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1989 Certificate 18
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After an electricity from a torn cable revives him on the river bottom where his body lies, masked slasher Jason Voorhees stows away on a cruise ship carrying a graduating class of Crystal Lake teens to the Big Apple. Along the way, the ship braves a storm, which is nothing compared to the violence that the hockey mask-wearing .. Read more

Starring Kane Hodder, Barbara Bingham, Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves
Director Rob Hedden
Genres Horror

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Friday The 13th - Part 8 - Jason Takes Manhattan cover art

Friday The 13th - Part 8 - Jason Takes Manhattan

After an electricity from a torn cable revives him on the river bottom where his body lies, masked slasher Jason Voorhees stows away on a cruise ship carrying a graduating class of Crystal Lake teens to the Big Apple. Along the way, the ship braves a storm, which is nothing compared to the violence that the hockey mask-wearing psychopath inflicts on the passengers. Upon arriving in New York (in the film's final twenty minutes), Jason's ways don't seem out of place, and the locals hardly pay him any mind.

Starring Kane Hodder, Barbara Bingham, Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, V.C. Dupree, Peter Mark Richman
Director Rob Hedden
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 36 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Horror
Language DVD: English
Dubbed French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish
Released DVD: 02 Dec 2002
Production year: 1989
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (3) of Friday The 13th - Part 8 - Jason Takes Manhattan

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Director Rob Hedden's stylish attack on the Jason mythos lifts the fear formula a cut and a slash above the average. The title is a misnomer: it takes ages for Jason to carve up the Big Apple. Before that, having been revived by an underwater electrical cable, he stows aboard a pleasure cruiser taking Crystal Lake graduates to New York. It's fun seeing the hockey-masked murderer stalking rat-infested mean streets instead of leafy glades, but this crisply photographed scare-fest surprisingly doesn't milk the new location for extra added chills.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • The interminable story retold in the standard manner, though with less gore than usual; fans of the series, if any remain, are likely to be disappointed at the way the film cuts away from the action at the many moments of teenage death.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 6 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Deceptive Title

    Jason does not 'Take Manhatten' as said int he title. Instead he spends an hour on a boat knocking off a lot of characterless stereotype high school kids before finally arriving in New York and offing a couple of junkies, a cop and a sewage worker. And that's it.

    Whilst the Friday The 13th series has never been known for its greatness, you still expect a lot more from it than this tripe. You can tell the franchise has run out of steam when the kills seem to be repeating themselves from previous films and the plot seems over familiar for the 5th time.

      • David Gray from Clackmannanshire, Scotland
      • Posted 18 Feb 2004 13:57

  • Most recent members' review of Friday The 13th - Part 8 - Jason Takes Manhattan

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Had so much potential

    Unfortunaely jason didn't do what the title suggests he does. But wouldn't it have been awesome if he had! Too much time was spent on the ship (about 65% of the movie)and not enough actually in New York. I'd love to have seen the airforce, NYPD, National Guard et al trying to take Jason out. I've yet to see any of the Jason films beyond this one, but I feel that he's such an iconic, cult movie figure now, that he deserves a major big budget movie. (from what i've heard, Jason X and Freddy Vs Jason don't deliver this, but i'll wait and make my own judgement) I think this film failed to live up to part 6, which i felt had greatly improved production values compared to other Jason movies. Also, there was no tension or frightening parts to this movie whatsoever. The suspense of the first Friday film needs to return!

      • A customer from Antrim, Northern Ireland
      • Posted 24 Sep 2004 13:44

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