JASON X

Year 2010. The serial killer Jason Voorhees has finally been captured and taken to the Crystal Lake research center: the scientists' goal is to put him in cryogenic stasis and study his tissue, with incredible self-regenerative capabilities, for stem cell research. But things do not go as planned. Jason manages to free himself, massacres scientists and soldiers, but is frozen by one of the research center's heads, who in turn, remains frozen and injured. Year 2455. A group of students from Earth 2, on a trip to the old planet, come across the frozen bodies of Jason and the doctor; they take them aboard the shuttle to study them and revive them, unaware that they have just given the most dangerous serial killer of the past the chance to continue his favorite hobby! The proverb says "Those who don't die will be seen again!", and if there is a character from popular culture who really has no intention of dying, it is Jason Voorhees. Eight years after the bad and apparently conclusive ("The final Friday") "Jason goes to hell", the giant with a hockey mask that all horror fans know returns in dazzling form. In the tenth chapter, one could only expect another useless and tired movie, but "Jason X", thanks to a fresh and self-ironic script, manages to insert itself among the best titles of the saga. Let's be clear: at the news that Sean S. Cunningham intended to produce a new film of the saga "Friday the 13th" set in space and only reading the absurd plot, one would have expected the worst. But the film in question has the great merit of not taking itself seriously at all, resulting in a bloody entertainment that all fans will appreciate. Seeing Jason move decisively, with his classic and inexorable heavy step, through the corridors of a spaceship, wielding a futuristic machete and surprising his victims from behind as if he were one of the slimy creatures of "Alien", is damn entertaining. All the clichés of the saga are respected and mocked, ending in a self-citation where the Crystal Lake of 1980 is recreated through virtual reality: Jason will find himself immersed in the place where he grew up, by the lake, with two topless campers who cheer for sex and drugs (the two sins for which Jason has always, perhaps unintentionally, punished); naturally, the killer will not let the opportunity slip away and will act on instinct in an artificial revival. Of course, the entire film travels on the rails of the complacent farce, so between quotes from "Aliens - Scontro finale" (the marines who inexplicably escort the students and who find themselves in a bloody confrontation with the Crystal Lake massacre), mockery of "Star Trek" (the protagonist complains that it is not possible to teleport), androids experts in martial arts and David Cronenberg who, in a cameo, is killed by Jason (the director himself has expressed the desire to be a victim of the killer), we arrive at the final climax where Jason appears as an invulnerable and very angry cyborg. In conclusion, "Jason X" is a stupid movie, but aware of it and, in its sincere puerility, entertains a lot, also thanks to an original location and a series of really tasty script finds. Who knows if the producers will manage to resurrect Jason for an eleventh time?