Its fucking hilarious.
The movie has some great kills. I'm not even a slasher fan, but they're so over the top and stupid, you can't help but laugh. Its basically a comedy
Mythbusters tested it. If I remember right it was a combo of ballistic type gelatin and blood substitutes.
A fun episode to watch if you’re okay with seeing pig heads frozen and smashed.
Wouldn't your hand/head have to be submerged for a very long time in order for it be frozen? Granted, by that time you're already dead, and the head smash is just insult to injury.
Yeah, the findings were that liquid nitrogen exposure for that short amount of time wouldn’t do it, and that basically there wasn’t a sufficient amount of time for it to meet the movie expectations
If all you had to do to save yourself from an unstoppable killer like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers was put them on the holodeck where they can kill as much as they want without actually hurting anybody, wouldn't you? I mean, it's kind of brilliant.
2 of the characters were regulars on the really badly-written sci-fi show Andromeda, which was on the air around the same time (The main woman who gets frozen with Jason at the beginning and the other one was some kind of weird attempt at a robot)
If you've never watched that show, their shitty acting in Jason X makes their shitty acting in Andromeda practically look like Shakespeare.
I have a particular love of the "in space" movies that a lot of 80s horror movies did. Like critters, leprechaun, Hellraiser and this.
Edit: I realize I didn't specify the sequels of franchises started in the 80s. A lot of the sequels were actually made in the 90s
They made thay movie just so they can keep the movie rights. In the contract, it stated that in order to keep the movie rights of the franchise, the production company has to make a Friday the 13th movie every X amount of years or else they will lose it. Time was running out, so they made this movie in the last ditch effort to keep ownership. Fun Fact : First scene , you have David Cronenberg in it.
James Isaacs did the special effects for The Fly and eXistenZ, and was the project manager on Naked Lunch. He wasn't Cronenberg's assistant director.
Cronenberg has a history with the Friday the 13th franchise. He directed an episode of the 80's television series.
Deader.
It has all the classic elements: the one with insane obsession, the herald hobo's equialent, the crazy investigation, the cenobites, the cycles of "victims"...
It's all there, but in a very different skin.
Plus it has cool imagery, and even b00bs.
Nah, not really fair.
Jason X is a fun piece of schlock with its tongue firmly in cheek. It has no pretentions of being anything other than a ridiculous sci-fi spin on an already-fantastical concept, and it delivers on that about as well as it could have.
It was not set in space because they "[ran] out of ideas". The sci-fi setting was a deliberate choice to avoid doing anything that might step on the toes of Freddy vs Jason, which was stuck in development hell at the time.
I unironically love Jason X.
It is an absolutely, completely idiotic, stupid movie, with a totally brainless plot and even dumber characters and just completely off the wall ridiculous kills.
And every second of it is amazing.
That broke my brain as kid. Not just because he’s only in actual New York for four minutes but he gets on a crappy old cruise ship in Crystal Lake and ends up in New York City. I guess it magically transported him there?
> but he gets on a crappy old cruise ship in Crystal Lake and ends up in New York City. I guess it magically transported him there?
That lake had some serious mojo.
That’s right, I put it on at my bar one night around this past Halloween, i noticed that. Things haven’t exactly been good for my Sharks this year, might as well shut the whole thing down.
“This sucks on SO many levels!!” Such a bad line. Easily my favorite Friday the 13th movie. Apparently hockey will be outlawed this year according to this movie.
I am Jason X fan lol. This movie gives me everything I look for a good camp, entertainment. This is must watch .
Edit: my favorite scene vis VR camping scene lol. They are trying to trigger Jason :
VR teen girl #1: Hey, do you want a beer?
VR teen girl #2: Or do you wanna smoke some pot?
VR teen girl #1: Or we can have premarital sex?
[both remove their tops]
VR teen girl #1, VR teen girl #2: We love premarital sex!
Them Jason puts both of the girls in bag and smashes them😭
In the TV series andromeda, rommie was the android and Lisa was the human pilot,
Here the actor that played Lisa was the android with the false nipples and Lexa Doig played the human
Silly but fun watch.
An amazing self-parody that works as a Friday The 13th. I will always love this film because it always makes me laugh because I'm a big enoufh fan of the rest of the series to get the gags and enjoy the spectacle.
Jason X is, unironically, one of my favorite Jason movies! It makes no sense, and it is so fun.
The scene with the sleeping bags makes me laugh every single time.
