Friday the 13th - Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
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... 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 violence that the hockey mask-wearing psychopath inflicts on the passengers. Upon arriving in New York (in the film's final twenty minutes), Jason's murderous ways don't seem out of place, and the locals hardly pay him any mind. [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Kane Hodder, Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, Peter Mark Richman, Barbara Bingham
DVD Info
Release:
Sep 3, 2002
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Widescren - 1.78
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Stereo - English
- Dolby Digital Stereo - French
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selection
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Reviews
Not only are the later Friday the 13th films distasteful, but they've become so repetitive that each sequel is duller than the last.
An inscrutable narrative that pukes its way across an unforgivably long 100 minutes.
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!
Director Rob Hedden may have been onto something: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan, the series itself was always drowning in ****.
We're lured in with promises of Manhattan mayhem, and all we get is more of the same stupid stuff.
As most people had already realized long before, Jason just wasn't scary anymore.
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.
As shrink-wrapped slaying goes there is no equal and, until moviegoers demand otherwise, the uninspired trail of blood and body parts will continue.
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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