Every Friday The 13th Film Ranked From Worst To Best

Some Friday fans are no doubt doing a spit-take at this one appearing so high in the list. Director James Isaac's 2001 entry, the first Friday of the new millennium released after Jason had been off screens for eight whole years, doesn't have the best name in all corners. It takes an outrageous sci-fi twist, transporting Jason to a high-tech spaceship hundreds of years in the future. Quite the dramatic break with convention, which - as we've discussed - Friday the 13th isn't typically big on.

However, Friday the 13th isn't big on taking things too seriously either. Jason X is entirely aware of its absurdity, and as such it does play things for laughs to an extent: it was a product of the post-Scream, self-referential slasher era, after all. Yet even with the comedic angle and interstellar setting, it still feels very true to the spirit of the franchise; even in space, people can still say and do the same stupid stuff that gets them killed on Earth.

And the kills in question are great. While there's plenty of the classic machete-swinging, neck-snapping action that we'd expect, the futuristic set-up allows for all manner of new and outlandish methods of dispatch, including death by impalement on a giant screw, and perhaps the best of all, the liquid nitrogen face-smash. Some may lament that this marked Kane Hodder's final appearance as Jason, but what a note to go out on.