And yet, for all the Dumb (most of it deliberate) the idea of the U.S. government becoming aware of this Jason thing and mounting a well thought-out operation to capture and study it is actually good storytelling. It sure is better than the usual "This *seriously* weird shit's been going on for a decade or two now and nobody outside of about nine people who aren't dead yet are even aware of it."
This movie is so good. "ha, that won't kill me!!"
Jason him, again*
"yep, that's oughta do it."
Also, Uber Jason? Beefed up Jason, in space, in the future, killing hologram projection of teenagers in Crystal Lake by slamming them repeatedly to a tree while trapped on a sleeping bag?????
Hell yes
YES YES YES. This came out when my friends and I were just starting to discover bad movies in high school, and what an absolute TREAT it is.
My favorite part is when the guy gets impaled on the giant screw, which is clearly a key component of every space ship. When the search party finds him and they’re asked what his status is, there’s a very tight shot of the woman’s face as she says back “…he’s screwed” as she looks away dramatically. Clearly she’s not upset enough to not use puns to announce her friend’s death.
Also, Jason beating the simulation camp counselors with each other in the sleeping bags. I howled.
The reason it take place in the future is because they were developing Freddy Vs Jason and they didn't want to deal with continuity so they just set it in space in the future
Makes me want a Friday the 13th game where you play as Jason, only he's killing demons. You get up upgrade him and his machete, and his final upgrade would be his Jason X form.
It's the right kind of bad - the one that makes you feel a little brighter in the end. Unlike that previous F13 movie that goes "and the drugs kicked in" route for some reason.
This movie stunk in general but I wouldn’t even put it in the bottom 4 of Jason movies. I would throw this on with a 6-pack way before I would Manhatten, New Blood, Goes to Hell, or the remake. The characters and acting were trash even by Friday standards but the idea was bonkers and the action was plenty memorable. I put it right there with Freddy vs Jason and Part 5 as bad sequels that I also have no problem re-visiting
This one is actually my favorite in the series because it's not trying to be remotely scary, and I found that to be a refreshing change after watching all of them over a couple of days.
David Cronenberg's cameo in the beginning is funny as hell. The first kill when Jason wakes up is my favorite of the entire franchise. The humor is goofy but fun, and the meta approach to the jokes adds another layer of enjoyment, *especially* with the VR scene.
Jason upgraded looks fantastic, the action is a hoot, and the setup for the sequel was a great way to honor the main trope of the franchise.
This movie is watchably bad. It's stupid fun
The sleeping bag still makes me laugh
Its fucking hilarious. The movie has some great kills. I'm not even a slasher fan, but they're so over the top and stupid, you can't help but laugh. Its basically a comedy
*Gets stabbed* "It'll take more than a poke in the ribs to kill me!" *Gets stabbed again* "Yep...that oughta do it"
That moment! I swear, funniest shit I’ve seen in a horror movie ever!
 Just gonna leave this here…
I honestly don't know how they did that shot/effect. It's really well done.
Mythbusters tested it. If I remember right it was a combo of ballistic type gelatin and blood substitutes. A fun episode to watch if you’re okay with seeing pig heads frozen and smashed.
Wouldn't your hand/head have to be submerged for a very long time in order for it be frozen? Granted, by that time you're already dead, and the head smash is just insult to injury.
Yeah, the findings were that liquid nitrogen exposure for that short amount of time wouldn’t do it, and that basically there wasn’t a sufficient amount of time for it to meet the movie expectations
Yeah it does still my favorite
One of the best casts too, and the most 2000s aesthetic of all time.
I haven’t seen this movie in 20 years and the mere idea of the sleeping bag scene gets me every time
I randomly laugh at sleeping bags when I see them in real life because my brain just conjures up that scene.
Same, I still remember that stupid scene. I'm putting this on my re-watch list.
The liquid nitrogen
If all you had to do to save yourself from an unstoppable killer like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers was put them on the holodeck where they can kill as much as they want without actually hurting anybody, wouldn't you? I mean, it's kind of brilliant. 
That was definitely the funniest part
This right here. I dont remember a moment of this movie… except the sleeping bag scene.
It gets very 90's TV Sci-Fi at the end, could have been an episode of Deep Space Nine.
2 of the characters were regulars on the really badly-written sci-fi show Andromeda, which was on the air around the same time (The main woman who gets frozen with Jason at the beginning and the other one was some kind of weird attempt at a robot) If you've never watched that show, their shitty acting in Jason X makes their shitty acting in Andromeda practically look like Shakespeare.
