Jason 2000: Friday the 13th Part X (2002)

I have never before watched a slasher movie of any kind -- Jason, Freddie, Chucky, Saw, nothing -- but Jason X being set in space made a palatably scary cable TV offering during Halloween week. (I was actually hooked on it before I knew what it was.) Now I don't understand people who find slasher movies to be funny and I don't understand people who enjoy admittedly bad movies (as slasher movies generally are). Nevertheless, within the slasher and within the sci-fi movie genres, I didn't find this movie to be bad at all -- bad on Earth is one thing but bad in space is out in orbit. Yes, all the typically stupid conventions of slasher movies endure even in space: With dozens of people on the space station, they are continually running off without a plan and being isolated one-by-one; forgetting to use their radios (or to keep an open channel); entering dark rooms without turning on the lights; back into dark rooms without looking where they are going; and so on. That stuff you stake for granted as required by the story line and genre. But with that as a baseline, this movie was good. Passable. So-so. Acceptable. The android chick is a spirited dish. Three stars.