Friday the 13th - Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 0 Rotten:17 Average Rating: 2.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Kane Hodder, Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, Peter Mark Richman, Barbara Bingham
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Not only are the later Friday the 13th films distasteful, but they've become so repetitive that each sequel is duller than the last.
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03/12/08
An inscrutable narrative that pukes its way across an unforgivably long 100 minutes.
09/12/07
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01/26/06
Not even remotely scary, and on top of that less than 1/3 of the film takes place in New York. False advertising, I say!
10/28/05
Director Rob Hedden may have been onto something: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan, the series itself was always drowning in ****.
09/25/04
We're lured in with promises of Manhattan mayhem, and all we get is more of the same stupid stuff.
11/29/03
As most people had already realized long before, Jason just wasn't scary anymore.
09/03/02
Even the finest Friday the 13th flicks barely qualify as actual movies, so it’s fairly clear where the lesser entries lie on the scale of quality.
07/25/02
As shrink-wrapped slaying goes there is no equal and, until moviegoers demand otherwise, the uninspired trail of blood and body parts will continue.
01/01/00
Among the passengers is a bright girl who's having visions of a drowning boy, her smarmy guardian, her concerned teacher, a boyfriend whose soon-to-be-late father is the ship's captain, and assorted high school stereotypes.
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