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Summary: Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Review: This time around, unstoppable supernatural thug Jason Voorhees -- imprisoned at the bottom of a lake by his telekinetic foe Tina in the previous film -- is reanimated yet again after being goosed by an underwater electrical cable, freeing him to stow away aboard a shipload of standard-issue obnoxious teenagers en route to Manhattan. The title ultimately proves a bit of a cheat, since the majority of Jason's homicidal hijinks take place aboard the ship until the film's final reel, during which he pursues a handful of survivors through the streets of the Big Apple. Thanks to heavy MPAA cuts, the mayhem is more subdued here than in any other films of the series -- splatter fans primed by the previous chapters' copious bloodletting will be left high and dry. Despite a very amusing "teaser" trailer that suggested that the film might be a semi-parody, writer-director Rob Hedden and company play things tediously straight. The film is over rated, but then it fits in the long running series perfectly. A few obnoxious characters don't ruin this 8th entry into the "Friday The 13th" series.
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Summary: One of the best in the series!
Review: I first saw this movie, well, today. And let me tell you, I love it! I think it's better than VI and VII put together. This movie has alot of great killing scenes. However, there was a very fake one in which the captain of the ship gets his throat slit. You could tell the knife was miles away from the flesh. That didn't take away from the quality, though. Here's the story. A teenage girl goes on a cruise with her friends to celebrate their high school (I'm assuming) graduation (I'm also assuming). However, Jason Voorhees is back from the dead and ready for action. He climbs aboard and reaks havoc upon anyone and everyone on the ship. The cruise is headed for New York and that's exactly where they (five of them) go. They abandon the cruise, hoping to also abandon the masked-maniac, and row ashore to Manhattan. When they get there, they quickly get mugged in a back-alley and one of the girls get kidnapped. However, the thugs pay the price. Jason soon comes for the girl and gets a double treat. In the exciting climax, Jason and a teenage couple are trapped in the sewer system with ten minutes 'til it overflows with toxic waste. Needless to say, they don't escape, but the toxic waste only gets to Jason. I only have two problems with this movie. A.) Harry Manfredini didn't do the score. B.) When Jason takes his hockey-mask off, he looks nothing like he did in 2,3,4,5, or 6. Other than that, I give this movie an A-.
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Summary: Bad Title For This Film
Review: Dont bother thinking the title "Jason Takes Manhatten" will make you think this film is about Jason in New York! The title should have been "Jason Goes To Manhatten...Eventually"!Jason is yet again back and boards a run down cruise ship with a bunch of teenagers heading on a feild trip to New York...why Jason boarded the ship is anyone's guess? But he does, he does his typical stalking and slashing aboard the ship! Most of the movie takes place on the ship! Then for about the final 10 minutes of the movie a few of the members on the ship have managed to make it to New York alive. And Jason has followed. Its over the top, unbeleivable, the story is stupid and ending will leave you thinking "what a load of ****"! If your intrested in seeing it, Rent it first if you can? I'd only buy it if it was cheap as chips or wanting the whole F13th collection and needed it for the set! Other wise its just not worth while!
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Summary: Not bad
Review: Perhaps one of the most hated movies of all-time has Jason Voorhees who secretly sneeks on to a boat on its way to Manhattan for some kind of high school thing. The janiter on the ship is like Crazy Ralph from the first 2! When the survivors get of the ship in to a life boat they sail to the Big Apple! Then you see drug addicts in the streets and tons of stuff from the 80's. Then Jason tracks them down...
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Summary: Who Says Jason Doesn't Get Around?
Review: While this one may not be the best in the series (or the most popular), I found "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" to be a very entertaining and enjoyable Jason flick. It gets the job done, and then some. The movie delivers everything we'd expect to see in a Jason movie; a gruesome body-count, cool and unusual ways of dying, and only having one or two survivors at the end of the ordeal. Plus, the movie has a cool and different setting that gives Jason some new tricks up his sleeves. Jason was thrown back into the lake and chained by the end of Part 7. However, his body has been disturbed once again and causes him to rise up from the lake and start his killing spree all over again. This time, things are a bit different as he sneaks onto a cruise boat full of students on their way to a field trip. Even though it is not his usual territory, Jason proves to be a unmerciful killer wherever he is. And the last 20 minutes or so Jason is in New York; a whole new playground for him to spread his terror and bloodshed. I thought this was a pretty neat movie. They went for something different and it worked (unlike "Jason Goes to Hell"). While it offers a different setting, it's still the good old Jason formula we've all come to love. I wished that Jason could've been in New York more, though. It would've been cool to see him get a chance to increase the body-count rather than just go after the ones who got off the boat (I know, he mainly only goes after those who return to Crystal Lake, but you have to admit it's a cool idea. I mean, he's there already. Why not give him a chance to take out more people?). Besides that little complaint, I thought it was a cool Jason flick. The DVD is pretty poor. The picture and sound quality is good, considering how long ago this movie was made. Other than subtitles there are no special features whatsoever. No trailers, no nothing. It's a shame. You'd think that Paramount would've put more effort into these DVDs as these are cult-classic movies. All in all, I found that "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" to be a successful addition to the Jason series. While it's not the best one in the series, it is still very entertaining and gets the job done. A very neat effort to make the Jason story a little more different and interesting.
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Summary: Really it's Jason takes a boat.
