I remember seeing the trailer for the first time and thinking that it looked absolutely ridiculous, I also knew that there was nothing that would stop me from seeing it in the theater. I did, of course, see it on the big screen and loved every goofy minute if it and walked out surprised at how well the concept really held together.

Typically when you send a killer into space, that usually signals the death knell for that series. For example see Hellraiser: Bloodline, which I sort of liked, Leprechaun 4: In Space, and Critters in Space. But after watching this, I walked out thinking that while silly, it held together pretty well as a stand alone film. There are issues when you try to tie it in to the rest of the series, but I can let that slide.

The film opens with a tour through a lab behind the opening credits, next we move to a bare holding cell with Jason chained up awaiting cryogenic freezing. Apparently he had been caught years before, tried and sentenced to death, with the problem being, they couldn't find a way to kill him, so they decided to freeze him. Of course, nothing goes as smoothly as it should, and we end up with dead soldiers, a dead doctor, and a frozen Jason, and a frozen future victim, Rowan. We flash forward a few hundred years to find the Earth is a wasteland where students go on field trips. On one such expedition, Jason and Rowan are discovered and brought back to their ship in orbit. We know can safely assume that Jason will thaw and go on a killing spree throughout the ship. We get a series of new kills not previously seen in a Jason slasher. I don't really want to give away any of them, but I thought that they were some of the best in the series.

During this slaughter, something happens to Jason, which you can infer from the cover if you haven't seen the film. Jason gets messed up pretty bad during a big battle, after which he gets "fixed" by nanites, which were used for medical reasons in the future, we end up with uber-Jason, who looks like some sort of android. A pretty cool looking design. Anyway, a lot of people get killed and we are left with our heroine, pretty much the same as the other films go.

There are some story and design things that I didn't really care for. The biggest thing I didn't like early on was the design for Jason. This Jason has hair and we can get a good look at his eyes, which just did not work for me, nothing will compare to the look of Jason from Part VII. I liked the subplot of the teacher wanting to sell Jason and keep him alive. The thing to remember is that this is just a low brow horror film with a decent high concept.

The acting, in terms of slasher films, is actually pretty good, some of the actors have experience with science fiction type films, which helped a lot here. Lexa Doig, who plays Rowan, and Lisa Ryder, who plays the android Kay-Em, are both from TV's Andromeda, may not have a lot of bearing here, but I was familiar with their acting and they did a pretty good job here. Kane Hodder is a great Jason, as always, character design issues aside. We also get a cameo from writer/director David Cronenberg with a fun opening scene which leads to the initial slaughter.