Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is a 1989 American slasher film written and directed by Rob Hedden, and starring Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, Peter Mark Richman, and Kane Hodder. It is the eighth installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series and follows Jason Voorhees stalking a group of high school graduates on a ship en route to, and later in, New York City. It was the last film in the series to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States until 2009, with the subsequent installments being
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday the series due to its supernatural elements and elimination of Jason Voorhees as a physical character. Its conclusion, which references fellow film villain Freddy Krueger, established what would become "Freddy vs. Jason", released ten years later in 2003. In June 2003, five years after , An undercover government agent in Camp Crystal Lake lures Jason Voorhees into a trap set by the FBI, and armed men blow him to bits. His remains are sent to a morgue, where a coroner becomes possessed by Jason's spirit after eating Jason's putrid heart. Jason, now in the coroner's body, escapes the morgue. At