Jason…in space? Well when you come to the tenth part of a franchise you’ve got to change direction in some way. So here is the tenth and probably final part of the Friday 13th series. As fans waited (and waited) for Freddy VS Jason to appear this was seemingly rushed out to test the waters ... Read review
The year is 2455. Earth is no longer inhabitable so humans have colonised outer space. ... more
One colony receives two cryogenically frozen bodies and when they defrost them one of the bodies turns out to be Jason Vorhees. No longer in the forest of Camp Cr...
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If you're looking for terror, here comes a perfect ten. In the year 2455, on a routine ... more
training mission, a team of students is about to learn a terrifying lesson. Through the years, Jason Voorhees has claimed over 200 victims. Now the legendary killer ...
Four hundred years into the future the Earth is a desolate place and no longer habitable. ... more
When alien explorers arrive they find, a long way below the planet's surface, two cryogenically frozen bodies. One is female and the other is Jason Voorhees.
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Action/Adventure - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Jack Ging, Marla Heasley, Lance Legault, Melinda Culea, Mr T, Dwight Schultz, Dirk Benedict, George Peppard, Carl Franklin
Advantages: The annoying people die Disadvantages: Plot | Not scary or funny | No imagination
...(and waited) for Freddy VS Jason to appear this was seemingly rushed out to test the waters to see if Jason could haul just as many people into the cinemas as he could kill. It turned out he didn’t but luckily while this film is doomed from the start, Freddy VS Jason as still given the go ahead, which is just as well because Jason doesn’t seem to be able to carry his own anymore.
Friday 13th came about in the 80s, when slasher films ... ...ways to kill people while Jason Voorhees became the hero. Nine parts were made and Jason was stabbed, drowned, buried, and shot but still made it back for his yearly sequel even managing to get to Manhattan (well, he stayed on the boat most of the time) and Hell itself. He’s certainly been around the block so now he’s off to the future.
The film begins at the Crystal Lake Research Facility. It seems Jason has potential in science ... more
Jason…in space? Well when you come to the tenth part of a franchise you’ve got to change direction in some way. So here is the tenth and probably final part of the Friday 13th series. As fans waited (and waited) for Freddy VS Jason to appear this was seemingly rushed out to test the waters to see if Jason could haul just as many people into the cinemas as he could kill. It turned out he didn’t but luckily while this film is doomed from the start, Freddy VS Jason as still given the go ahead, which is just as well because Jason doesn’t seem to be able to carry his own anymore.
Friday 13th came about in the 80s, when slasher films were all the rage. Halloween had already paved the way with this idea back in 1978 but people wanted a bit more blood for their money and Friday 13th was their answer with it, along with Nightmare on Elm Street, becoming a successful franchise. Thing is that Friday 13th wasn’t really that much good to begin with. It relied on the blood and gore rather than any real tension and soon enough each film was just about looking for different and more grisly ways to kill people while Jason Voorhees became the hero. Nine parts were made and Jason was stabbed, drowned, buried, and shot but still made it back for his yearly sequel even managing to get to Manhattan (well, he stayed on the boat most of the time) and Hell itself. He’s certainly been around the block so now he’s off to the future.
The film begins at the Crystal Lake Research Facility. It seems Jason has potential in science thanks to his unique ability to keep coming back to life despite getting killed all the time. However the predictable happens when they try and ship him elsewhere and panic ensues but he is soon incarcerated in cryogenic chamber which, even for Jason. Also imprisoned is Rowan (Lexa Doig) who trapped Jason in there but was dumb enough to hang around. Skip 400 years into the future and a group of kids on a field trip to Earth (which is now nothing but a wasteland) discover the two frozen bodies. They are taken on board the ship and Rowan is thawed out and, guess what, Jason also wakes up from his long nap. Now the crew have an unwanted person on board walking about and very happy in wielding a machete about and it takes an awful lot to keep this man down.
So there is Jason X in a nutshell. It doesn’t need much more explaining there are deaths, lots of running around and a bit of mild sex thrown in for good measure. However the problem with this film is that it’s like Jason Takes Manhattan all over again. Instead of a boat it’s a spaceship and instead of Manhattan you get, well, nothing. This would have been excusable if the filmmakers decided to make it interesting but they didn’t. Despite it being 400 years on people still try and kill him with puny weapons, they still manage to split up, there are no lights in areas where Jason is and Jason still kills with his rusty machete. There is pretty much zero imagination with this film and its just paint-by-numbers horror with a few more computers than usual. Jason himself seems bored with the whole affair. Half the time he just grabs people and tosses them aside and the rest of the time he just stands there while they keep pelting bullets at him until they come close enough so he can push them over. It is only the final fifteen minutes we get to see the ‘upgraded’ Jason and by that time you would have got bored with the whole affair and laughed at his silly futuristic appearance as the remaining crew still try and kill something that they don’t stand a chance against.
