Jason X: Difference between revisions
| Line 31: | Line 31: | ||
In the morgue, the ice on Jason begins to thaw. As two teenagers named Stony and Kinsa have sex, the sequence of it causes Jason to become reanimated. Jason come back to life and kills Lowe's intern, Adrienne by sticking her head in cryogenites and smashing it against a table nearby. Having been relieved of his machete, he takes a similarly-shaped surgical tool and moves on to kill another student and Stoney in front of Kinsa. 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 six of them are apparently killed, plus one student. Jason then kills the ship's pilot on its docking approach to a space station. The ship crashes through the space station, destroying it one of the vessel's two pontoon sections. Jason then breaks into the lab and confronts Lowe while the students run away. The professor attempts to interest Jason in financial possibilities. When that fails, Lowe returns Jason's machete, hoping to earn his trust. However, as Lowe will learn, this is not a good idea when dealing with Jason, as he kills Lowe anyway. With the ship badly damaged, Rowan and remaining students head for the vessel's shuttle. As the shuttle is being prepped, Jason intercepts them. One of the students, Kinsa, who is on board the shuttle 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 there's no escape. Sgt. Brodski, the leader of the soldiers attacks Jason by surprise. He is easily overpowered, but another student has upgraded an android, Kay-Em 14, with an array 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 sent out a distress call and receive a reply from a patrol shuttle. |
In the morgue, the ice on Jason begins to thaw. As two teenagers named Stony and Kinsa have sex, the sequence of it causes Jason to become reanimated. Jason come back to life and kills Lowe's intern, Adrienne by sticking her head in cryogenites and smashing it against a table nearby. Having been relieved of his machete, he takes a similarly-shaped surgical tool and moves on to kill another student and Stoney in front of Kinsa. 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 six of them are apparently killed, plus one student. Jason then kills the ship's pilot on its docking approach to a space station. The ship crashes through the space station, destroying it one of the vessel's two pontoon sections. Jason then breaks into the lab and confronts Lowe while the students run away. The professor attempts to interest Jason in financial possibilities. When that fails, Lowe returns Jason's machete, hoping to earn his trust. However, as Lowe will learn, this is not a good idea when dealing with Jason, as he kills Lowe anyway. With the ship badly damaged, Rowan and remaining students head for the vessel's shuttle. As the shuttle is being prepped, Jason intercepts them. One of the students, Kinsa, who is on board the shuttle 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 there's no escape. Sgt. Brodski, the leader of the soldiers attacks Jason by surprise. He is easily overpowered, but another student has upgraded an android, Kay-Em 14, with an array 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 sent out a distress call and receive a reply from a patrol shuttle. |
||
Nearly an hour passes and 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 Uber-Jason and is decapitated her head, however remains functional the separation. As Jason is about to kill one of the students, Rowan grabs his machete to stop him, but Jason begins strangling Rowan. However, one of the students taunts Jason, thereby, releasing his choke-grip on Rowan, thus, saving her and sacrifices himself by setting off the explosive charges while Rowan and the others escape. The explosives do not stop Uber-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 |
Nearly an hour passes and 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 Uber-Jason and is decapitated her head, however remains functional the separation. As Jason is about to kill one of the students, Rowan grabs his machete to stop him, but Jason begins strangling Rowan. However, one of the students taunts Jason, thereby, releasing his choke-grip on Rowan, thus, saving her and sacrifices himself by setting off the explosive charges while Rowan and the others escape. The explosives do not stop Uber-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 created by Tsunaron which is used to distract Uber-Jason as Brodski works. Uber-Jason manages to see through the deception just as the docking clamp is fixed and Brodski confronts Uber-Jason so Rowand and Tsunaron, along with Kay-Em 14's head in tow can escape. As they leave, the pontoon explodes, again propelling Uber-Jason at high-speed towards the survivors. Brodski intercepts Uber-Jason in mid-fight, using his jetback to maneuver them both into the atmosphere of Earth Two, apparently killing both by the heat of reentry. Relieved by the death of Jason, Tsunaron assures Kay-Em 14 that he will build a new body for her while Rowan now contemplates her new life by eventually settling onto Earth 2 with a fresh start. In the final scene, two teens beside a forest lake set off to find where the ''falling star'' landed; Uber-Jason's half mask is shown sinking to the bottom of the lake. |
||
==Cast== |
==Cast== |
||
Revision as of 06:50, 1 September 2009
| Jason X | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | James Isaac |
| Written by | Todd Farmer Characters: Victor Miller |
| Produced by | Noel Cunningham Sean S. Cunningham Geoff Garrett James Isaac Marilyn Stonehouse |
| Starring | Kane Hodder Lexa Doig |
| Cinematography | Derick V. Underschultz |
| Edited by | David Handman |
| Music by | Harry Manfredini |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
Release date | April 26, 2002 |
Running time | 93 min. |
| Country | Template:FilmUS |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14,000,000 (est.) |
| Box office | $16,951,798 |
Jason X is a 2002 science fiction/slasher film, and the tenth in the Friday the 13th film series, starring Kane Hodder as the undead mass murderer Jason Voorhees. The film made $16,951,798 worldwide with a $14,000,000 budget.[1]
The film was conceived during a staff meeting when a writer suggested sending Jason into space 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.
