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Review of Jason X (New Line Platinum Series)
- Legendary Friday The 13th killer Jason Voorhees returns for the tenth time, this time stalking victims aboard a space ship in the year 2455. DON'T MISS OUT ON THE HALLOWEEN EVENT OF 2002! Trick or treat this year with Jason! Consumers will definitely demand this title for late-night scares or holiday-themed parties. JASON/FRIDAY THE 13TH SERIES IS A STRONG $228 MILLION COMBINED BOX-OFFICE FRANCHISE!* GORE SCORES! Horror Genre still scares up frightfully high business: Jeepers Creepers 324% Hannibal 274% Final Destination 273% Hollow Man 248% The Cell 247% LOW VHS FLAT PRICING @ $35.005. FIRST JASON/FRIDAY THE 13TH DVD WITH SIGNIFICANT ADDED VALUE! Fans of the series will buy the DVD for this alone. Paramount has only released 1-6 with a trailer as the only extra. Jason X will have two documentaries, a jump-to-a-death feature and other "tricks and treats" for fans to crave. FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SEAN S.CUNNINGHAM, THE CREATOR OF THE CLASSIC ORIGINAL FRIDAY THE 13TH. *Internet Movie Database 4/12/02**Video Store Magazine 4/8/02
Description
- Nine years after his so-called Final Friday, hockey-masked slasher Jason Voorhees returns in Jason X, and fans of the long-running Friday the 13th series won't be disappointed. Veteran stuntman Kane Hodder returns to the titular role that made him infamous, and rookie director James Isaac gets off to a fine start by killing off his mentor, director David Cronenberg, in a deliciously ill-fated cameo. Soon Jason is cryogenically suspended along with the comely scientist (Lexa Doig, from TV's Andromeda) who warned of his invincibility; by the time a sexy spaceship crew revives them in the year 2455, "Earth 2" has replaced the now-uninhabitable Earth, and Jason proceeds to do hack victims with his trusty machete. Eventually he battles a sexy android, gets a cybernetic facelift, and meets his fate back at Crystal Lake, where the whole thing started. With knowing nods to the original, Jason X is just fun enough to keep the franchise alive. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com
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- Posted on 2008-05-27
An Old Dog Learns Some New Tricks
I saw this movie for the first time after it hit VHS. It blew me away. I knew I could expect a high body count, but I was unprepared for the rather (accidentally) ingenious methods Jason used to dispatch the latest bunch of victims. Impaling one of the soldiers on a drillbit was inspired. I think that's the first time Jason ever screwed someone, in ANY sense of the phrase. And this movie also marks the first time he took out an entire city in one stroke. I won't say anything more about that; it has to be seen to be believed. One last thing: It's about time he got a new look. The moldering-corpse motif was getting old. All in all, this had everything you could expect in a Friday the 13th movie, and if you're a fan, it won't disappoint. This is a must-watch for horror fans in general and Jason fans in particular.
Score: 5
- Posted on 2008-05-10
nothing new just outer space
The jason movies were not good they just sucked. A mask killer stalking people and killing them for no aparient reason but this movie was garbage, but when jason turned half silver that looked hot but the rest sucked.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2008-03-31
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).
Score: 2
- Posted on 2008-03-21
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!
Score: 1 - Posted on 2008-02-01
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.
Score: 3