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Nightmare Fuel / Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

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  • Tamara's death. She can only helplessly watch as Jason picks up a piece of a broken mirror and gets closer to her. What doesn't help is her frantic, terrified sobbing as she keeps screaming "No!" She might've been an absolute bitch but it was hard not to feel scared for her.
  • Eva's death, because Jason forgoes using any weapons and strangles her with his bare hands. It's not the most bloody death in the movie, and while Jason has used his bare hands before, it just seems to take so much longer than the other deaths, and Eva is forced to look into her killer's eyes as she died.
  • McColluch’s death is rather terrifying as well. Like Eva’s kill, it’s relatively bloodless and utilized no weapons, but the very thought of being forcefully drowned is horrifying, especially in an area as small as a barrel. He may have been a jerk throughout the film, but one can’t help but feel bad for him when it happens. Him begging for mercy makes it even more horrifying.
  • The nameless boxer’s death in the sauna is another bloodless kill (notice a pattern), but is still horrifying. He’s just laying there, a towel over his head, then without even realizing it Jason comes in, takes one of the hot sauna rocks and forces it into his chest. The thought alone that this could’ve happened to anybody is creepy in and of itself.
  • The flashback showing Jason attacking Rennie underwater years prior. He looks scarier in that scene than he does in the present!
  • Jason killing the worker down in the sewer, mostly because we only see what's happening through the duo's shadows.
  • Julius's death and the buildup to the actual death. He decides to take on Jason himself in a boxing match and despite of his training and skill (and his hands being left a bloody mess from the force of his punches), it's still no match for the undead killer, who is totally unharmed by all of his brutal blowsnote  and kills Julius with a single blow that knocks the man's head off.

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