It is a shame that they didn’t use the premise to its full potential because it really could have been fun to see Jason battle in space but it just doesn’t feel like it. It also isn’t that fun. Horror movies can be played for laughs or try and be serious and this film seems to try both. It fails miserably. Despite a few ‘in joke’ references to the future past (i.e. ‘what is a bike’ and ‘the Microsoft conflict’) this film really does seem to suggest that having a machete wielding maniac on board a spaceship full of teenagers without a brain among them is actually a very serious thing. And the ‘witty’ one-liners and far-out plot don’t seem funny at all. You will laugh at first but soon the laughter will turn to boredom and apathy as you see them running yet again from him and Jason killing without any style or imagination. As you can imagine there is little horror in this film at all. Most of the scares you will see coming a mile off and there really doesn’t seem any effort to try and surprise the viewer of the film.
Someone should have told the film producers that having a $14m budget for a film set in space isn’t going to work well. The sets barely look as good as anything you would see on some cheap sci-fi TV show in the 70s. As ever there is an abundance of industrial machinery and computers that make the right noises (but you would think they would be silent that far into the future) and obviously doors that slide and do the swishing sound. Special effects are big enough but so laughably fake that they should have stuck with making the interior of the ship better rather than branch to the outside world. The budget must have affected the wardrobe department as well seeing as half the female cast wear bras and panties around the ship, obviously it has a good heating system installed.
The cast are the same formula you get in each and every horror film. The strong-headed female with big breasts, the whiny female with big breasts, the smutty female with big breasts and the robot female with fake (but big) breasts. We then have the geeky man, the tough man and the man corrupt on getting a lot of money for himself. Luckily we are spared little of the awful dialogue they spew from their mouths, as they are just there to get a knife stuck in them.
On the subject of knives, with it being a 15 certificate the gore in this Jason flick is shockingly low. It is odd how they would try and aim for a lower certificate because it is doubtful it would affect many more people in wanting to see it and the Friday 13th films have always prided themselves on their bloody heritage. Now there is so little blood in the film that the cleaners needed to mop up after the kills are going to be out of their jobs. Most deaths are just a few throws and when something grisly does happen it cuts away and then returns when the interesting part is over. Blood obviously doesn’t make the film but when killing is an integral part of slasher movies it would be good to actually see a few of them on screen.
There is very little, if anything, good about this film. It does improve slightly towards the end with a little back to the past tip for Jason but that’s the only bit of the film that seems to try anything new. If you like a lot of mindless wandering around and some low-gore kills then this film will provide them but you could pick any slasher film off the shelf and they wouldn’t probably give you a more satisfying experience.
Jason X really is a missed opportunity. It is unlikely it would have been a good horror movie but it could have been a fun one. When a horror movie isn’t even fun for a few laughs then something is very wrong with it. If you watch this yo wont be seeing anything that you haven’t already seen countless times before. If you want a space themed movie go and watch Alien because Jason X doesn’t cut it. They say that in space no one can hear you scream. The same applies to this film, you won’t scream at all but you may laugh at it little bit before drifting off to sleep.
Advantages: An innovative idea... Disadvantages: ....lost in a sea of drivel
...new movies featuring the anti-hero Jason Voorhees. After nine chapters of stalking and slashing, the old “idea pool” is running rather dry, but there’s money to be made out there, so what do you do?
Answer: you set things in the future on the premise that anything goes.
Enter: Jason X
Over 400 years into the future, a team of student scientists comes across a derelict building, within which they find an ancient cryogenic suspension ... ...have discovered the body of Jason Voorhees, an infamous serial killer from the latter part of the twentieth century. As the temperature rises, and the body defrosts, they soon find themselves fighting for their lives against a killer who simply will not die.
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Where does one start on a film as bad as this? I suppose I only have myself to blame. After nine previous films, each of which was slightly poorer than the ...
