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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.

BY TOM MEEK

Issue Date: May 2 - 9, 2002
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