Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

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Released Jul 28, 1989

1h 40m

Horror

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Mass murderer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) is resurrected from the bottom of Crystal Lake. After he kills a passing boat's occupants, he stows away on a cruise ship filled with a high-school graduating class bound for New York City. Biology teacher Charles McCulloch (Peter Mark Richman) is on board with his niece, Rennie (Jensen Daggett), who has visions of Jason drowning as a child. They escape his bloody shipboard rampage, but, when Rennie and Charles reach Manhattan, Jason is close by.

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Critics Consensus

Jason terrorizes a ship and nearly sinks the franchise in a clunky sequel that feels like self-parody without the charm.

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Austin Chronicle

Rated: 0/5

Sep 3, 2011

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Trevor Johnston

Time Out

For what it's worth (very little), probably the best in the series.

Jan 26, 2006

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

Director Rob Hedden may have been onto something: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan, the series itself was always drowning in ****.

Rated: .5/4

Sep 25, 2004

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

For a start, the characters don't even make it to Manhattan until more than an hour into the film and Jason doesn't exactly "take" it when he arrives -- things get pretty tiresome pretty fast in the city that never sleeps.

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

This awful movie barely has anything to do with Manhattan. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 12, 2022

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

It's pretty boring for a slasher movie. Case in point: You will feel nothing when Jason sinks a scalding sauna stone into someone's solar plexus. But as a movie about terrifying rites of passage about what happens to you after high school, it's good.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 1, 2021

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Pedro Henrique C

Jeson finally came out of the forest to attack his victims in New York, now he doesn't kill young people who are in a summer camp he will sign on a ship in the middle of the sea. The movie continues bad the same way.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/06/25

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Stephen C

Successful sequel in 1 hour and 40 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $14,300,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/28/25

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Garry A

This is arguably the worst of the sequels. Jason on a boat? That was a lame idea. The last 30 minutes when he was actually in Manhattan was funny and entertaining.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

06/21/25

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Ömür T

Sizin yapacanız filmi seveyim

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/13/25

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Shaun R

I could watch Jason Vorhees do his thing all day, so in that respect, it gets a thumbs up from me.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/08/25

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Daisy R

Even tho half of the movie is not in manhattan it's still a fun watch and has some cheesy moments its not the worst film and people have to understand that the team did not have the biggest budget. And if that its not that bad not the best but not the worst ether in my opinion it more hated then its needs to be.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/03/25

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Synopsis

Mass murderer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) is resurrected from the bottom of Crystal Lake. After he kills a passing boat's occupants, he stows away on a cruise ship filled with a high-school graduating class bound for New York City. Biology teacher Charles McCulloch (Peter Mark Richman) is on board with his niece, Rennie (Jensen Daggett), who has visions of Jason drowning as a child. They escape his bloody shipboard rampage, but, when Rennie and Charles reach Manhattan, Jason is close by.

Director: Rob Hedden
Producer: Randy Cheveldave
Screenwriter: Victor Miller, Rob Hedden
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Horror Films
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 28, 1989, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.3M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo, Mono, Ultra-Stereo

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