10 Movie Sequels WAY Crazier Than The Original
4. Jason X
Jason X is the crowned king of the "In Spaaaaaace..." glut of horror movie sequels, and marks about as drastic a departure from the original camp-set slasher film as humanly possible.
Friday the 13th is a fascinating, amorphous beast of a franchise that's changed itself up more than many give it credit for, with later entries introducing a Jason copycat, then resurrecting him via lightning bolt in the series' most satirical entry, and even sending him off to the Big Apple, because why not?
It also saw Jason live on by possessing a mortician who chowed down on his heart, and yet even that seemed totally benign and tepid compared to the futuristic tenth film.
Jason X is set almost 500 years in the future and sees Jason (Kane Hodder) slaughtering a fleet of poor saps aboard a spaceship after they discover his frozen body and accidentally thaw him out.
And because that's not wacky enough, it culminates in Jason being killed and then reanimated as a nanite-infused cyborg, at which point the series has strayed so far from Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) killing camp counselors as to almost feel like another IP entirely.