Jason X (DVD)

Jason X is the tenth instalment (see what they did there?) of the Friday 13th franchise, which by general consensus has been getting worse and worse. Considering the original wasn’t that great to start with, you can see why it’s been over ten years since the 9th film. However, in 2001, Jason Vorhees returned. With knobs on. This film opens in the year 2009, and Jason Vorhees is being held in some kind of Crystal Lake laboratory, ready to be cryogenically frozen, in order to stop him from killing. However, with predictable ease, he escapes from his shackles and goes on a mini-rampage. He doesn’t quite get to hack everyone to pieces though - one ...  Read the complete review

Opening with a sequence set in the not 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 on a new spate of big breasted beauty's. When they attempt to defeat him once again, Jason is revitalised by a machine that turns human's into almighty cyborgs, and so ...  Read the complete review

You have a cult horror franchise on your hands with a seemingly limitless demand for 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 chamber. Inside the chamber, they find the preserved bodies of a young woman and hideous figure wearing only a hockey mask. ...  Read the complete review

~O~ The Short Opinion ~O~ This film sucks butt. (but you knew that, no need to read anymore, rate as you will) ~O~ The Expanded Version For Masochists ~O~ I suppose it was inevitable with the recent Scream induced resurgenence of the slasher movie genre that 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 ...  Read the complete review

Jason Vorhees was the slightly less convincing competitor of Freddy Kreuger and Michael Myers in the slasher movie war which raged throughout the eighties. I happened to watch the Friday the 13th films first and spent a while denying that Jason is anything other than a poor copy of the original Michael Myers, but unfortunately its the truth. The previous films starring Jason generally concentrated on slaughtering as many irritating American teenagers as possible which, if in the right mood, is my idea of entertainment. The only real creative skill employed was to think up new gut renching ways of Jason killing folk. He tends to favour a machete but has used knives, a ...  Read the complete review