10 Horror Movies That Lied About Their Premise
2. Jason Takes (A Small Part Of) Manhattan... Eventually
It's admittedly a huge guilty pleasure of your writer, but there's no denying that so much of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan just makes absolutely no sense.
What horror hounds were promised, was a movie where Jason is rampaging in the Big Apple, slicing 'n' dicing any poor souls who happen to get in his way. Instead, what audiences actually got, is a picture which spends barely 20 minutes of its 100-minute run time in New York City.
How exactly does Jason take Manhattan? Like, he kicks some kid's boombox over, kills a cop, and famously punches the head off the shoulders of V.C. Dupree's Julius. Can that be classed as a taking of Manhattan? Of course not. It's the sheer lack of time in NYC that's the real kicker, though, for this eighth Friday the 13th film was billed as Camp Crystal Lake's most iconic son on a lengthy tear through Times Square and beyond.
Added to the utter confusion of this offering, when did Camp Crystal Lake become attached to the ocean, why was it deemed logical to sail to New York rather than go by car or train, and why the f**k did somebody think it was wise to develop a movie that basically dumped Jason on the Loveboat?!
Still, 100% a guilty pleasure film.