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How Did This Get Made?

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

How Did This Get Made?

Earwolf

Film Reviews, Comedy, Tv & Film, So Bad They’re Good, Bad Films, Bad Movies, Comedy Movies, Movies, Movie Reviews, Film

4.823.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Light your long candles and set your trash cans on fire, because this week, Paul, June, and Jason are breaking down the 1989 movie, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. The crew questions if the title of this movie was inspired by the Muppets, ponder the mythology of Jason, and discuss the importance of water safety.

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0:00.0

replace takes with casually sales too and you have a more apt description of this film.

0:07.9

We saw Friday the 13th, Part 8, Jason Takes Manhattan.

0:13.7

Now it's time for how to discriminate.

0:17.6

We're going to have a good time, celebrate and celebrate, not just be a hater,

0:20.7

because you know you wonder, how did this get paid?

0:22.9

Let's follow in the mediocrity of subpar art.

0:26.9

Perhaps we'll find the answer to the question.

0:29.7

How did this get made?

0:31.2

Hello, people of Earth, and welcome to How Did This Get Made?

0:34.5

The year is 1989, and Jason Voorhees is accidentally awakened from his watery grave

0:42.7

and ends up stalking a ship full of graduating high school students headed to Manhattan,

0:48.0

and the final scenes of this film are shot there as well as the opening, but there is so much

0:54.0

that happens along the way.

0:55.8

We're going to break it all down for you right now. Please welcome my co-host, Jason Manzukas,

1:00.4

and June, Diane Raphael. How are you both? I mean, I'm going to be honest. I've never seen this.

1:07.5

And I loved this New York. I just wish we'd spent more time there.

1:11.8

I mean, this film really sets the tone of a New York movie.

1:17.2

I mean, the opening sequences, the dirty alleys, the trash cans full of water, and just an

1:24.6

establishing shot on a rat that I feel like lasted for 30 seconds.

1:28.9

Like they are, we got a real rat. We got a real rat. Keep rolling.

1:31.7

Well, I don't know if you notice because I, the Manhattan, the Manhattan that we see

1:36.4

the beginning of this movie, there's one shot of the drug, you know, sort of criminals that

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