadliest occupant, but I’m perfectly willing to believe there are other manifestations of its “death curse,” including “echoes” of Pamela while her head was intact or Jason when he was still a child.

That said, I don’t think it would have drastically changed my opinion of the film either way if they’d gone with Chris hallucinating decapitation by Jason instead of drowning by Pamela.

By: jasontyo

jasontyo — Thu, 30 Sep 2024 23:56:19 +0000

Cat, Mrs. V never attacked chris, she was dead for two films by then.

By: Jasonlivessince1980

Jasonlivessince1980 — Thu, 30 Sep 2024 21:45:12 +0000

Petch, I dig your explanation, and have theorized about it myself… the lake itself is sort of cursed by vengeful evil, like Mrs. Voorhees and Jason himself still haunt it– part 1 was the same thing, Jason’s lake up is one of the greatest moments in horror history, let alone the franchise, yet it was passed off as a dream, nothing more, which of course, makes no sense because Jason is supposedly a living, grown man out in the woods… so who was in the lake?

of course the writers were intentionally ambiguous, and both sequences were designed simply to shock audiences. But the pan over crystal lake at the end of part 1, or of the Higgins Haven swampy area and the barn at the end of part 3 seem to suggest more… this place, the lake, is cursed. The evil is never really gone.

By: Cat

Cat — Thu, 30 Sep 2024 17:05:08 +0000

I get what you guys are talking about but it was just that, a dream!! She just killed another human and saw her friends dead, even tho she has no head doesnt mean that she wont have dreams/nightmares off her with it still attached!! I mean it was on when Mrs V tried too kill her!!

By: jasontyo

jasontyo — Thu, 30 Sep 2024 11:16:36 +0000

So they obviously did shoot this scene. It didn’t fit with the rest of the film though. Jason looks different from the barn windows scene, he doesn’t have the battle damage. I wonder how much of this movie was rewritten? in the original script did the axe blow never occur?

By: 13thslasher

13thslasher — Thu, 30 Sep 2024 07:13:43 +0000

One of the posters above mentioned exactly what I was thinking. The “dream sequence” ending makes no sense at all because Chris has no knowledge of the existence of Mrs. Voorhees (if she does, it’s not depicted in the film). I think I would have preferred the alternate (just as I would have preferred the alternate mask discovery scene in the reboot).

By: Petch Lucas

Petch Lucas — Thu, 30 Sep 2024 06:08:39 +0000

I’ve got to be the voice of dissent here. The Mrs. Voorhees lake sequence is my single favorite moment of the entire Friday The 13th saga. But I’m basing that on my point of reference from when I first saw it on the big screen in 1982 (I was twelve). At that point there hadn’t yet been the further sequels that established Jason permanently in his hockey mask.

Even at that time, I was aware that Chris and the others at Higgins Haven didn’t seem to know about Jason Voorhees or his mother, and even Chris was oblivious to the identity of her two-years-prior attacker in the woods. So the appearance of Mrs. Voorhees in the lake, mirroring the ending of Part 1, suggested to me that the very waters of Crystal Lake had some kind of supernatural connection to the Voorhees family.

Obviously, since that angle was never explored in further sequels, the scene is now regarded as a “dream sequence,” and one that doesn’t make much sense for reasons stated in above posts. But if we had to play “flag the inconsistency!” with the entire series, we’d have a rather large and curdled salad on our plates. For me, bottom line is the Mrs. Voorhees lake ending would work best if Part III had been the series finale. It wasn’t, so we’ll just have to regard it as an interesting idea that sadly went nowhere. Although the sequence also sports Harry Manfredini’s single best musical cue in the series.

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By: Jasonlivessince1980

Jasonlivessince1980 — Thu, 30 Sep 2024 01:41:04 +0000

I think the last fifteen minutes of part 3 is pure gold… but I agree putting Pam in there suddenly doesn’t really fit anything in the film, there was no mention of Mrs. Voorhees, no folklorish foreshadowing like in some of the other films, these kids were probably the most oblivious teens since part 1. I think part 3 is the only film in which the name “Jason” is never uttered. The reattached head thing is no big deal when you consider it was a dream… or maybe a ghost. I wouldn’t change the scene where he’s in the window with the head gash dripping down, hissing at Chris, scared the hell out of me as a kid.

By: thevengefulmachet

thevengefulmachet — Wed, 29 Sep 2024 23:12:53 +0000

Hell yeah! The theatrical ending to part 3 blew. Totally lame. I would have much more preferred the Chris decapitation. What’s the problem? Is it because Jason’s face was the Stan Winston design and they wanted it to look more like the mongoloid Jason from part 1? Was there really a special effect rpblem? Anyway, yeah, the ending they used with mama voorhees jumping out of the lake made no sense in any shape or form. The decapitation would have registered better, leaving an impression on audiences because she was the final girl, they’re supposed to live. That ending was breaking the mould. Would have been very effective. It makes me wonder, where’s the bloody axe wound on his forehead? How did Chris dispatch of Jason if they had used that ending?

By: JB Demented

JB Demented — Wed, 29 Sep 2024 21:26:51 +0000

I couldnt agree with You more Jasonsfury. I hate the ending to part 3, always have. Everytime I watch part 3 with a friend, the’re like WTF is that…I thought Jasons Mom got Her head chopped off. But its not the only chapter to be robbed of a good ending for instance:

Part 4: Trish finds Her Moms body in a dream sequance
Part 6: We finally get to meet Jasons Dad Elias
Part 7: Jason jumps out of the lake and grabs a fisherman out of a boat (kind of like the jump scare in part 1)

And I think Part 8 and Jason X needs a new ending because the endings were lame.

I believe Larry Zerner, He seems to know and remember alot about part 3 that the others forgot. Well besides Richard Brooker, He has a good memory.

Oh and I almost forgot, I wasnt too crazy about how Jason got “killed” in the remake. However theres a deleted scene where as Hes getting pulled into the wood chipper, the chain breaks His neck kind of like in Jason Lives almost.

But anyway, I would love to get ahold of the alternate ending to 3. I first heard about it years ago, and I just could not believe they chose the ending they went with instead of the beheading. Oh well, freakin Paramount what can You do?

By: Lester Romero

Lester Romero — Wed, 29 Sep 2024 21:00:31 +0000

To be fair I don’t mind the original ending so much. I saw it as a kid (when I was obviously too young to watch it) and all I remember is it scaring the hell out of me. My nostalgia blinds me in that respect but I must say that the filmed/unfilmed ending with Christie getting it through the business end of a machete with a clear shot of the Stan Winston mask of Jason sounds to awesome to pass up. I’ll take that ending over the one we got any day.