Good gory fun. I don't really understand the hate for this one. Sure it is sort of stupid, but then... it's a Friday the 13th movie. And Kane Hodder plays Jason. What's not to like?
I enjoyed Jason X a lot more on this rewatch than watching it the first time. The first time I just joined letterboxd and wanted to be all snobby about films. But these days, being in my thirties now, I just want to be damned entertained. And how can I not be entertained by Jason being Uber and somehow in space. Jason killing Cronenberg and fighting Oenomaus? Awesome!
Ps. Sleeping bag scene was the best!
Jason X is a fun movie written on a strange premise that surprisingly brings life back to the F13 series. I really don't get why this one gets so much hate, because I very well think that it might be my favorite outside of the Tommy trilogy.
I was born 1985, so I'd probably have missed out on the whole Franchise hadn't it been for this Movie and Freddy vs Jason.
Thanks for many sleepless schoolnights (due to binge-watching the movies - not being horrified by them :) )
The only way to watch this movie is to actually forget it belongs to the "Friday The 13th" collection. I didn't enjoyed this. If you love "Friday The 13th" then stay away from this.
Finally. Some gore. This is the first in the series I actually enjoyed in a "so bad it's good" kinda way. Most were just bad. But this is so over the top, it circles back around to being fun. And the whole thing is shot like an early 2000s boyband music video. But to be fair the acting wasn't even that bad. Especially Peter Mensah was quite good.
I'm not even sure how to rate this. I mean, it was absolutely ludicrous, but was it supposed to be? Was it deliberately campy, or was this just someone's brainstorm gone horribly horribly wrong? I've seen movies that were "campy" but you could tell they were intended to be; this one actually came across like someone's idea of a sci-fi/horror but it lost EVERYTHING in translation. Sure, there were incredibly stupid lines throughout and incredibly idiotic scenes, but there were some pretty gruesome kill scenes here, as well...which is why I kept wondering if it was intended to be cheesy. It just didn't win on ANY scale, it was that bad. I will give it ONE high mark for the "cryo-kill" scene; that was great. Others on here have commented on the "sleeping bag scene" but honestly that was just another example of one of the terribly poor ideas; I wasn't impressed with that scene AT ALL. I will say I'm glad I got this one over and done with, so I can mark yet another one off my Friday the 13th list. Hopefully I can get through the remaining handful and triumph over my OCD yet again. This particular installment, though not as awful as some of the earlier ones, just came across as someone's attempt to simulate Alien with an extra-wicked villain (the Alien creature wasn't scary enough, right? And little tentacled things that leapt across the room to lay eggs on your face while you slowly suffocated?). Even that stupid "Kay-Em" thing was garbage. No, it wasn't as awful as some of the earlier installments, but I would still caution anyone with an ounce of mental stability to avoid this one like the plague. This blew big heavy steamy stinky chunks and should be avoided at all costs.
"Jason-fucking-Voorhees, that's what's going on!"
Hear me out: I am a fan of movies that are so bad that they are good but this movie went too far! The most fun I had was when Jason is beating girls up while they are wrapped up in sleeping bags.
New Line Cinema was a mistake.
Oh Jason, mother must be disappointed in you. What the hell are you doing in space? I know Jason's a brain dead zombie and all, but I bet his mind probably lost in space and now he's actually in space.
So are main killer Jason is discovered in the 25th century and brought aboard a spaceship as Earth is no longer habitable. Seeking to find out about their discovery, they awaken Jason... and he picks up the slaughter right where he left off.
This has to be one of the most stupidest horror movie that I ever seen. The story is stupid and the characters are so annoying that you wish they would die in a horrible death.
I think everybody is right about Friday the 13th, the day brings such bad luck.
I don't think he's out there.
Why don't you just stick your head out and have a peek?
This is painfully bad. Guess it manages to be worse than Jason Takes Manhattan and that is something that takes a lot of effort to do.
The argument of the story is really absurd, but I accepted it. As long as the filmmakers were about to do something at least decent I wouldn’t care.
Some killings are cool I got to say. The one where Jason kills a girl in a sleeping bag by hitting some other girl also in a sleeping bag is probably the best. And that’s pretty much it.
Everything else is terrible: the characters, the dialog, the CGI. How this script was approved is beyond my comprehension. The actors must have been paid with a soda and a hot dog. What the fuck was that fetiche scene by Professor Lowe?
Jason’s futuristic look is not that good, the way his transformation happens is ridiculous. Also, how the hell didn’t anyone check if he was really dead and nothing could bring him back to life. Jesus Christ.
While the previous film had a good pacing, this one is opposite. It simply never ends. I don’t wanna watch this thing ever again.
Easily the fifth or sixth time Friday the 13th has jumped the shark, this time pulling a double corkscrew backflip along the way. Following in the hallowed footsteps of Leprechaun 4, Hellraiser: Bloodline and Critters 4, this installment finds Jason cryogenically frozen for four hundred years and defrosted aboard a lightly-staffed spacecraft. No explanation is offered for his abrupt return from the depths of the nether, where he was unceremoniously dumped at the end of Jason Goes to Hell, though I'm not sure that really would've made a difference.
This is a willfully stupid playground for half-baked science fiction ideas, terrible wardrobe choices and budget special effects; a cut-rate production that would feel right at home on the Sci-Fi Channel at 3am. Predictable to the end, it touches all the bases with gratuitous nudity, shallow characters, mysterious returns from certain doom and a truckload of dismemberments / decapitations / deaths. The only thing we're missing is the trademarked screeching cat fake-out, presumably because no self-respecting animal would be seen in such a production.
Apart from one fleeting moment of self-deprecating parody near the end - which is totally out of place, but admittedly had me howling - there's no reason for this to exist. It's the kind of thing that would've thrived on the bootleg circuit, akin to Roger Corman's unreleased Fantastic Four, but by actually sending it to theaters, New Line took the wind out of those sails. The best thing I can say here is, hey, at least it's better than the last one.
"This sucks on so many levels." Jason X is a cheesy horror comedy that goes where no Friday the 13th film has ever gone before. With a story that's so stupid that it has to be seen to be believed, the film satirizes the sci-fi and horror genres. In the year 2455 Jason Voorhees is found in cryostasis by an archaeology team and taken aboard their spaceship bound for Earth 2, but when Jason awakens the killing spree begins. The acting is awful and the special effects are atrocious. But it all adds up to that special kind of bad that's entertaining to watch. A campy B-movie, Jason X is so absurd and over-the-top that it's actually a bit of fun.
Two things that don't seem to mix: slasher horror and being in a spaceship in space. Alien pulls it off but Jason is no Alien....or is he? The F13 elements are present though: couples, sex scenes inter played with murder scenes, Jason's titled head and hesitation when someone is trying to negotiate. I love the cyborg-esque Jason at the end - would make a great Halloween costume!
i find this more watchable than all its prequels, they really fucked up the story of jason voorhees in all the films before this, imo
Shout by Neal MahoneyVIP 8BlockedParent2017-10-20T23:12:27Z
By far the best part was when Jason started swinging the girl in the sleeping bag and hitting the other girl. Space Jason sorta looks cool, in an early 2000s sci-fi kind of way.