Friday the 13th: part X (2002)
DIRECTED BY: James Isaac
WRITTEN BY: Todd Farmer
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes
RELEASE DATE: April 26, 2002
DISTRIBUTOR: New Line Cinema
STARING:
Kane Hodder (Jason) - The man who needs no itroduction
Lexa Doig (Rowen) - She plays the strong survivor, last woman standing, character that every horror film needs.
Lisa Ryder (Kay-Em) - Cybernetics science droid
Jonathan Potts (Lowe) -
Peter Mensah (Brodski) -
Dov Tiefenbach (Azrael) - small and cocky
Melyssa Ade (Janessa) - bitchy technician
David Cronenberg (Dr. Wimmer): The Avant-Guard film-maker (The Fly (1986), eXistenZ (1999) has a cameo near the beginning as a scientist. Several of the film's technical crew are people that he has worked with before.
PLOT:
In the year 2455 it is discovered that Jason was cryogenicly frozen because he was deemed as unkillable. An archeological expidition finds the cryo-tube and ends up thawing him out, after which he goes on a rampage and kills a great number of people.
DEATHS:
Promisses to be big
SEX/NUDITY:
Hoping for lots;)
According to my source who saw a rough cut of the movie their is lots of gratuitous nudity.
Background
Here it is, ever since Jason was pulled through the ground into hell back in 1993 hard-core fans have been clamoring for Jason to make some kind of a return. Their was talk of Freddy vs Jason and of another Jason movie. Well here it is. New Line Cinema has apparently finaly done it. The rummors are finaly over, this movie looks like it will happen. Their is a script by Todd Farmer (a first-timer); they have a director James Isaac (a special effects guy who directed a movie called The Horror Show). The movie was to come out October 13 but now might not come out untill April 13.
My Thoughts:
I was hoping that target release date of Friday October 13, 2000 would be too tempting for new line to pass up. The past few years have shown us that October is a profitable month during which to release horror movies (Bride of Chucky and The House on Haunted Hill have proven that) Since a Friday the 13th falls within October only happens every few years New Line knows that they have one shot at this. Unfortunately New Line apparently is willing to pass it up in order to give it to their supernatural thriller Lost Souls a movie that they have been sitting on for over a year now (sure sign of quality their.) Now their is talk of releasing it on April 13, 2001; which is the next friday the 13th after October.
I personaly think that this film does actualy have the potential to make some solid money at the box office. Now I'm not talking Scream style numbers but it does have several things that should work in it's favor.
1: The Friday the 13th name. To most of the High School - College crowd Friday is a name assocated with the classic horror. Most of them rember when Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer came out but Jason is something that has always existed for them, like Psycho and The Exorcist In fact a good deal of that demographic has never even seen a Fraday movie in a theater. (In fact I am among those who have seen Freddy and Jason only on the TV screen I am 20 years old, consiquently I was 13 when Jason Goes to Hell was released)
2: If it was released in October it would have a second thing working in it's favor. With Halloween coming up the date crowd is always looking for a few cheap B-movie scares.
Updates:
07/20/00: Is going to be the first movie ever edited completely on computer. While it is nothing new to use computers in editing, normally what is done is you edit a low resolution version of the film in a computer and use the time code to aid in the cutting and splicing of the actual film. It is also nothing new to manipulate images by computer. What you normally do is scan the film into the computer add the Dinosaurs, Aliens, or what have you to the live action that was already shot and than print the new image out onto film. This is the first time that they two will be combined. Every bit of film that was shot will be scanned at high resolution. The editor will edit the pieces into a whole and than it will be printed out onto new film. Sure makes the old saying "the cutting room floor" seem
dated.
10/13/00:I heard some positive feedback from a guy who saw a rough cut of the movie. However,
he did say that he has never seen a Jason movie before, so he did not know what to expect. He said that the movie has a nice visual style to it. The cut that he saw was temp tracked with music from T2 and some other movies. Their is lot of killing, the special effects are top notch, and their is lots of gratuitous nudity!
03/03/01: The offical release date is August 17, 2001.
12/20/01: It's been a while. Obviously it was not released in August. Latest I've heard is February or March of next year (2002). 2 years ago Scream 3 banked in that slot. Last year Hannibal banked, and Valentine did ok in February. Who knows perhaps that slot could become a secondary horror release month (October being the primary) Since it's near Valentine's Day they could have discovered an untapped audience. People on dates tend to like horror, and people who hate all of the romance that accompanies that month want something completely different, like horror. Newline has a website up for the flick, but no release date. BTW the next Friday the 13th date is not until September of 2002.
1/31/02: Newline has posted April 26, 2002 as the offical US release date.