[Dr Kain]

No, it would have to take place directly after the second one because of the news report the wife is watching at the beginning of the movie where they are showing Ginny being carted off and talking about the gruesome discoveries. Now they do say the second movie is five years after the events of the first one.

There were good things about the movie, it's just that the characters were so flat and boring to watch because their acting was terrible and none of them were there other than to give the movie a high body count. I do agree that Brooker was a great Jason though.

As for the multiple endings, I learned about those last night on the bonus features of the disc. However, you are a little off. The one where Chris is decapitated by Jason and wakes up was never filmed. The one they did film was Chris decapitating Jason, but they felt it was too definitive so they went with the ghost of the mother appearing in her dream.