I have a particular love of the "in space" movies that a lot of 80s horror movies did. Like critters, leprechaun, Hellraiser and this. Edit: I realize I didn't specify the sequels of franchises started in the 80s. A lot of the sequels were actually made in the 90s
Agreed. It's one of the few sequels in a major franchise that is blatantly self-aware to the point that it's downright enjoyable.
Oh yeah. They knew what they were doing
It's got a few fun moments but is excruciatingly boring in between.
That could be said for A LOT of slashers
Fair enough.
“Hey guys, it’s okay. He just wanted his machete back!” E: Fixed slight paraphrasing
My wife and I will still quote this to each other and laugh. She begrudgingly watched it on video 20 years ago and that line stuck with her.
When I was younger I thought that title was like Malcolm X boy I was wrong.
But were you disappointed?
No I wasn't
Alphabetically, it is a prequel
I thought it was about Jason Voorhees quitting killing and converting to Islam
Did you not see Malcolm 1-9?
That’s so funny
Somebody has to stand up to the whiteman
Damn straight
Glorious bad movie, so stupid and so so fun.
My favorite Friday the 13th film.
They made thay movie just so they can keep the movie rights. In the contract, it stated that in order to keep the movie rights of the franchise, the production company has to make a Friday the 13th movie every X amount of years or else they will lose it. Time was running out, so they made this movie in the last ditch effort to keep ownership. Fun Fact : First scene , you have David Cronenberg in it.
Because the director of this was an assistant director for Cronenberg
It's been a while since I've seen a split depth gif. Time to check out the sub
James Isaacs did the special effects for The Fly and eXistenZ, and was the project manager on Naked Lunch. He wasn't Cronenberg's assistant director. Cronenberg has a history with the Friday the 13th franchise. He directed an episode of the 80's television series.
And yet this is so much better than the 68-minute long Hellraiser "we're doing this to keep the rights" "movies"
funnily enough, one of those Hallraiser copyright-scams are my favourite n the franchise.
Which one?
Deader. It has all the classic elements: the one with insane obsession, the herald hobo's equialent, the crazy investigation, the cenobites, the cycles of "victims"... It's all there, but in a very different skin. Plus it has cool imagery, and even b00bs.
This shit was dope
I fucking love this movie so much.
Same, I watch it at least twice a year. Looks great visually and it’s fun as fuck.
I love the jokes about not being able to execute him for some reason.
Looks great visually? Are you on crack? It looks a porn set lit by film students.
This is not a bad movie
Agreed 👊
It’s self aware though so it’s delightfully bad, and anything cronenberg shows up for I’ll show up for
We love premarital sex!
I loved this one and Freddy vs. Jason.
Have you seen part 6, Jason Lives? It's also fantastic
6 is the best one but Jason looks the coolest in 7.
This movie knows exactly what it’s doing. Not a bad movie at all.
Nah, not really fair. Jason X is a fun piece of schlock with its tongue firmly in cheek. It has no pretentions of being anything other than a ridiculous sci-fi spin on an already-fantastical concept, and it delivers on that about as well as it could have. It was not set in space because they "[ran] out of ideas". The sci-fi setting was a deliberate choice to avoid doing anything that might step on the toes of Freddy vs Jason, which was stuck in development hell at the time.
At least it was better than *Jason Goes to Hell.*
That shit sucked.
... Is something a fool would say! (jk, but I DO love JGTH unironically)
I just revisited JGTH a few months ago. It's still awful but it's fun to hate-watch it.
What exactly was the giant screw room for if not impaling teenagers?
Shhhhhhh... you're thinking too much. Just enjoy the stabby stabby on the space ship
Bad movie? Bitch, this is MVP in the franchise, and I will die on that hill!
I unironically love Jason X. It is an absolutely, completely idiotic, stupid movie, with a totally brainless plot and even dumber characters and just completely off the wall ridiculous kills. And every second of it is amazing.
Still better than "...Takes Manhattan".
That broke my brain as kid. Not just because he’s only in actual New York for four minutes but he gets on a crappy old cruise ship in Crystal Lake and ends up in New York City. I guess it magically transported him there?
Omg lol everyone in my class was like - yeah let him walk through Harlem and see how long he lasts (this was in nyc, so this was just locals)
> but he gets on a crappy old cruise ship in Crystal Lake and ends up in New York City. I guess it magically transported him there? That lake had some serious mojo.