Plot
In 2008, Jason Voorhees is captured by the U.S. government. Rowan, a government reseacher, leads several unsuccessful attempts to execute him. In 2010, she decides to place him in cryogenic suspension to neutralize him. Unfortunately, the goverment has other plans, hoping to profit from research into Jason's rapid cellular regeneration. Jason escapes while being moved and kills seven soldiers. Rowan manages to lure him into cryonic chamber and activates it. However, Jason manages to stab her through the door, both wounding her and him freezing them both inside the sealed room. In the year 2455, Earth has become too polluted to support life as it has contaminated seas, toxicated lands and violent storms. Humanity has moved to a new planet Earth 2. Five students on a field trip led by Professor Lowe enter the facility and find Jason and Rowan. They take them back to their spacecraft and reanimate Rowan. She is brought clothes to wear. Jason is deemed deceased and left in the morgue. During a call to his financial backer, Professor Lowe explains that he had hoped to exploit Rowan's status as the oldest person revived from croystasus 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, the ice on Jason begins to thaw. As two teenagers named Stony and Kinsa have sex, the sequence of it causes Jason to become reanimated. Jason come back to life and kills Lowe's intern, Adrienne by sticking her head in cryogenites and smashing it against a table nearby. Having been relieved of his machete, he takes a similarly-shaped surgical tool and moves on to kill another student and Stoney in front of Kinsa. 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 six of them are apparently killed, plus one student. Jason then kills the ship's pilot on its docking approach to a space station. The ship crashes through the space station, destroying it one of the vessel's two pontoon sections. Jason then breaks into the lab and confronts Lowe while the students run away. The professor attempts to interest Jason in financial possibilities. When that fails, Lowe returns Jason's machete, hoping to earn his trust. However, as Lowe will learn, this is not a good idea when dealing with Jason, as he kills Lowe anyway. With the ship badly damaged, Rowan and remaining students head for the vessel's shuttle. As the shuttle is being prepped, Jason intercepts them. One of the students, Kinsa, who is on board the shuttle 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 there's no escape. Sgt. Brodski, the leader of the soldiers attacks Jason by surprise. He is easily overpowered, but another student has upgraded an android, Kay-Em 14, with an array 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 sent out a distress call and receive a reply from a patrol shuttle.
Nearly an hour passes and 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 Uber-Jason and is decapitated her head, however remains functional the separation. As Jason is about to kill one of the students, Rowan grabs his machete to stop him, but Jason begins strangling Rowan. However, one of the students taunts Jason, thereby, releasing his choke-grip on Rowan, thus, saving her and sacrifices himself by setting off the explosive charges while Rowan and the others escape. The explosives do not stop Uber-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 created by Tsunaron which is used to distract Uber-Jason as Brodski works. Uber-Jason manages to see through the deception just as the docking clamp is fixed and Brodski confronts Uber-Jason so Rowand and Tsunaron, along with Kay-Em 14's head in tow can escape. As they leave, the pontoon explodes, again propelling Uber-Jason at high-speed towards the survivors. Brodski intercepts Uber-Jason in mid-fight, using his jetback to maneuver them both into the atmosphere of Earth Two, apparently killing both by the heat of reentry. Relieved by the death of Jason, Tsunaron assures Kay-Em 14 that he will build a new body for her while Rowan now contemplates her new life by eventually settling onto Earth 2 with a fresh start. In the final scene, two teens beside a forest lake set off to find where the falling star landed; Uber-Jason's half mask is shown sinking to the bottom of the lake.
Cast
- Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees/Uber-Jason
- 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
- Melody Johnson as Kinsa
- Phillip Williams as Crutch
- Yani Gellman as Stony
- Boyd Banks as Fat Lou
- Todd Farmer as Dallas
- Dov Tiefenbach as Azrael
- Jeff Geddis as Pvt. Johnson
- Markus Parilo as Sgt. Marcus
Reception
The film made $13,121,555 domestically, making it the lowest-grossing film in the series. It earned $3,830,243 foreign for a worldwide gross of $16,951,798.[2]
Roger Ebert wrote a scathing review of the film, stating that "This sucks on so many levels."[3]
Other media
In 2005, 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.
Score
The film score was composed and conducted by Harry Manfredini. It was released on Varèse Sarabande.
References
- ^ Bracke, Peter (October 11, 2006). Crystal Lake Memories. United Kingdom: Titan Books. p. 314. ISBN 1845763432.
- ^ Box Office Mojo: Jason X
- ^ http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020426/REVIEWS/204260302/1023
External links
- Jason X at IMDb
- Template:Amg movie
- Jason X at Rotten Tomatoes
- Jason X at Box Office Mojo
- Film page at the Camp Crystal Lake web site
- "Inside Jason X" With Screen Writer Todd Farmer at ToxicUniverse.com.
- "Inside Jason X" with Director Jim Isaac at ToxicUniverse.com.
| Films |
|
|---|---|
| Television | |
| Novels | |
| Comics | |
| Music |
|
| Video games | |
| Characters | |
| Related | |
