10 Awful Horror Movies With One Brilliant Kill

4. Jason X - Adrienne Thomas

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To date, the Friday the 13th franchise encompasses ten movies, a crossover picture and a reboot. And of the 150+ people to have been killed by Jason Voorhees so far, few deaths are quite as memorable as the cold-as-ice murder of Jason X's Adrienne Thomas (Kristi Angus).

With Jason X's opening scene seeing both Jason and Lexa Doig's Rowan LaFontaine cryogenically frozen in 2008, the film then jumps ahead a mammoth 445 years to find this pair defrosted up in the stars by a group of future scientists.

It's poor Adrienne who's the person tasked with assessing the supposed corpse of Voorhees, and it doesn't take long for Camp Crystal Lake's most infamous son to be up and running and back in the killing game. For Adrienne, that means Jason grabs her and dips her head in liquid nitrogen, before then smashing her frozen head to a million pieces.

From your writer's standpoint, Jason X is a total, total guilty pleasure. But is it technically any good? Nah. That liquid nitrogen kill, mind, that is an all kinds of badass horror movie death.

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