Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
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Visible crew/equipment: When everyone is getting off the ship and into the small boat, it's raining. Jason is looking down at them - right when he is looking down you can see above him the sprinkler making the rain. (00:57:40)

Factual error: Jason stabs the druggie with the needle and it comes out the front, but his hand is only on his back and the needle isn't long enough to go through to the other side. (01:08:35)

Continuity mistake: When Julius is boxing with Jason, you see that his hands get cut up and are bleeding heavily during the fight. He continues punching Jason in the mask but never leaves a drop of blood on it. (01:09:20)

Revealing mistake: As Jason brings his arm back to punch Julius, the back of his neck obviously buckles like a rubber mask. (01:09:40)

Continuity mistake: In the police car Rennie jumps into the driver's seat and drives off, while the other three stay in the back. After the car crashes, Sean has suddenly moved to the passenger seat. (01:11:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Jason grabs the policeman, the policeman's hat falls to the floor. In the next shot it's back on his head. (01:11:50)

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Revealing mistake: When Rennie crashes the police car into the wall, the explosion clearly occurs before the car even comes into contact with the wall. (01:12:30)

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Revealing mistake: Obvious dummies are in the car's back seats just before it slams into the wall. (01:12:35)

Visible crew/equipment: After the police car is crashed, as it goes up in flames you can see a thick black wire trailing up into the police car's boot, which wasn't there before. (01:13:00)

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Continuity mistake: As Jason is dunking McCulloch in a barrell of toxic waste, a big wet stain of sludge on McCulloch's trouser, to the left, disappears between shots. (01:17:50)

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Visible crew/equipment: When Sean finds Rennie in the alley recliner and kneels down to comfort her, there is a clear shadow of equipment on his jacket sleeve. (01:18:15)

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Revealing mistake: When Sean and Rennie run through the two glass doors leading down into the New York subway system, you can see Jason's shadow on the wall as he stands off camera and waits for his cue to walk on screen and kick his way through the glass doors. (01:19:25)

Visible crew/equipment: Rennie and Sean get onto a train, Rennie spots Jason standing behind a door. When it does a closeup of Jason, reflected in the bottom left hand corner of the glass is a crewman with headphones on. (01:20:00)

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Visible crew/equipment: After Rennie and Sean pull the emergency break on the train, and get off, Jason follows. As he exits through the door, in the window to the viewers left is a reflector screen clearly reflected. (01:20:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Rennie and Sean walk out of the subway onto the streets, they walk across the metal grids on the floor twice. (01:22:45)

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Continuity mistake: In the streets, Rennie and Sean run past a group of teens, and behind them, look at the "Howard Johnson" sign. It is dark and unlit. But when Jason passes them, it is lit up. When Jason then turns and shows the teenagers his face, the sign is once again unlit. (01:23:30)

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Continuity mistake: After Jason kicks the teen's radio to the floor, they stand up, and the street behind them has a lot of cars on it. In the next shot, as Jason shows them his face, the street is now almost completely empty. (01:23:40)

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Continuity mistake: When Jason grabs the man in the diner he is several paces to the right of the mirror, but when he throws the man into the mirror Jason can clearly be seen in the reflection standing right across from it. (01:24:35)

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Rennie: There is a maniac trying to kill us.
Waitress: Welcome to New York.

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Trivia: Jensen Daggett was genuinely terrified when actor Kane Hodder pulled her towards him, through the porthole. This is because a huge shard of glass was right by her throat and Kane was unknowingly pulling her toward it. You can see the frightened look on her face. (00:53:25)

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Question: What was with the ending? He melts down to a regular looking boy when in the original he was shown as deformed. I hate this ending, consider it the weakest and worst of the franchise.

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Answer: The side effects of being washed away with toxic waste?

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