40 Fun Facts About Jason X

In Jason X's most famous kill, Jason freezes an intern's face in a sink of what before smashing it?

Liquid nitrogen freezes intern Adrienne's head solid, and Jason shatters it on a counter. Fans and critics often single the scene out as the film's most inventive death.

Which acclaimed horror director has a cameo in Jason X as Dr. Wimmer, a scientist killed in the opening scene?

David Cronenberg plays the doomed scientist and rewrote his own character's dialogue. The man directing Jason X had worked on effects for several of his films, including The Fly.

What is the name of the students' spaceship that carries the thawed Jason into space in Jason X?

Grendel is the students' ship, sharing its name with the monster that Beowulf slays. After Jason kills its pilot, it ploughs straight through a nearby space station.

In Jason X, what kind of being is KM-14, the professor's companion who is later upgraded to fight Jason?

An android, KM-14 is played by Lisa Ryder and starts out as a companion, not a fighter. A student's combat upgrade lets her blast Jason to pieces.

Which stuntman plays Jason in Jason X, his fourth and final film appearance in the role?

Kane Hodder was the first actor to play Jason more than once, in four films in a row. He was passed over for the next one, which angered many fans.

To distract the cyborg Jason in Jason X, the survivors create a holographic simulation of which location?

Camp Crystal Lake is recreated as a hologram, complete with two virtual teenagers for Jason to chase. The trick buys time while a jammed docking door is repaired.

In Jason X, what rebuilds the blasted-apart Jason into the armoured cyborg that fans call Uber Jason?

Medical nanites knit Jason back together with metal after KM-14 shoots him apart. The production crew nicknamed the result Uber Jason, and the name stuck in later comics.

Which TV science show tested in 2009 whether a frozen head would really shatter as in Jason X?

MythBusters found that a five-second dip only partly broke a test head. It took a soak of five minutes to match what Jason does on screen.

Which famous Chicago film critic gave Jason X half a star and quoted the film's own dialogue against it?

Roger Ebert awarded half a star out of four and borrowed a character's complaint from the script to sum the film up. Audiences were lukewarm too, giving it a C grade in exit polls.

In Jason X, Jason kills the student Stoney with a surgical tool shaped like which weapon?

Machete in hand is how Jason is best known, and he later breaks into the lab to reclaim his real one. He then uses it on the professor who brought him aboard.

In the final shot of Jason X, which charred remnant of Jason sinks to the bottom of a lake?

His mask is all that remains of Jason, and it sinks as two teenagers come to look. Jason first put on a hockey mask in Part III, taking it from one of his victims.

How is the cyborg Jason finally destroyed at the end of Jason X as the last survivors escape?

Atmospheric entry burns Jason up after a soldier in a spacesuit tackles him and steers them both toward the planet below. Neither of them survives the fall.

Which Jason X scientist is stabbed and frozen alongside Jason, then revived by the students who find them?

Rowan LaFontaine ran the facility holding Jason and lured him into the freezing pod herself. Lexa Doig plays her as the one person aboard who knows what Jason can do.

The writer of Jason X pitched the film as a slasher in space modeled on which sci-fi horror classic?

Alien was the model: a crew picked off one by one aboard a ship. The writer told the studio that space was the only direction left to take Jason.

Jason X leads Lexa Doig and Lisa Ryder both starred in which space TV series?

Andromeda cast Doig as the starship's artificial intelligence and Ryder as Beka Valentine. The series ran for 110 episodes before ending in 2005.

In which Canadian city was the space slasher Jason X filmed between March and May of 2000?

Toronto hosted the shoot, and Canadian actors such as Lisa Ryder filled out the cast. The finished film then sat unreleased for about two years.

Which studio released Jason X in American theaters in 2002?

New Line Cinema took on the series in the 1990s so that Jason could one day meet Freddy Krueger. Jason X was made to keep audiences interested while that crossover stalled.

Echoing a kill from Friday the 13th Part VII, Jason kills two holographic teenagers in Jason X using what?

Sleeping bags become the weapon as Jason swings one girl against the other. The original kill, a victim slammed into a tree, was long the favourite of the man who played Jason.

In Jason X, humanity has abandoned its polluted home world for a new planet that goes by what name?

Earth II is humanity's new home, the old planet having become too polluted to support life. The students who find Jason are only visiting the original on a field trip.

Which space station is destroyed in Jason X when the students' ship crashes into it after Jason kills the pilot?

Solaris is the nearest outpost, and the professor orders the pilot to dock there. The crash destroys the station and leaves the students' ship crippled.

Which soldier in Jason X leads the troops against Jason and later spacewalks to fix a jammed docking door?