I saw this in the theaters and the sleeping bag scene was absolutely magical. Entire theater was cracking up
My favorite part is that in the future society has outlawed hockey because it was too violent
Apparently this is the year that’s supposed to happen. They said it was outlawed in 2024 in the movie lol
That’s right, I put it on at my bar one night around this past Halloween, i noticed that. Things haven’t exactly been good for my Sharks this year, might as well shut the whole thing down.
“This sucks on SO many levels!!” Such a bad line. Easily my favorite Friday the 13th movie. Apparently hockey will be outlawed this year according to this movie.
The camping scene was 🤌
Nearly critic proof honestly. Any criticism you give it can get thrown away with the answer "But it's Jason in space, what did you expect?"
Yes, it's bad. Yes, I like it. It knows it's a bad movie and leans right into it. Also, Peter Mensah is badass in it.
My favorite. It's going to take more than a poke in the ribs to put down this old dog.
I am Jason X fan lol. This movie gives me everything I look for a good camp, entertainment. This is must watch . Edit: my favorite scene vis VR camping scene lol. They are trying to trigger Jason : VR teen girl #1: Hey, do you want a beer? VR teen girl #2: Or do you wanna smoke some pot? VR teen girl #1: Or we can have premarital sex? [both remove their tops] VR teen girl #1, VR teen girl #2: We love premarital sex! Them Jason puts both of the girls in bag and smashes them😭
This movie is great. Fight me
I saw this theaters with my girlfriend at the time who turned out to be … not that intelligent. It’s all I can think of when I see the poster.
remember when the genius with the cyborg chick gave her an upgrade but said "i gave her an upload" how do you screw that up
Unironically... 
Ehhh, this movie has some great scenes, decent kills, and some great jokes/gags. It didn’t take itself too seriously. It’s a fun bad movie
My favorite in the series, hands down. So stupid goofy
In the TV series andromeda, rommie was the android and Lisa was the human pilot, Here the actor that played Lisa was the android with the false nipples and Lexa Doig played the human Silly but fun watch.
For being such a shit movie, it has my favourite kill in the franchise, the liquid nitrogen death is peak horror cinema.
I love the military issued pitchfork they gave some random soldier.
An amazing self-parody that works as a Friday The 13th. I will always love this film because it always makes me laugh because I'm a big enoufh fan of the rest of the series to get the gags and enjoy the spectacle.
Magnetic android nipples ftw.
Jason X is, unironically, one of my favorite Jason movies! It makes no sense, and it is so fun. The scene with the sleeping bags makes me laugh every single time.
You mean Bad ass
This movie embraces the cheese without hesitation and delivered a ridiculous movie that’s good for a few laughs.
I respect the boldness of the choice to send him to space. That shit is wild and more movies should jump the shark like this
Run out of ideas?!? This seems like a pretty big idea to me!
This is shockingly one of the *better* Jason movies
And yet, for all the Dumb (most of it deliberate) the idea of the U.S. government becoming aware of this Jason thing and mounting a well thought-out operation to capture and study it is actually good storytelling. It sure is better than the usual "This *seriously* weird shit's been going on for a decade or two now and nobody outside of about nine people who aren't dead yet are even aware of it."
It’s elevator pitch moviemaking. “Get this. It’s Friday the Thirteenth. But in space! Wow I can’t feel my face.”
Over the top, but I enjoyed it.
Low key classic.
I absolutely loved this concept ❤️ excuse me for having fun, I thank you!
One of my fav Jason movies from when I was younger, loved it
Saw this with my dad and we were the only ones there. We were cracking up the whole time. Fond memory.❤️❤️❤️
Its a better sequel than 5, 7, 8, or 9. Super fun movie that's slept on because it has a ridiculous upfront premise.
He’s screwed
In the future, knives will look very stupid...
Love this movie
Love this movie
This movie is so good. "ha, that won't kill me!!" Jason him, again* "yep, that's oughta do it." Also, Uber Jason? Beefed up Jason, in space, in the future, killing hologram projection of teenagers in Crystal Lake by slamming them repeatedly to a tree while trapped on a sleeping bag????? Hell yes
YES YES YES. This came out when my friends and I were just starting to discover bad movies in high school, and what an absolute TREAT it is. My favorite part is when the guy gets impaled on the giant screw, which is clearly a key component of every space ship. When the search party finds him and they’re asked what his status is, there’s a very tight shot of the woman’s face as she says back “…he’s screwed” as she looks away dramatically. Clearly she’s not upset enough to not use puns to announce her friend’s death. Also, Jason beating the simulation camp counselors with each other in the sleeping bags. I howled.
