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Jason ends the friday the 13th franchise with gore-less film
JASON TAKES MANHATTAN should have been the last Jason movie ever to be made. This would have been the perfect way for him to die and never ever come back. Well, the movie begins with a Great song with footage from New York in the opening credits and then it cuts back to Crystal Lake. Two people are bought to get it on when the guy tells the Voorhee's story. Jason is at the bottom of the lake because his foe, Tina, the telePATHIC girl from the previous entry supposedly killed him. Wel, Jason gets goosed by an electrical cord that brings him to life and kill the couple. Jason then goes to a boat headed to New York with a bunch of school kids, and kills students one by one. Kelly Hu gets killed very early and this is the one thing that had me hating this film. Kelly plays Eva Watanabe, and she is the most gorgeous girl in all the Friday the 13th movies. Rob Hedden should be hung at Paramount for not making her have the lead role instead of Jensen Daggett. The male lead was good and he and Kelly would have been good as a couple in this. The deaths are not detailed or graphic because of MPaa rating cuts, but Kane Hodder is the BEST JASON and this is the film that I try to believe was THE VERY, VERY, VERY end of Jason Voorhees.

I think I'M the one that got taken...
Um, let's see: Jason's reanimated and on the killing rampage again, using just about every edged weapon at his disposal to systematically take out several teens until the prime hero/heroine finds a way to end his reign of terror. Oh yeah, that ain't a familiar scenario at all, heh...

But wait-- we can't forget a few elements the writers have thrown into the mix to try and give this a more distinctive look and feel from all the other 'Friday' flicks. Ya know, like the new "ship-of-death" and Manhattan settings. Or the primary heroine's weird quasi-hallucinatory 'flashbacks' linked to Jason and her legal guardian that pop up from time to time, none of which really make any sense or have any logic to 'em. Then there's the whole Jason 'death' scene, which pretty much blew all laws of logic and plausibility right out the door! Oh God, why do I torture myself by watching this trash?! But the sad thing about it is, the next time I visit the local rental store I'm gonna pick up the next installment in this horror schlock-fest to view and review! I am NOT a well person...

On a bit of an upside, I did get treated to the funniest Jason-kill I've ever seen when he literally knocks one teenage victim's block off! I was so astounded by how cheesy this scene looked, I hadda rewind the tape and watch it again to see if I really saw what I saw! Sure 'nuff, I did! AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA-HAAAH!!! Oh man, that bad-boy was ten times funnier than all of Jason's other so-called 'scary' kills in this movie combined! Though it's not quite as guffaw-inducing as the scene from 'Killer Klowns From Outer Space' that it blatantly ripped off...

'Late

I prefer the title "Jason Takes the Love Boat"
Not the best in the series, but Jason in a new setting! An unwelcome stowaway on the graduation trip to New York, he starts in killing the teens one at a time. The best part of the movie is when they actually get to New York, which is about the last 30 minutes of the movie. Humorous to see my favorite killer chasing teens through subway tunnels and well lit streets and NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE! But most of the movie takes place on the boat. Fast forward to when Jason really takes Manhattan! If you don't, Jason will come for you! Tonight!

Start spreadin' the news...with BLOOD!
I just ordered this DVD, and I cannot WAIT for it to arrive. I've never seen this movie. I haven't read any reviews, and I've avoided hearing anything about it -- I don't want anything to spoil the surprise. I've closed my eyes and copied/pasted any comments I've stumbled upon into one big document so I can go back after I've seen the movie, to read what other big "Friday the 13th" fans have to say!

I'm giggling in anticipation of seeing Jason Voorhees tear his way through New York City for at least 90 minutes of carnage!

More than a decade years ago, I was coerced into attending a screening of "Star Trek V: the Final Frontier." Before that film began, the theater dimmed to blackness. A trailer began. The screen blazed with the Manhattan skyline at night; the speakers pulsed with the melody of Frank Sinatra's famous song. The camera panned left, fixing on the back of a lone figure gazing at Gotham's towering lights. Closer...closer the frame crept to the onlooker until * GASP! * he whipped around to reveal the famous battered hockey mask that haunts us all. Screams and cheers filled the theater; it was a magically horrifying moment.

