Friday the 13th

Starring:Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby (II), Laurie Bartram, Jeannine Taylor, Kevin Bacon, Mark Nelson, Robbi Morgan, Peter Brouwer, Rex Everhart, Ronn Carroll, Ron Millkie, Walt Gorney, Willie Adams, Debra S. Hayes, Dorothy Kobs, Sally Anne Golden, Mary Rocco, Ken L. Parker, Ari Lehman
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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This splatter flick, along with John Carpenter's Halloween, helped spawn the great horror-movie movement of the '80s, not to mention eight sequels, many of which had nothing to do with the films that preceded them. It also gave birth to Jason Voorhees, one of the three biggest horror-movie psychos of the modern era (the other two being Halloween's Michael Myers and A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger). Forever duplicated, the original Friday the 13th popularized a number of themes and techniques that today are now clichés: the increasingly gory murders, the remote forest location, the anonymous and nubile cast, the murderer as cult hero, and, of course, the moral that if you have sex, you will die, very painfully. Still, if you have to see a Friday the 13th movie, this is the one to check out. A group of eager (and horny) teenagers decide to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, which 20 years earlier was closed after the shocking and mysterious murders of two amorous camp counselors. You can take it from there, as the teens get picked off one by one, during a dark and stormy night; of course, their car won't start and there's no phone. The ending stole shamelessly from Brian De Palma's Carrie, but it still provides a slight if campy shock. Look for a young Kevin Bacon as the requisite stud--you can tell that's what he is because when the cast appears in swimsuits, he's wearing a Speedo--who's the beneficiary of the film's best murder sequence, an arrowhead to the throat. Right after having sex, of course. --Mark Englehart

Friday the 13th - From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (8 Movies)
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Paramount Shafts Us On All Eight

COOL BOX SET BUT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER!

A review for the set and NOT the films themselves

I think I was ripped off...

Awesome...from a biased pov.

Friday the 13th - From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (8 Movies)
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Release Date: 2004-10-05

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Five discs gather the first eight movies in the Friday the 13th series, plus a batch of behind-the-scenes featurettes. You can track the rise, fall, and endless resurrections of Jason Voorhees, from the original 1980 film to Jason's self-kidding trip to the Big Apple. Horror fans eat up packages such as this, but there's something odd about the deluxe treatment for a series that spotlighted atrocious acting, pitiful production values, and inane storytelling.

You'll spot a few future "name" actors in various installments: Kevin Bacon is morbidly dispatched in the first one. But in general, the dominant focus is how to kill horny teenagers, most of whom have gathered at Camp Crystal Lake in the misguided belief that the curse of the impossible-to-kill Jason has worn off. The first movie has a certain raw, crummy ability to shock, Part 2 is a dismal retread, and Part 3 actually features interesting use of 3-D, which doesn't translate to its flat DVD version. The fourth is boldly subtitled The Final Chapter, and we all know where that went, but it does have Crispin Glover doing a funky dance. A New Beginning and Jason Lives continue Jason's bad mood, maybe because the hockey mask doesn't fit right. The seventh chapter, The New Blood, stakes Jason against a worthy opponent (Crystal Lake's answer to telekinetic Carrie), but the result is the same. Part 8's subtitle, Jason Takes Manhattan, is wittier than the movie itself, as Jason menaces an unlucky cruise ship of high-schoolers bound for New York--where Mr. J fits right in.

Some of the films come with commentaries from directors or cast members, including heralded Jason performer Kane Hodder. Brief documentaries (ranging from five to 15 minutes) cover separate installments with amusing anecdotes, including interviews with Sean S. Cunningham, Tom Savini, and various actors. In another doc, actors speak of the fraternity of young actors who've been slaughtered by Jason over the years. A deleted-scenes section is skimpy and not very interesting, while the tricks of special-effects gore merit a film to themselves. It's a customer-savvy DVD box, even if the effect of watching a bunch of this stuff together is a little dispiriting. --Robert Horton

