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

• Continuity: After yelling at Harold, Edna closes the window, getting the curtain stuck in it. In the next shot, the curtain is no longer stuck but is hanging inside the window.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harold is stabbed with the meat cleaver by Jason, the blood goes all the way down to his stomach, but when he falls on the floor, there is only blood around the cleaver.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chili is handing Andy the joint, the way she is holding it changes between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: When Chris shows Debbie the hammock, between shots the way the net hangs and the position of the net changes.
  
  
• Continuity: The quilt, as Debbie is killed, loses its 3D design.
  
  
• Continuity: The number and position of tires on the metal tire rack outside the store change.
  
  
• Continuity: The design of chair which Chris throws through the window changes.
  
  
• Continuity: The sign by Harold's fishbowl disappears in close shots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The position of unconscious Jason's legs changes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chuck makes the popcorn the amount of popcorn in the pan and around the stove differs between shots.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Chris is on the wooden beam in the stable, as she jumps down to land on Jason you can see a safety wire to the bottom left of the screen.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chris comes out from the green door waving a knife at Jason, the green door closes all the way behind her. It cuts to Jason and then back to to Chris, and behind her in the background the green door is now wide open.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Loco, Fox and Ali stand by the van before they steal the gas, the long black boom pole is clearly reflected in the back window of the van.
  
  
• Continuity: Between shots when Chili walks in, the pan goes from on the stove, to on the table.
  
  
• Continuity: When the kids stop for the police cars who rush by, we get to look out the back window of the car. You can see a car and a road sign there. These two weren't there when they pulled over.
  
  
• Continuity: After Chris wakes up in the boat, the front of the boat gets stuck in some logs. The logs change position around the front of the boat between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Chris puts her lantern down on a table in the sitting room, before going upstairs and finding the flooded bathroom. Later when Rick's body is thrown through the window, the lantern has vanished.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After Vera says "uh-oh," as she and Shelley sit in the car outside the grocery store, the camera pans around to the side window. You can see a hooded cameraman reflected in the small triangular window, as the camera pans.
  
  
• Continuity: In the recap of Friday the 13th Part 2, Ginny removes Jason's head cloth and leaves it by his head. In the newly filmed shot of him moving the machete, the cloth is suddenly by his chest.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chris is put in the police car at the end of the film, the car window rolls itself up higher between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chris runs into the bedroom away from Jason, there is a long decorative picture hanging to the left of the window, and between shots a long piece of brown string, hanging down the painting, alternatively appears/disappears.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jason crushes Rick's head, it is obvious the head is made from wood and is resting on a metal shoulder frame.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jason moves to spear Loco with the pitchfork, the prongs are curved down. But when it goes through him, the prongs are suddenly pointing upward.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ali punches the car windshield, the whole pane of glass is smashed out, but in the next shot the pattern of the missing glass is completely different.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nick walks into the room, after Chris discovers Shelley in the cupboard, he leaves the door wide open. When the others enter the door is half shut.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the camera pans past the door, as Chris walks to the cabin, the camera is reflected in the glass windows of the door.
  
  
• Continuity: Between shots, as Harold spits the fish food out, the position of the figurine fisherman's wooden rod changes.
  
  
• Continuity: Jason has no wound in his shoulder, despite being stabbed deeply with the machete at the end of Part II.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Reflection in the car windshield when Shelly is starting it up to leave the store.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Shadow on Chuck's shirt as he walks downstairs to check the fuses.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The wires controlling the snake, harpoon, eye, and the knife Jason throws at Chris are all visible when they come at you on the screen.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Right before Chris stops the van to avoid hitting Abel, you can see there is no one in the back of the van.
  
  
• Continuity: When they arrive at the lake and get out of the van, Chris gets out and slams the door twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When Shelley grabs Vera's ankle, she shakes her shoe off in the over-the-shoulder POV, and it's only held on by the strap around her ankle. In the front shot, it's back on her foot again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Shelly throws the wallet to Vera in the store, he is wearing a watch. But that shot is the only shot he has a watch on.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chris spots the ax in the barn, it is resting on the ground. But in the shot where she picks it up, it is resting on a metal object.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chris is being choked by Jason in the van, the window is rolled all the way down. Chris turns it one full-turn, and in the next shot, it is rolled all the way up.
  
  
• Continuity: Chris stabbed Jason all the way through his left hand. But in all subsequent shots, his hand only shows blood and damage on the back.
  
  
• Continuity: Jason approaches Loco with a five-pronged pitchfork, but when Loco is stabbed, he is stabbed by a four-prong pitchfork.
  
