Jason X

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Movie
German title Jason X
Original title Jason X
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked, SPIO / JK: harmless under criminal law [1]
Rod
Director Jim Isaac
script Todd Farmer
production Noel Cunningham
Sean S. Cunningham
Geoff Garrett
James Isaac
Marilyn Stonehouse
music Harry Manfredini
camera Derick V. Underschultz
cut David Handman
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Jason Goes to Hell - The final settlement

Successor  →
Freddy vs. Jason

Jason X is a 2001 American horror film directed by Jim Isaac . The film is the 10th part of the series Friday the 13. The well-known story about Jason has been spiced up with science fiction elements and most of the action takes place on board a spaceship in space.

action

In the near future, Jason Voorhees is considered a "biological weapon" and is slated to move to a new research laboratory. He can free himself and commits a new bloodbath on all people who are in the base.

The scientist Rowan, who is supposed to study Jason, can lure him into a cryogenic chamber, where she tries to freeze him. But at the very last moment Jason rams his machete through the door of the chamber and hits Rowan in the stomach, who is seriously injured and is also frozen by the escaping liquid nitrogen. Since the test facility was top secret and Jason killed everyone there, it will be forgotten.

455 years later, the earth has become uninhabitable and mankind has moved to other planets, including one that is almost exactly like the earth and is called "Earth II". From there, a team of archeology students set out to explore their old home. By chance they stumble upon the laboratory and also find Jason and Rowan. At this moment, Jason also commits his first bloodshed: One of the students touches the frozen man, causing his raised arm to fall, and the machete cuts off the boy's arm. But this is not a big problem, because during this time the wound is simply covered with a polymer mixture and the boy is given a strong pain reliever. After bringing Jason and Rowan aboard their spaceship, the boy's arm is healed back on the body by nano-machines , leaving only a tiny scar in the form of a line around the arm.

The project leader, a professor of archeology, examines Rowan and concludes that it is possible to resurrect her. The aforementioned nano-machines heal the wound and then reanimate Rowan. After she has come to terms with the new situation for her, she learns that Jason is also on board. Their concerns that Jason is immortal are not listened to, after all, he is dead, half decayed and cannot be reanimated.

One of the students examines Jason and takes tissue samples. She only notices that Jason has woken up when he is suddenly no longer on the stretcher behind her. Jason kills the young woman, takes a surgical instrument that resembles his machete, and goes looking for victims again.

Both students and an experienced squad of soldiers cannot stop Jason and are killed in very different ways. Meanwhile, the other survivors make contact with a space station on which there are, among other things, many elite soldiers who are supposed to bring Jason down. When Jason realizes this, he overrides the controls, and the ship simply flies through the station, completely destroying it. Out of desperation, one of the students rebuilds his Android “Kay-Em 14” and modifies it.

After the conversion of Kay-Em 14 has been completed, it is now a fighting machine armed to the teeth, which is fully geared towards the destruction of Jason, both physically and in terms of software. So Jason has no chance against her and is shot to shreds. But nobody pays attention to the fact that after the last shot that cost him his head, Jason falls into the very machine that contains the nanomachines that healed Rowan and the boy and is therefore still activated.

Since they think Jason is defeated, they set course for their home. Meanwhile, the nanomachines try to restore Jason, but since this is not possible because Jason does not correspond to any known configuration and he lacks a lot of tissue, the computer sets the nanomachines to "optimal recovery" and everything that is left of Jason is not just new created, but also extremely improved.

Completely wrapped in iron armor, with an elongated, better machete and for the first time equipped with two eyes (in all other films he only has one), Jason wakes up to go hunting immediately. Even Kay-Em 14 now has no chance against him and is beheaded in battle. While the last two remaining students try to open the jammed door that blocks the passage to the spacecraft that has appeared for rescue, Jason gets closer and closer. To distract him, one of the students in the holo-deck creates a scenario in which the classic Crystal Lake is integrated. As expected, Jason attacks the holograms so that the two students can escape. However, the door must be closed as the spaceship will blow up and the other spaceship would explode too. So the last remaining soldier has to stay in the spaceship. He then lures Jason into an airlock and is thrown with him into space or the atmosphere of "Earth II", where both burn. Jason's remains fall into a lake (a reference to Crystal Lake) where two teenagers sit by the campfire mistaking it for a shooting star. The two go in search of the supposed shooting star ...

Reviews

The film received a rating of only 19% on Rotten Tomatoes , and in the Internet Movie Database it scored 4.4 out of 10 possible points. Only Jason Goes to Hell came off worse here.

The Lexicon of International Films called the film a “late offshoot of the long-lived horror film series”. He shifted “speculative bloodthirstiness into the science fiction environment”.

Others

  • "Jason X" is the first film in the series to use digital special effects for the murder scenes.
  • In the television series Andromeda (2000) Lexa Doig plays an android and Lisa Ryder plays a human. In Jason X they have reversed roles.
  • The budget of the film was about 11 million US dollars , it grossed 13.1 million US dollars in the USA. This is the worst grossing result in the entire series. The worldwide box office, including rental and video / DVD, is approximately 42 million US dollars.
  • The film was shown for the first time in Germany as part of the Fantasy Film Festival on July 24, 2001.
  • In Germany, the film was indexed on video about two years after its release.
  • The director David Cronenberg has an appearance as Dr. Wimmer and acted as a mentor to Jim Isaac .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review on Rotten Tomatoes
  2. ↑ Rating in the Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ Jason X. In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Budget and gross profit on imdb.com