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| Title: | Friday the 13th Part VIII Jason Takes Manhattan |
| Genres: | Horror |
| Directed by: | Rob Hedden |
| Written by: | Rob Hedden |
| Produced by: | Randolph Cheveldave [1] Barbara Sachs |
| Music by: | Fred Mollin |
| Cinematography: | Bryan England |
| Edited by: | Steve Mirkovich Ted Pryor |
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| Distributed by: | Paramount Pictures |
| Released: | July 28th, 1989 |
| Rating: | R |
| Running time: | 100 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $5,000,000 [2] |
| Gross: | $14,343,976 (US) [3] |
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| Next: | Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) |
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is an American horror film of the slasher sub-genre. Written and directed by Rob Hedden, it is the eighth film in the Friday the 13th franchise. It is the final film in the series produced by Paramount Pictures, and is also the final film to incorporate the phrase "Friday the 13th" into its title. The film was released theatrically in the United States on July 28th, 1989 and received generally negative reviews. In the movie, supernatural serial slasher Jason Voorhees, having pretty much slaughtered everything there is to kill at Camp Crystal Lake hops a ship that takes him to the wildest hunting ground of all - The Big Apple. Here, he targets the ship's passenger list, which consists of the senior class of Lakeview High School as well as their chaperones. One of Jason's would-be victims is Rennie McCulloch, a virginal young woman whom Jason may have encountered once before and now seeks to finish off once and for all.
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| Actor | Role |
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| Todd Shaffer | Jim Miller |
| Tiffany Paulsen | Suzi Donaldson |
| Timothy Burr Mirkovich | Young Jason |
| Kane Hodder | Jason Voorhees |
| Jensen Daggett | Rennie |
| Barbara Bingham | Colleen Van Deusen |
| Alex Diakun | Deck hand |
| Peter Mark Richman | Charles McCulloch |
| Warren Munson | Admiral Robertson |
| Fred Henderson | Chief engineer |
| Scott Reeves | Sean Robertson |
| Gordon Currie | Miles Wolfe |
| Saffron Henderson | J.J. |
| Martin Cummins | Wayne |
| V.C. Dupree | Julius |
| Sharlene Martin | Tamara Mason |
| Kelly Hu | Eva Watanabe |
| Sam Sarkar | Gang banger #1 |
| Michael Benyaer | Gang banger #2 |
| Roger Barnes | Irish cop |
| Amber Pawlick | Young Rennie |
| Vinny Cupone | Street urchin |
| Peggy Hedden | New York waitress |
| David Longworth | Sanitation engineer |
| Jasper Cole | Trainer |
| David Jacox | Other boxer |
| Ken Kirzinger | New York cook |
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- The tagline for this film is, "I ♥ New York". Another tagline is, "New York has a new problem".
- Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan grossed $6,251,310 at the box office over its opening weekend, screened in 1,683 theaters, averaging $3,714 per showing. It ranked #5 in box office receipts for the weekend of July 28th, 1989. [4]
- The majority of the film was shot on location in Manhattan, New York while the scenes of Camp Crystal Lake were filmed at Britannia Beach in British Columbia, Canada. The scenes aboard the ship were shot in Vancouver.
- Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is arguably the most disliked film in the entire Friday the 13th film franchise among both critics and average viewers, grossing the lowest revenue of all the films to date. Due to its poor reception, Paramount Pictures eventually sold the franchise to New Line Cinema who continued the film series beginning with Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday in 1993.
- Has a 10% "rotten" rating out of an aggregate of 20 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer. [5]
- Second film in the series to feature stunt coordinator/actor Kane Hodder in the role of Jason Voorhees.
- Actor/stunt performer David Jacox is uncredited for his participation in this film.
- Actor/stunt performer Ken Kirzinger is uncredited for his participation in this film. Coincidentally, Kirzinger is destined to don the hockey mask of Jason Voorhees himself in the 2003 crossover film Freddy vs. Jason.
Recommendations[]
1980s horror films
Slasher films
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External Links[]
- Friday the 13th Part VIII at AMG
- Friday the 13th Part VIII at IMDB
- Friday the 13th Part VIII at Wikipedia
- Friday the 13th Part VIII at Themoviedb.org
- Friday the 13th Part VIII at Horrormovies.org
- Friday the 13th Part VIII at Rotten Tomatoes
- Friday the 13th Part VIII at the Horror Film Wiki
- Friday the 13th Part VIII at the Friday the 13th Wiki
References[]
- ↑ Producer Randy Cheveldave is credited as Randolph Cheveldave in this film.
- ↑ IMDB; Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
- ↑ Box Office Mojo; Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
- ↑ Box Office Mojo; Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
- ↑ Rotten Tomatoes; Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Keywords[]
 This article relates to the films within the Friday the 13th franchise. This template will categorize articles that include it into the Friday the 13th films category. Original series
Friday the 13th • Friday the 13th Part 2 • Friday the 13th Part 3 • Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter • Friday the 13th: A New Beginning • Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives • Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood • Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan • Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday • Jason X • Freddy vs. Jason Remake series
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