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DISC 1: FRIDAY THE 13th - The film takes place years after a young boy named Jason drowns in a lake while attending Camp Crystal Lake and shortly thereafter, the camp closes. Flash forward to the present, where the owner decides to re-open the camp and one by one, the counselors have mysteriously been murdered by an unseen person. PART 2 - The second installment picks up with Jason Voorhees, presumed dead from drowning years ago, exacting revenge on the innocent campers at "Camp Blood." Living as a hermit in the woods all these years, Jason witnesses the graphic murder of his mother and decides to wreak havoc on everyone at the camp - killing each camp counselor one by one. DISC 2: PART 3 - Vacationing teenagers take off for a weekend of relaxation at Camp Crystal Lake. Planning a few days of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, they are in for a series of frightening surprises when a local motorcycle gang follows the teenagers back to their campsite, only to find a persistent Jason with an agenda of his own. Adorned with his trademark hockey mask for the first time in the series, Jason delivers non-stop chills and thrills as everyone on the lake must fight for their lives. Part III includes cast commentary by author Peter Bracke and actors Larry Zerner, Paul Kratka, Dana Kimmell and Richard Brooker. PART IV: THE FINAL CHAPTER - Jason resurfaces from a seemingly deadly massacre and returns to Camp Crystal Lake to a new set of prey. Starring a young Corey Feldman as Tommy Jarvis, it seems Jason has finally met his match in the 12-year old horror movie maven. Enlisting the help of a local hunter, Tommy and his sister must rely on one another to help defeat Jason, while also trying to avoid their own demise. DISC 3: PART V: A NEW BEGINNING - With Jason dead, someone new has begun a killing spree of their own, using Jason's M.O. and preying on inhabitants of a sanctuary. PART VI: JASON LIVES - Tommy returns to the grave to ensure that Jason is indeed dead. Instead of remaining dead, Jason is accidentally brought back to life by Tommy and now Tommy must stop all the mindless killing and make sure Jason dies for good this time. Part VI features commentary by director Tom McLoughlin. DISC 4: PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD - The film centers on Tina Shepard, a young girl with telekinetic powers who believes she drowned her father in Crystal Lake. Returning to the site as a method of supposedly helping her cope with her grief, Tina accidentally frees Jason from his watery grave, only to lead to more killing sprees by the man in the infamous hockey mask. Part VII features commentary by Kane Hodder and director John Carl Buechler and Part VIII features commentary by director Tom McLoughlin. PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN - A graduating class of a local high school vacation on a cruise ship and unbeknownst to them, Jason is a stowaway on the same ship. Slowly killing students one at a time, Jason eventually sinks the boat, stranding the few lone survivors in Manhattan. Among those survivors, is Rennie, who believes Jason attempted to drown her as a child. Fighting for her their lives, Rennie and the other survivors must make sure Jason dies once and for all. A featurette "Tales From the Cutting Room," in which exclusive deleted scenes and footage is revealed for the first time. An 8-part featurette "The Friday The 13th Chronicles," which looks at the legacy of the films throughout their history, featuring cast and crew commenting on each film and why they appeal to audiences. Includes Adrienne King, Amy Steel, Corey Feldman, Kane Hodder, Lar Park Lincoln, Betsy Palmer, Tom Savini and directors Sean Cunningham, Tom McLoughlin, Rob Heddon, Joseph Zito and John Carl Buechler. A 3-part featurette "Secrets Galore Behind The Gore," which looks at the work of master make-up effects designer Tom Savini in Part 1 and Part IV and John Carl Buechler in Part VII. Includes rare and never-before-seen footage, drawings and stills illustrating the make-up techniques used to create Jason and achieve elaborate death scenes. A featurette "Crystal Lake Victims Tell All!" in which cast and crew from various films share amusing anecdotes. Includes Corey Feldman, Larry Zerner, Adrienne King, Amy Steel, Lar Park Lincoln and directors. A featurette "Friday Artifacts and Collectibles," which looks at props and collectables from the films. The theatrical trailers from all 8 movies except Part VI, which is represented by the teaser trailer.

Customer Reviews:

Paramount Shafts Us On All Eight.......2007-05-05

I love all of these movies(as cheesey as they are), but I don't understand why they haven't released the unedited versions . They should have released them simultaneously with the edited versions. But now they will never release them. 1)They've saturated the initial buyer market with crappy edited versions. 2)The geeks who would buy the unedited version even though they've already bought the edited version are few and far between. Weep now my friends, for you know I am right.(I have a degree in Business... but I have no job... So take it with a grain a salt)

COOL BOX SET BUT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER!.......2007-03-20

This box set includes the first 8 movies in the seemingly endless Friday the 13th series. The series has grown on me over the years. Jason is one scary mutha! I remember watching the beginning of part 6 "Jason Lives" and for the first time I understood that this series might never end! The moment when Jason looks right into the camera and they show a close up of Jason's eye. They pay a very amusing homage to the James Bond Films...It made me see this character in a whole new way. These are great lights out popcorn movies! I would have liked a restored version of part 7 in this set, but that should not keep you from picking this up.

