Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Tags: murder, violence, horror, cult, revenge, entertaining

Plot synopsis:
Following the events of The New Blood, two graduating high school students are aboard a houseboat on Crystal Lake. Jim tells his girlfriend Suzy the legend of Jason Voorhees, before playing a prank on her with a hockey mask and a prop knife. The boat's anchor damages some underwater cables, which shock Jason's corpse and revive him. He sneaks on board and kills Jim with a harpoon gun before impaling Suzy, who tries to hide from him, with a barb.
The next morning, the SS Lazarus is ready to set sail for New York City with a graduating senior class from Lakeview High School, chaperoned by biology teacher Dr. Charles McCulloch and English teacher Colleen Van Deusen. Van Deusen brings McCulloch's niece Rennie along for the trip despite her aquaphobia much to his chagrin. Jason sneaks on board and kills rock star-wannabe J.J. with her guitar before hiding in the bowels of the ship. That night, after a boxing match, a young boxer who lost to champion Julius Gaw is killed when Jason slams a hot sauna rock into his abdomen while Rennie, searching for her pet Border Collie Toby, discovers prom queen Tamara and Eva doing drugs. McCulloch nearly catches them moments later and Tamara pushes Rennie overboard, suspecting she told on them. She then uses video student Wayne to record McCulloch in a compromising situation with her, but rejects Wayne's advances afterward. Tamara is killed by Jason with a shard of broken mirror when she goes to take a shower.
Rennie begins seeing visions of a young Jason throughout the ship, but the others ignore the deckhand's warnings that Jason is aboard. Jason kills Captain Robertson and his first mate. Rennie's boyfriend, Sean, discovers them and tells the others before calling for an emergency stop. Eva is strangled as she tries to flee from Jason. The students agree to search for Jason while McCulloch decides that the deckhand is responsible; however, the deckhand is found with an fire axe slammed into his back. One of the students, Miles, is tossed to his death by Jason and Julius is knocked overboard. Elsewhere in the hold of the ship, Wayne comes upon J.J.'s body and is thrown into an electrical box by Jason; his corpse catches fire and begins a chain of events that causes the ship to sink. With the other students dead, McCulloch, Van Deusen, Rennie and Sean escape aboard a life raft, and discover Toby and Julius are alive as well.
They row to New York where Jason stalks them through the streets. Rennie is kidnapped by a pair of junkies and the group splits up to find help. Julius tries to fight Jason with his boxing skills, but becomes exhausted after Jason does not go down; he is then decapitated by a single punch from Jason. Rennie escapes from Jason when he kills the punks that kidnapped her. She runs into Sean and they reunite with the teachers and the police before Jason kills the officer who is helping them. Rennie crashes a police car after a vision of Jason distracts her. Van Deusen is incinerated in the car when it explodes, and it is revealed that McCulloch is responsible for Rennie's fear of water, having pushed her into the lake as a child. They leave him behind and Jason kills him by drowning him in a barrel of waste. Jason chases Rennie and Sean into the subway where Sean incapacitates him by knocking him onto the electrical third rail. He is revived again and chases them through Times Square where they try to escape through a diner. They flee into the sewers and encounter a sewer worker. He warns them that the sewers will be flooded with toxic waste at midnight before Jason appears and kills him. Sean gets injured in the process and Rennie draws Jason off, wounding him with a splash of acidic waste that forces him to take off his mask, horrifying Rennie. She and Sean climb the ladder as Jason staggers to get them, but just as he is about to kill them, the sewers flood and engulf him. Rennie sees a final vision of a child-form of Jason as the waste recedes.
The two of them then escape to the street, where they are reunited with Toby who had run away earlier, and walk off into the city.

Review: I know this movie was also cut by the MPAA like was Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood and it is most of people's at least favorite film mine isn't.
Director Rob Hedden also wrote the song for this film Tamara's Bio Project and he performed.I know I said I dislike Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D and Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning but in my opinion I have simply enjoy this movie more I really like that Jensen Daggett and Scott Reeves were on the train and Jason was chasing them, I like that Scott Reeves electrocuted him and Jason still walked ha ha that was funny.I love that toxic waste killed Jason on the end of the film, but what was I confused was why Jason suddenly turned in to young boy after he was killed by toxic waste?
