Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is the seventh sequel to the original Friday the 13th. The film is lambasted among some fans of the series for obvious plot holes and noticeable gaffes in production (such as the sewers of New York flooding with toxic waste or Jason's ability to move between long distances in short spaces of time), culminating in a very confusing ending - all of which landed the film on IMDb's Bottom 100 (which has since risen out of the list). But perhaps the biggest complaint was in the film's faulty promise of letting Jason take Manhattan. Its failure to generate a substantial amount of money at the box office, which continued the decline in grosses the series had been suffering, may have been the deciding factor in Paramount selling the franchise to New Line Cinema soon afterwards.
After being resurrected once again, this time in the form of a cable tow, Jason rises from Crystal Lake to board the Lazarus. On its way to New York and full of high school graduates, Jason has plenty of time and people to kill before he eventually chases his prey into the streets of the Big Apple.
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Trivia

* There was a now sought after poster featuring Jason ripping through an "I Love New York" poster. However, it was never used due to complaints from the New York Tourism Committee.
* The scenes set in Times Square were the only scenes actually filmed in Manhattan; the rest was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
* Writer/director Rob Hedden originally wrote the film to feature much more of New York, including Madison Square Garden, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Empire State Building. But budget limitations restricted such scenes from being filmed, so the script was rewritten to feature more time on the ship.
* In the diner scene, the busboy thrown against the mirror by Jason is played by Canadian stuntman Ken Kirzinger (who also served as the film's stunt coordinator). Kirzinger succeeded Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason.