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Jason X

Release Date: 
04/26/2002
MPAA Rating: 
MPAA: R
Star Rating: 
★★
1980 Friday the 13th opens. Ferdinand Marcos admits his party used fraud to steal the Philippine election. Ronald Reagan wins presidency. Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon. Grade school sucks. Girls are icky.

1981 Friday the 13th, Part 2 comes out. Reagan shot by John W. Hinckley Jr. Sandra Day O’Connor becomes first female Supreme Court justice. Math is hard.

1982 Friday the 13th, Part 3 (in 3-D!) hits theaters. Late Night With David Letterman premieres. Reverend Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months in prison. Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” at the top of the Billboard charts. Mom? Can I get a Snake Eyes figure? P-l-e-e-e-e-e-s-e?

1984 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter debuts. Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies. Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father. Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards. Forget G.I. Joe, these Transformers are awesome!

1985 Friday the 13th: A New Beginning hits. Live Aid raises millions of dollars for famine relief. Reagan meets Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva. If I don’t get a Diamondback bike, all the other guys are gonna laugh at me.

1986 Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. The space shuttle Challenger explodes. Congress agrees to provide military aid to Contras in Nicaragua. Dude! In this Friday the 13th movie, you can totally see this one girl’s tits! I swear!

1988 Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood bows. Jimmy Swaggert confesses to an affair with a prostitute. Oliver North indicted by a federal grand jury. My parents are so stupid and lame. They don’t let me do anything. Can’t wait until I’m outta here.

1989 Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan opens. George Bush is inagurated as the 41st president. U.S. troops launch an invasion of Panama to try and capture General Manuel Noriega. The prospects of actually having sex are getting better and better.

1993 Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday hits theaters. Margaret Thatcher resigns. Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drugs. Friday the 13th? They’re still making those movies? Let’s go see it as a goof.

2002 Jason X finally arrives. Secretary of State Colin Powell attempts to mediate peace between Israel’s Ariel Sharon and Palestine’s Yasser Arafat. The Pope decries pedophilic priests. Jason X could have really been a riot, but it’s pretty lame (except for that “sleeping bag” scene—that was funny as shit). Girls aren’t icky.