I also remember the fabled "I [heart] NY" version of the movie's poster, with Jason ripping through. Legal issues forced the recall of that brilliant marketing design, sadly lost to the mists of time.

Thanks to a strict Creationist upbringing, I was never allowed to fulfill my desperate wish to see "Jason Takes Manhattan" in a movie theater, and my rigorous home-schooling prevented me from obtaining a home-video version before this day.

However, the release of "Freddy vs. Jason" spurred me to seek out the temptations of my adolescence.

Finally, I'm on the verge of laying all my daydreams and speculation to rest. I can only imagine the hundreds of creative ways the filmmakers will utilize Jason's skill for slaughter in an ultra-urban setting. Subway cars, manhole covers, skyscraper spires, hot dog carts...these are things nightmares are made of! Whether they're used BY Jason or AGAINST him, the trappings of a big city can be used to terrible effect on the human (or inhuman) body. There's no way such potential can fail to re-invigorate the sagging "Friday the 13th" films.

I'm also hoping for a cute Central Park reference to Jason's habit of stalking people through woods--that would be a clever nod to the series' tradition.

Plus, thanks to my connections in the NYC Sanitation Department, I know for a fact that Manhattan's sewers are flooded with toxic waste every night. I'm sure this is a detail the writers will have worked into the screenplay somehow.

But I'm MOST excited to learn exactly HOW Jason makes it to the Big Apple (though I hope they don't spend too much time on the issue). I'm not positive exactly where Crystal Lake is supposed to be located, but with Jason's thirst for depravity and sin, it's not hard to believe he would home in on New York City like a beacon. Perhaps a multi-state-long trail of corpses simply traces his path across the Hudson River.

And just think of the possible body-count! In the past, Jason has been limited to a small number of victims (per movie) who happen across his neck of the woods. But with the throngs of people who inhabit New York, I'm sure there will hardly be time for dialogue in this film!

Some might say I'm setting my hopes too high. I scoff -- how could a reputable film studio like Paramount Pictures ever fail to make the most of the wealth of ideas presented by placing one of their most iconic horror properties in a completely new environment? Jason Voorhees + New York City = can't miss hit!

Best of all, thanks to the magic of DVD, I'll be able to revisit that trailer...the one that, for me, started it all!

There's no way I'll be disappointed!

Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan
This film is nowhere near a classic, but it has a few memorable parts.(SPOILERS)One of my favorite scenes is when the gang members are mad at him and start talking trash then he takes off his mask and shows them his face;it was so funny.Then the gang members are like oh it's cool man where sorry then they run off.Some of the film is very silly.If your a fan check this one out if your an average viewer don't waste your time.After an electricity from a torn cable revives him on the river bottom where his body lies, masked slasher Jason Voorhees stows away on a cruise ship carrying a graduating class of Crystal Lake teens to the Big Apple. Along the way, the ship braves a storm, which is nothing compared to the violence that the hockey mask-wearing psychopath inflicts on the passengers. Upon arriving in New York (in the film's final twenty minutes), Jason's ways don't seem out of place, and the locals hardly pay him any mind.(5/10) ... Read more

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Jason ends the friday the 13th franchise with gore-less film
JASON TAKES MANHATTAN should have been the last Jason movie ever to be made. This would have been the perfect way for him to die and never ever come back. Well, the movie begins with a Great song with footage from New York in the opening credits and then it cuts back to Crystal Lake. Two people are bought to get it on when the guy tells the Voorhee's story. Jason is at the bottom of the lake because his foe, Tina, the telePATHIC girl from the previous entry supposedly killed him. Wel, Jason gets goosed by an electrical cord that brings him to life and kill the couple. Jason then goes to a boat headed to New York with a bunch of school kids, and kills students one by one. Kelly Hu gets killed very early and this is the one thing that had me hating this film. Kelly plays Eva Watanabe, and she is the most gorgeous girl in all the Friday the 13th movies. Rob Hedden should be hung at Paramount for not making her have the lead role instead of Jensen Daggett. The male lead was good and he and Kelly would have been good as a couple in this. The deaths are not detailed or graphic because of MPaa rating cuts, but Kane Hodder is the BEST JASON and this is the film that I try to believe was THE VERY, VERY, VERY end of Jason Voorhees.

