Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Directed by

Rob Hedden

Genre

horror film, slasher film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

R

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 1,224 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of teenagers on a graduation cruise to New York City are stalked and killed by the undead serial killer Jason Voorhees. Jason follows them to Manhattan and continues his murder spree through the city.

tensedarkgorysuspensefulcheesyfast-pacedcampy90s-vibe

What happens

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is a 1989 American slasher film written and directed by Rob Hedden. The eighth installment in the Friday the 13th franchise and a sequel to Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988), it stars Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, Peter Mark Richman, and Kane Hodder reprising his role as Jason Voorhees from the previous film. Set one year after the events of The New Blood, the film follows Jason as he stalks a group of teenagers on a boat to New York City. It was the final film in the series to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States until 2009, with the subsequent Friday the 13th installments being distributed by New Line Cinema. Filming took place primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia, with additional photography in New York City's Times Square and in Los Angeles. At the time of its production, Jason Takes Manhattan was the most expensive film in the series, with a budget of over $5 million. It received substantial attention for its initial marketing campaign, featuring Jason Voorhees slashing through the "I Love New York" logo with a knife, which was later retracted after the New York City tourism committee filed a complaint against Paramount. Released on July 28, 1989, Jason Takes Manhattan grossed $14.3 million at the domestic box office, making it the poorest-performing film in the Friday the 13th series to date. The film received mostly negative reviews by critics and fans for its plot and humor, as well as a failure to live up to its premise. The next installment in the series, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, was released in 1993. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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