  
• Continuity: When Andy is killed, the shot from below shows his head hitting the ground, but the next shot shows him still on his hands and then falling.
  
  
• Continuity: When Debbie enters the shower, she still has her necklace on. But when she gets out, the necklace is no longer there.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Set lighting visible in the van windshield as Chris begins driving away.
  
  
• Continuity: Vera puts Shelly's wallet in her tan pants outside of the store. Later on the dock, she pulls the wallet out of her red pants.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: As the female driver of the van gets out of the van to go to Vera's (Shelly's date) house, the boom mic is reflected on the side of the van.
  
  
• Continuity: After Ali smashes the windshield, you can see the Olympia beer truck behind him is parked parallel with the road. But when Shelly turns the car around and drives back at him, the truck is now diagonal to the road.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When the van is parked, after the two people are killed, a microphone is reflected in the side of the van.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A cameraman is reflected in the back window of the car, when Rick and Chris go for a drive.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double when Chris is hanging from the window. The double has curlier hair.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Fox is moving as she hangs dead from the roof.
  
  
• Continuity: Part 3 is supposed to take place 24 hours after part 2, yet Jason's appearance changes drastically: he is noticeably taller and no longer has any hair or beard.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Andy is cut in half by Jason, blood spurts everywhere yet when his girlfriend gets out of the shower and walks past the spot she doesn't notice (or tread in) the floor covered in blood. Even though Andy's bisected body is hanging over her head she doesn't notice until a few small drops of blood drip down, despite the massive wound.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Jason gets his clothing for this installment from the clothesline in the opening scene. However, when Chris has a flashback involving him, he's wearing this newly obtained outfit.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Debbie strips naked to get into bed with Andy, you can see that she is wearing skin-colored pants.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the opening sequence involving Harold and the clothesline, there is a foreign object on the lens of the camera - noticeable in the bottom left corner in several shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Loco looks up to where Fox is for the second time, after he has told her to get down and has grabbed the container of gasoline, she is gone, but we can see a foot (probably Jason's) stepping out of view of the camera in the lower right corner of the upper barn doorway.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Jason's foam padding is visible under his shirt several times throughout the movie.
  
  
• Factual errors: After Ali breaks the windshield, the shot from the front of the car shows the glass breaks like a regular window indicating it isn't automotive safety glass. Safety glass has been required by law for new and replacement windshields since the 1940s.
  
  
• Plot holes: In the van, Shelly has brought a small box which presumably contains masks and make-up for his pranks. Yet he somehow also fits a spear gun, wet suit, and hatchet in there.
  
  
• Continuity: In the barn towards the end of the movie, Chris is being chased by Jason and the main pathway in the barn is clear of obstacles. However, in the closing shot showing Jason lying with the ax in his head, there is all sorts of clutter behind him with no explanation of how it was placed there.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: On the back cover of the DVD it says "for another group of naive councilors". The cast in the film are not cast as councilors, they are just friends of Chris, who is taking them for a getaway holiday to her parent's retreat in the woods.
  
  
• Continuity: In the TV report in the beginning, the newscaster says there were 8 victims of the previous attack. There were actually 9 victims not including Alice in the beginning of the second movie. Victims in order: Crazy Ralph, Policeman, Scott, Terry, Mark, Jeff, Sandra, Vickie, and Paul. Paul is not seen killed in the second film but Ginny is focused on as the only survivor in the TV report.
  
  
• Continuity: Harold has an apron on when he brings the rabbit into the barn. Then he runs out and in the next shot he's running by Edna, but he doesn't have the apron on.
  
  
• Continuity: When Loco is about to be killed in the barn, Jason lunges toward him with a five pronged pitchfork. In the next shot he is being stabbed in the stomach with a four pronged pitchfork.
  
  
• Continuity: When Vera drops the wallet, it falls straight off the dock. Yet seconds later, it has floated several yards away and is not moving.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jason kills Andy, he brings the machete straight down, slicing him down the middle. Yet, his body is cut in half across the middle and both legs are connected.
  
  
• Continuity: Jason could only have gotten Andy up onto the beam by standing on the hammock, yet there is no blood anywhere.
  
  
• Continuity: Jason stabs Debbie with a knife so long it goes through her and extends a few inches. Chris pulls it from her and stabs Jason with it, yet it is shorter. It is even shorter when Jason throws it at her.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Chris picks up the axe to kill Jason, the way she holds the axe shows that it is actually very light, and possibly made of plastic, rubber or foam.
  
  

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