I think I'M the one that got taken...
Um, let's see: Jason's reanimated and on the killing rampage again, using just about every edged weapon at his disposal to systematically take out several teens until the prime hero/heroine finds a way to end his reign of terror. Oh yeah, that ain't a familiar scenario at all, heh...

But wait-- we can't forget a few elements the writers have thrown into the mix to try and give this a more distinctive look and feel from all the other 'Friday' flicks. Ya know, like the new "ship-of-death" and Manhattan settings. Or the primary heroine's weird quasi-hallucinatory 'flashbacks' linked to Jason and her legal guardian that pop up from time to time, none of which really make any sense or have any logic to 'em. Then there's the whole Jason 'death' scene, which pretty much blew all laws of logic and plausibility right out the door! Oh God, why do I torture myself by watching this trash?! But the sad thing about it is, the next time I visit the local rental store I'm gonna pick up the next installment in this horror schlock-fest to view and review! I am NOT a well person...

On a bit of an upside, I did get treated to the funniest Jason-kill I've ever seen when he literally knocks one teenage victim's block off! I was so astounded by how cheesy this scene looked, I hadda rewind the tape and watch it again to see if I really saw what I saw! Sure 'nuff, I did! AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA-HAAAH!!! Oh man, that bad-boy was ten times funnier than all of Jason's other so-called 'scary' kills in this movie combined! Though it's not quite as guffaw-inducing as the scene from 'Killer Klowns From Outer Space' that it blatantly ripped off...

'Late

I prefer the title "Jason Takes the Love Boat"
Not the best in the series, but Jason in a new setting! An unwelcome stowaway on the graduation trip to New York, he starts in killing the teens one at a time. The best part of the movie is when they actually get to New York, which is about the last 30 minutes of the movie. Humorous to see my favorite killer chasing teens through subway tunnels and well lit streets and NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE! But most of the movie takes place on the boat. Fast forward to when Jason really takes Manhattan! If you don't, Jason will come for you! Tonight!

Start spreadin' the news...with BLOOD!
I just ordered this DVD, and I cannot WAIT for it to arrive. I've never seen this movie. I haven't read any reviews, and I've avoided hearing anything about it -- I don't want anything to spoil the surprise. I've closed my eyes and copied/pasted any comments I've stumbled upon into one big document so I can go back after I've seen the movie, to read what other big "Friday the 13th" fans have to say!

I'm giggling in anticipation of seeing Jason Voorhees tear his way through New York City for at least 90 minutes of carnage!

More than a decade years ago, I was coerced into attending a screening of "Star Trek V: the Final Frontier." Before that film began, the theater dimmed to blackness. A trailer began. The screen blazed with the Manhattan skyline at night; the speakers pulsed with the melody of Frank Sinatra's famous song. The camera panned left, fixing on the back of a lone figure gazing at Gotham's towering lights. Closer...closer the frame crept to the onlooker until * GASP! * he whipped around to reveal the famous battered hockey mask that haunts us all. Screams and cheers filled the theater; it was a magically horrifying moment.

I also remember the fabled "I [heart] NY" version of the movie's poster, with Jason ripping through. Legal issues forced the recall of that brilliant marketing design, sadly lost to the mists of time.

Thanks to a strict Creationist upbringing, I was never allowed to fulfill my desperate wish to see "Jason Takes Manhattan" in a movie theater, and my rigorous home-schooling prevented me from obtaining a home-video version before this day.

However, the release of "Freddy vs. Jason" spurred me to seek out the temptations of my adolescence.

Finally, I'm on the verge of laying all my daydreams and speculation to rest. I can only imagine the hundreds of creative ways the filmmakers will utilize Jason's skill for slaughter in an ultra-urban setting. Subway cars, manhole covers, skyscraper spires, hot dog carts...these are things nightmares are made of! Whether they're used BY Jason or AGAINST him, the trappings of a big city can be used to terrible effect on the human (or inhuman) body. There's no way such potential can fail to re-invigorate the sagging "Friday the 13th" films.

