JASON X

Starring: Lexa Doig, Peter Mansah and Kane Hodder
Director: James Isaac
Running Time: 93 mins
Certificate: 15

Available to buy on DVD 21st April

Trying to escape from a high-security research centre at Crystal Lake, Jason Voorhees (Hodder) and Dr Rowan (Doig) are accidentally cryogenically frozen. Over four hundred and fifty years later, a college archaeological party, looking for historical artefacts on a now desolate Earth, revive Rowan from her enforced cryo-sleep. The problem is that they have also bought Jason's body on board and it is starting to thaw.

Re-igniting the long dead franchise and injecting a science fiction into the mix, Jason X is a no-brainer slasher movie that hits more times than it misses.

Having only seen the original movie, which Jason wasn't even in, the tenth film of the teen killing series comes as quite a surprise. The futuristic setting and Alien-esque type marines add a much-needed hint of invention into a very clichéd genre. The sight of the hockey-masked killer taking on trained soldiers and not just the usual screaming teenagers (which still does happen later in the film for old times sake) must be ever horror fan-boy's dream.

Yes the dialogue is awfully cheesy, the score is appalling and the movie is filled with C-list actors but the women are gorgeous, especially Lexa Doig, the men are hunks and most of them end up dead in very graphic but quite inventive ways.

Fans of the series will rejoice at the return of Jason's blood soaked machete and the rest of can enjoy a piece of cheesy rubbish that is quite fun.

Audio commentary, 'The Many Lives Of Jason Vorhees' documentary, 'By Any Means Necessary: The Making Of Jason X' documentary, Theatrical trailers, Interactive menus & 'Jump To A Death' scene selection feature

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