Barbara Bingham, Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder

The festivities aboard a Manhattan-bound boat full of high school graduates are interrupted when stowaway Jason Voorhees crashes the party. One of the teens in particular is terrified; she believes sh...( read more  read more... )e was almost drowned by Jason as a child. As Jason takes over the boat, everyone's fears are realized: He wants to take over Manhattan, too. How will the city be saved from the wrath of the hockey-masked murderer?

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R, 100 min.

Directed by: Rob Hedden

Release Date: July 28, 1989

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DVD Release Date: September 3, 2002

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  • September 28, 2009
    This is joint worst along with part 5. Jason does not take Manhattan, he kills some stupid teenage people on a boat. Why is he on the boat? Why don't people seem to care that their friends are being killed? Why don't people run away? Ugh, it?s just very very crap. Nice to get awa...( read more)y from Crystal Lake but the boat idea was wasted. Anyway, to hell with you Jason..
  • February 13, 2009
    The title says it all. You know how bad this movie is going to be just from the title. But the title is a lie. A damn lie. A good portion of this film takes place on the Love Boat. Yes, the Love Boat. Jason kills some people until the ship sinks. He then swims to New York (actual...( read more)ly Toronto) and starts slicing and dicing more teens, which begs the question that if he could swim that good in the first place none of these films would have happened.

    Jason takes Manhattan is a ridiculous premise with a ridiculous script, ridiculous acting, and probably one of the worst endings ever. It's no wonder that Paramount sold the series out after this one. It sucks.
  • January 23, 2009
    As many have stated before me the taking of Manhattan doesn't happen until late on. It should really be titled Jason on a Boat. The film has some glimpses of Part VI's humour but nothing that great. Jason scaring some punks by taking off his mask being a highlight. It's also odd ...( read more)to see Jason ignore so many potential victims. Departing from the Camp may have seemed like a good idea but it proves to be a big anti-climatic downfall. Certainly a bit of slashing fun but mainly watch it for the absurd 80'sness of it all.
  • March 13, 2008
    Terrible in every single way possible but man I can't say to pass on Jason Takes Manhattan. Probably second only to 2006's Wicker Man as the funniest god awful movie ever. If you think Jason this movie was suppose to be scary you my friend are an idiot. Jason punches a dude's hea...( read more)d off and takes the heart out of some girl's body with his hand I might add. This is so hilarious. So see it knowing what your getting in to. One fun 2 hours.
  • August 28, 2007
    Hands down the worst in the entire series. Acting is worse than usual, the direction is boring and unimaginative, the "plot" spends way too much time on the boat and not enough in Manhattan, Jason seems to be capable of teleportation and toxic waste turns Jason back into a little...( read more) boy with bad prosthetic makeup and a full head of black hair. And I just gotta say, in a flashback a young Rennie was pulled under by a young Jason--wouldn't that make her somewhere between 20 and 40???? And how did a pleasure boat get into Crystal Lake? When did Crystal Lake move to the East coast? How can the filmmakers or even Hodder for that matter forget which eye Jason lost?
  • November 18, 2009
    A hilarious horror epic, Jason is priceless. It never gets old to see him punch the head off the cocky teenager Julius. Its a lot more entertaining than one might expect, having a lot more fun with Jason and the way he takes his victims. Kane Hodder is everything that Jason shoul...( read more)d be and more. He makes you root for the bad guy, something not easily done.
  • October 25, 2009
    return to slasher with an jason voorhees came alive again in eighth series of the last "late" 1980's. kane hooder is still continues role jason voorhees. so this titled called "jason takes manhattan" but jason is heading in mahattan, ny start about an hour later. watch for ken ki...( read more)rzinger(that he play jason voorhees in 2003 "freddy vs. jason")cameo in film that jason throw him into the mirror in diner scene. pretty awesome in the trailer i saw in "jason takes manhattan".
  • October 25, 2009
    1 of my favorite Friday The 13ths
  • October 22, 2009
    This was down there with part 5.
  • September 9, 2009
    The weakest entry in the franchise, with a very inappropriate title and some bad acting. This should have been titled "Jason on a ship" because that's where Jason spent the majority of the film, while Manhattan was just the place for the slow-moving climax. And the fistfight with...( read more) Jason on the rooftop is a very dumb way to solidify Jason's power, yes, he is very strong, we have already seen that in its long-spanning sequels, so why show him punching a man so strong that it decapitated him? Even Jason's face when unmasked looked like a cartoon character, and him turning into a kid again was nonsensical. And finally, putting a happy ending in a "Friday the 13th" film with a cheesy song is not applicable, because end sequences like that belongs to films like "Commando" and other early Schwarzenegger macho-actioners. The good thing with this film is its atmosphere, recreating New York's underbelly wonderfully, but other than that, this one's very weak.

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  • sk8erteen
    September 7, 2007
    This movie is awesome no matter what any one says
  • MorpheusOne
    November 30, 2006
    I paid $6 to see this movie when it first came out and it wasn't worth $2! That was an interesting night too, bc a fight had broken out in the theater amongst a shit load a ppl! It spilled out into the hallway & then outside into the street. It pretty much turned into a riot! It was pretty bad...

    But as bad as that was it still was better than this movie! This movie sucked!

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