20 Horror Movie Scenes They Were FORCED To Cut

20. Jason Kicks A Dog - Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

It'll probably surprise you to learn that this moment cut from Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan wasn't an over-the-top kill which rubbed censors the wrong way, but a piece of character shading for everyone's favourite hockey mask-wearing murderer, Jason Voorhees.

Jason Takes Manhattan marked Kane Hodder's second of four times playing Jason, and is nowadays considered an authority on what the character would or wouldn't do. 

But during shooting of Jason Takes Manhattan, Hodder was scripted to perform a scene where Jason kicks a dog to stop it barking at him shortly after he arrives in the Big Apple.

Hodder ultimately flat-out refused to film the scene, reasoning that Jason would never harm a dog and his murderous tendencies extended only to humans. 

And so, writer-director Rob Hedden apparently dropped the idea without much of an argument.

It's an especially amusing line for Hodder to draw considering that Jason may or may not have killed a dog way back in Friday the 13th Part 2.