I was watching Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan, #8 in the Friday the 13th horror movie franchise. The original Friday the 13th came out in 1980 and although was not a huge success with the critics started a pop-culture phenomenon. And surprising as it may seem, Friday the 13th is the most successful horror franchise in the U.S.
One thing I was thinking about though as Jason slaughtered his way from Camp Crystal Lake, onto a cargo/cruise ship, and into Manhattan was what he must be thinking as he is watching these poor moronic victims frantically try to evade the afterlife. The premise for this movie is a bunch of students from Crystal Lake taking a senior field trip to the big city and they are taking this large cargo type cruise ship to get there. Of course Jason manages to find his way onto the ship after grabbing hold of the anchor and being dragged underwater until he climbs up.
Murder by murder he moves his way around the ship. The best dumbass kid moment here is when Jason is chasing one lost soul and this kid starts climbing up a mast. At this point Jason's gotta be laughing on the inside cause God only knows what this kid was thinking. Jason then proceeds to swiftly climb his way after
him and throws him down onto an antenna...nice!
A couple more bodies and one explosion leads to the students and two of their teachers getting in the life raft and taking off for the big apple. Somehow Jason manages to get there almost just as they do in the same exact location...cause NYC is so small obviously it could happen. His first two victims definitely deserved it as they were trying to drug and rape the heroine of the film. Well done hero Jason!
The next moment that I'm sure had Jason chuckling was when the token black student thinks he can take Jason on mano-a-mano. While I'm sure he'd put up a good fight against the scrawny freshmen he's not exactly a match for the uber-dead Jason Voorhees sporting the ever-so fashionable hockey mask. As the punches start getting thrown he is repeatedly hitting Jason in the hockey mask, not anywhere else! I swear I actually heard Jason laugh at this point. Jason just stands there and takes it, his own little murderous dead guy rope-a-dope and finally the kid asks Jason to take his best shot once he's completely out of gas. One punch from Jason takes this kids head off! Classic...
The movie then continues on throughout Manhattan as Jason keeps mysteriously popping up exactly where the diminishing number of students are and manages to take out all but two lucky survivors. These two brainiacs somehow made it through the subway, into a sewer (obviously the best place to go in the most crowded city in the US), kill Jason with raw sewage and make there way back to the streets where the girl's dog is waiting patiently.
THE END
"Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... He wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now... dear."
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