A review for the set and NOT the films themselves.......2007-03-01

From Crystal Lake to Manhattan features the first 8 movies in the series put out by Paramount Pictures. I know a lot of fans were excited about the set since the previous DVDs by Paramount had no extras except for trailers, which they didn't even have for the last 2. Jason Lives we only got a teaser.

As for the DVDs we get 2 movies per disc, which honestly I don't care for. The cases are the slim ones and personally I don't like them.

The movies themselves are cut for the R-Rating. Fans have wanted uncut versions, but Paramount still refuses. They claim poor sales, but yet they still put out a boxed set so why not just have them uncut?

The only differences are Friday the 13th Part III and Friday the 13th Part 6-8 have audio commentaries. While the tracks are pretty good it's really nothing to get excited about.

The bonus disc is fairly decent, but honestly it does lack a bit. The Friday the 13th Chronicles is a feature with interview about all 8 installments. The first Friday the 13th is the longest with about 22-min and rest run at about 14-min with A New Beginning only being about 5-min, which all it does is bring up the ending of The Final Chapter and it was left open for something different in Part V.

While the interviews are interesting the info we learn isn't anything special. Any movie geek will already know how the F/X was done. It's good to see some of the actors discussing the movies they did, but when all is said and done it's a good feature, but nothing amazing.

The 3-part feature Secrets Galore, Behind the Gore was interesting, but again this is all stuff most fans probably already knew. Like the Friday the 13th Chronicles a good feature, but nothing amazing.

Crystal Lake Victims Tell all seems like it was just stuff cut from the Friday the 13th Chronicles. So, once again good feature, but nothing great.

Bottom line is you see once and well odds are that is enough. Maybe in time you'll revisit, but it's nothing all that major.

Tales from the Cutting Room floor is probably the best feature, but poorly handled. When we see the extra gore for the original and 6th part we get a small box with the R-cut and another small box with the uncut.

Parts 2 & 3 have nothing, The Final Chapter has 2-cut scenes (not gore scenes). A New Beginning & Jason Takes Manhattan have nothing. Come Paramount I'm sure you could have dug up something. I know part 2 suffered some cuts and Part III has some cut gore scenes and some scenes deleted from the final cut.

The least they could have done is put a little something on their.

The saving grace is The New Blood. The quality is poor, but that is understandable since it wasn't reasserted.

My question is this, since Paramount obviously has the footage why not just put them in the films??? In particular The New Blood since the edits made do take away from the kill scenes. It would have been nice if they put them back in the first and 6th films as well, but even cut they don't take away from the death scenes where as the cuts really put a damper on the death scenes in The New Blood.

We also have Friday artifacts and collectibles, which isn't anything really all that good and finally the trailers for all 8 films except Jason Lives, which only has the teaser just like the original DVD.

Overall the set is decent plain and simple. What could have been one of the best DVD sets turns into something that is average at best. I'm sure die hard fans like myself will still be some what pleased, but at the end of the day it's nothing to get excited about.

If you have the original DVDs upgrading isn't really needed. If you have the extra cash and there isn't anything you really want then I would say give it a shot. But if you have the original DVDs I would say save the money and buy other DVDs.

For those who do not own the films I would say buy the set, since it will be cheaper.

I think I was ripped off..........2007-01-18

A few people have brought this up already, but there are only the edited versions of these films. Sometimes, they don't even show the deaths of certain characters, they just don't show them for the remainder of the movie which just leaves you feeling like there's something missing. I truly hope they put out a complete and unrated version set of this collection. These movies were the source of some sleepless nights as a kid and I'm still fascinated with series. Of all the horror icons, Jason was one of the greats.

The picture quality of this set is pretty good, decent packaging, so-so extras. Overall, just an incomplete collection.

Awesome...from a biased pov........2007-01-12

These have always been my favorite maniacal slasher movies. Ever since I was a kid. We used to always sneek into the local theater to watch them when they were released. Great times - great movies. I hopped on the opportunity to get the first 8 on DVD in a set, since I didn't own any prior to this. A little bummed that they didn't put all of the 'cut' scenes back in for the set though. Would've been nice to have unrated versions of each movie.

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Old School Horror
I Begged To See This, Boy Was I Sorry
Boring
Friday the 13th
MRS.VOORHEES IS SOMEHTING!

