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Jason X (aka Friday The 13th Part 10)
[New Line]
2002; color
Directed by James Isaac
Starring: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Chuck Campbell, Lisa Ryder & Peter Mensah
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We've certainly come a long way in our journey through the Friday The 13th series - from Crystal Lake to Manhattan and back again, if you will - and for the most part I would say it's been an enjoyable ride. With that said, once you start talking about transporting Jason Voorhees' cryogenically frozen body into space 400 plus years in the future, I think it's safe to say the proverbial shark has been jumped. (Although I'm sure this assessment could have been accurately made, depending on your personal preferences, pretty much any time after the second sequel.) I also think it's safe to say that by the end of the film you very well may be wondering why the producers didn't just film Jason hacking the recently jumped shark apart with a machete and call it a night, but I'm getting way ahead of myself. Unlike the majority of other F13s, this does not start with a flashback, a series of flashbacks, or a flashback montage. (Possibly because Paramount wouldn't release the footage.) Instead we, and Jason Voorhees, find ourselves transported to the futuristic world of the Crystal Lake Research Facility. I believe the back story on this is that a group of scientists plan to freeze Jason into some sort of inert serial killer popsicle due to the fact that all previous attempts to kill him have, obviously, failed. Right before any freezing, cryogenic or otherwise, can occur some suit rolls into the facility and tries to liberate Voorhees in order to take him to some other research facility where he will be studied and then killed, instead of just killed. The prerequisite hot science-y chick (who kind of looks like Tera Patrick) tries to stop him but is unsuccessful. Then Jason springs into action and has much better luck dispatching the suit, along with the group of guards that followed him around. Hot science-y chick grabs a big ass space gun and takes off. Jason stalks her briefly until the two wind up in some sort of futuristic science pod. She, of course, tries to defend herself by shooting a few rounds into his chestal area; which, of course, does nothing! (Hello - five minutes ago you were just talking about his unkillableness.) Actually that's not entirely true. The ammo is not strong enough to kill Jason but it is strong enough to knock him backwards and into some sort of chamber equipped with a fog machine and some lights. The door shuts and we are left to assume the freezing has begun. Hot science-y chick certainly believes that's what happens, but she can't help herself from taking a little peek through the window. Which is just stupid; but, whatever. Anyway, then Jason stabs her - through the door no less - which, for reasons I don't fully understand, causes them both to be frozen. Cut to some time even more in the future and we see a group of people entering the now dusty and cobwebbed up science pod. They spout a whole bunch of pseudo-futuristic mumbo jumbo and, to make a long story slightly less long, wind up taking frozen hot science-y chick and frozen Jason Voorhees off to their Phillip K. Dick-esque space ship. Insert Star Trek meets Star Wars type scenery here and viola, we are in space. Once docked, the group sets to work engaging in subplots that don't go anywhere and / or trying to revive their specimens. To the latter end they do scans, run tests, remove clothes and push a few buttons that go bleep bleep. Then some other science-y chick removes one of Jason's eyeballs with a pair of futuristic science tongs. At some point shortly after this, hot science-y chick is reanimated and, sometime after that, Jason follows suit. By this time unfrozen hot science-y chick has filled everyone who's still alive in on their fellow passengers real identity, thus beginning the outer space game of outer space cat and outer space mouse that we all know is coming. (It's kind of like that one episode of Tom And Jerry but with a lot more fake blood.) If you can make it all the way to the end, eventually you'll find out who lives and who dies and you won't be surprised one bit. Overall this is quite the anti-climatic ending to the series (as yet there has not been a part 11; unless you count Freddy vs. Jason, which you probably shouldn't because it has very little, if anything, to do with F13) but who knows what the future holds for our anti-hero.
—Bunny
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Cause Of
Jason's Re-Birth:
cryogenic unfreezing;
regeneration
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Setting:
Spaceship Grendel
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Body Count:
21
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Methods Of Death:
spear (1),
freezing (1),
stabbing (1),
impaling (1),
head smashing (1),
neck snapping (1),
throat slitting (1),
spine breaking (1),
being chopped in half (1)
electrocution (1),
burning upon re-entry into the earth's atmosphere (1),
misc. (10)
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Cause Of
Jason's Death:
cryogenic freezing;
death by robot girl;
burning up upon re-entry into the earth's atmosphere
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