First, let us get this right out of the way. This is not King Lear. This is not Casablanca or Citizen Kane. There is no high drama or good acting expected in any Friday the 13th Movie. Anyone going in expecting anything in this list is going to be disappointed. Hard core.
What we do expect: fine young females showing some titties, having sex and drinking beer. We expect to see some hard core murder performed in unique and interesting ways. We want buckets of blood as Jason fulfills his roll as an unstoppable killing machine. Little details like plot and character development get in the way of what we paid our money to see: Death and lots of it.
Given that - how does Jason X stack up? It's an absolutely bad movie in just about every respect imaginable - and it's perfect.
It's got all kind of interesting death in it - the first one on the spaceship with the liquid nitrogen springs to mind. The problem is that it hits you with probably the best death right off the bat - so there is some pacing issues with the way the murders play out, but it's hardly something to get worked up over.
The movie has the highest body count of any previous Friday the 13th movie - at least 20, with the potential of several thousand if you count the space station that Jason blew up. Those looking for a visceral good time will have everything they want - in spades.
The writing is even clever at times. Case in point, the bait used to distract Jason while the heroes get away (to say more would give away far too much). Suffice it to say that this is a damn funny scene, probably the best moment in the movie. Me and my crew were on the floor laughing so hard I had trouble paying attention to the rest of the movie.
I was afraid that sly and pretentious films like Scream and Scary Movie had destroyed the horror genre forever with their "Nudge, nudge - look how clever WE are" approach to the old school 80's slasher flick. Fear not - this movie trumps those films live never before. I was worried that a series of movies that was over TWENTY years old - teenagers who saw these films on Showtime and HBO in the dark well after they were suppose to have gone to bed who now have teenagers of their own - had nowhere else to go, had no gas left in the franchise.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
In short, if you liked Friday the 13th 1-9, then part 10 will rock your world.
What we do expect: fine young females showing some titties, having sex and drinking beer. We expect to see some hard core murder performed in unique and interesting ways. We want buckets of blood as Jason fulfills his roll as an unstoppable killing machine. Little details like plot and character development get in the way of what we paid our money to see: Death and lots of it.
Given that - how does Jason X stack up? It's an absolutely bad movie in just about every respect imaginable - and it's perfect.
It's got all kind of interesting death in it - the first one on the spaceship with the liquid nitrogen springs to mind. The problem is that it hits you with probably the best death right off the bat - so there is some pacing issues with the way the murders play out, but it's hardly something to get worked up over.
The movie has the highest body count of any previous Friday the 13th movie - at least 20, with the potential of several thousand if you count the space station that Jason blew up. Those looking for a visceral good time will have everything they want - in spades.
The writing is even clever at times. Case in point, the bait used to distract Jason while the heroes get away (to say more would give away far too much). Suffice it to say that this is a damn funny scene, probably the best moment in the movie. Me and my crew were on the floor laughing so hard I had trouble paying attention to the rest of the movie.
I was afraid that sly and pretentious films like Scream and Scary Movie had destroyed the horror genre forever with their "Nudge, nudge - look how clever WE are" approach to the old school 80's slasher flick. Fear not - this movie trumps those films live never before. I was worried that a series of movies that was over TWENTY years old - teenagers who saw these films on Showtime and HBO in the dark well after they were suppose to have gone to bed who now have teenagers of their own - had nowhere else to go, had no gas left in the franchise.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
In short, if you liked Friday the 13th 1-9, then part 10 will rock your world.
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