he just wanted his machete back
Jason Voorhees in chains, his hair a frizzy (grey?) mess. Nice start—would have been even cooler if they didn’t have the onscreen descriptions of where we are and why he’s there. It’s not a crawl, but on a Red Letter Media “ Best of the Worst “ video this week, they were talking about how film crawls usually set the world badly, give too much information and/or information you just don’t need. Any audience going to see Jason X would have been quite likely to know who Jason is, and we’d figure out what was going on. A little more showing us, a little less telling us. By the way, I link this movie to Hellraiser: Bloodline in my memory, as if they came out around the same time—a couple horror movies set in space (I also connect them both to the bit in Halloween 5 when they talk about Michael Myers in space.) —but they were 6 years apart, Jason X being the later of the two. (Shuttle looks like a wingnut.) Saw Hellraiser: Bloodline at a test screening, if I recall correctly. Mi...