Jason X (2001)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2001
Running Times: 93 mins
Format: colour     35mm
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PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Crystal Lake Entertainment Inc / Friday X Productions / New Line Cinema
Executive Producer: Sean S. Cunningham
Producers: Noel Cunningham, James Isaac
Production Manager: Marilyn Stonehouse
Production Co-Ordinator: Vair Macphee
Assistant Production Co-Ordinator: Kimberlee Morley

SCRIPT
Script: Todd Farmer
Characters: Victor Miller

DIRECTION
Director: James Isaac
1st Assistant Director: Walter Gasparovic

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Derick V. Underschultz

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Whitney Brooke Wheeler, David Handman, Natalie Pope
Post Production Co-Ordinator: Nadine Dislioglu

MUSIC
Music: Harry Manfredini
Songs: Wayne Static (Neo-Space Cowboys; Generation X-ecuted)
Songs Performed By: Static X (Neo-Space Cowboys; Generation X-ecuted)

SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: Bruce Carwardine
Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Baskerville
Boom Operator: Markus Wade

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Designers: Maxyne Baker, Julie Rae Engelsman, Natalie Pope
Assistant Costume Designer: Lindsay Jacobs
Costumer: Renée Bravener
Costume Buyer: Gayle Franklin

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Global Effects Inc
Visual Effects: Command Post Toybox; Toybox
Effects Supervisor: Bob Hall
Head Special Effects: Jason Board
Effects Technicians: David Allen Hill, Rocco Larizza, Brad Larkin, Jim Reischl
Effects Unit Director of Photography: Jerry Andrews
Effects Unit 1st Assistant Camera: Craig Perrin
Visual Effects Supervisors: Dennis Berardi, Kelly Lepkowsky
Digital Supervisor: Jeff Campbell
Lead Animator (Camp Crystal Lake sequence): Colin Cunningham
3D Animator: Paul C. George
Digital Artist: Andy Robinson
Digital Compositors: Jeff Campbell, Mark Goldberg, Rob Gyorgy, Gudrun Heinze, Jason Snea
3D Technical Director: Adrian Graham
Key Miniature Special Effects: Tim Lidstone
Miniature Effects: Troy Rundle
Visual Consultant: Ron Mason
Key Physical Effects: Jim McGillivary
Pyrotechnics Effects: Arthur Langevin
Computer Playback Operator: Kris Wood

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Make Up Effects Supervisor: Stephan Dupuis

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: John Dondertman
Art Director: James Oswald
Assistant Art Director: Greg Beale
Set Decorator: Clive Thomasson
Set Decoration Driver: Richard Gaal
Concept Artist: Ron Mason

MISCELLANEOUS
Unit Publicist: David Pond-Smith

LOCATIONS
Locations: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Steve Lucescu
Stunts: Jamie Taylor

CASTING
Casting: Robin D. Cook
New York Casting: Kim Miscia

CAST
Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees)
Lexa Doig (Rowan)
Lisa Ryder (Kay-Em 14)
Jonathan Potts (Professor Lowe)
Melyssa Ade (Janessa)
Peter Mensah (Sergeant Brodski)
Dov Tiefenbach (Azrael)
Todd Farmer (Dallas)
Chuck Campbell (Tsunaron)
David Cronenberg (Dr Wimmer)
Melody Johnson (Kinsa)
Derwin Jordan (Waylander)
Kristi Angus (Adrienne)
Boyd Banks (Fat Lou)
Amanda Brugel (Geko)
Steve Lucescu (Condor)
Yani Gellman (Stoney)
Dylan Bierk (Briggs)
Barna Moricz (Kicker)
Thomas Seniuk (Sven)
Robert A. Silverman (Joshua Perez)
Markus Parilo (Sergeant Marcus)
Jeff Geddis (Private Johnson)

PLOT SUMMARY

400 years from now, the Earth is uninhabitable, its surviving population scattered around the galaxy. A team of students and their professor arrive on Earth at the site of the original Camp Crystal Lake and discover two bodies in cryogenic stasis - a young woman and a man in a very familiar looking hockey mask... The bodies are taken aboard their spaceship where they are revived - not only is Jason once again on the loose but after an accident with a strange machine, he's now even stronger and more dangerous than ever.

Hopes were never high that this belated tenth entry in the Friday the 13th series was going to be any good so there was no sense of disappointment when it turns out to be just more of the same in a different setting. Both the plot and the look of the film are appropriated from the Alien series and the long tradition of dreadful actors populating the Friday the 13th films is kept going here. Some of the murders are satisfyingly nasty, but the climax is ridiculous, the characters cliched and the direction clumsy and uninspired. One for die hard fans of the series only. (Full Review)

Germany
Theatrical Distributor: Kinowelt Filmverleih

USA
Theatrical Distributor: New Line Cinema

USA
Rating: R (with cuts - for strong horror violence, language and some sexuality)

2001
July
24: Germany - shown at the Fantasy Filmfest, München

November
9: Spain - theatrical release

2002
January
11: Brazil - theatrical release

February
21: Argentina - theatrical release

April
26: Canada, USA - theatrical release

July
24: France - theatrical release

Evil Gets An Upgrade.

Friday the 13th Part 10 - working title
Jason 2000 - working title
Jason 2000: Friday the 13th Part X - working title
Jason X: Friday the 13th Part 10 - working title

SEQUEL TO
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Friday the 13th Part 3 3D (1982)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of Jason X (2002)

SEE ALSO
Alien (1979)
Predator (1987)

MAGAZINES

Empire no.160 (October 2002) p.8 (UK)
letter

Fangoria no.210 (March 2002) pp.44-48 (USA)
illustrated article

Fangoria no.212 (May 2002) pp.16-20, 81 (USA)
illustrated interview with James Isaac (The Jason X Files by Michael Rowe)

Hollywood Reporter vol.362 no.24 (4 April 2000) p.42 (USA)
credits

Soundtrack! The Collector's Quarterly vol.20 no.77 (Spring 2001) pp.12-14 (Belgium)
illustrated interview

Starburst Special no.46 (Yearbook 2000) pp.100-109 (UK)
illustrated article

Starburst Special no.48 (June 2001) pp.6-14 (UK)
illustrated preview

KEYWORDS

serial killers, masks, teenagers, slashers, space stations, the future

Last Updated: 7 September, 2009