Jason X

Jason X is the tenth film (hence the X) in the Friday the 13th film series starring Kane Hodder as the slasher serial killer Jason Voorhees. The film made a little over $12 million with an $11 million budget. Fan reaction has been split: many felt the concept of Jason in space was laughable among many things; others enjoyed it, believing that the film was not meant to be taken seriously, and that it epitomized the "dumb fun" of the series.

Trivia

• Although the DVD contains no deleted footage, two omitted scenes served as an explanation for two mysteries in the film's opening: one explained how Jason managed to get free, that when the soldier guarding him put the blanket over his head, it pulled out the IV drip that was keeping Jason sedated. Another showed Rowan going through a box of materials that included Crystal Lake newspaper clippings http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/jasonx/news.html and Jason's machete, explaining where it came from.
• Screenwriter Todd Farmer appears in the film playing the character Dallas, named after the character in Alien on which he based much of the film.
• Both Lexa Doig and Lisa Ryder also appeared in the science fiction TV series Andromeda. Ironically, in the series, it is Doig who played the android and Ryder the human.
• David Cronenberg only agreed to appear in the film if he got killed off. Coincidently, his appearance came 13 years after directing an episode of '.
• The release of this film closed the longest gap between films, eight years after the preceding '. To put this gap into perspective, the longest break in the series before was between 1989's ' and 1993's Jason Goes to Hell.