| | | Evil gets an upgrade.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Platinum Series, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled
If you're looking for terror, here comes a perfect ten. In the year 2455, on a routine training mission, a team of students is about to learn a terrifying lesson. Through the years, Jason Vorhees has claimed over 200 victims. Now, the legendary killer from Crystal Lake is back, hurtling through space and hunting new prey. Jason X is a nerve-shredding thriller loaded with new special effects, hi-tech weapons and new ways to die.
"Jason X is a horrifying hoot-and-a-half... easily the most satisfying and entertaining of [the series]." Anthony Timpone, Fangoria
"...unpretentious, guilty fun..." Jeffery Anderson, San Fransisco Examiner
"...a refreshing change to the usual slice and dice tedium." BBCi Films
Editor's Note
A dispute between scientists over cryogenically freezing maniacal killer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) or researching his amazingly regenerative tissue is literally cut short when Jason hacks up the research staff. Trapping herself in the cryogenic chamber with him, Rowan (Lexa Doig) freezes Jason, halting his rampage. Four hundred years later the two are discovered by the student research craft Grendel. Both scientist and her subject are revived in space in the year 2455 when Earth has been destroyed, but Jason Voorhees proves what horror fans have known for years, that his killing spree continues indefinitely. Slaughtering most of the crew, Jason does meet his equal in a feminine android (Lisa Ryder) only to receive an upgrade making this veteran killing machine of 10 movies an even more unstoppable force. Although 2455 seems no different from the 2002 release date of this tenth film in the FRIDAY THE 13TH series, JASON X does breathe life into the long-running horror series with computer generated effects and a witty script by Todd Farmer. Some clever self-referencing is particularly effective in a virtual reality segment that confuses Jason and, of course, an ending that leaves an opening for yet another entry.
| Features | Jump to a Death | | Theatrical Trailer | | DVD-ROM: Script-to-Screen, Link to Original Website, Hot Spot | | Filmmaker Commentary - With Director Jim Issac, Writer Todd Farmer and Producer Noel Cunningham | | Original Documentary: The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees - documentary on the history of Jason | | Original Documentary: By Any Means Necessary: The Making of Jason X - making of/production documentary | | Widescreen version of the film | | English Subtitles and Closed Captions | | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, DTS Surround Sound, Stereo Surround Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 9/26/2006 |
| Running Time: 93 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 5628 | | UPC: 00794043562822 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Box Office
"...The film is a nostalgic romp through horror mythology as the film pulls from vintage Jason films and combines it with new technology..." 06/01/2002 p.66Sight and Sound
"...The most entertaining of the sequels..." 08/01/2002 p.42-3 Chicago Sun-Times 4 of 10
The characters follow the usual rules from Camp Crystal Lake, which require the crew members to split up, go down dark corridors by themselves, and call out each other's names with the sickening certainty that they will not reply. Characters are skewered on giant screws, cut in half, punctured by swords, get their heads torn off, and worse. A veteran pilot remains calm: "You weren't alive during the Microsoft conflict. We were beating each other with our own severed limbs." - Roger Ebert
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