Summer Blockbuster | Episode 111: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
by Luke Gorham by Steven Warner Featured Podcasts

Summer Blockbuster!?! | Episode 111: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

March 14, 2020

#111: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

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Episode Description: This week, as the world goes to hell in a handbasket, we return to a simpler time to tackle a guy who doesn’t seem all that bad nowadays: 1989’s Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, directed by Rob Hedden. Jason is back, and this time, he’s headed to the Big Apple – although it takes him 65 slogging minutes to get there, and he spends all of 45 seconds in Times Square. Mostly he’s on a cruise ship/oil rig carving up bland teenagers, one of whom has visions of him as a child, and honestly, none of it makes sense. This is simultaneously the most ambitious and pretentious entry in the series, which are two words we never thought we would associate with Jason Voorhees, although a dude does get his head punched off at one point, which is pretty cool.