It’s part 1 of our ‘New York’ series, and we take a slow boat to the Big Apple with “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan”. A film in which a group of students get ripped off when they hire a “cruise ship”; New York City is a seething cesspool of crime and toxic waste; and Kane Hodder gets to pre-emptively leather the bloke who eventually nicked his job. “Jason Takes Manhattan” has our hockey-masked antihero bludgeneoning his way through yet another group of annoying teens; whilst also ticking off other touchstones of the “Friday…” franchise, such as an over-lit flashback and even a crazy harbinger. Despite this, the film somehow lacks something, maybe it’s the fact that we take far too long to get to NYC, or that, by this point, we’ve seen it all once too often. However, like most good slasher films, as a party movie with friends and/or your recreational substance of choice, it’s still a lot of daft fun. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers and join us