JASON X
It's the year 2455, and mankind has yet to learn that if you are an
anatomically correct bit player in a slasher film and engage in sex, you will
be eviscerated before climax. That holds true in this, the tenth installment of
the Friday the 13th series. Psycho icon Jason (Kane Hodder, not having
to do much more than plod about with a machete) is back after a 400-year
cryogenic freeze at the Crystal Lake Research Facility) and making mincemeat
out of the denizens of a space vessel in a plot largely lifted from
Alien -- except for the opener, which, complete with a cameo from
horrormeister David Cronenberg, is a dead theft of the Hannibal Lecter escape
in The Silence of the Lambs. There are plenty of comely curves in
revealing garb; there's also plenty of abysmal acting. Fortunately, director
Jim Isaac, a Cronenberg protégé, plays it all for camp, making
every other guffaw intentional. Lisa Ryder turns in a plucky bounce as the
butt-kicking, sexually confused android (she's nipple-less), pretty much
stealing this none-too-chilling chiller where all the screams are howls of
laughter. At the Entertainment, Hoyts, and Showcase cinemas.
Issue Date: May 3 - 9, 2002
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