10 Horror Movies That Judge You For Watching
10. Jason X
By the time any horror movie franchise takes the action to space, it's clearly out of genuinely good ideas, so Jason X decided to swing for the fences and take a cheeky shot at its own over-eager fans who kept pouring their hard-earned cash into the Friday the 13th series.
Mid-way through the movie, protagonist Rowan (Lexa Doig) explains that she headed up a task force that experimented with ways to kill Jason (Kane Hodder) once and for all, and when they realised he couldn't be killed, they simply put him in cryogenic stasis.
It's not difficult to see parallels between this and the movie franchise itself, a shambling, unkillable beast of an IP that was ultimately put on ice for almost an entire decade after the release of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday before Jason X was made.
But the kicker comes when Rowan takes a thinly-veiled crack at both studio executives and the audience themselves:
"Unfortunately, some people who were too smart for their own good felt that a creature that couldn't be killed was simply too valuable to just file away. In the end, it always comes down to money."
The fact that Rowan didn't stare directly in the camera lens while she said it passes for restraint, basically.