It had been a good run, this partnership between Paramount and the Friday the 13th producers. Share. Jason should probably not add this area to his ‘places to visit’ while on holiday here but he follows them anyway. Anyway, All these are great articles, wanted to let you know that site was stealing from you. He also loves both Marvel and DC movies, and wishes every superhero fan could just get along. Sean Cunningham convinced him to come back for Jason Goes to Hell because Moss lived on the East Coast, and his cancer-stricken mother lived in Los Angeles. As he's about to kill a woman (undercover FBI agent Elizabeth Marcus), the FBI springs a trap. Jason corners him at the front of the boat so Miles decides to climb a ladder. 2009 also saw a Friday the 13th remake come out, which made money, but failed to impress the Jason faithful. Edit A long-term member of the Screen Rant family, Michael looks forward to continuing on creating new content for the site for many more years to come. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, which turns 25 at the end of this month, spoofed the city’s image and the way that image was both a fear and a desire for people. It’s certainly nothing on the level of Nightmare on Elm Street 2, but Jason Goes to Hell does have its own notoriously homoerotic moment in which a man shaves another man as a precursor to inserting the Jason parasite in his throat. The only person who actually viewed any of the footage during their initial 28-day shoot was editor David Handman, meaning no one was viewing the dailies as per normal procedure. When he read the script he decided the character absolutely had to wear a cowboy hat and boots along with a long outback coat. The whole point of that ending was that it was making Jason flashback to when he "died" in the lake - water would have been a more logical thing to find in a sewer and a … The earlier Friday the 13th films always wanted to leave the audience with one final jump scare and usually a film's ending was rolled out in the form of a dream sequence. In one scene, Jason throws Charles out a … However, there’s also quite a bit more male nudity than your typical Friday the 13th. Similarly, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday makes no effort to explain how Jason bounced back from his toxic waste dip at the end of Jason Takes Manhattan. It’s the only way they could get Keegan back. Click the button below to start this article in quick view. The song "The Darkest Side of the Night" performed by Metropolis plays over the opening and ending credits to the film. What was that one about the pink hot dog thing and the doughnut? So, Cunningham had to take the movie away from Marcus, and come in to direct the final couple of days. Checking out the problem, she is attacked by Jason Voorhees, who was once again resurrected though never explained how. The movie loses what made Friday the 13th great…it loses Jason. However, as a surprise Jason would awake only to watch his own black heart torn out by the the mystery man. It's no secret that slasher movies dominated the 1980s when it came to horror, most notably the "unholy trinity" of the Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street franchises. Erin Gray didn’t know the following happened to her character until she saw it with everyone else at the premiere: That was never in the script, and Gray did not pose for that scene specifically. Even though Williams won the battle over the costume he still admits to having struggled with completely grasping the script: “To this day, I don’t quite understand some of those lines in Jason Goes to Hell. Magnum P.I. It may not be the most cerebral, but Friday the 13th's mix of sex, violence, and occasional humor is almost like comfort food to its devotees. That way Freddy and Jason were both controlled by New Line, eliminating any legal barriers to the inevitable team-up film. Moreover, was it really a good idea to team the two up so shortly after they’d both completely bottomed out at the box office, Jason with Takes Manhattan (1989) and Freddy with Freddy’s Dead (1991)? In that time, Michael has written over 2000 articles for the site, first working solely as a news writer, then later as a senior writer and associate news editor. It could be argued that the true end to the Friday the 13th saga was 1989's Jason Takes Manhattan, and well, we're about to do exactly that. : so i could ask you?….. my e-mail address, will be included with the post, so if you want, you can reach me…. Cunningham was coming up against a deadline, as in New Line needed to see the script within a couple of days or else they’d cancel the project. In this case, we got Jason Goes to Hell. With that a graduating class is going to New York via the S.S. Lazarus and we meet Rennie, who I mentioned before. So, he recruited My Boyfriend’s Back writer Dean Lorey, sat with him in a room for 4 days, and wouldn’t let him leave until they had a script they could film. Where the … I only found out, though, because I not only read the site that ran the list but also freelanced for it at the time. This deal eventually led to the long-awaited Freddy vs. Jason, but first it gave fans 1993's Jason Goes to Hell, and 2001's Jason X. A lot of it wasn’t. