The filmmaking team tasked with Friday the 13th Part III found the answer: the triumphant return of 3-D movies, which had fallen out of favor in America after a brief, faddy bubble in the 1950s.

“In the meantime, I stayed with the principal camera, carefully framing the shots according to my own view of the story ... of such 3D films as Friday the 13th Part III (1982) and Jaws 3-D ...