Jason X

Infobox Film
name=Jason X


caption=Film poster
director=James Isaac
writer= Todd Farmer
Characters:
Victor Miller
producer=Noel Cunningham
Sean S. Cunningham
Geoff Garrett
James Isaac
Marilyn Stonehouse
starring=Kane Hodder
Lexa Doig
Lisa Ryder| music=Harry Manfredini
Ethan Wiley
cinematography =Derick V. Underschultz
editing =David Handman
distributor=New Line Cinema
released=26 April, 2002
runtime=93 min.
country=USA
language=English
budget=$14,000,000 (est.)
gross=Worldwide:
$16,951,798
preceded_by=""
followed_by="Freddy vs. Jason"
amg_id = 1:260904
imdb_id=0211443

"Jason X"(also know as Friday the 13th part X: Jason X) is a 2002 science fiction / slasher film, and the tenth in the "Friday the 13th" film series, starring Kane Hodder as the mass murderer Jason Voorhees. The film made $16,951,798 worldwide with a $14,000,000 budget.cite book | last = Bracke | first = Peter | title = Crystal Lake Memories | publisher = Titan Books | date = October 11, 2006 | location = United Kingdom | pages =314 | isbn = 1845763432]

The film was conceived as means of moving the franchise ahead while "Freddy vs. Jason" was still stuck in development hell. "Jason X" is set in the future (the opening scene being set in at least 2010, and Jason revealed as having been held captive since 2008) so as not to confuse the continuity of the series. The film made $13,121,555 domestic, making it the lowest grossing film in the series.

Plot

In 2008, Jason Voorhees is captured by the U.S. government. Rowan (Lexa Doig), a government researcher, leads several unsuccessful attempts to execute him. In 2010, she decides to place him in cryogenic suspension to neutralize him. Unfortunately, the government has other plans, hoping to profit from research into Jason's rapid cellular regeneration. Jason escapes while being moved and kills several soldiers. Rowan manages to lure him into the cryonic chamber and activates it. However, Jason manages to stab her through the door, both wounding her and freezing them both inside the sealed room.

In the year 2455, Earth has become too polluted to support life and humanity has moved to a new planet. Five students on a field trip led by Professor Lowe (Jonathan Potts) enter the facility and find Jason and Rowan. They take them back to their spacecraft and reanimate Rowan. Jason is deemed deceased and left in the morgue. During a call to his financial backer, Professor Lowe explains that had hoped to exploit Rowan's status as the oldest person revived from cryostatis for profit, as he is in serious debt. The man dismisses this, but notes that Voorhees' body could be worth a substantial amount to a collector.

In the morgue, Jason reanimates and kills Lowe's intern, Adrienne (Kristi Angus). Having been relieved of his machete, he takes a similarly-shaped surgical tool and moves on to kill another student. Professor Lowe, Rowan, and his students are sent to one of the ship's laboratories while the ship's contingent of soldiers attempts to kill Jason, in spite of Lowe's insistence that Jason be taken alive. All are apparently killed. Jason then kills the ship's pilot on its docking approach to a space station. The ship crashes through the space station, destroying it and one of the vessel's two pontoon sections. Jason then breaks into the lab and kills the professor while the students run away, the professor having attempted to reason with Jason by talking about the financial possibilities created by his existence.

With the ship badly damaged, Rowan and remaining students head for the vessel's shuttle. As the shuttle is being prepped, Jason intercepts them. The student left on board has a panic attack and attempts to launch the shuttle without releasing the docking clamps, causing it to immolate itself on the ship's hull. When it seems as if there's no escape, Sgt. Brodski (Peter Mensah), the leader of the soldiers, attacks Jason by surprise. He is easily overpowered, but another student has upgraded his android, Kay-Em 14 (Lisa Ryder), with an array of weapons and matching combat skills. She easily fights Jason off and apparently kills him, blasting off a portion of his head, his right arm, his left leg, and a portion of his right chest.

The survivors send out a distress call and receive a reply from a patrol shuttle. As it is nearly an hour out and the ship will explode by then, the survivors begin setting explosive charges to separate the remaining pontoon from the main drive section. As they work, Jason, having been knocked into a nanotechnology-equipped medical station during his battle with Kay-Em 14, is brought back to life by the damaged computer. Furthermore, since much of his biological tissue is missing, the computer rebuilds him as an even more powerful cyborg. Kay-Em 14 is now no match for Jason, and has her head knocked off; her head remains functional despite the separation. Another student sacrifices himself by setting off the explosive charges while Rowan and the others escape.