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Starring: Betsy Palmer , Adrienne King , Harry Crosby (II) , Laurie Bartram , and Jeannine Taylor
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This splatter flick, along with John Carpenter's Halloween, helped spawn the great horror-movie movement of the '80s, not to mention eight sequels, many of which had nothing to do with the films that preceded them. It also gave birth to Jason Voorhees, one of the three biggest horror-movie psychos of the modern era (the other two being Halloween's Michael Myers and A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger). Forever duplicated, the original Friday the 13th popularized a number of themes and techniques that today are now clichés: the increasingly gory murders, the remote forest location, the anonymous and nubile cast, the murderer as cult hero, and, of course, the moral that if you have sex, you will die, very painfully. Still, if you have to see a Friday the 13th movie, this is the one to check out. A group of eager (and horny) teenagers decide to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, which 20 years earlier was closed after the shocking and mysterious murders of two amorous camp counselors. You can take it from there, as the teens get picked off one by one, during a dark and stormy night; of course, their car won't start and there's no phone. The ending stole shamelessly from Brian De Palma's Carrie, but it still provides a slight if campy shock. Look for a young Kevin Bacon as the requisite stud--you can tell that's what he is because when the cast appears in swimsuits, he's wearing a Speedo--who's the beneficiary of the film's best murder sequence, an arrowhead to the throat. Right after having sex, of course. --Mark Englehart

Customer Reviews:

Old School Horror.......2007-06-25

Yes Old School Horror, but isn't that the best kind?
Poor Jason drowns while two lusty camp counselers go at it. So now everyone who goes to Camp Crystal Lake is gonna get it, one way or another.
I hold this movie close to my heart because I was an 80's teen, and VHS just let us watch all the movies our parents wouldn't let us watch in the theater.This and Halloween are like the Holy Grail of 80's teen slasher movie's (although technically they were released in the 70's).The VHS just gave them a whole new life in family rooms all over the world.
So get some popcorn (preferably Jiffy Pop, the stove top type not that microwave junk), some soda and a group of friends. Dim the lights and get ready for the screams (it's better to have someone who has never seen it before you'll enjoy it even more)

I Begged To See This, Boy Was I Sorry.......2007-06-15

This film premiered on cable in the early '80's when I was 8 or 9. I begged to watch it and the deal was I could, but I'd have to sleep in my own bed. I agreed, but by the end of it I was begging just to sleep on my parents floor, to no avail, of course. That night, in complete fear, I turned out my light and did a running jump into bed. I was sure the killer was under there like in the movie, and couldn't sleep on my back because of what happens to Kevin Bacon, FOR YEARS.
Eventually the shock and terror wore off from repeated viewings and by the time I was a teen it became hilarious comedy watching Mama Voorhees and her screams are pure comedy.
Now, I just consider it an excellent horror film, thanks in large part to make-up effects artist Tom Savini's excellent work and Harry Manfredini's perfectly creepy and horrifying music score. It did what it set out to do, scare me senseless. I wish today's horror films could do that.

Boring.......2007-05-08

Even though I wasn't allowed to watch either growing up, the idea of Freddy always played bigger in my childhood imagination than Jason. The idea of someone killing you in your dreams? That's scary. Jason was, as far as I could tell, just another slasher. I was never quite sure what distinguished him from say, Michael Myers, or a million other slasher movies.

I also knew, like any child of the 80s, the basic storyline. As I imagine you do. Let's try a simple test. My guess is that even if you haven't seen the movie, you already know that:
*Jason's mother, not Jason himself, is the killer in the first movie
* It takes place on a campground, where Jason's mother is killing off the camp counselors one by one
* Kevin Bacon has a minor part in this movie before he became famous.
* It has low production values, and is pretty tame by today's standards

How did I do? And if you already know all that, no reason to sit through the actual movie, right?

Man, does this movie represent 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back again, or what? Forget all the moral reasons for or against watching these kind of slasher flicks, you've got to have an attention span of steel to even think about getting through this movie. I'd rather be locked in a room with a book of Sylvia Plath Poetry for two hours than have to watch this movie again.

Although this was my first time watching the movie, I did have the feeling of having seen it before. I think that was just because I had seen it spoofed so many times before, or seen clips of it, in other media.

Friday the 13th.......2007-05-03

I thought that this movie was really good because at night it was really
dark and through that whole sequence I had a strange feeling.Part 2,3,and 4 were good to, but when they had the other movies, then it turned stupid.
So people who like scary movies I HIGHLY recommend watching it.

P.S. I prefer that you just watch the first four movies and not the other
movies.

MRS.VOORHEES IS SOMEHTING!.......2007-04-24

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT MOVIE!YOU HAVE TO BUY IT!THIS IS THE BEST HORROR MOVIE-AND IT WILL BE THE BEST IN THE FUTURE!IT'S SCARY,SUSPENSEFUL,AND INTERESTING.THIS IS THE FIRST THRILLER THAT MADE ME JUMP,AND PUT ME IN SUSPENSE.I DON'T JUMP OR SCARE EASILY.IF YOU LIKE THRILLERS-YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU BOUGHT THIS!

Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th

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Has its moments, but they're too few and far between
Before the "Scary Movie" Franchise...there was this...
Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th
You will regret it !!
Love this movie

Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th
Starring: Julie Benz , Harley Cross , Majandra Delfino , Simon Rex , and Danny Strong
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Has its moments, but they're too few and far between.......2007-05-21

Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th has its moments, but by and large this spoofalicious film is exceedingly average in terms of the laughs it manages to induce. Still, you have to appreciate the effort that went into it, as SIYKWIDLFT sinks its parody hooks into a vast number of genres: teen slashers, teen comedies, teen TV dramas, Baywatch, TV commercials, and more. If you go to IMDB, you'll find a listing of movies referenced here - although even this long list cannot possibly be complete. Even the likes of Lassie, Grease, and Chariots of Fire aren't safe from the satirical hands of the film's writers, and you can't tell me you ever expected to see Chariots of Fire satirized in a dumb horror comedy. That's the highlight of the whole film for me.

Shriek and Scary Movie were made at basically the same time, so don't go thinking Shriek is a tired rip-off of the tired rip-off that is Scary Movie. Scary Movie just happened to be released first, relegating this film to direct-to-video limbo. These are very different films, though - even though they were both constructed around the Scream concept. Shriek isn't as raunchy, and I think it's probably also the funnier movie of the two. Here, following a parody of the famous Scream opening scene, the story settles on the shoulders of four teenaged friends who all get notes from the Killer in the same vein as the teens in I Know What You Did Last Summer, even the new kid at school, Dawson Deery. Bulimia Falls High School is quite a place, a school where Chucky roams the hallways, Rose Marie (as Mrs. Tingle) and Partridge Family matriarch Shirley Jones (as Nurse Kevorkian) mold the minds of the young, and Coolio heads the administration (as the pimped-out Administrator Formerly Known as Principal Interest). Tom Arnold shows up as Deputy Doughy Primesuspect, while Tiffani-Amber Thiessen is the empTV reporter trying to exploit the murders for her own professional gain

If you're really into parodies like this, you'll not want to let your attention drop for more than a few seconds, as there is always something going on in the background - the Killer running around unnoticed by all, the principal making all kinds of crazy announcements (including this classic description of the upcoming band fundraiser: "liquor in the front, poker in the rear"), and various references to other films and TV shows. Still, despite all this effort and several genuinely funny moments, Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th has a lot more hits than misses. It all balances out to a pretty average comedy.

Before the "Scary Movie" Franchise...there was this..........2006-11-29

This film pioneered the spoofing of horror movies before the "Scary Movie" franchise took over with a bigger budget and better writing.

Admittedly, this film is not as good at creating a parody of the horror film genre, but I'm not entirely sure it was trying to. It is very entertaining in it's own way, but it obviously has a smaller budget and less-than-perfect writers (I'm redundant, I know).

On the plus side, this film does make fun of a lot of things that the "Scary Movie" franchise left out, which is awesome for us fans of this style of comedy. It obviously has a different approach and film style than the more popularly known "Scary Movies". One of my favorite scenes is towards the end when they do a "pop-up video" parody on the big chase scene which inevitabley happens at the end of every horror movie. I used to love Pop-up video in the 90's, and it was so awesome to see it again!

All in all, it's a fun film for fans of scary movies, but not quite as well-made as the "Scary Movie" movies.

Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th .......2006-11-05

one of the funniest movies i've seen so far.

You will regret it !!.......2006-03-29

Been lobotomised ?? Have an IQ less than 50 ?? Then perhaps this film will make you laugh (probably just the once) In 25 years of watching movies, never have i come across such an embarrassingly bad film as this, seriously, there are no redeeming qualities at all.

You pays your money etc etc

Love this movie.......2006-03-15

This is one of my favorite B movies. Thiessen really shows her comedic chops in this teen horror send up on teen horror send ups.

Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan

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JASON
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While Jason takes Manhattan, the fans leave it..............

Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan
Starring: Todd Shaffer , Tiffany Paulsen , Tim Mirkovich , Kane Hodder , and Jensen Daggett
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Start spreadin' the news... Jason Voorhees, the cleaver-hoisting man in the hockey mask, has finally left Crystal Lake behind and taken his vagabond shoes to the Big Apple. Actually, Jason spends most of his time on a cruise ship bound for Manhattan, carving up the unluckiest high school graduation party ever. You'd think the change of scenery might breathe new life, or death, into the series, but chapter 8 is standard stalk 'em and slash 'em fare, albeit with a nautical slant. The title hints at a comic tone, but except for the one-joke idea that Jason fits right into the menacing urban scene, forget it. (The comedy would wait until the surprisingly entertaining Jason X.) This one does have a pretty leading lady, Jensen Daggett, whose visions of the young drowned Jason are occasionally creepy. The grown-up Jason, like "these little-town blues," is melting away. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

JASON.......2007-05-12

THE EXCITEMENT DIDN'T START TIL THEY ALL WENT TO NEW YORK.JASON SWAM ALL THE WAY THERE.THEY ALL KNEW JASON WAS REAL-SO THEY ALL PANICKED AND RAN.DOWN IN THE MANHOLE RANINE POURED ACID ALL OVER JASONS HEAD AND FACE. THAT SLOWED HIM DOWN.THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE!

JASON.......2007-04-30

I LIKED THE PART WHEN JASON GOT OUT OF THE WATER IN NEW YORK-HE LOOKED AT THE BIG ADVERTISEMENT BOARD,AND THERE WAS A PICTURE OF A HOCKEY MASK.HE TITLTED HIS HEAD TO ONE SIDE.I THOUGHT THAT WAS CUTE.I ALSO LIKED THE PART WHEN JASON AND THE BOXER WAS FIGHTING ON TOP OF THE ROOF.JASON PUNCHED HIS HEAD RIGHT OFF!THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE!

Probably the Low Point of the Series.......2007-01-26

"Jason Takes Manhattan" is probably the worst entry in the series, but it is still a pretty good film. The opening scene of the movie when the woman tries to hide, unsuccessfully, on a boat from Jason is one of my favorite scenes in the entire series! Too bad that the movie doesn't remain as good as the opening scenes when the first two people of the movie are killed. They probably should have called this "Jason Takes the Titanic", even the director of the film said that it isn't as good as it could have been. Jason's face is also not as graphic and as scary like in the previous film, so that was a disappointment. Overall, I would only recommend this movie to those who are already comfortable and have seen the other movies first. This may draw you away from the series if you have never seen the others and think that this is the best it gets, because it gets better in the other films.

Jason Takes Your Money.......2006-10-22

As a general rule, any film with a large number of Roman numerals behind it is going to suck, and the eighth outing of the F-13 franchise, JASON TAKES MANHATTAN, obeys this rule to a fanatical degree. This movie is terrible, an utter embarrassment, and is noteworthy only as a study in corporate greed and marketing deception.

By the fourth installment of the series, the ironically titled FINAL CHAPTER, this formulaic slasher franchise was as exhausted as an old, blood-soaked boot. Jason Voorhees had outlived his usefulness and it was time for his rotted a*s to hang up the gaolie mask and retire. But the movie industry is an industry first, and when THE FINAL CHAPTER turned unexpectedly into a cash cow the studio execs at Paramount continued to flog their exhausted serial killer into progidies of meaningless violence. THE FINAL CHAPTER was followed by three more absolutely asinine sequels, which saw Jason improve the Crystal Lake gene pool by slaughtering legions of pot-smoking teenage dimwits. By this time P-mount was beginning to get embarrassed by their deformed, kill-crazy stepchild, yet the lure of an easy payday drew them on.

I still remember seeing the preview for this flick in a movie theater back in 1989. The audience ate it up. We actually believed that the producers had decided to tweak the exhausted series by loosing Jason in a place where he would probably feel right at home: the Big Apple. One could only imagine the bloody shennanigans Crystal Lake's least popular citizen could embark upon in New Yawk City! People were laughing out loud as they imagined him loose in the City of Lights. He could slay obnoxious Volcanoites! Teach rude cab drivers the errors of their ways! Annihilate the snotty salespeople at Tiffanys! Cut down on panhandlers! Convince grafitti artists to stay out of dark alleys! Run for mayor! We sixteen year olds LOVED the idea.

There was just one problem. The gang at Paramount had no intention of delivering on their promise. The ad campaign, like the title of the movie, was a fraud, and the only thing that got "taken" in this film was the money of a lot of bloodthirsty teenage dupes.

