Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is a slasher film released on July 28, 1989. It is the eighth film in the Friday the 13th film series and the last film in the series to have been distributed by Paramount. The film's tagline is, "New York has a new problem." It took in just $14.3 million at the domestic box office, making it the second-to-lowest grossing film in the series.

Notes

• There is a now sought after poster featuring Jason ripping through an "I Love New York" poster (seen to the right). It was released in some theaters but was quickly withdrawn due to complaints from the New York Tourism Committee.

• The scenes set in Times Square, and in the ocean looking at the Statue of Liberty, were the only scenes actually filmed in Manhattan; the rest was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. This made the film the first in the series to be filmed mainly in Canada, a practice that would continue in Jason X and Freddy vs. Jason.

• Kelly Hu made her feature film debut in this movie, playing the character Eva.

• At 100 minutes, this is the longest film in the series.

• Ken Kirzinger appears uncredited as the man Jason (Kane Hodder) throws over the counter in the New York diner. Kirzinger would replace Hodder as Jason in 2003's Freddy vs. Jason.

• The subway entrance in the middle of Times Square at the end of the movie is fake. The prop was placed diagonally on top of street grates.

• The machete is only present in the scene where Jason kills the ship's captain.

• Jason's mask was destroyed in the last movie. The young man who scares his girlfriend in the beginning has a similar mask which Jason takes to replace his old one before he kills them.

• Many scenes were cut or entirely trimmed in order to avoid an "X" rating: Jim's death originally had his intestines spilling out of his stomach after Jason stabbed him with the spear gun; Suzy's death was longer and more disturbing, with Jason repeatedly stabbing her with the spear and twisting it around in her chest; Tamara's death originally had Jason continuously stabbing her with the glass shard (she was also fully nude when this occurred); When the boxer is killed with the sauna rock, there was more blood and steam coming from his chest; The captain's throat-slashing originally had far more bloodshed; Wayne's electrocution was a little longer with foam coming from his mouth; Miles' death showed him actually landing on the antennas rather than just showing the aftermath. Also edited was a subplot involving a shiphand spying on several of the undressed teenagers.

• The flashback scene in which Rennie is pulled under water as a child by Jason was an homage to the original Friday the 13th where Jason attacked Alice in the same fashion. This scene takes the ending of the first film literally, in that Alice was not actually dreaming but was truly attacked by a young Jason Voorhees.

• The film has 1 hour of the film taking place on the ship, and 40 minutes in New York City. In the original script, it was switched around: 40 minutes on the ship, and 1 hour in New York City.