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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) KILL COUNT: RECOUNT is the three hundredth video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
While aboard a houseboat on Crystal Lake, teenager Jim Miller tells his girlfriend Suzi the legend of Jason Voorhees, before playing a prank on her with a hockey mask and a prop knife. The boat's anchor damages some underwater cables that shock Jason's corpse, which is still chained at the bottom of the lake, and revive him. He sneaks on board, takes the mask, and kills Jim with a harpoon gun before impaling Suzi.
The next morning, the SS Lazarus is ready to set sail for New York City with a graduating senior class from Lakeview High School, chaperoned by biology teacher Dr. Charles McCulloch and English teacher Colleen Van Deusen. Van Deusen brings McCulloch's niece Rennie along for the trip despite her aquaphobia, much to his chagrin. Jason sneaks on board and kills rock star-wannabe J.J. Jarrett with her guitar. That night, a young boxer who lost his match to champion Julius Gaw is killed by Jason in the ship's sauna. Rennie, searching for her pet Border Collie Toby, discovers prom queen Tamara Mason and her friend Eva Watanabe doing drugs. McCulloch nearly catches them moments later and Tamara pushes Rennie overboard, believing that she told on them. She then uses video student Wayne Webber to record McCulloch in a compromising situation with her but rejects Wayne's advances afterward. Jason kills Tamara with a shard of broken mirror after she showers.
Rennie sees visions of a young Jason throughout the ship. Jason kills Captain Robertson and his first mate. Rennie's boyfriend and Captain Robertson's son, Sean, discovers them and tells the others before calling for an emergency. Eva finds Tamara's body and flees. Jason chases Eva into the disco room, where he strangles her to death on the dance floor. The students agree to search for Jason while McCulloch decides that the deckhand is responsible. However, the deckhand is found with a fire axe in his back. Jason tosses student Miles Wolfe into the radio transmitter tower to his death, and Julius is knocked overboard. In the hold of the ship, Wayne comes upon J.J.'s body and is thrown into an electrical box by Jason. Wayne's corpse catches fire and causes the ship to take on water. With the other students that were left in the disco room seemingly dead, McCulloch, Van Deusen, Rennie, and Sean try to control the flooding and discover Toby and Julius are alive, pulling them back on the ship. Meanwhile waves are starting to crash over the bow of the ship and the ship is filling with water. Rennie goes to her room to get her dog, but discovers it filling with water. She wades into it, grabs her dog, and they all get into a liferaft and escape the now rapidly plunging ship.
They row to New York where Jason stalks them through the streets. Rennie is kidnapped by a pair of junkies, and the group splits up to find help. Julius fights Jason but becomes exhausted after Jason does not go down and gets decapitated by a single punch from Jason. Rennie escapes from Jason when he kills the punks that kidnapped her. She runs into Sean, and they reunite with the teachers and the police before Jason kills the officer who is helping them. Rennie crashes a police car after a vision of Jason distracts her. Van Deusen is incinerated in the car when it explodes, and it is revealed that McCulloch is responsible for Rennie's fear of water, having pushed her into the lake as a child. They leave him behind, and Jason push him in a barrel of toxic waste which poison him in the progress. A little girl, who is running from the gang of rapists, comes around and pulls him out of the barrel, and becomes terrified when she sees his melted face. She starts running, but backs up into Jason, who shoves her into the barrel as she screams, and presumably drowns as Jason leaves, the last we see of her is her flailing legs starting to melt as she tries to get out.
Jason chases Rennie and Sean into the subway, where Sean incapacitates Jason by pushing him onto the third rail. When Jason revives, he chases them through Times Square to a diner, and then to the sewers where they encounter a worker. He warns them that the sewers will be flooded with toxic waste at midnight. Jason appears, kills the worker and knocks Sean unconscious. Rennie throws a vat of toxic waste into Jason's face. She and Sean climb a ladder as Jason staggers after them. The sewers flood, and Jason, reminded of his childhood drowning, vomits water. The waste water overcomes Jason, causing his face to melt away, and then burn. Although Jason tries to grab the ladder, his hands melt, and so he can't. When the water recedes, Sean and Rennie witness what appears to be Jason as an unconscious child. Sean and Rennie make their way back to the street where they are reunited with Rennie's dog Toby in Times Square.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths:[]
- Jim Miller - Stabbed in gut w/ harpoon gun. - 9 mins in
- Suzi Donaldson - Speared in chest. - 11 mins in
- J.J. Jarrett - Talk about a head banger! - 22 mins in
- Boxing Guy - Sauna rock through stomach and/or chest. - 30 mins in
- Tamara Mason - Stabbed w/ mirror shard - 39 mins in
- Chief Engineer Jim Carlson - Harpooned in back - 40 mins in
- Admiral Robertson - Throat slit oh noooooo - 40 mins in
- Eva Watanabe - Strangled to death - 48 mins in
- Ship Crewmember - Accidentally shot by Wayne - 50 mins in
- Wayne Webber - Electrocuted by control board - 51 mins in
- Miles Wolfe - Impaled through side by weather vane - 54 mins in
- 4 Restaurant Students - Drowned or Jasoned - 59 mins in
- 18 Other Students - Presumably drowned and/or Jasoned - 59 mins in (Arbitrarily counted by James)
- Deck Hand - Axe to back - 59 mins in
- Junkie #1 - Inject poison - 1 hr 8 mins in
- Junkie #2 - Head slammed into pipe - 1 hr 9 mins in
- Julius Gaw - Decapitated by a single punch - 1 hr 12 mins
- Police Officer - Killed offscreen in alleyway - 1 hr 14 mins in
- Colleen Van Deusen - Blown up in car - 1 hr 16 mins
- Charles McCulloch - Suffocate/poison in toxic waste barrel - 1 hr 21 mins in
- Waiter - Chucked into mirror - 1 hr 28 mins in
- Sanitation Engineer - Bashed in head w/ wrench - 1 hr 31 mins in
Non-Counted Deaths[]
- Mr. and Mrs. Wickham - Mangled in a car crash (Mentioned)
- Jason Voorhees - Due to being Jason
Trivia[]
- This is the 300th Kill Count.
- Jason Voorhees is the ninth fictional character to be featured in a Numbers Gag.
- Currently, this has the longest title for a Kill Count video with 64 letters.