I'm also hoping for a cute Central Park reference to Jason's habit of stalking people through woods--that would be a clever nod to the series' tradition.

Plus, thanks to my connections in the NYC Sanitation Department, I know for a fact that Manhattan's sewers are flooded with toxic waste every night. I'm sure this is a detail the writers will have worked into the screenplay somehow.

But I'm MOST excited to learn exactly HOW Jason makes it to the Big Apple (though I hope they don't spend too much time on the issue). I'm not positive exactly where Crystal Lake is supposed to be located, but with Jason's thirst for depravity and sin, it's not hard to believe he would home in on New York City like a beacon. Perhaps a multi-state-long trail of corpses simply traces his path across the Hudson River.

And just think of the possible body-count! In the past, Jason has been limited to a small number of victims (per movie) who happen across his neck of the woods. But with the throngs of people who inhabit New York, I'm sure there will hardly be time for dialogue in this film!

Some might say I'm setting my hopes too high. I scoff -- how could a reputable film studio like Paramount Pictures ever fail to make the most of the wealth of ideas presented by placing one of their most iconic horror properties in a completely new environment? Jason Voorhees + New York City = can't miss hit!

Best of all, thanks to the magic of DVD, I'll be able to revisit that trailer...the one that, for me, started it all!

There's no way I'll be disappointed!

Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan
This film is nowhere near a classic, but it has a few memorable parts.(SPOILERS)One of my favorite scenes is when the gang members are mad at him and start talking trash then he takes off his mask and shows them his face;it was so funny.Then the gang members are like oh it's cool man where sorry then they run off.Some of the film is very silly.If your a fan check this one out if your an average viewer don't waste your time.After an electricity from a torn cable revives him on the river bottom where his body lies, masked slasher Jason Voorhees stows away on a cruise ship carrying a graduating class of Crystal Lake teens to the Big Apple. Along the way, the ship braves a storm, which is nothing compared to the violence that the hockey mask-wearing psychopath inflicts on the passengers. Upon arriving in New York (in the film's final twenty minutes), Jason's ways don't seem out of place, and the locals hardly pay him any mind.(5/10) ... Read more

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Great movie for Joe Lando fans!
"Any Place But Home" shows us again how great Joe Lando is at revealing his caring and loving self to the audience. He is compassionate all through the movie and it makes you want to cry with him for the horrors he goes through. ... Read more

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Is this really fiction...?
Of course it was, when it was made. But look around you at what's happening in the real world. How long before America has completed its transformation into "The Colony"?

The Colony - Be Careful What You Wish For...
A family finds the planned community it moves too is too planned, run by a C.E.O. with "plans" of his own!!!

Despite the predictable plot (and outcome), the movies raises some interesting points.

How much freedom would you sacrifice in the name of security?

Would you live in a place, say, where you would be expected to dress a certain way? Where you would have no say in what your children were taught? Where everything you have is owned by the community?

It makes for good discussions.

The price isn't right... everything else is
This movie is a sci fi lovers dream. I started waching half way through at a friends and coulnd't keep my eyes off the screen. If the price weren't so steep I would buy it for blockbusters for easier rental since no one seems to have it.

Formula movie with a Stepford feel
Security specialist upset by a life-threatening incident is invited to live in a secure closed society "The Colony". At first the parents, children and family dog are happy. Then people get over antsy about nitpicky rules. This masks something more sinister.

If you are familiar with computers you may notice this movie is a little dated.

Warning if you can not watch cruelty to dogs and ferns then you may find this upsetting.

Neighboorhood terror
The Colony is not just a tale of fiction. This film includes defenitely a warning for todays demanding society who request more safety in their own neighboorhoods 'No Matter What'. The message is that when going to the extreme in that, it will be at the cost of your own freedom. Perfect safety is only achievable when you hand your own privacy into the hands of others. And they can be just as criminal minded as those you want to be protected from. ... Read more