]Plot SynopsisThe film""s opening with freeze-frame credits is brilliantly presented with martial music.Vera had taken a stroll to the lake""s wooden dock, where she dangled her feet above the water.[The man-made lake looked nothing like he one from the first two films.] She was spooked by an arm grabbing her leg from under the water - she harshly scolded Shelly for frightening her ("Why do you do these stupid things?") when he rose out of the water in a scuba suit, wearing a white plastic hockey mask and carrying a spear-gun.Maverick Austrian-born Wilder, the writer and director of a number of daring, caustic, provocative films with controversial themes, ultimately received 21 Academy Award nominations and won 6 Oscars during his long career.Leading a fairly lonely and rather dull, austere life, and soon becoming aloof, his existence at Brookfield is distant and he is only cooly respected by others.