Nothing can ruin someone?s day like seeing friends and associates get hacked to pieces by a mutant serial killer from the 1980s. No doubt that?s how the surviving characters in the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th horror movie franchise felt when they got away.

Jason X, scheduled for theatrical release on Friday, April 26 (Friday the 13 x 2), places Jason Vorhees, an un-killable, hockey mask-wearing, machete-wielding psychopath, in a futuristic setting. Think of the movie as the lovechild of every Star Trek movie to date and Friday the 13th parts 1-9.

It seems old Jason, with Kane Hodder reprising the role for the fourth time in a row, got himself caught and locked inside a research facility after getting sent to hell in the last installment. The eggheads there decide putting him into cryogenic suspension would be the best way to deal with him, as deadly gas, fire, electrocution, firing squads and dismemberment did little to stop his murderous sprees. Jason?s the kind of deviant who can take a licking and keep on killing.

Before he can be placed into cryo, a greedy -corporate character interferes with the operation and decides that keeping Jason alive for study would be more beneficial.

Surprise of all surprises, Jason escapes from his bonds and kills everyone in sight. He doesn?t get very far, though, and eventually gets tricked into the lab?s cryogenic chamber by Dr. Rowan, played by Lexa Doig of Gene Roddenberry?s “Andromeda” fame. Rowan manages to freeze Jason but suffers a mortal wound and gets frozen with him when he stabs her through the chamber?s door.

Fast-forward 400 years. Earth is an uninhabitable ball of waste being explored by a group of field-tripping students. They find the two frostbitten remnants of the 21st Century and transport them back to their ship. Big mistake, of course.

While the field trip?s leader, Prof. Lowe, portrayed by Jonathon Potts, is busy repairing and reanimating Rowan, one of Lowe?s students, a scantily clad woman, is left alone to study and catalogue the defrosting Jason. The young woman suffers a shattering demise at Jason?s newly thawed hands and roving death is once again unleashed upon an unsuspecting group.

The movie continues down the same quasi-plot path, following faithfully in the footsteps of every other slasher horror flick. Jason continues killing people, uninterrupted, until the survivors wise up as to why their friends keep disappearing. When only a handful of people are left they come to the conclusion that, just maybe, they should run away from Jason and get their asses off the ship.

With a cutting ability that rivals the ginsu knives advertised on late-night infomercials, Jason gets his hands on a few more victims and dices them up like ripe tomatoes. Only after the intervention of a lithe android by the name of Kay-Em 14, played by another “Andromeda” alum, Lisa Ryder, are the survivors able to relax. Arguably the only scene worth the film it was shot on, Kay performs a little slicing and dicing on Jason herself. Her arsenal makes Rambo?s look like pop guns.

Finally, Jason, who at this point in the movie resembles a pile of spam, is dead. Or is he? You guessed it: Jason lives on. The same technology that helped heal Rowan somehow revives Jason. But instead of putting him back together the way he was, it improves him. Jason + technology = RoboJason!

You get the picture.

Jason kills a few more people before the remaining survivors, all three of them, are able to secure boarding on a rescue ship. Only two end up surviving.

Someone put a fork in Jason Vorhees, because the 1980s hacker/slasher genre of movies is done. This series of horror flicks was way past its prime in the 1990s. Putting naked women into sexual situations in a futuristic hack-and-slash can only do so much. Save a few bucks and steer clear of Jason X. You?ll not only be saving cash, you?ll be saving yourself from a mind-numbing theater experience.