Quick Review: Jason X

Ah, Jason X. There's so many reasons for a geek like me to love this film, and so many reasons for everyone else to hate it. First off, the premise is a monument to utter ridiculousness. It's a cheap 70s sci-fi movie, starring a pack of horny, barely clad teenagers, and our old buddy Jason Vorheze (spell?) is trapped out in space with them. There's lots of tongue in cheek humor, as it quickly becomes obvious that 400 years of technological advancement have still not prepared these people for an onslaught by a rotting corpse armed with a machette. Hell, Jason even gets the better of a combat robot at one point! Anyway, besides the enjoyable silliness of it all, the real meat and potatoes is the excessive gore, which is served up thick and bloody. Watching Jason plow through soldiers, both in the past and future is incredibly enjoyable (especially after he was slaughtered so easily by the cops in "Jason Goes to Hell"), mostly because they provide more of a challenge than your standard screaming teenybopper. As an added plus, one of my favorite directors of all time, David Cronenberg (Scanners, the Fly, Naked Lunch, Videodrome, eXistenZ, ect) makes a brief cameo appearance, and gets skewered to boot.

Jason X: Ultra dumb, yet ultra rock on.