10 Movies That Blatantly Troll The Audience

4. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

By the eighth entry, the Friday The 13th series' best years were behind it. But the title Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan at least promised to take the movie where it hadn't gone before. After seven movies mostly set in isolated rural areas, Jason Takes Manhattan promised the supernatural killer in the middle of a city of eight million people.

The promotional material included images of Jason menacingly hovering over the iconic New York skyline or ripping through a poster with the familiar I Love New York logo, and the movie's trailer makes it seem that the film is completely about Jason killing people in Manhattan. Unfortunately, anyone who would take that as an indication that most of the movie would take place in New York City were disappointed.

Because at the time it was expensive to film in New York, most of the city scenes were actually filmed in Vancouver. However, to further cut expenses almost the entirety of the movie takes place on a boat ride to New York City, meaning a more accurate title for the movie would have been Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Over A Boat Going To Vancouver.

Viewers ended up with a movie promising Jason wreaking havoc in New York City but only getting about half an hour of Jason in "Manhattan." To be fair, writer/director Rob Hedden, whose original script featured many more New York scenes, felt that the final film rips off the audience by retaining the Jason Takes Manhattan title despite so little of it actually taking place there. So the real trolls here were Paramount Pictures, who marketed the film as something it wasn't.