Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

    Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
    1989

    Synopsis

    Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.

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    Cast

    • Jensen DaggettRennie Wickham
    • Sharlene MartinTamara Mason
    • Scott ReevesSean Robertson
    • Tiffany PaulsenSuzi Donaldson
    • Alex DiakunDeck Hand
    • Amber PawlickRennie Wickham (young)
    • Kane HodderJason Voorhees
    • Kelly HuEva Watanabe
    • Todd CaldecottJim Miller
    • Peter Mark RichmanCharles McCulloch

    Recommandations

    • 60

      Time Out

      For what it's worth (very little), probably the best in the series.
    • 60

      Variety

      Jensen Daggett is a standout as the troubled young girl on whom Jason is fixated. V.C. Dupree has vibrant energy in his boxing scenes, Sharlene Martin has a fine time with the bitch role, and Martin Cummins is funny as a video freak who compulsively films the proceedings.
    • 25

      Chicago Tribune

      It seems that as long as Jason can keep his costs down-by hiring unknown young actors, desperate for any kind of a break, and hiring directors (Rob Hedden this time) straight out of television or film school-he`ll be with us forever. Conveniently devoid of any personality (a variety of anonymous stunt men have filled the role over the years), he`s as infinitely reproducible as one of Warhol`s soup cans, though considerably less expressive. [31 July 1989, p.C3]
    • 25

      USA Today

      To crystallize its fundamental flaw, here's a movie about Manhattan that takes 75 minutes just to get to Manhattan - followed by another 15 that could just as easily have been shot (and possibly were) in some East Topeka alley. [31 July 1989, p.4D]
    • 20

      TV Guide Magazine

      During all of this tediously staged action, the virginal female heroine, Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett), suffers hallucinations about the young Jason. Not surprisingly, these scenes — which feel as if they belong in another movie — are among the most effective in the film, a welcome distraction from the mundane mechanics of the rest of this predictable effort.
    • 20

      The New York Times

      But (Jason) will never change and never die, not while cheap, dull ax-murder movies can yield one witty, misleading, probably lucrative commercial.
    • 10

      Los Angeles Times

      Funny ad campaign; a real dunghill of a major motion picture.
    • 10

      Washington Post

      Also zero, which is the amount of inspiration and achievement in this continuing saga of the little boy who drowned in Crystal Lake 30 years, seven films and approximately 286 teenagers ago (30-7-286)

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