Jack Frost
Oh hai!
I remember seeing the cover for the
movie Jack Frost in a video store and thought it was really funny.
When you walked past it, the cover went from a smiling, friendly
snowman into a hideous fanged snow creature. Even at a younger age, I
knew this was completely ridiculous. Well, I needed something
ridiculous to watch, and low and behold, it came up on Netflix. A
killer mutant snowman? Sure, let's give it a shot.
Jack Frost (not to be confused with the
equally ridiculous Michael Keaton movie of the same name) is a 1996
horror-comedy starring Scott Macdonald (Fire In The Sky, Water For
Elephants) as the deranged serial killer, Jack Frost. After cutting a
murderous swath through the country, Jack gets careless and is caught
by Sam Tiler (Christopher Allport, The X Files, ER), the sheriff of
the small town of Snowmonton. Sentenced to death, the truck carrying
Jack to his execution gets into an accident with a truck carrying an
experimental acid. Jack escapes, but is doused with the acid, melting
his body into the snowy ground. His molecules bond with the snow,
turning him into a living, breathing snowman. Jack begins to
terrorize the small town, brutally murdering people in various forms
of icey and snowy ways. Hearing of the town's murders, Agent Manners
and Agent Stone come to Snowmonton to investigate. It is revealed
that Agent Stone is a representative of a genetic research company
that created the acid and that the killer snowman is really Jack
Frost. He explains that Jack's transformation proves the human soul
really exists as a chemical and can help man survive a nuclear
holocaust. Will Sheriff Tiler be able to overcome his fear of Jack
Frost and defeat him or will Jack put him on ice?
Free hugs!
Clearly, this movie is wacky. How do
you criticize a movie that knows it's fairly stupid? The story was
probably conceived after a night of heavy drinking and watching
Christmas cartoons. The story rangers from funny to weird to absurd.
It's fine to have a simple story in order to get to the jokes and
killing, but there are just some glaring errors that made me slap my
forehead. Like why would Shannon Elizabeth's character and her
boyfriend sneak into the Sheriff's house to have sex? That makes less
than no sense. Why would the Sheriff son put anti-freeze in oatmeal?
That's not a typo by the way, that actually happened. If Jack can
turn into water, why does the Sheriff try to stuff the spaces in a
door with paper to keep him out? I know it's silly to point out the
flaws in a movie with a killer snowman, but I can't help it.
The humor in the movie has a decent
amount of laughs and plenty of eyerolls. The idea of a a snowman
raping a girl with his carrot nose was not funny and was really
terrible. There is a good amount of action with some fun kills and
blood. The snowman and special effects are incredibly cheap looking.
The acting is passable, but not exactly award-winning. There are some
creative camera shots, but they get over used and end up making me
dizzy by the end.
Oh, that's cold
Jack Frost usually falls into the “it's
so bad it's good” category of B-movies. That is why it is regarded
by some as a cult classic. There is some humor, but plenty of
terrible one-liners and swing-and-miss attempts. It has some decent
violence, but is hindered by a hilariously terrible snowman costume
and awful effects. Is the movie good? No. Is it fun to watch. Sort
of. Jack Frost probably best watched with friends and a few
cocktails.
4/10
