Jason X (2001)

Just awful enough to be fun!
After dispatching a baffling David Cronenberg (why did you do it!) poor ol' Jason Vorhees finds himself set in the future on some cheap sci-fi set-up after being cryogenetically frozen.

Not even being frozen and decayed can stop him, as the new batch of would-be-victims have a special computer device that can recreat genetic structure and tissue (of course they do!)

The film is bad, but there is a certain element of horror trash and predictable scenarios that the film has a certain 'secondary value' - i.e, to be laughed at, rather than be feared.

Of course this isn't good if you are after a great horror flick, but if you want a corny late night film to fall asleep to, then this is it.

All the victims are irritating and exceptionally young for a spacecraft crew. A noticable good part is when Jason transforms into super-jason and it all ends up where it all started off in the first movie (which seems a tired long, long, long, long journey away)!

I would rent Jason X rather than buy it, or wait till you chance upon it on tv (it usually crops up on SCI-FI channel).

Awful! Amazon reviewer should plead insanity...
I find it hard to believe that the Amazon reviewer Jeff Shannon says this will not disappoint fans of the long-running Friday the 13th series. Was he drunk when he wrote that? Well he is not speaking for this fan thank you! And why do filmmakers consider outer space to be a sure fire bet for a good horror film? Maybe the Alien films with Sigourney Weaver but not Friday the 13th. Keep it at summer camp or stop making them! They almost tried the outer space deal with one of the Halloween films and thank goodness it never happened however Halloween Resurrection was a disgruntled mess anyway. Jason X should almost classify as science fiction because it is flat out ridiculous and terrible! It's almost laughable when it is supposed to be scary. And for the record Jeff Shannon, talk to the most devout Friday fan and Kane Hodder is not even considered the best Jason just because he has been in the role more so I'm not sure why he is even being mentioned. Matter of fact, I hear that he is quite rude and unfriendly. I have read that most people prefer the Jason from Friday 3 and 4 as opposed to the zombie he would later become. Avoid this one at all costs Friday fans! I enjoyed all of them up to part VII. Did not care for the Manhatten one but the Final Friday had an interesting twist. My favorites are still the original and part 3 with the awesome Dana Kimmell!

A Slasher In Space
I'm a huge Friday fan, and I'm also a scifi geek. So the combination of the two should be something magical for my nerdy life. Jason X was supposed to be a movie about Jason using futuristic weapons to kill his victims, but it is basically the same thing all over again with mostly modern weapons.

It isn't scary since it takes place in the future and not on Earth, so there is no horror to the movie. The death scenes are cool, but nothing that made me really impressed. I actually yawned through some of the movie. Overall, it isn't bad though. It's just your average film that could have never been made and people would have still been happy.