Review – Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan

This has got to be a joke, right? Sort of like the snide suggestions that the next Friday the 13th movie should be called Jason Surfs Hawaiian or Jason Does Dallas. Well, despite how laughable the whole thing is, the film-makers actually appear to be serious about it. This time Jason hacks his way through a cruise ship (which looks suspiciously like an old freighter) full of – yeah, say it with me now – teenagers. Eventually the remnants of the cast make it to the Big Apple, where they must contend with gang members as well as the tried-and-true reanimated corpse. Eighth verse, same as the first (or at the very least the second). See if desperate