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning was no different and employed that tactic in what seems to be multiple instances for the ending of the film. Adam Marcus wanted Keegan to do that shower scene completely nude, ala Glenn Close sitting in a shower naked and crying in The Big Chill. Live Storytelling The end of Jason Takes Manhattan explained. Michael Kennedy is an avid movie and TV fan that's been working for Screen Rant in various capacities since 2014. After his 4-day marathon of Jason Goes to Hell screenwriting, Lorey stayed on as an ever-present sounding board on set, but Cunningham also had Lewis Abernathy (Deepstar Six) and Leslie Boehm (Nightmare on Elm Street 5) perform un-credited re-writes. Now a zombie, Jason proved all but invulnerable, and was dealt with in Part 6 and Part 7: The New Blood by trapping him at the bottom of the lake. I think that’s a much better ending. The big reveal would be the identity of the man: Elias Voorhees, Jason’s heretofore unseen/unmentioned brother. That seemed to be the end of Jason until New Line resurrected him for Jason Goes to Hell. Of course, that’s exactly what happened. A FL native, Michael is passionate about pop culture, and earned an AS degree in film production in 2012. The Friday the 13th movies at this point were just ridiculous. He sure as heck wasn’t interested in simply making another crappy Friday the 13th sequel. The security guard who refers to Jason as “nothing but a big old pussy”? The film would open with a mystery man dredging Jason’s body back up so that an autopsy could be performed in a nearby cabin converted into a science lab. Grew up obsessing over movies and TV shows. But why dress him like a modern-day cowboy? They also compressed some vital scenes, such as Creighton Duke explaining “the rules.”  Even after all that, Cunningham still found the finished film beyond embarrassing: “Adam came to me and said, ‘The last thing the fans want is to see Jason going through Camp Crystal Lake chopping up teenagers again.’  Of course, it was the only thing they wanted to see, and Adam delivered this movie that was so not good.”. After scaring Suzy with a replica of Jason's hockey mask, Jim is killed when the freshly revived Jason eviscerates him with … Jason’s return begins to require a supernatural explanation at the end of Jason Lives, ... Jason Takes Manhattan. So, as much as 43 minutes of the final film came via re-shoots and re-purposed footage. According to Adam Marcus, “That was a corporate decision to make the story elements kind of link up easier. Well, that was all Williams’ doing. You can see our other Friday the 13th lists here. Greedy for a Little Control. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Change ). Why? After Jason Takes Manhattan went over budget but became the lowest-grossing Friday the 13th film ever, Paramount decided it was time to walk away. Nor does Jason X explain how Jason came back after being Dragged Off to Hell at the end of The Final Friday, though Freddy vs. Jason reveals that he was resurrected by Freddy Krueger. So, it wasn’t meant to be significant, but it helped fuel the Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash fire, which never made it to screen but did become a graphic novel. [My sources from this point forward are: Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th documentary & the companion coffee table book of the same name]. While all those films have their fans, they all feel quite different from the eight Paramount entries, and retcon lots of prior plot elements. Seriously, this movie was the worst advert for Manhattan in the late 80’s. For those reasons, and the fact that it definitively ended the original Paramount run, Jason Takes Manhattan is the true end to Friday the 13th's story, no matter how laughable the whole toxic waste under New York City thing is. 2002 – Friday the 13th part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Jason is once again resurrected by lightening, rather electricity and after killing two teens on a boat on Crystal Lake, it somehow reaches the ocean. Through unexplained resurrection, the undead serial killer/assassin Jason Voorhees is back at Crystal Lakeand on the hunt again, but this time the brutal killer is on the wrong end of an FBI sting. At the end of Jason Takes Manhattan, zombie Jason has also seemingly gained the ability to teleport, appearing in front of the people he was chasing in logistically impossible ways. Creighton Duke was created as an homage to George Romero’s point of making African American actors the heroes of his zombie films. Thus, the actual Jason only appears for a few short minutes in a movie called Jason Goes to Hell. Yeah, they hadn’t actually gotten that far yet. The original script called for a lot more Jason in Manhattan. You say something, get a crazed look in your eyes, and just let the audience try to figure out what the hell is going on.”