Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

What if we did a Friday the 13th movie, but we set it on a boat? Yup, that’s it. Generic Jason adventure, except it’s on a boat and the final act is in New York. All of the pieces are there that one would expect. There are boring, dumb teenagers who are obsessed with sex. There are a series of murders that no one notices, killing any sense of grand tension through much of the film. Yeah, I’m dismissive, but there’s a technical skill to some small parts of the film that make me think the expe...