The explosives do not stop Jason, instead propelling him through space to the pontoon. He punches through the hull, sucking out one of the students. As the shuttle prepares to dock, a power failure in the docking clamps forces Brodski to go EVA to fix it. A simulation of Crystal Lake is used to distract Jason as Brodski works. Jason manages to see through the deception just as the docking clamp is fixed, and Brodski confronts Jason so the others can escape. As the shuttle leaves, the pontoon explodes, again propelling Jason at high-speed towards the survivors. Brodski intercepts Jason in mid-flight, using his jetpack to maneuver them both into the atmosphere of Earth 2, apparently killing both by the heat of reentry. In the final scene, two teens beside a forest lake set off to find where the falling star fell; Jason's mask is shown sinking to the bottom of the lake.

Cast

*Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees
*Lexa Doig as Rowan
*Lisa Ryder as Kay-Em 14
*Chuck Campbell as Tsunaron
*Peter Mensah as Sgt. Brodski
*David Cronenberg as Dr. Wimmer
*Melyssa Ade as Janessa
*Derwin Jordan as Waylander
*Jonathan Potts as Professor Lowe
*Kristi Angus as Adrienne

Other media

In 2005, [http://www.blackflame.com Black Flame] , a subsidiary of Games Workshop, began publishing a series of paperback books based on "Jason X" and aimed towards young adults. While the first book adapts the film, the following books feature new storylines based on the character in the setting established by the "Jason X" film. The five books in the series are "Jason X" by Pat Cadigan, "Jason X: The Experiment" by Pat Cadigan, "Jason X: Planet Of The Beast" by Nancy Kilpatrick, "Jason X: Death Moon" by Alex Johnson and "Jason X: To The Third Power" by Nancy Kilpatrick.

Avatar Press produced two comic book titles based on this film: "Jason X", a one-shot by Brian Pulido that picks up as a sequel to the movie, and "Friday the 13th: Jason vs. Jason X", a two-issue mini-series by Mike Wolfer that pits the two versions of Jason against each other.

core

The film score was composed and conducted by Harry Manfredini. It was released on Varèse Sarabande.

Trivia/Notes

*This and the previous film contain the Jason Voorhees characters and the series premise, but not the title "Friday The 13th". After a disappointing reception to ', Paramount Pictures sold the Jason Vorhees character to New Line Cinema. Consequently, the New Line movies that feature Jason are ', "Jason X" and "Freddy Vs Jason" which combines Jason and New Line mainstay Freddy Krueger.
*When the character "Stony" opens the door and gets stabbed, and his blood sprays in Kinsa's face, she screams. According to the audio commentary, the effects guys were not supposed to spray the blood into her face. She was screaming not because she just saw her boyfriend die, but because the fake blood was burning her eyes.
*The "virtual '80s" scene was originally meant to be much more detailed, including a number of topless women playing volleyball. One idea even included the appearance of Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mother, and even went so far as to have Jason attack her, showing the extent of just how evil he had become. The latter idea was dropped.
*The "sleeping bag death" scene was first done in "", and was actually ad-libbed by Kane Hodder in that film out of frustration at re-shooting the same scene over and over.
*Originally, the bio-mechanical Über-Jason was meant to be a surprise for the film's finale. But because of early script reviews and foreign posters, New Line Cinema decided to make Über-Jason the major advertising gimmick for the movie.
*The idea of Jason in space was first conceived in a parody on MadTV entitled ""
*One of the abandoned script ideas had Jason in L.A. caught in the middle of a rival gang war.
*The film was announced in 1999, and completed in 2000, but was not released in America until 2002, well after many foreign countries had released it.
*According to one of the characters in the film, Dieter Perez, says that Jason Voorhees killed nearly 200 people. However, the back cover on both DVD/VHS, it says that Jason killed over 200 people
*In the TV show "Andromeda" Lexa Doig plays an Android with costar Lisa Ryder who plays a human. In this movie its the opposite.

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0211443|title=Jason X
*amg movie|id=1:260904|title=Jason X
*rotten-tomatoes|id=jason_x|title=Jason X
*mojo title|id=jasonx|title=Jason X
* [http://www.campcrystallake.com/thefilms/part10.htm Film page at the "Camp Crystal Lake" web site]
* [http://www.toxicuniverse.com/review.php?aid=1000281 "Inside "Jason X" With Screen Writer Todd Farmer] at ToxicUniverse.com.
* [http://www.toxicuniverse.com/review.php?aid=1000299 "Inside "Jason X" with Director Jim Isaac] at ToxicUniverse.com.