By 1989, the end of the decade meant the seventh "Friday the 13th" sequel written and directed by Rob Hedden, was only released on VHS video. In the beginning Jim Miller, (Todd Shaefer), tells his girlfriend Suzi Donaldson, (Tiffany Paulsen), about Camp Crystal Lake, and the murders on a boat! When Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), is revived, he kills them with a spear, (mirroring the deaths from Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", 1981). The rest of the movie is absurd. When a group of teenagers head to New York on a cruise liner, lead by Charles McCulloch, (Peter Mark Richman), and Colleen Van Deusen, (Barbara Bingham), Jason Voorhees somehow boards the ship, and attacks everyone before the survivors reach the city that never sleeps.
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The film begins with Rennie Wickham, (Jensen Daggett), whose mother takes her on the cruise. Other teenagers are: Sean Robertson, (Scott Reeves), whose father is Admiral Robertson, (Warren Munson), Miles Wolfe, (Gordon Currie); J. J. Jarret, (Saffron Henderson); and a Deck Hand, (Alex Diakun). Part VIII limps though the sex and violence of other sequels. When the survivors of the deadly cruise leave by life raft, they head to New York only to meet drug pushes, and other crime riddled areas of the city that never sleeps. Three decades ago, crime was rife, before the "Zero Tolerance" policy happened. In short, Sean, Rennie, and Toby the dog, (Ace)!, fight Jason Voorhees in the sewers, resulting in the end of the movie with the killer turning into a small boy, (Timothy Burr Mirkovich), that leads to his drowning again like he did back in 1957 as an eleven year old. They leave New York, and the movie ends.
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Fred Mollin's music, and Kane Hodder can't save the movie from being a flop. In the end, producers didn't rush out another "Friday the 13th", by the 1990's.
And they were right not to.
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