Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan is a slasher film released on July 28, 1989. It is the eighth film in the Friday the 13th film series, and deals with Jason Voorhees stalking a group of high school graduates on a ship en route to (and later in) New York City. It was the last film in the series to have been distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States until 2009 (the 2009 reboot of the first film was distributed by Paramount in non-US countries). According to New York Has A New Problem: The Making of Friday The 13th VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, this was going to be the final film, in the series. The film's tagline is, "New York has a new problem." It took in just $14.3 million at the domestic box office, making it the lowest-grossing film in the series.
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