Friday the 13th Movies: Ranked Worst to Best

8. Jason X (2002)

New Line Cinema

With Jason X (so named because it is the 10th movie in the series) we are once again subjected to Jason Voorhees removed from his natural element at Crystal Lake. At least with this movie the reason he leaves Crystal Lake is plausible - it is the year 2455 and Jason's cryogenically-frozen body is discovered by some students on a field trip from Earth Two to the Crystal Lake Research Facility on Earth. Naturally they take the body aboard their ship where Jason thaws out and begins yet another killing spree.

While this version was a little too sci-fi to really qualify as a slasher flick, it nonetheless offered us a few interesting tidbits. To begin with, we get a brand new cyborg Jason as a result of his encounter with the nanite medical machine (I really should have had Uber-Jason in my article about movie cyborgs). This opens up the possibility for future Uber-Jason movies.

Of course, Uber-Jason was killed in a very unique way - he was burned up on entering the atmosphere of Earth Two. But his mask survived and made it all the way to the bottom of a lake (named Crystal Lake?) as the movie comes to an end. I think enough Jason DNA was left behind for another batch of nanites to rebuild him, don't you?

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