Former Playmate Barbi Benton plays the lead in this early 80s slasher movie, which provides a new benchmark for over-the-top direction, unbelievable storylines and performances so broad they qualify as camp. Fortunately, not only is Ms Benton a great screamer, but she can take a nude prostrate exam with the best of them. You see, Barbis at the hospital for a check-up, but her records have been altered by one of those heh-heh-heh psychos you only ever see in movies like this. Said alteration is enough to make the doctors and nurses detain her, remove her clothes and restrain her, which is pretty much how she spends the rest of the movie. Riding in on the coattails of Halloween II, only without its subtlety and sophistication, X-Ray proves Cannon Films dedication to pursuing the lowest common denominator. The director is Boaz Davidson of Lemon Popsicle fame (he later produced The Expendables films), so if youre looking for a sleazy romp along those lines, help yourself.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