. He wouldn’t be in the film if they dressed the character any differently. More: Friday the 13th: How Jason Got His Hockey Mask (In Both Versions). ( Log Out /  I admit it’s a little distasteful, and I regret that shot, even though, trust me, audiences love it.”. Ignoring Jason Takes Manhattan, he picked up where Part VII: The New Blood left off, i.e., Jason neutralized and trapped at the bottom of Crystal Lake. Working on Jason Goes to Hell gave him a professional reason to return to LA, providing a paycheck while spending his free time attending to the needs of his dying mother. was the notorious Friday the 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, the most expensive slasher film ever made by some counts, and the worst-performing film in the series even as … There was a crucial next step, though, which was actually coming up with a story for a team-up movie. He needed to get his first credit out of the way to prevent that from happening again, and Sean let him do the next Friday the 13th even though he was only 23. However, the actual film rights belonged to Boston-based theater owner Phil Scuderi and his partners, the backers of the 1980 Friday and franchise owners ever since. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. After the 1980s, slashers went out of style for awhile, leading Paramount to agree to sell control of future Jason installments to New Line Cinema, which was itself eventually purchased by Warner Bros. Related: The Horror Movie Franchises With The Most Nudity Revealed. Worked in a video store. When not writing, Michael enjoys going to concerts, taking in live professional wrestling, and debating pop culture. His grisly remains are sent to a morgue, where the coroner … Jason’s body-hopping via mouth-ingested parasite from that point forward was likely ripped off from The Hidden (1987), a science fiction flick in New Line’s archive. It got set up at Disney, where it ultimately became My Boyfriend’s Back (1993), but there was no chance in hell Disney was going to let a first-timer like Adam direct. They were only able to salvage around 45-50 minutes of Marcus’ original work. Needless to say, that's not true, but in the movie, Jason gets trapped inside the toxic waste, and while the final girl sees a vision of Jason's child self, his body appears to have been completely vaporized. Description. A scientist, Rowan LaFontaine (Lexa Doig), decides that cryonic suspension is the only method of stopping him, but Jason breaks free and kills the army personnel guarding him before he can be again imprisoned. thank you!!!!…. 1989 sequel Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers ended the decade with a slash, but almost earned an X rating on the way to theaters. A young woman arrives at Camp Crystal Lake and goes inside one of the cabins to take a quick bath, when suddenly the lights go out. I get all that. As Jim tells Suzy the legend of Jason Voorhees, the boat's anchor catches onto a power cable which it drags onto the comatose body of Jason, shocking him back to life. They pulled most of their actors from TV, e.g., Erin Gray (Buck Rogers, Silver Spoons), Steven Williams (21 Jump Street), Allison Smith (Kate & Allie), and, of course, John D. LeMay (the only actor to appear in both the Friday the 13th TV series and a Friday the 13th film, albeit as separate characters). An unexpected though obvious consequence of filming everything at a slightly faster frame rate was that where they thought they had a 90-minute film they only actually had 80 minutes. Today, it’s time for Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), aka, the one where Manhattan looked mostly like Vancouver. Now, it’s time for Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993), aka, the really crappy one where Jason’s black heart keeps jumping from body to body. As a result, Keegan and Marcus briefly became enemies. Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. So, thank you. They were all too focused on moving to the next thing to stop and make sure that what they got was usable. Next Friday, we’ll explain that David Cronenberg cameo in Jason X. 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Sure. Jason's final confrontation with his main targets heads into the New York City subway system, where it's inexplicably revealed that a river of toxic waste is released every single night. Notably though, when people reminiscence about the best moments to be found within the Friday the 13th movies, they almost always talk about the movies released by Paramount in the 1980s. He first appeared in Friday the 13th (1980), as the son of camp cook-turned-murderer, Mrs. Voorhees, in which he was portrayed by Ari Lehman. Jason Takes Manhattan was the first film in the series not to feature Manfredini credited on the score. An alternate ending originally had an armed robber shooting the lead character to death after closing time, which would have obviously been a huge bummer to close out the comedy film with. Conceptually, the notion of Jason’s essence being transferable came from Adam Marcus’ original story treatment. 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