10 Utter Trash Horror Movies You Loved Anyway

9. Jason X

Knock Knock Ana de Armas
New Line Cinema

Pretty much every horror franchise flames out by the time it reaches its tenth installment, though the Friday the 13th series deserves some credit for throwing up its hands, saying "f**k it," and giving fans the thing they never knew they wanted - Jason in space.

Jason X is a film that categorically shouldn't work - it takes such an abrupt shift from the series' dominant tone and aesthetic, and yet, plonking Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) on a spaceship gives the series just the glue-sniffing jolt it so desperately needed.

Now to be clear, Jason X isn't a good film in any conventional sense - the dialogue and performances are toe-curlingly corny, the direction is TV-lite, and the visual effects are laughably bad for the most part.

But Todd Farmer's script acutely understood the assignment, in so much as milking the absurdity of Jason dicing up a spaceship's worth of young horny people for all it's worth.

In a series where the well of creativity had seemingly run dry, Jason X was at least an attempt to do something different, and one that never dared to take itself even slightly seriously.

Between the insane death scenes - particularly a certainly legendary one involving liquid nitrogen - and Jason's third act transformation into a nanite-infused cyborg, Jason X is garbage elevated to the realm of art.

Plus, David Cronenberg makes a cameo - and dies, no less - in the film's first five minutes. What more could you possibly want?

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