Jason X

Jason X is the tenth film (hence the X) in the Friday the 13th film series starring Kane Hodder as the slasher serial killer Jason Voorhees. The film made $13.1 million with an $11 million budget. Fan reaction has been split: many felt the concept of Jason in space was laughable among many things; others enjoyed it, believing that the film was not meant to be taken seriously, and that it epitomized the "dumb fun" of the series.

The film was conceived as means of moving the franchise ahead while Freddy vs. Jason was still in the script stages of development. Since almost nothing was solid on that film's story at the time, Jason X was planted in the future so that both films would not mix up continuities.

Jason has been finally captured by the government, but at the failure of execution, the killer is being prepared for cyrogenic suspension until further notice. However, greedy bureaucrats feel the need to keep Jason fresh so as to study his regenerative ability that has kept him going for so long. But unfortunately for them, Jason frees himself of his restraints and piles up a small body count before the leader at the Crystal Lake Research Facility successfully lures Jason to a frozen tomb - but not before he compromises the cryogenic chamber, both wounding her and forcing the room to seal her in with him. 445 years later, students on a field trip explore the facility and find the preserved bodies of Jason and Rowan. They leave the ruins of the old, lifeless Earth in the ship Grendel on route to Earth 2. From there Rowan is thawed out and her damaged tissue is repaired with nanotechnology; Jason, believed to be dead and beyond repair, is left for study. However, the murderer wakes up on his own and gives the 25th century students an old school lesson in slaughter, even making short order of the ship's trained grunts. Things get even worse when Jason manages to wreck the ship into the space station Solaris, both obliterating it and their hope of getting off the ship and to safety, but also damaging the Grendel itself with time running out. Finally, Jason is put down by Kay-Em, an android created by one of the students who has been upgraded to adequately fight off Jason. Kay-Em puts Jason through the rounds, destroying large portions of his body. Jason is left with most of his head blown away, lying in a mangled heap. As a saviour ship comes to pick up the remaining crew, the nanotechnology is kicked on, and it begins to repair Jason. When it is finished, Jason is bigger and badder than before: a bigger build, with parts of his body integrated with metallic tissue, rendering him virtually indestructible. In order to buy time, a VR scenario of Camp Crystal Lake circa 1980 is brought up around this new Jason. As UberJason finishes the VR play, everyone is ready to leave behind the dying ship. However, before Jason can join them, he is stopped by the seemingly unbeatable Brodski, and the two go at each other, ready to rumble. The ship goes out with a bang. Jason is hurled at the survivors, but Brodski, still in his space suit, flies around to knock Jason off course. Brodski rides Jason into the atmosphere of Earth 2. On this earth, a teen couple watch what they think is a falling star hitting a lake, where Jason's metallic hockey mask sinks to the bottom. They decide to investigate...
Trivia

* Although the DVD contains no deleted footage, two omitted scenes served as an explanation for two mysteries in the film's opening: one explained how Jason managed to get free, that when the soldier guarding him put the blanket over his head, it pulled out the IV drip that was keeping Jason sedated. Another showed Rowan going through a box of materials that included Crystal Lake newspaper clippings [1] and Jason's machete, explaining where it came from.
* Screenwriter Todd Farmer appears in the film playing the character Dallas, named after the character in Alien on which he based much of the film.
* Both Lexa Doig and Lisa Ryder also appeared in the science fiction TV series Andromeda. Ironically, in the series, it is Doig who played the android and Ryder the human, in this movie, Doig plays the human and Ryder the android.
* David Cronenberg only agreed to appear in the film if he got killed off. Coincidently, his appearance came 13 years after directing an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series.
* The release of this film closed the longest gap between films, eight years after the preceding Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday. To put this gap into perspective, the longest break in the series before was between 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and 1993's Jason Goes to Hell.