Review: Jason X

 


Jason X


For the past umpteen years I've been watching horror films on significant horror dates. On Halloween I watch one of the Halloween movies and on Friday 13ths I watch a Friday 13th movie.

This year, a month ago, I watched Friday 13th Part IX: Jason Goes to Hell. That film was, well, god awful to be fair. The best bit was at the end where Freddy Krueger's glove comes along and pulls Jason's mask into the ground, paving way for Freddy vs Jason.

But before you can get to that film you have to watch Jason X. Well, you don't have to but, to be fair, it is enjoyable nonsense.

The plot, if such a thing exists, is Jason, somehow alive again, gets cryogenically frozen, wakes up 450 years later on a spaceship and goes on a killing spree. That's it. And, well, it's actually quite good. It's still rubbish, but, as slasher movies go, it was actually one of the best. I enjoyed every daft moment of it.

Lexa Doig and Lisa Ryder, two turn of the century scifi stalwarts themselves, steal the show as a scientist from the past, frozen at the same time as Jason, and an android with a splash of wit, respectively. Peter Mensah, as kick ass as he is in Spartacus, brings in the muscle. There's also plenty of nods to Alien, with Jason stalking the characters through the corridors of a spaceship and Aliens with the grunts getting picked off one by one.

I remember when this film first came out and horror (and scifi) fans were overjoyed at the first death (in the future) in the film. Jason plunges his first victim's head into a sink of liquid nitrogen and then smashes her frozen head onto the draining board. It's very violent and very darkly humorous. Alas, the rest of the deaths are a bit run of the mill. They probably used up most of the SFX budget on that shot.

The next Friday 13th is in November. I have the remake from 2009 all ready to go!







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