Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is a slasher film released on July 28, 1989. It is the eighth film in the Friday the 13th film series and the last film in the series to have been distributed by Paramount.

The film opened in 1,683 theaters making $6.2 million its opening weekend. Domestically, the film made only $14.3 million, making it the second lowest grossing Friday the 13th movie. It is also the lowest rated Friday the 13th film. Perhaps the biggest complaint was in the film's faulty promise of letting Jason take Manhattan. On his commentary track for the film in the box-set, director Rob Hedden acknowledges the faults and even agrees that more of the film should have been set in Manhattan. The film failed to generate a substantial amount of money at the box office, which continued the decline in grosses the series had been suffering, and Paramount sold the franchise to New Line Cinema soon afterwards. Entertainment Weekly labelled it the eighth worst sequel ever made.

After a boat's anchor hits an underwater powerline, the undead serial killer Jason Voorhees is resurrected (in the style of Part VI). He immediately finds the boat's occupants, a high school couple who are having sex. Obtaining a hockey mask from the boat (which the boy had previously used to scare his girlfriend), he kills the boyfriend with the barrel of a harpoon gun. His girlfriend attempts to hide in a storage hatch, but Jason easily discovers her and jams the harpoon around into her chest. The next morning, the SS Lazarus, containing the senior class of Lakeview High, is bound for New York City for the school's high school graduation. Before the ship sets sail, Jason grabs a hold of the ship's anchor and climbs aboard.