The last scenes were filmed in New York they didn't had properly money to make it as an awesome movie but I like it.It is not great but it is at least watchable tough it doesn't take place in Crystal Lake.
Before I forgot I love that funny scene in which we see Jason with Hockey Mask and we just see with hockey mask a poster hanging on it and he looks right in the camera boy was I laughing that scene was entertaining.This movie get's C+ 6/10 the most underrated movie ever this is guilty pleasure of mine I am still going to watch it when I will have time..
Renowned film critic Leonard Maltin calls "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" the highlight of the series.
As usual, the climax -- this time a chase through the city and sewer -- is the highlight.For better or for worse, "Jason Takes Manhattan" marks the last true "Friday the 13th." This was Paramount's last stab (pun intended) at things before selling the rights to New Line Cinema, which basically destroyed the series with absurd ideas like Jason switching bodies and rampaging through spaceships.
By this point in the lengthy Friday the 13th saga, it's clear that even the writers of these movies (generally the last people to catch on when they come up with idiotic ideas) have noticed that a lot of teenagers going up to Camp Crystal Lake to be rebellious and get slashed all up is getting a little bit old, so in this installment they decided it would be a good idea to have the movie take place on a whole ship full of high school students.
Moving someone like Jason Voorhees from his home on Camp Crystal Lake to an unfamiliar setting is actually a really good idea for generating more interest in the series, because although it's a given in a series like this, I think audiences always like to see familiar characters come back from other stories.
He spent the time between the last movie and this one rotting on the bottom of the lake, and he certainly looks like it through this entire movie.Unfortunately, the filmmakers not only revealed the modesty of their budget through the lack of anything really interesting happening, they also displayed a massive lack of understanding of the geography of the city of New York.
I happen to know, for example, that if you go to San Francisco, you won't find the crime-ridden slums right under the Golden Gate Bridge, and I doubt that you would find open barrels of toxic waste ANYWHERE.But anyway, they certainly find some room for effective comic relief (although notably less than other films in the series), my favorite example of which is the scene where Jason looks curiously at a picture of a hockey player on a billboard wearing exactly the same mask that he has on, a sort of self-realization that has since been overshadowed by the T-1000 pausing to look at a metallic mannequin in Terminator 2.
But even worse, as the kids escape into the underground sewage system (which does not run through wide walkways beneath the sidewalks in ANY city that doesn't want to smell like it's own waste), they run into a sewage worker who informs them that the sewers (in which they are currently standing) fill with toxic waste every night at midnight ('Exactly ten minutes from now!'), and is then killed by Jason before being able to show them how to get out.I won't get into the fact that there is no imaginable reason for any underground pipe system to fill with toxic waste every night at a certain time other than to create false suspense for a movie like this, although that is most of the reason that this climax falls so completely flat.
Friday the 13th VIII, obviously, is not very concerned with that, which makes it one of the less interesting installments in the saga, although at least it takes place in a different setting so we have a reason to slap our foreheads other than because there is yet ANOTHER group of morons going up to Camp Crystal Lake to taunt the legend of Jason Voorhees..
The acting is good, Jason looks great, it has some funny moments, likable characters, and the story also introduced a much-needed change: Jason leaving Crystal Lake - although this can be seen as both good and bad, I think it was a good idea just for this one movie.
This film isn't too bad, the plot sees Jason being bought to life from an electric wire while chained under water again (See Part VII) and taking a trip on a high school boat going to New York.
The gore seems limited in this film but at least Jason is still killing people, they could of shown a bit more of New York but I guess the budget was limited since Reb's first draft had Jason chasing those two teenagers through various parts of New York.An alright sequel to Friday the 13th franchise that tries to add something new by showing a new location, check this one out if you want.
He is brought back to life (as usual)and it isn't long before he's on board a teenage filled cruise ship with one thing in mind....MURDER!The body-count and gore is completely satisfying, there are some of the best deaths by normal means here from Jason punching an annoying character's head off to the old wrench in the head demise.
So if you like gore this is for you.A lot of people will tell you that the Friday 13th series has gone downhill since the first but i disagree, the older films took quite a while to get to the death scenes and Jason had limited screen time but this is perfect, Jason's presence is forced upon you regularly which will please other Jason fans.It's the best slasher from its time.(ki-ki-ki-ha-ha-ha).
