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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) ★★½
How can the Friday the 13th franchise offer both the most honesty and the biggest rip off in one and the same*film?
Honest because it's the most self aware so far. Delving into the silliness deeper and more willing than the previous installments ever did. And the rip off? Instead of "taking Manhattan", Jason strolls past Times Square and then teleports to Canada. And most New Yorkers are too aloof and uninterested to*notice.
This is the first one where you don't watch for the story. The Jason resurrection scene is as Troma as one hopes and the kills are over the top and cartoonish with the boxer decapitation as the topper. Also funny how the kills have poetic justice: the cokehead gets killed with a mirror shard, the junkie gets pierced with his own needle, the abusive swimming teacher gets drowned, the guitar playing girl, well ...*
Even Kane Hodder kicking Ken Kirzinger's ass is a nice touch in*retrospect.
And then there's the passage on Times Square and the rock star reception Kane Hodder got. Makes a part of me wish we had crowdfunding back*then.
And what better way to finish this*than:
- Look, you don't understand. There is a maniac trying to kill us.
- Welcome to New*York.
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