First of all, the first 60 minutes of this 90-odd minute movie are not set in Manhattan, but in Crystal Lake and then on a ship called the Lazarus (get it?) which is conveying the usual cargo of teenage acting-skool dropout slasher fodder on a graduation cruise to New York. Jason, accidentally revived from the depths of the Lake by a jolt of electricity, stows on board the ship and proceeds to ch-ch-ch, ha-ha-ha his way through the doltish grads and the suspiciously small crew until the survivors are pursuaded to take a rowboat to Manhattan Island. Unfortunately "Manhattan Island", with the exception of a couple of second-unit establishing shots, is largely an unimaginative-looking soundstage on the Paramount lot populated by Central Casting New Yawkers, including the usual mixed-race mugger team and an Irish cop who says things like, "Well, ye seem loike foine peeple, so I'll not be arresting ye."

There is not a single scary moment in the whole film, and there are not even any particularly interesting kills. Kane Hodder's plodding, rotting, thoroughly over-rated Jason looks almost bored, as if he signed onto the cruise by accident, and then got talked into doing his mass murder shtick by the ship's entertainment director. To make up for the lack of any kind of suspense, the writers threw in a lot of gratuitous pleading for mercy from the female characters, and added nice little moments like a ship's crewmember talking warmly about his baby son right before Jason runs a harpoon through his body. Classy stuff, but really, everything about the movie is stupid, from the crazy deckhand who mumbles prophetically that the voyage is doomed (shades of Crazy Ralph), to the annoyingly cute little dog who has more acting talent than most of the victims. Hell, the climax of the film features a chase through the New York sewers, which, we are told, flood with radioactive toxic waste every midnight. (Does Rudy Guilani know about this?)

I realize having expectations for a Jason movie is silly, but even by the cellar-low standards of the franchise, this flick is a ripoff, a fraud, a dreadful fake, utterly stupid, appallingly bad, useless, terrible, and horrible. ZERO STARS.

While Jason takes Manhattan, the fans leave it.....................2006-06-29

I consider myself a pretty big Horror fan. I can enjoy many different kinds of Horror movies and usually find one or two things in a movie to make it worth watching. Sometimes it's an actor, sometimes it's just one gory scene, sometimes it's the atmosphere. Like I said, I usually find something to enjoy in a Horror movie no matter how bad it is. Sadly, I can't say the same for my friends or for the other Horror "fans" that I've met. Most of the time they're typical Horror fans who hate anything that isn't serious. Personally I think it's a self image thing for most people. They're afriad that someone might mistake them for being "mainstream" or corny when it comes down to their Horror opinion. If you judge a Horror movie on weather or not it scared the crap out of you, most of the time your going to be left high and dry. Horror movies come in many styles, the key is to understand that and just enjoy the ride. Friday the 13th part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan is one of those few 1980's gems that I hold close to my heart. It's a classic example of how dark and gritty the 80's Horror scene was back then. Jason Take Manhattan is chop full of dirty, brooding scenes of the city and it really helps set the stage for Jason to do what he does best! Chop, hack and stab his young victems! Looking for a plot? You won't find one here! This is your basic big hair, bad acting, 1980's slasher fest! Nothing about the movie is corny, back when they made the film is was thought of in a serious perspective. Times change and ideas change. Sure it might be outdated but it's a classic in my book. Long live Jason Voorhees!

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As bad as Friday the 13th, Part 2 is, it's a work of art in comparison to the rest of the Friday the 13th flicks that came afterward. This installment officially introduced us to Jason Voorhees as the killer (if you remember Drew Barrymore's fatal phone quiz in Scream, you know that the killer in the first Friday the 13th was actually Jason's mother), and made the slicing and dicing even more generic. Survivor Alice is dispatched within the first 10 minutes, and we're left with plucky Ginny (Amy Steel, doing a fairly decent Jamie Lee Curtis impression) to do battle with the monstrous Jason. Ginny's part of a another group of horny teenagers (less intelligent as well as less attractive than their predecessors) who try to resurrect Camp Crystal Lake five years after the initial murders--a pretty mean feat, considering this movie was made only a year after the first one. Being a smarty-pants child-psychology major, Ginny tries to outwit the dim Jason, and at one point dons the bloody and moldy sweater of Jason's late mother (which is more disgusting than any of the killings beforehand) in an attempt to confuse the masked killer. Jason may not be the brightest bulb on the tree, but the only one who's going to pull the wool--or in this case, the burlap--over his eyes is Jason himself, who wears a sack with one eyehole throughout the movie to hide his deformed features (he finally found his way to a sporting-goods store and his trademark hockey mask appears in the third installment of the series). Directed by Steve Miner, who also helmed the next Friday the 13th film (in 3-D no less) as well as the more reputable House, Forever Young, and Halloween: H20. --Mark Englehart

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JASON VOORHEESE IS EXCELLENT!.......2007-04-24

JASON'S THE MAN,AND HE ALWAYS WILL BE!OUT OF ALL THE SERIAL KILLERS FROM THE PAST AND UP TIL TODAY-JASON'S THE BEST!HE'S THE NUMBER 1 SERIAL KILLER OF ALL TIMES!THIS IS ANOTHER EXCELLENT MOVIE!JASON KILLS WITH STYLE AND CLASS.THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT JASON-YOU JUST HAVE TO LIKE HIM!THIS MOVIE'S SUSPENSFUL,SCARY,AND INTERESTING.YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT JASON WILL DO NEXT.I BOUGHT THE WHOLE SERIES. I'M GLAD I DID.

Great Series Entry.......2007-01-12

Friday the 13th Part 2 is definitely a worthy sequel and a very good debut of the modern monster Jason Voorhees. Even though Jason has yet to wear his infamous hockey mask, he still comes off as very creepy, kind of like a crazy hillbilly. In reality, his look was based on the killer on the movie "The Town that Dreaded Sundown", which is another really cool movie if you haven't seen it.

The acting in the movie is about what you would expect from the genre, which isn't that bad actually. The acting isn't important; it is all about the gore and how the kids are killed. The story itself is really cool and explains that in fact, Jason didn't drown, but actually survived and has been living in the forests for all of the years he has been presumed dead. You can see a difference in this Jason later in the series, in this movie, Jason actually is afraid of Jenny with the chainsaw coming after him. In later movies, he wouldn't even bother to move. Overall, this is a really cool movie for fans and a great introduction to the Jason we have come to know and love-without the mask.

Jason , mother is talking to you........2006-12-17

This is my 2nd favorite movie of all time next to "from dusk till dawn". I dont know why but the cop who gets the claw hammer in the head sticks with me. The scene where the cripple takes the machete in the face is friggin' harsh. Jason is the best killer ever.

Scariest Jason.......2006-12-12

"As bad as Friday the 13th, Part 2 is, it's a work of art in comparison to the rest of the Friday the 13th flicks that came afterward." - Mark Englehart (Amazon Editorial Review)

You know, I've got a crazy thought. I thought that a store like Amazon would actually want to SELL THEIR PRODUCTS. Having some dork say "as bad as this movie is" is not the best way to sell a product.

Onto Friday 2, this movie tells a very good story in the context of an urban legend while developing key characters and building suspense. The deaths are creepy and violent, the music is awesome, and Jason is at his scariest. This film also has the best atmosphere of the series.

This movie could have been the original, despite the original being very good as well.

Less attractive actors this time round.......2006-11-07

I hated the actors in this. They were either in dire need of a haircut (the guys), or in need of a bra (the girls). I don't think any of the actresses in this wore a bra at all.

OK rant over.

The second Friday the 13th movie brings us straight into the movie by removing the original surviving member. Then bring in a whole bunch of pretty people, who will get killed off in new & inventive ways.

Nothing new there eh?

But this time, Jason is the killer - much like Drew Barrymore's phone call in Scream, he wasn't the killer in the first one, it was his mother, trying to get revenge on the camp counsellors who let her son die.

Only, her son didn't drown. (Otherwise he would still be a 12-year-old boy.) He grew into a deformed man (never thinking of giving his mum a quick call to let her know he was alright - but then there would have never been a film franchise, would there?) hell bent on getting revenge, now even moreso, after seeing his mother get beheaded at the end of the last movie.

The infamous hockey mask hasn't appeared yet, instead in its place, is a sack with one eyehole in it. We also get a brief glimpse into the future, when one of the characters wields a chainsaw. But I actually feel sorry for Jason. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but he saw his mother beheaded in front of him, and he was mentally capable of understanding this, and he keeps her decapitated head. All he wants is to be loved, and his mother was the only one who ever really cared for him. So the scene where the actress wears his mother's disgusting jumper was particularly moving, with one eye showing more emotion than a botoxed actress ever could.

We get a brief glimpse of what Jason really looks like at the end of the film, where we see everything that was under the sack, and I mean everything. Prepare to avert your eyes.

The deaths in this include lots of naked girls screaming, a dog, a guy in a wheelchair, and a couple who can't get enough of each other. The latter provides a scene that was actually cut, the double impalement. Not something you want to see when you look over your boyfriend's shoulder when he's on top of you.

The film has one of the longest pre-credit sequences in history, and it almost seems pointless when the credits come on and actually interrupt the film. Just show them over the film!

Although it's good, already by the second movie, I'm feeling it a bit repetitive, and repeating too much of the same stuff that has already featured, or been done better. Fingers crossed it gets better.

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