Friday the 13th Part VIII - Manhattan Death Trap

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Movie
German title Friday the 13th Part VIII - Manhattan Death Trap
Original title Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rob Hedden
script Rob Hedden
production Randy Cheveldave
music Fred Mollin
camera Bryan England
cut Steve Mirkovich
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Friday the 13th Part VII - Jason in a blood frenzy

Successor  →
Jason Goes to Hell - The Final Reckoning

Friday the 13th Part VIII - Manhattan Death Trap (Alternative title: Friday the 13th - Manhattan Death Trap ) is an American horror film from 1989 by Rob Hedden . The film is the eighth part of Friday-the-13th. -Series .

action

The beginning of this film does not differ from that of the previous films either: Jason is dead and is resuscitated by a carelessness. This time it is the anchor of a ship that works the miracle by means of a power cable on the bottom of the lake. Jason kills the two teenagers who rescued him from his damp grave.

The next morning he finds a larger vehicle, this time an excursion boat (“Lazarus”). The destination of this death ship is Manhattan . There is a complete school class with teachers on board the ship. Jason immediately begins decimating the passengers until the teacher's niece, Rennie, notices something strange is happening on the ship. She is plagued by strange apparitions.

She wants to leave the ship immediately and seeks the captain, his father, with her friend Sean. When they see that he is dead, they immediately sound the alarm. The other youngsters, armed with various objects, search the ship for the murderer. But they can't do anything against Jason either, and so they are all brutally killed by him. The last living on the ship, Rennie, her uncle, her dog, Sean, Julian and Miss Van Deusen, can leave the "Lazarus" with a lifeboat.

When they arrive in Manhattan days later and seek help that night, Jason has followed them and is already on their heels. One after the other is killed and so Rennie and Sean have to get to safety. They flee into the sewer system. There they meet a sewer worker who tells them that the sewer system will be flooded with acid at exactly 12 noon. Jason kills this worker. As he chases Rennie, she pours acid on his face. She runs back to the injured Sean and climbs the ladder with him to escape Jason. This tries to stop them, but is swept away by the acidic acid. At the end you can see Jason's mask floating on the acid and a boy (Jason) lies in it.

Reviews

The film was rated significantly worse than its predecessor. This can be seen both on Rotten Tomatoes , where only 8% of the reviews were positive, and in the Internet Movie Database , where users gave it a rating of just 4.6 out of 10 possible points.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film fulfills the fans' dubious entertainment wishes "with the usual bloody means.

Trivia

  • In the scene where Julius hits Jason, the actor in Julius ( Vincent Craig Dupree ) really hit the actor in Jason ( Kane Hodder ) with all his might.
  • During the chase in the subway you see a poster with a man that says "My little girl needs blood." Below that on the left is "Jason lives." to read.
  • The man Jason throws in the mirror in the New York restaurant is Ken Kirzinger , the Jason actor from Freddy vs. Jason .
  • The budget for the film was approximately five million US dollars . He grossed $ 14 million in the United States; only Jason X played less. The worldwide box office, including rental and video / DVD, is approximately 30 million US dollars.
  • Cuts also had to be made for the 8th part. Eight scenes were affected. In addition, all film murders were shot in three different degrees of severity. Most of the time, the first stage, i.e. the most harmless, was used.
  • In Germany, Friday the 13th Part VIII had to be cut by seven more scenes. The total cutting time is 81 seconds. The Italian DVD received per tutti approval. This is equivalent to the German no age limit approval.
  • On Friday, 13 June 2008 and on 13 February 2009, the channel broadcast " The Fourth " for the first time death trap Manhattan in the abridged English version.
  • The film was removed from the list of media harmful to minors in September 2009 by the BPjM and in October 2009 the FSK approved the unabridged version of the film after re-examination as before, the second part from 16 years of age .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Certificate for Friday the 13th Part VIII - Manhattan Death Trap . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2009 (PDF; test number: 63 016-b V).
  2. ↑ Review on Rotten Tomatoes
  3. ↑ Rating in the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ Friday the 13th Part VIII - Manhattan Death Trap. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Budget and gross profit on imdb.com
  6. ↑ News for Friday the 13th Part VIII - Manhattan Death Trap on Schnittberichte.com