Q 01/05

What brings Jason back to life at the bottom of Crystal Lake at the start of Jason Takes Manhattan?

A) A bolt of lightning

B) A teenager's psychic gift

C) A damaged power cable

D) A leaking chemical drum

Answer · why

C) A damaged power cable

A damaged power cable does it: a boat's anchor snags it on the lakebed and the surge shocks Jason awake. Earlier sequels revived him with lightning an...

Q 02/05

How does Jason kill the boxer Julius after their rooftop fight in Jason Takes Manhattan?

A) Punches his head off

B) Throws him off the roof

C) Snaps his neck

D) Impales him on an antenna

Answer · why

A) Punches his head off

Jason punches his head off with one blow, after Julius exhausts himself landing a long string of hits that never put the killer down.

Q 03/05

In early plans for Jason Takes Manhattan, which landmark would Jason have climbed and dived from?

A) The Empire State Building

B) The Chrysler Building

C) The World Trade Center

D) The Statue of Liberty

Answer · why

D) The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty dive was one of the big set pieces the writer-director imagined, along with a Brooklyn Bridge sequence and a visit to a Broadway...

Q 04/05

The makers of which later slasher sequel, also set in New York, studied Jason Takes Manhattan?

A) Halloween Kills

B) Scream VI

C) Evil Dead Rise

D) Candyman

Answer · why

B) Scream VI

Scream VI moved its killer from the town of Woodsboro to New York in 2023, and its team studied the 1989 film for the feeling of being alone among mil...

Q 05/05

Why did Paramount pull the first Jason Takes Manhattan poster after a New York official complained?

A) It showed too much gore

B) It revealed the ending

C) It used a tourism logo

D) It mocked the mayor

Answer · why

C) It used a tourism logo

It used a tourism logo: Jason was shown slashing through New York's famous heart emblem, and a state development official objected. The replacement ha...