10 ‘Bad’ Horror Movies Everyone Gets Wrong

It's a well-worn horror trope that when a franchise is floundering with sequel fatigue that the only logical next step is to launch its main villain into space; and Jason X is quite often ridiculed for being the living embodiment of this laughably lazy concept.

But also, that's kinda the point.

The Friday the 13th franchise may have begun its life as a set of somewhat serious and gruesome suspense thrillers, but as time went on, the series leaned into its own ridiculous nature, and that is arguably why it has endured as long as it has.

And Jason X is the pinnacle of the franchise poking fun at itself, be it through cheeky nods to previous entries, or its gleaming self-awareness that lets the audience in on the joke. This film does not take itself seriously in the slightest, and once you give yourself over to its schlocky charms, you're going to have a good time with it.

The late-era Friday the 13th films are definitely a mixed bag, so it's understandable as to why many fans weren't appreciative of this film's overt campiness, but it's hard to call Jason X a truly bad movie when it's just so darned entertaining.