Sure the title is sort of a cop-out (since Jason doesn't get there until the last third and when there doesn't exactly "paint the town red" if you catch my drift) but at least this eighth entry tried something new and is better than the previous one.

Jason is yet again brought back from the bottom of the lake (looking even worse for wear than before) when the anchor of a houseboat (that just happens to have two horny teens on it) hits a power line and shocks him back to life.

First he dispatches the said teens (there's a decent harpoon gun moment) before hitching a ride on a ship filled with teens headed on a field trip to New York. It's during this trip that Jason starts to knock-off everyone on board while Jensen Daggett (who has a troubled secret in her past) has visions of him as a drowning lad.

Decently directed follow-up isn't the best sequel but at least it's watchable (and it even brings back the "doom warning harbinger" character in the form of a ship's janitor) and has some alright moments of dispatch (a hot coal in the stomach and some mirror shard nastiness) even if writer/director Hedden tries a bit too much to work in a Jason backstory and it seems that Mr. Vorhees' special "warp power" is working overtime (there's many moments where Jason is in one spot only to magically appear quickly elsewhere - especially in the ship tower scene).

You could even call this one more "mainstream" oriented what it being the first one to actually have somewhat of a soundtrack of modern music acts.

Forget your logic, guffaw at the cheesy boxing moment (it's the worst thing here), just groan at the bad Jason make-up and be mildly entertained - I was.

I love the moment with the punkers and their boombox and Kane Hodder actually manages to inject Jason with a small bit of personallity.

Followed by Jason Goes To Hell:The Final Friday.

Directed By: Rob Hedden.
Written By: Rod Hedden.

Starring: Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, Barbara Bingham, Peter Mark Richman.