Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

R

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.

Feb 8, 2024

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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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Jay H

This movie looks like it was made for The Disney Channel. Bright, shiny, clean... anyway, it's entertaining in a dumb sort of way.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/26/24

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David C

No tiene sentido desde cuando Jason puede tren transportarse eso muy tonto el final es malo

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/15/24

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Court of O

this was definitely a unique take

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/11/24

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Vladan A

The movie is just boring. It has little to no plot at all. Jason spawnes out of nowhere and kills his victims in the most expectable and dull ways. Acting is also something that made the movie nearly unwatchable, I managed to get a few laughs at least because it's so bad. The most important criteria however is that my future wife hates it.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/09/24

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James B

Despite the name most of it took place on a boat than in Manhattan and for some reason they changed the look of young Jason completely. The film was slightly boring but Jason's death looked good

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/27/23

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Jay M

Wow this is bad. Wow.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/23/23

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Rob Hedden

Director

Jensen Daggett

Rennie Wickham

Scott Reeves

Sean Robertson

Kane Hodder

Jason Voorhees

Peter Mark Richman

Charles McCulloch

Barbara Bingham

Miss Colleen Van Deusen

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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
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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