Brodski, a sergeant played by Peter Mensah, then stays outside to face Jason alone so the others can get away. Earlier, Jason picks off his squad one at a time.

Which Jason X student rebuilds KM-14 with weapons and combat skills so that she can take on Jason?

Tsunaron's upgrade turns KM-14 into a gunfighter who shoots off Jason's arm, leg and part of his head. He is among the few who make it off the ship alive.

Jason X opened in theaters in November 2001 in which European country, five months before reaching American screens?

Spain got Jason X in cinemas months ahead of its home market. The film had been finished long before, but it lost its main backer at the studio and waited two years for its American release.

Jason X was panned in America, but leading film magazines in which country were kinder to it?

Britain was the exception: Empire gave the film four stars out of five, finding it witty and well played, and Total Film gave it three. American critics mostly dismissed it.

Which composer, who scored the original Friday the 13th in 1980, returned to write the music for Jason X?

Harry Manfredini built the series' signature sound by speaking two words harshly into a microphone and running them through an echo machine. He scored most of the films.

Which Jason X producer also directed the original Friday the 13th and launched the series in 1980?

Sean Cunningham made the first film and returned to the series as a producer in the 1990s. He pushed for Jason X out of frustration at delays to a Freddy Krueger crossover.

The stuntman who plays Jason in Jason X first took the role in which Friday the 13th sequel?

The New Blood, the seventh film, pits Jason against a teenage girl with telekinetic powers. Its Jason kept the part for the next three films as well.

After Jason X, the stuntman behind Jason went on to play a deformed swamp killer in which slasher series?

Hatchet arrived in 2006 and gave him a second signature monster, one he played again in three sequels. He has since named a kill from that film as his favourite.

Peter Mensah, a squad leader in Jason X, later played Oenomaus in which Starz historical drama series?

Spartacus gave Mensah his best-known role, which he played from 2010 to 2013. His film credits also include 300 and Gladiator II.

In the opening of Jason X, government scientists want to study Jason's unusual ability to do what?

Heal lethal wounds is what Jason keeps doing, after every attempt to execute him fails. The scientists hope to copy the trick, believing his cells regenerate at great speed.

Amanda Brugel, the soldier Geko in Jason X, later played the housekeeper Rita in which dystopian TV drama?

The Handmaid's Tale cast Brugel as Rita from its first season in 2017. Jason X came early in her career, long before she won two Canadian Screen Awards.

Yani Gellman, the student Stoney in Jason X, later played Italian pop singer Paolo in which Disney film?

The Lizzie McGuire Movie made Gellman known to teenage audiences in 2003 as its scheming villain. In Jason X his character is the second person Jason kills aboard the ship.

Which Jason X screenwriter, who later co-wrote Drive Angry, also appears on screen as the crewman Dallas?

Todd Farmer conceived the film, his first to be produced, and gave himself a small part. His character has his skull bashed in by Jason during a holographic game.

Which visual effects supervisor, who had directed The Horror Show, was hired to direct Jason X?

James Isaac came from effects work on The Fly and Naked Lunch. He got his first directing job when The Horror Show lost its original director a week into shooting.

Whose rights claim over the original Friday the 13th script kept the Jason X cyborg out of a 2017 video game?

Victor Miller wrote the 1980 film and moved to reclaim its rights, and the court fight that followed halted new content for the game. A spaceship map and the cyborg Jason were teased but never released.

A cyborg Jason styled after Jason X appeared in which Warner Bros. crossover fighting game?

MultiVersus let Jason brawl with the likes of Bugs Bunny, with the Jason X cyborg offered as an alternate look. An earlier plan to add that version to a Friday the 13th game was cancelled.

In Jason X, Kinsa's attempt to flee alone in the shuttle ends in a fiery crash because she forgets to release what?

The fuel lines stay attached, so the shuttle crashes back into the ship and explodes. The blast kills her and costs the other survivors their escape craft.

Why is Professor Lowe so keen to keep Jason's body aboard his ship in Jason X?

To pay off his debts, Lowe calls his financial backer, who says a collector would be interested in the body. Jason beheads the professor before any deal is done.

Roughly how long does Jason stay frozen in Jason X before students from the future thaw him out?

About 450 years pass between Jason being put on ice in 2010 and his discovery around 2455. By then the facility that held him is an abandoned ruin on a dead planet.

Lexa Doig, the heroine of Jason X, later played Talia al Ghul in which DC superhero TV series?

Arrow gave Doig the recurring role in its fifth season in 2017. Before that she appeared in 11 episodes of Stargate SG-1 as a doctor.