3. Hot Space Babes Vs Jason Voorhees - Jason X (2001)
Looking like Aliens made for (and by) adolescent boys, Jason X shows us how little feminism has advanced in four centuries by dressing the women in costumes thatd do Russ Meyer proud, most notably Janessa (Melyssa Ade), whose motto seems to be, In Space, Nobody Needs A Bra. Also on board are Rowan (Lexa Doig), a Ripley surrogate, and Kay-Em 14 (Lisa Ryder), the ships Artificial Person. Kay-Em mustve been watching Star Trek: The Next Generation because just like Data, all she really wants is to be human. Well, she wants bigger boobs. You know how artificial people are. She gets them, but the nipples fall off, and Jasons working his way through the crew, so she gets an upload and becomes a kung-fu kicking cyber-babe who can perform backflips while firing two guns simultaneously. Jason is also modified by the ships computer, transformed into an unstoppable killing machine who can tear through steel walls, knock down doors and survive being pulverized by five hundred rounds of ammunition. So.whats the difference?
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.'
