15 Awful Horror Movies That Just Weren't Scary

14. Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

Why It Wasn't Scary: Quite probably the worst of the Friday the 13th movies if also one of the most memorable, audiences were so well-acquainted with the exploits of Jason Voorhees that he'd pretty much stopped being scary a few movies ago. As such, Jason Takes Manhattan is basically a fish-out-of-water comedy starring everyone's favourite machete-wielding maniac. Despite the title, most of the movie actually takes place on a boat, and Jason only arrives in Manhattan in the final half-hour of the movie, apparently swimming there despite one of Jason's most memorable attributes being his fear of water. From here, he has a walk around Times Square and even gets on the freaking subway, before punching a dude's head off and mooching with the locals. In short, Jason Takes Manhattan is too hysterically funny to be even remotely scary, one of the most misguided horror sequels in history. How To Improve It: Have Jason make it to New York considerably earlier in the movie (say, by the half-hour mark at the latest), cut down on the goofy scenes, ramp up the suburbanite satire, and keep Jason to the darker, seedier back-streets of the city. And no damn swimming!