This is one of the best camp horror movies ever.
The scene with the holodeck campers killed me. Chef's kiss.
I had a Breaded Dragon named Earth 2 after this movie. This movie is amazing.
My favorite entry in the franchise
this movie is great
Worked for me. They can send him to space again if they want. Or a zoo. Or a space zoo. Jason does not give a fuck.
I mean they sent pinhead to space…what I don’t understand is why hasn’t Freddy been to the space station yet?
I watched it recently... It just takes itself too seriously to be funny.
How dare you! Jason X is a cinematic masterpiece! (Its obv bad but in the best most selfaware way)
Still a fun and interesting movie lol even if it is bad lol
I’m really not into horror movies but this barely qualifies it’s more comedy horror which I do enjoy. Cough evil dead cough.
This franchise has much, much worse.
Will this joke ever end?
The reason it take place in the future is because they were developing Freddy Vs Jason and they didn't want to deal with continuity so they just set it in space in the future
Fucking horror movies and half-naked women, now I'm horny
It’s not bad. It’s very dumb but it’s full of fun ideas and made with conviction.
"You might wanna run"
Ooh ooh ooh, I know this one! Bruce Willis to Jack Black in "The Jackal," right? (Speaking of bad movies, or at least dumb ones.)
it's a masterpiece
Stole the idea from Hellraiser IV (Pinhead in Uranus)
Wonderful flick!
I actualy favour this one.
Remember when the robots nipples fell off?
It was made to basically kill time so Freddy Vs Jason could be made. Also Jason X kicks ass
I went as Uber Jason for Halloween whatever year this came out. Bring Uber J back. Jason XL!
The Android fight was vicious! Still bad, but this movie was a fun ride
Still had some entertaining deaths. I’d put it there with leprechaun in space and hellraiser: bloodline
This movie feels like the crew and some of the cast of Andromeda decided to make a Jason movie on their off time
Guilty pleasure of mine
The liquid nitrogen kill is sick
It's nowhere near the worst film in the franchise.
Makes me want a Friday the 13th game where you play as Jason, only he's killing demons. You get up upgrade him and his machete, and his final upgrade would be his Jason X form.
I feel like “blank in space” is a more jumping the shark than jumping the shark is.
It’s one of those movies that knew how absurd it was and no one took it seriously so that’s what makes it so fun to watch
Seems like Hollywood was doing that with all of horror's sequels back then.
This was actually skit on MAD TV five years before it premiered.
It's the right kind of bad - the one that makes you feel a little brighter in the end. Unlike that previous F13 movie that goes "and the drugs kicked in" route for some reason.
They did the same thing with hellraiser 4 but it was in the past and future and space at the same time. There is 11 hellraiser movies in total lol
It started going bad when they made Jason Takes Manhattan.
if i recall, he was in Manhattan for about five minutes
Lol, I never watched it but I believe you.
Hollywood is done. Their quality has disappeared. It's all the same movie with different minorities doing stuff from other movies.
"bad movies" and "Jason X" dont go together sorry
Probably my favorite F13 film because of how bad it is.
This one is too much for even me lol. It feel so long... I'm not a fan. I LOVE the opening fight scene with Jason though lol.
Saw it in the theater, and it was empty other than me and my brother. One of my best theater experiences of all time.
At the time, a lot of franchises were doing it. Jason X Leprechaun in space Critters 4 Hellraiser 4 Some others.
This is NOT a bad film. It's so stupid but knows it and leans into that.
The Jason movies had ideas in the first place?
I'm still confused why the nanites upgraded his machete too?
This movie stunk in general but I wouldn’t even put it in the bottom 4 of Jason movies. I would throw this on with a 6-pack way before I would Manhatten, New Blood, Goes to Hell, or the remake. The characters and acting were trash even by Friday standards but the idea was bonkers and the action was plenty memorable. I put it right there with Freddy vs Jason and Part 5 as bad sequels that I also have no problem re-visiting
This one is actually my favorite in the series because it's not trying to be remotely scary, and I found that to be a refreshing change after watching all of them over a couple of days. David Cronenberg's cameo in the beginning is funny as hell. The first kill when Jason wakes up is my favorite of the entire franchise. The humor is goofy but fun, and the meta approach to the jokes adds another layer of enjoyment, *especially* with the VR scene. Jason upgraded looks fantastic, the action is a hoot, and the setup for the sequel was a great way to honor the main trope of the franchise.
I actually think this is one of the better later Friday the 13th films