Review: Trying to inject more new blood into the dying series, this entry had the once again resurrected serial killer jump a small cruise ship taking the Crystal Lake High graduating class to New York, New York. He then starts killing the brats off one by one. Writer/director Rob Hedden brings some sarcastic humor to his by the numbers script (a boxing match between a student and Jason has a nice punchline - get it?), but it is his direction that really keeps the movie slightly above average. The departure works more often than it doesn't, but nothing came of it. This was the last true blue Friday the 13th movie, followed by the non-related non-seqeul/remake of 'The Hidden' Jason Goes to Hell. Take it home, you might enjoy it.
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Summary: ONE OF MY FAVORITES
Review: ONE OF MY FAVORITES IN THE SERIES I LOVED THE OPEING WITH NEW YORK AND THE SONG DARKEST SIDE OF THE NIGHT THEN TWO TEENS MAKING LOVE ON A BOAT JASONS RESURECTED BY LIGHTNING AND KILLS ONE WITH A HARPON AND RIPS OUT HEART AND HIS GIRLFRIEND IS GUTTED WITH A HARPON THEN A BUNCH OF TEENS ON A TRIP TO THE BIG APPLE AND JASON COMES ABOARD AD KILLS A GUIATAR GIRL WITH INTO SLAMED INTO HER FACE I LOVED THE CHARACTER RENE AND HER BOYFRIEND THERE REALASIONSHIP ISA STRONG POIT IN THE MOVIE THE NEW YORK SETTING IS GORGEUS I LOVED THAT JASON KILLS MOST OF THE CHARACTERS ON THE BOAT THOUGH ABOT 14 OR 15 OR MORE BUT IN NEW YORK THE ACTUAL CITY HE ONLY KILLS 7 PEOPLE ONE IS BURNED TO DEATH IN A CAR AFTER A CRASH ONE OF THE TEACHERS IT STILL COUNT IT WAS JASONS FAULT BASICALY A MUST BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Start spreadin' the news...with BLOOD!
Review: I just ordered this DVD, and I cannot WAIT for it to arrive. I've never seen this movie. I haven't read any reviews, and I've avoided hearing anything about it -- I don't want anything to spoil the surprise. I've closed my eyes and copied/pasted any comments I've stumbled upon into one big document so I can go back after I've seen the movie, to read what other big "Friday the 13th" fans have to say! I'm giggling in anticipation of seeing Jason Voorhees tear his way through New York City for at least 90 minutes of carnage! More than a decade years ago, I was coerced into attending a screening of "Star Trek V: the Final Frontier." Before that film began, the theater dimmed to blackness. A trailer began. The screen blazed with the Manhattan skyline at night; the speakers pulsed with the melody of Frank Sinatra's famous song. The camera panned left, fixing on the back of a lone figure gazing at Gotham's towering lights. Closer...closer the frame crept to the onlooker until * GASP! * he whipped around to reveal the famous battered hockey mask that haunts us all. Screams and cheers filled the theater; it was a magically horrifying moment. I also remember the fabled "I [heart] NY" version of the movie's poster, with Jason ripping through. Legal issues forced the recall of that brilliant marketing design, sadly lost to the mists of time. Thanks to a strict Creationist upbringing, I was never allowed to fulfill my desperate wish to see "Jason Takes Manhattan" in a movie theater, and my rigorous home-schooling prevented me from obtaining a home-video version before this day. However, the release of "Freddy vs. Jason" spurred me to seek out the temptations of my adolescence. Finally, I'm on the verge of laying all my daydreams and speculation to rest. I can only imagine the hundreds of creative ways the filmmakers will utilize Jason's skill for slaughter in an ultra-urban setting. Subway cars, manhole covers, skyscraper spires, hot dog carts...these are things nightmares are made of! Whether they're used BY Jason or AGAINST him, the trappings of a big city can be used to terrible effect on the human (or inhuman) body. There's no way such potential can fail to re-invigorate the sagging "Friday the 13th" films. I'm also hoping for a cute Central Park reference to Jason's habit of stalking people through woods--that would be a clever nod to the series' tradition. Plus, thanks to my connections in the NYC Sanitation Department, I know for a fact that Manhattan's sewers are flooded with toxic waste every night. I'm sure this is a detail the writers will have worked into the screenplay somehow. But I'm MOST excited to learn exactly HOW Jason makes it to the Big Apple (though I hope they don't spend too much time on the issue). I'm not positive exactly where Crystal Lake is supposed to be located, but with Jason's thirst for depravity and sin, it's not hard to believe he would home in on New York City like a beacon. Perhaps a multi-state-long trail of corpses simply traces his path across the Hudson River. And just think of the possible body-count! In the past, Jason has been limited to a small number of victims (per movie) who happen across his neck of the woods. But with the throngs of people who inhabit New York, I'm sure there will hardly be time for dialogue in this film! Some might say I'm setting my hopes too high. I scoff -- how could a reputable film studio like Paramount Pictures ever fail to make the most of the wealth of ideas presented by placing one of their most iconic horror properties in a completely new environment? Jason Voorhees + New York City = can't miss hit! Best of all, thanks to the magic of DVD, I'll be able to revisit that trailer...the one that, for me, started it all! There's no way I'll be disappointed!
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Summary: Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan
Review: This film is nowhere near a classic, but it has a few memorable parts.(SPOILERS)One of my favorite scenes is when the gang members are mad at him and start talking trash then he takes off his mask and shows them his face;it was so funny.Then the gang members are like oh it's cool man where sorry then they run off.Some of the film is very silly.If your a fan check this one out if your an average viewer don't waste your time.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 ways don't seem out of place, and the locals hardly pay him any mind.(5/10)
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Summary: how terrible
Review: How often can one series have so many horrible sequals that could of been really good!
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