Can't have a day of slasher flicks without some Jason action. Though we'd go super cheesy on this one--and boy is this cheesy. Oh that 80's music!! OK there is a lot of fiddling around on a boat (er, I mean ship) before Jason actually takes Manhattan, but once he does it's pretty cool in a C-grade movie kind of way.
Original Release Date:
28 July 1989
The most well known actor in the movie is Peter Mark Richman, who has an incredibly long acting career, especially in television, and he's still working!
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| Here he is as Charles McCulloch in the movie |
Runtime: 100 Minutes
Sound Mix: some called Ultra Stereo
Gross To Date: A little more than $6, 250,000
Some Trivia:
Jensen Daggett (who plays Rennie) in the movie, didn't have to act when she was grabbed by "Jason" through the porthole. It was a real glass porthole that had been busted out for the scene, and the actor playing Jason had no idea that he was really pulling her dangerously close to a very sharp, jagged shard of glass left in the frame.
The last of the "Jason" films ever to be produced by Paramount.
Another actor, Vincent Craig Dupree, really did get quite badly cut, when "Jason" smashed out more real glass around him in a real telephone booth.
The lack of real "New York Time" in the movie is not the fault of the director. The original screenplay had much more stuff in and around Manhattan, including the Empire State Building and Central Park; but shooting there was expensive, and the studio stupidly refused to up the budget for the production. So fan rightly complained that it was absurd to call it "Jason Takes Manhattan."
Oh, and the vomiting at the end of the movie is REAL! yuk!
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