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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) KILL COUNT is the eighth video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
Two graduating high school students are aboard a houseboat on Crystal Lake. Jim tells his girlfriend Suzy 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, which shocks Jason's corpse and revives him. He sneaks on board, takes the mask, and kills Jim with a harpoon gun before impaling Suzy, who tries to hide from him, with a barb.
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. with her guitar before hiding. That night, a young boxer who lost to champion Julius Gaw is killed when Jason slams a hot sauna rock into his abdomen while Rennie, searching for her pet Border Collie Toby, discovers prom queen Tamara and Eva doing drugs. McCulloch nearly catches them moments later and Tamara pushes Rennie overboard, suspecting she told on them. She uses video student Wayne to record McCulloch in a compromising situation with her but rejects Wayne's advances afterward. Jason kills Tamara with a shard of broken mirror as she showers.
Rennie sees visions of a young Jason throughout the ship, but the others ignore the deckhand's warnings. 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 stop. Eva finds Tamara's body and flees, but when she goes into the disco room, Jason follows her and violently strangles her. 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 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; his corpse catches fire and causes the ship to sink. With the other students 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; he is then 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 drowns him in a barrel of toxic waste which melts his face 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. Sean incapacitates Jason by knocking him onto the electrical third rail. When Jason revives, he chases them through Times Square, where they try to escape through a diner. They flee into the sewers and encounter a sewer worker. He warns them that the sewers will be flooded with toxic waste at midnight before Jason appears and kills him. Sean is injured, and Rennie draws Jason off, wounding him with a splash of acidic waste. Jason is forced to take off his mask, horrifying Rennie upon seeing his melted face. She and Sean climb the ladder as Jason staggers to get them. Just as he is about to kill them, the sewers flood and engulf him. Although Jason tries to grab the ladder, he can't, and melts away and then lights on fire. Rennie sees a final vision of a child-form of Jason as the waste recedes. The two escape to the street, where they are reunited with Toby, who had run away earlier, and walk off into the city.
Deaths[]
Counted deaths[]
- Jim Miller - Stabbed in the stomach - 9 mins in
- Suzi Donaldson - Stabbed in chest - 11 mins in
- J.J. Jarrett - Bashed in head - 22 mins in
- Boxing Guy - Sauna rock through chest - 30 mins in
- Tamara Mason - Stabbed with mirror shards - 39 mins in
- Chief Engineer Jim Carlson - Stabbed in back with harpoon - 40 mins in
- Admiral Robertson - Throat slit - 40 mins in
- Eva Watanabe - Strangled to death - 48 mins in
- Ship Crewmember - Accidentally shot by Wayne - 50 mins in
- Wayne Webber - Immediate electrical explosion - 51 mins in
- Miles Wolfe - Thrown onto a weather vane - 54 mins in
- Deck Hand - Axe to the back - 59 mins in
- Rapist Gangbanger #1 (“Holmes”) - Stabbed through back with syringe - 1 hr 8 mins in
- Rapist Gangbanger #2 (“Jojo”) - Head smashed into pipe - 1 hr 9 mins in
- Julius Gaw - Head punched off - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Police Officer - Killed offscreen - 1 hr 14 mins in
- Colleen Van Deusen - Accidentally killed in explosion - 1 hr 16 mins in
- Charles McCulloch - Drowned/melted in barrel of toxic waste - 1 hr 21 mins
- Diner Cook - Thrown into mirror - 1 hr 28 mins in
- Sanitation Engineer - Wrench to the head - 1 hr 31 mins in
Non-counted deaths[]
- Unnamed members of the SS Lazarus and students - Drowned
- Jason Voorhees - drowned/melted in toxic waste (due to Jason always living.)
Trivia[]
- This is the first 1989 movie covered on the Kill Count. (1989 is also James' birth year)
- The actor of the Diner Cook that was thrown onto the mirror was Ken Kirzinger, who would later play Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason.