Stargate Theatre - Jason X
Stargate Theatre
Jason X
Welcome to another episode of Stargate Theatre part of the Stargate Archives podcast, this episode is taking a look at the 2001 scifi/horror movie Jason X which featured Stargate actors Lexa Doig and Chuck Campbell. This movie is the tenth in the Friday The 13th franchise and didn’t do well critically or at the boxoffice but for me it’s easily the most enjoyable “jason” movie.
The movie opens with Jason secured at the Crystal Lake Research Facility however the military are intent on taking him for their own research, naturally he escapes and butchers everyone apart from Rowan ( Lexa Doig ) a scientist/administrator at this facility. Jason plays cat and mouse with Rowan before she leads him into a trap and he is frozen in a cryo chamber seconds after compromising the seal which floods the room with gas and also traps a wounded Rowan. Nearly 5 centuries later the long abandoned Earth is visited by a salvage/archaeological group who discover Rowan and Jason, their technology will revive Rowan but Jason is no more that a very well preserved museum piece.
As you may expect when they return to their ship in orbit of Earth all hell breaks loose, they fix Rowan and when she learns they also have the body of Jason she informs them that he can not be killed but it’s too late, the killing spree has begun. The Marines onboard make a valiant effort to stop Jason but one by one they fall leaving only a handful of people left including the android Kay-EM 14 played by Lisa Ryder and her better half Tsunaron played by Chuck Campbell. In the tradition of slasher movies the kills are bloody and in some cases very inventive and we even get a Jason vs Android battle which was entertaining but even then as Jason is defeated it lays the groundwork for his return bigger and badder. We then get one of the best moments in the movie as the survivors use the ships hologram system to emulate Crystal Lake allowing Jason to experience the original era including two young women eager to ply him with beer, weed and premarital sex. As is the norm the movie wraps with one or two survivors and in theory the bad guy vanquished but maybe just maybe there is a way back for the force of nature that is Jason.
Jason X is such a fun movie, more in the realm of “b” movie it has to be said but they spent the budget reasonably well and cast the movie appropriately. Most of the sets were very good, the CGI was hit and miss but there was some very respectable playback visuals and a very good title sequence. Give this movie a go if you are into scifi and like a little cheese in your slasher flick, there are certainly worse examples of the genre out there.
