Jumping The Shark: 9 Franchise Derailing Films

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

One can argue that the Friday the 13 series never had a shark to jump in the first place but the franchise reached an all time low with its eighth installment. If you live in Vancouver than the film takes on an extra level of hilarity as the miserly filmmakers attempted to pass the west coast city off as the Big Apple by applying a couple graffiti tags to the Granville Skytrain station.

The title promises that the hulking psychopath Jason Voorhees will cut a swath of death and mayhem through the streets of New York. Instead, Jason chases teens on a cruise ship (which looks more like a tugboat) until he finally arrives in New York for roughly five minutes (and then we only see a couple shots of Time Square) before he's promptly dispatched in the sewers of the city by New York's nightly flushing of toxic sewage. This turns Jason into a small child for some reason.

A shame-faced Paramount sold the rights to the Friday the 13th franchise lock, stock and barrel to New Line Cinema after this fiasco of a sequel. Who could blame them?