Two problems: the film might have been more accurately titled Jason Takes (a cruise to) Manhattan, since he's ship-bound for all but the final half-hour, and he doesn't really concern himself with anyone apart from the vessel's survivors once he's there.
Taking a class field-trip to New York, a group of students find their trip crashed by Jason Voorhees who chases them through the ship and eventually forces them to escape the boat and seek shelter in Manhattan from the deranged killer.While there are some problems here with this one, it's still a reasonably enjoyable entry.
Even more impressive here is the scenes of them being chased through the city which are incredibly fun as well as the early chases through the dockyard with the junkies, into a crowded diner and through the subway are just some of the fun here that takes place within here, as there's even more fun with the chases through the streets in the police car, the absolutely brilliant boxing match taking place on-top of the building where it ends on one of the series' best kills and finishes up down in the sewers for some tense stalking in this section which makes for an overall fun time.
it has a good plot finally it gets jason away from crystal lake i think the movie is excellent and is my favorite of the f13 series besides part 7 i think they saved the best f13th films for last besides jason x i dont know why this movie is so underrated i mean it finally has some decent acting jason looks good (the best in part 7) the plot is pretty good besides critics rated f13th part8 jason takes manhatten one of the best of the series besides part 1.
After Jason kills the captain, the ship is drifting across the Atlantic, set on fire, and only a few survivors make it in a lifeboat to New York where the chase continues...On one hand, part 8 is the best looking sequel so far.
This as as good as you're going to get in the fatally flawed Friday series, so I suggest anyone that watches this movie just watch and enjoy without worrying about how unrealistic and hokey it is.Kane Hodder, who played the best Jason, really took hold of the role in this movie.
Only the final act takes place in New York, and it becomes painfully obvious that much of the time, they're either on-sets or filming in stand-in locations to save money.
Though often criticized for spending most of the film on a cruise ship rather than New York as the title seemingly promises, I find that Jason Takes Manhattan is actually one of the best entries in the series, and easily the most underrated Friday the 13th film.Jason's slimy look in the film is pretty cool (though his unmasked face is wildly disappointing), and he racks up a couple of pretty great kills.
The character of Tamara is pretty much exactly the same as Melissa from Part VII, and the deckhand character is the same type of doom prophet like Ralph from the first two films or that guy with the eyeball in Part III.Once the protagonists and Jason get to New York City, it gets really great, and more time in the film is actually spent there than some people's complaints would lead you to believe.
The movie should be titled instead "Jason Goes Sailing" as most of it happens on a ship on it's way to New York.
Rob Hedden's "Friday the 13th Part VIII:Jason Takes Manhattan" is usually trashed by fans of this series,but it's actually much better than "The New Beginning" or crappy "Jason X".Still it's nothing in comparison to "Jason Lives" or "Friday the 13th:The Final Chapter".This time the menacing killer Jason Voorhees slaughters a school class aboard a cruise ship.Only the finale takes place in Manhattan."Jason Takes Manhattan" is nothing special at all.It certainly features some really bad special effects,and some of the weakest death scenes of the series.Still there are some creative moments in this film,especially the material seen from a character's camcorder.The ending is really horrible,so you have been warned.Anyway,"Jason Takes Manhattan" is only for fans of this series,but if you like slasher movies you can give it a look.7 out of 10..
Unfortunately, the results were much less than anticipated, for PART 8 emerged as a renowned disappointment; Jason only arrives in New York for the end portion of this movie, and even then most of the action was filmed in some dirty back alleys of Canada which substituted for Manhattan (though what little footage actually occurs in The Big Apple is welcome).
In this movie Jason is not a stalker, he is brutal killer who kills anyone he comes into contact with aboard the ship all the way into New York City.Im dropping one star because of the visions of young Jason the lead cast has which didn't really feel appropriate.Other than that, its a very enjoyable movie, and like I said, this was the best of the Friday the 13th movies, If not the best.
Jason takes Manhattan is a movie i enjoyed way back when i was young on vhs & i loved it bk then & now as I'm older & have been collecting the AWESOME Friday the 13th franchise on dvd i still love it!!!
