MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *drama*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *cosmological, psychological*
JASON X is a slight improvement over JASON GOES TO HELL, but only because it dispenses with the ALIEN crap. Purportedly the scriptwriter chose to send Jason into a futuristic SF-scenario in order to keep from conflicting with the proposed Freddy-Jason script, set in a present-day time-frame.
This time government officials are a little more clever about dealing with Jason: once they find that he's a supernatural thing that can't be killed, they plan to cryo-freeze the killer and send him into space. Unfortunately, Jason breaks free and only gets frozen because a female technician lures him into the freeze-pod, sacrificing herself to get rid of Old Hockey-Mask.
Over four hundred years later, the population of Earth has left the polluted planet, and no one has come across the cryo-pod and its contents. But students seem to seek Jason out no matter how well he's hidden, and a field trip of future-students lands at Crystal Lake and brings the pod back to their spaceship. Jason and Rowan both come back to life, and Jason starts killing. He encounters some opposition, a team of space marines led by a tough guy named Brodski, but they too are slowly picked off.
In X's best scene, KM-14, a female android who serves one of the professors, upgrades into a super-warrior and blows Jason to pieces-- though both crew and students don't have the sense to collect the pieces and dump them into space. Jason re-integrates-- happily, with no ALIEN-worms involved-- and also assimilates some of the ship's metal components, becoming a "Heavy Metal Jason" who can no longer be wounded by KM-14's weapons.
The android doesn't get the honor of dispatching Jason in the end; that goes to tough marine Brodski, so that even though his is a pyrrhic victory, the nature of the conflict is intense enough to enter the combative mode.
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