10. Jason X
I kind of love Jason X just because it’s so insane to me that the series actually went in this direction and that this movie actually got made. After nine sequels and after Jason Goes to Hell kind of sucking, they actually sent Jason to space. It sounds like a 30 Rock joke, but it really happened.
Taking place in the distant future, 2010, Jason is captured by the U.S. government. They basically run out of ideas for what to do with him because he just won't die, kind of a metaphor for the creative process behind this series, and so they decide to place him in a frozen stasis. That'll fix everything, right? Way later, in 2455, Jason is discovered and brought on to a spaceship and he starts killing everyone on it. Where as most of the movies take place at or near Camp Crystal Lake, and so there's a reason for Jason to be killing everyone, here Jason is literally just a dude who kills people with no real goal in mind.
The movie is actually pretty entertaining, though not your typical Friday film. But after over 20 years of seeing Jason kill people in the woods, a change of scenery is kind of refreshing. It’s probably the absolute dumbest of the series, but it’s just so damn fun to watch. Seeing Jason walking around in a futuristic mask stalking people like the Xenomorph was a ridiculous and pretty terrible direction to take the series in, but it never ceases to be entertaining. Plus, it makes for one of the absolute best kills of the series and a highlight of the entire franchise:
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