

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
New York has a new problem.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $14.3M
- Language
- English
- mask
- high school
- new york city
- new jersey
- sadism
- psychopath
- boat
- halloween
- sewerage
- times square
- sequel
- woods
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR28 Jul 1989
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM1 Dec 1989
- PhysicalM22 Feb 1990
CanadaCA
- PhysicalDVD3 Sept 2002
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1826 Oct 1989
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1415 Nov 1989
FinlandFI
- PhysicalK-1828 Jul 1989
- PhysicalDVD21 Mar 2003
GermanyDE
- Physical18VHS (West Germany)1 Dec 1989
- Digital / OTT11 Nov 2019
GreeceGR
- PhysicalDVD18 Mar 2003
JapanJP
- Theatrical2 Sept 1989
MexicoMX
- TVC28 Jul 1989
- TheatricalC27 Sept 1990
PhilippinesPH
- TheatricalDavao14 Aug 1990
PolandPL
- TV31 Jul 2016
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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan was released on 28 July 1989.
Audience reviews
4- J5/10
John Chard
1/29/2017
Friday the 13th VIII: Jason Takes a Boat. Jason Vorhees is once again brought back to life and goes on a kill crazy spree aboard a boat bound for Manhattan. As is the norm with the "Friday 13th" sequels, this one garners scorn and praise in equal measure, so you roll the dice and take your chance really. By now the makers were trying to come up with new ideas to keep the series afloat, here the gimmick is to ta…
- G4/10
Gimly
9/16/2018
Absolutely ridiculous, and a totally misleading title. Jason still kills stuff, and that's fun I guess, but what a trashfire ending to an already pretty bad movie. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
- W6/10
Wuchak
7/17/2019
***Jason takes a cruise to the big city!*** Released in 1989, "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" is a nice change of pace as the series was suffering from banality at this point; the previous installment is a prime example (people complain about Part V but at least it had an interesting new story angle with Tommy Jarvis going to the halfway house in the woods seeking succor for his psychological tr…
- S5/10
Sierbahnn
5/5/2026
It's Jason. It's a Jason-movie This isn't the best, but it is not the worst. It is Jason, he does his Jason-thing. The people around him are likable enough to be mourned when they inevitably get chopped up. There is a side-plot, which does not actually amount to very much. It is ok, we're not here for that really. We're here for Jason, his shenanigans, and the turmoil. This movie delivers on that.
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