Eva Watanabe was another student who attended Lakeview High School and she took the field trip on the SS Lazarus in Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan. She was portrayed by Kelly Hu, who also played Stacy Hirano in Phineas and Ferb and D'Vorah in Mortal Kombat X and Mortal Kombat 11.
Description[]
Eva is a 17-year-old high school student she is 5 foot 5 (1.65 cm) first seen with Tamara Mason upstairs on the deck watching Julius Gaw fight in a boxing match, saying that he was so good looking and was about to turn professional. She is kind, sweet, selfless, friendly, and adorable to everyone especially Rennie Wickham. Later on, she and Tamara were both in the basement snorting cocaine and Tamara offered her some. However, she refused, worried that the fact that she could lose her scholarship if she gets caught snorting and Tamara told her to calm down. She snorted a line. They were caught first by Rennie who asks the pair if they have seen her dog, Toby, and they were soon caught again by Rennie's abusive maternal uncle Charles McCullough. Eva unreluctantly goes with Tamara and watches her purposely bump Rennie off the side of the cruise ship as revenge for catching them taking drugs. Shocked and disgusted by what Tamara did to Rennie, she leaves her behind, feeling horrible about the incident.
Death[]
Eva discovers Tamara Mason's dead body in their cabin bathroom. She then runs out into the ship's hallway, only to see Pamela Voorhees's vengeful son Jason Voorhees looking at her, breathing heavily. She then runs down a flight of stairs or two and runs into the seizure-like party deck. She looks around for a while and then Jason bursts open the door. She looks around some more only to see Jason in every place she looks, possibly due to hallucination or Jason's supernatural ability to teleport. She then loses sight of Jason and as she was doing before turns around slowly a couple of times in a circle. Jason appears, grabs Eva by the neck, lifts her up to the ceiling and proceeds to brutally strangle her. She struggles to break free of Jason's grip, but Jason eventually strangles her to death. Jason then throws her corpse to the floor. Eva's corpse, along with the corpses of Tamara Mason, an unnamed male boxer, the deckhand, Miles Wolfe, Admiral Robertson, Chief Petty Officer Jim Carlson, Wayne Webber, J.J. Jarrett, and a crew member he accidentally killed will forever be on the S.S. Lazarus at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Trivia[]
- Eva Watanabe was Jason Voorhees' 76th victim in the Friday the 13th film series.
- She was also his first Asian victim.
- Before Kelly Hu was cast, Lauren Tom and Sandra Oh were considered to played Eva Watanabe.