LostWitness 03.04.2003
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Advantages: Some interesting death sequences, and an attempt to at least make this one different Disadvantages: Some ridiculous characterizations and a film that looks like an expensive porn
...too distant future, unstoppable killer Jason Vorhees is being held captive by a group of scientists at the Crystal Lake Research Facility. They've discovered that Jason has an unheard of ability to regenerate skin tissue, therefore explaining his inability to die. However, when he escapes, he and one remaining scientist are criogenically frozen for 300 years. Once aboard a spaceship of potential victims in the 25th century, Jason unleashes carnage ... ...to defeat him once again, Jason is revitalised by a machine that turns human's into almighty cyborgs, and so begins a fight to the death in space. The Friday 13th franchise has never been famous for its plot, nor its consistent narrative, so to say that film number 10 is the best of a bad bunch is an understatement. The futuristic spin given to this series of films works effectively enough to tide the few daft Friday fans over until such times as ...
bilbob20 02.04.2008
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Advantages: Good grief...erm...series fans get another film, teens might like it Disadvantages: Acting, special effects, story, characterisation...just about everything else
...the likes of Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees or perhaps even Freddy Kruegar would eventually make their umpteenth appearance on celluloid. Michael, dubious hero of the Halloween movies has never really gone away with "Halloween H20" and "Halloween Resurrection" appearing in recent years but after the unbelievably dire "Friday The 13th Part VIII : Jason Takes Manhattan" was panned almost universally by critics and fans alike it had looked like the restless ... ...I never really did like Jason Voorhees much, he was always a rather poor imitation of Michael Myers and the far better Halloween movies and lacked the humour of the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise but that didn't stop me watching the other 9 so I thought I might as well watch this one too. 90% of this movie's audience probably amounted to people following the same reasoning or those too young to remember the previous rubbish and sold by the cleverly ...
wampyrii 17.09.2002 (01.10.2002)
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Advantages: Slim chance it's the last one Disadvantages: Weak story, poor acting, 15 certificate
Jason X (2001)
Normally I would do a recap of previous events here, but I think it would be easier just to say that Jason Voorhees is a sadistic murderer, returned from the grave to do seriously nasty things to youngsters. Especially campers. To date he has been drowned, stabbed. Hung, buried, electrocuted, set on fire, run over and covered in toxic waste. And he still comes back for more. 2009, Jason is sentenced to death but they can't carry out ... ...to study him and after Jason resists he and a scientist named Rowan are left cryogenically frozen. Then due the conveniently timed collapse of the Earth's economy they are lost forever until 2455. A school field trip to Earth discovers them and brings them aboard their spaceship, where they both thaw out. Rowan warns them of Jason's killer instincts but it's all too late and the running, screaming and blood letting takes place yet again. From my ...
ThePolarOne 15.03.2005
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Advantages: Hilariously corny Disadvantages: The above
...intent on telling everyone.
Jason Vorhees,or just plain old Jason to you and me, has been captured and locked down deep inside a research facility. I'm assuming this happened during one of his many previous Friday 13th incarnations and somewhere along the line he has apparently developed the ability to regenerate lost tissue. Where, Why, How? Well this soon becomes irrelevant.
Anyway, if you can avoid sheer predictabitily of when the kills are ... ...an attempted military transport of Jason goes wrong (7 kills) and somehow Jason and an innocent cryogenic scientist, who later becomes a gun weilding hero, both get frozen and are not discovered until 2455, a time when the Earth is uninhabitable.
They are taken on board a spaceship with the intention of keeping Jason frozen and bringing the female back to life. As can be expected when Jason gets frozen holding a machete things go AWOL when Jason ...
Craggles84 26.05.2003
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Four hundred years into the future the Earth is a desolate place and no longer habitable. When alien explorers arrive they find, a long way below the planet's surface, two cryogenically frozen bodies. One is female and the other is Jason Voorhees.
Film Makers Commentary, 2 Documentaries Including The Many Lives Of Jason Voorhees and By Any Means Necessary The Making Of Jason X, Jump To Death Scene Selection, Theatrical Trailers
Aspect Ratio
1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo English
Professional reviews
Review
"...The film is a nostalgic romp through horror mythology as the film pulls from vintage Jason films and combines it with new technology..." (Box Office, p.66, 01/06/2002)
"...The most entertaining of the sequels..." (Sight and Sound, p.42-3, 01/08/2002)
DVD Description
A dispute between scientists over cryogenically freezing maniacal killer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) or researching his amazingly regenerative tissue is literally cut short when Jason hacks up the research staff. Trapping herself in the cryogenic chamber with him, Rowan (Lexa Doig) freezes Jason, halting his rampage. Four hundred years later the two are discovered by the student research craft Grendel. Both scientist and her subject are revived in space in the year 2455 when Earth has been destroyed, but Jason Voorhees proves what horror fans have known for years, that his killing spree continues indefinitely. Slaughtering most of the crew, Jason does meet his equal in a feminine android (Lisa Ryder) only to receive an upgrade making this veteran killing machine of 10 movies an even more unstoppable force. Although 2455 seems no different from the 2002 release date of this 10th film in the FRIDAY THE 13TH series, JASON X does breathe life into the long-running horror series with computer generated effects and a witty script by Todd Farmer. Some clever self-referencing is particularly effective in a virtual reality segment that confuses Jason and, of course, an ending that leaves an opening for yet another entry.
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