Jason X - Such a guilty pleasure of mine

Okay, so this film is a total ‘crowbar’ attempt at breathing new life into a dying franchise. I mean… it’s basically ‘Jason Voorhees in space’ killing people. Yeah, like it must have taken the film-makers years to come up with that offshoot of the classic Friday 13th mythology.

Do you really need to know how a psychotic undead serial killer gets up into space? You probably don’t. He just does. It’s not important. What is important is what he gets up to – which is killing people (like he hasn’t done that before, huh?). Only this time it just seems like a lot more fun.

It’s as if the film-makers knew they were really stretching believability with this offering and decided to just have fun. The end result is a big, loud, kind of silly space-age romp. Think ‘Alien,’ but with dafter teenagers instead of Ripley, Kane and co (and an alien wearing a hockey mask).

If you like serious films, or straight unflinching horror then you’ll probably HATE this. It’s daft, tongue-in-cheek and you have to seriously suspend your disbelief to accept half the plot devices, but, if you do (like I somehow can here) you may just enjoy it.

8/10 The Force is definitely strong with this one