Just like with the previous film in the series eight years earlier, I only watched this for a sense of completion. Technically I shouldn't have even included it in this October series as it's meant to be a personal journey through my childhood memories of horror films, but I also wanted to list out all the deaths in the Friday the 13th series. Also, it just seemed wrong to leave this out. My friend and I rented this ten years ago and had good fun with it.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
I’m trying to imagine how the idea for Jason X was pitched to New Line Cinema
in such a way that they were willing to give it a green light. Not only that,
but it actually got a theatrical release. How do you think they sold an idea
for Jason Voorhees to be frozen and then thawed out 450 years in the future so
that he can continue his killing spree aboard a space ship? “Get this: Jason in
space,” is the only phrase you would need, I suppose. And if that’s how it was
presented, it’s no wonder that what came out the other end of production was
the mind-blowingly bad film I just watched – for the second time! Yes, I
watched it on a lark with a friend many years ago. How could we not? But I had
blocked most of it out. Readers, I assure you that this is a true stinker with
one minor – very minor – saving grace that I still found hysterical.
