Friday The 13th: Ranking Every Movie From Worst To Best

5. Jason X

This is an unloved entry in the series but one which holds up rather well. Sending horror movie monsters into space is akin to sending British sitcom favourites to the Algarve (witness Leprechaun and Hellraiser) but here the makers just about pull it off by not only making some jokes about the franchise, but by giving us Uber-Jason. Yes, it's ridiculous, but don't forget that this is a franchise which started with a dead boy jumping out of a lake and, two months later, flying across America as a fully grown adult to dispatch the Final Girl from the first film. Give 'em a break!

The film begins in the near future (er, 2010) with Jason the prisoner of military researchers who want to use him in the battlefield. Scientist Rowan LaFontaine (crazy name, crazy girl) knows this is a bad idea and, as Jason hacks everyone apart when they try to move him, she is proved right. Luckily, both Rowan and Jason are frozen in cryogenic chamber and left forever. Well, until 2455 to be exact when a group of science students from space find them and bring them onboard their spaceship. Obviously, this doesn't go well when Mr Vorhees thaws out but luckily female android Kay-Em destroys him, only for the medic departments nanites to rebuild him as Uber-Jason. The survivors then use a combination of brawn (Sergeant Brodski) and brain (through holographic simulations of Crystal Lake) to dispatch Jason into space where, unfortunately, he falls straight into the lake of the planet below, watched by two canoodling teens.

There is more imagination in this film than perhaps any other entry. The space location actually works and many of the characters are really likeable from geeky Tsunaron and his lovely android Kay-Em, to genre favourite Lexa Doig as the Final Girl. Also, there is an air of excitement to see Jason go up against Space Marines, Aliens style, as well as some interesting kills with liquid nitrogen. The franchise needed to try something and although the film was the lowest grossing of the series in the US, there is more humour than in many of the later films, particularly with Jason's reaction to the holographic Crystal Lake. Also, it has Uber-Jason. Franchise Viagra.