& nearly the whole film is actually the boat ride to Manhattan but i still find it all so much fun & when they all FINALLY get the bright lights of New York City it's AWESOME!!!
But a crazy guy did pop up a few times and shout ''You're all gonnna die'' so that was enough for me.Lot's of people dying, some terrible scenes with idiots escaping to dead ends, but you need idiots when Jason moves as slow as he does.A couple of interesting deaths that I hadn't seen done before, which was both nice and informative on different ways to end people.Not really enough suspense for me but it's a cheesy horror flick so with that genre in mind it gets top marks.Great classic horror good for a laugh..
Sure, the movie is still entertaining and it is a "Friday the 13th" movie after all, but Jason belongs at Crystal Lake, and is not really suited for going globe-trotting.Being brought back to life at the resting place at the bottom of Crystal Lake, once again by electricity as in part 6, Jason does what he does best, but ends up catching a ride aboard a ship headed for Manhattan, New York.What keeps part VIII afloat, no pun intended, is the kills throughout the movie, Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees and the subplot between the Rennie and Charles characters.There are many deaths throughout part VIII, staying true to the franchise.
Friday THE 13th 8 is titled Jason Takes Manhattan, but it is the eighth picture in the "Friday the 13th" franchise In the film, Jason Voorhees gets resurrected again (by lightning or electricity) and continues his murderous rampage, but instead of being in the lake, he is in New York City and he's with a group of graduating teenagers and he follows them in the ship they are in.Most of the characters are awful people, and as a viewer, you can either care more or less whether they live or die (half of them dies), but eventually, a small portion of the teenagers live and this leads into a decent ending in this film.Jason Voorhees is superbad in this one and he's not just a horror icon in this film and he is mad as hell.
Well done prologue and title sequence begins what is ultimately a lesser entry in this series.Ridiculous electroshock charge at the bottom of Crystal Lake brings Jason (now clad in different clothing than he was at the end of part VII) back to life to gut a guy on board a yacht, then stab his girl, who just sits back and waits for Jason to come and get her.Apparently bored by lack of victims currently at Camp Crystal Lake, Jason somehow gets to a cruise ship headed for New York during a torrential rainstorm.Yet another attempt by the filmmakers to copy Crazy Ralph, the rambling nut from parts I and II, as present and accounted for here is a rambling deck hand, whose warnings of a "death curse" on the ship go unheeded.
It still does not match the scares and tone of the first 4 films.This film really could have ended the series but this was followed by one of the worst films ever made - Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday.This one sort of ignores the "plot" of the previous sequels in that Jason killed people who went to the camp - this time he just got bored and decided to go on a nice boat ride as there was no other reason for Jason to stalk the boat.Apparently New York was just too scary for Jason because in the next sequel he is back in Crystal Lake - despite the fact that he turned back into a child at the end of this one which didn't make much sense either.Surely even the producers of the awful '80's horror films realised that horror films need to be scary.
It was nice to see this series and Jason away from Camp Crystal Lake the city sure doesn't slow a killer down it only increases the terror, this was another good entry in the Friday movie series..
Movie has a bunch of brainless high school kids taking a cruise ship to New York from Crystal Lake.
Upon awakening, and after killing two teenagers, he steals their boat and proceeds to the open sea, where he climbs on board a cruise ship containing a high school graduating class, whom he proceeds to decimate, until the ship sinks, and he(along with the survivors) square off for a final showdown in the city of Manhattan, New York.You have to love the honesty to use the subtitle "Part VIII", instead of trying to fool the audience by not referring to the actual number, like it isn't really a sequel.
Then towards the end of the movie, based in New York, with a town of lots of people who jason can kill.
Overall not a great film but fun enough if you enjoy the series and like the idea of moving it to a new setting..
Even Jason X is a better movie because at least that film is fun and highly entertaining, though in a bad way, and at least that movie takes place in space!
One great thing about this film Is that the Director decided To change The location of the movie.Instead of Jason Voorhees returning To Camp Crystal Lake he travels to New York City.But I think by the time this movie was released In theaters People had grown tired of The Friday the 13th series..
"Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" was Paramount's last entry in the series before they let New Line Cinema take over.
Friday The 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan was an okay movie, but nothing too good.