Jack Frost (1997)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Undescribable Perfection

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Jack Frost is one of those horror movies that might seem like it was horribly directed and horribly made, but you start to realize that the movie is intentionally hilarious. The movie is full of horror movie tropes, but it is clever enough to actually make the tropes hilarious and amazing.The movie opens with hilarious dialogue of an uncle telling her niece a story about a murderer on Christmas Eve... it is quite obvious the niece doesn't want to listen and that the uncle is a bit bloodthirsty. This opening scene is irrelevant to the plot but it puts the viewer's mind in the right view: This movie will use clichés and then make them hilarious.The plot is about a mass murderer who accidentally gets sprayed with genetic altering material which binds his soul to Snow/water. The mass murderer does what you would expect a mass murderer to do... he goes on a rampage and kills people in some hilariously funny ways. For one example, someone hears the voice of the snowman and thinks the murderer has come back so the man runs outside with an axe (but is unaware that the snowman in front of him is the mass murderer. What does Jack Frost do? Grab the axe and kill the man? Yes, but he SHOVES THE HANDLE OF THE axe DOWN THE MAN'S THROAT AT A PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE ANGLE. The axe head sticks out of the man's throat perpendicular to his head, yet the handle isn't sticking out of the back of his head, so that means the axe must've been bent into a 90 degree angle and then carefully rammed down his throat. What makes this even funnier is that later in the movie people actually comment on it and are equally confused.The movie is full of moments where you think you know where it is going, but then it takes a really funny twist. In one tense moment we there is a teenager in a house who could literally die in about 10 different ways when you look at his surroundings. You are constantly wondering "Okay, which object is going to kill him" and then... something entirely different kills him while heavy metal music is playing.While this movie is completely stupid, it is a movie that is having a great time with being stupid. The movie has some horrible cuts and camera angles, yet the way the movie emphasizes on these cuts makes it rather obvious that the movie intentionally trying to make lame cuts and overly dramatic camera angles that are embarrassingSome movies are so bad that they are good; however, some movies are cleverly bad and actually work. Jack Frost is still a bad movie, but it is entertaining and the solution on how to kill Jack Frost was brilliant. Throughout the movie there is an object that seems to remain in the plot, so it is obvious that it will be important, but we don't know why it will be important. Once this object plays its role, it is hilarious because it does so in a way you would've never expected.

And that she had any career whatsoever afterwards. lol. This pile of excrement is so awful I would give it a zero if I could. It looks like a group of 14 year old boys made this. If it was meant to be low budget to make it funny, it wasn't. It wasn't funny. It was just really bad. I'm sure Shannon Elizabeth wish she could forget this was ever on her resume. This should be shown in film schools as in the way not to make films. The snow man looked so ridiculously stupid as did the entire movie and too dumb to be funny either. I really am shocked anyone invested their money into the making of this stinker. The effects were so fake and ridiculous but so poorly done. It is deserving of a zero rating.

An average rating of 4.4 on the IMDb usually means that you're going to be watching slightly less than mediocre fare , especially if it's a horror movie that went straight to video but this is entertainment of the lowest order . It might be a good film but it's like classic clip from Fox News where Sean Hannity criticises Christopher Hitchens for being " incredibly mean and incredibly thoughtless " and that's a good enough reason to love both Christopher Hitchens and JACK FROST Any film that has a serial killer being regenerated as a snowman deserves some credit for that bonkers premise alone and the film does make the best of this premise and what makes it even more outstanding is that it is incredibly mean spirited . Take a scene where a teenage bully gets his head bitten of and the parents of the deceased bully and his victim get in to an argument and the victims father states that " Your son is a couple of feet higher than mine " only for an onlooker to blurt out " Not any more he ain't " . Who needs William Goldman when you've got killer one lines like that ? This scathing dialog - much of it spouted by the eponymous monster - reminded me of the wise cracking villains we had in 1980s horror films like Freddy Kruger or Channard Cenobite from HELLRAISER 2 . Indeed I constantly found myself having to the check the IMDb hadn't done a major error in giving the year of its release as 1997 because the whole look and feel of the movie screamed 1980s to me . A lot of this might have been down to the slightly murky and grainy cinematography but even so the whole fabric screams that it's a film from ten years earlier something of a golden age for the horror genre . In fact if it had come out ten years earlier then this would have been a film held in much higher regard which it does deserve . Highly enjoyable low grade entertainment that did raise a few chuckles

Not to be mixed up with the family film of the same name (though that would be friggin' hilarious), this earlier "Jack Frost" is actually a goofy offbeat B-movie parody. Everything is present to give you a fantastic evening filled with pointing and laughing. The plot is insanely moronic, so moronic that it needs a buttload of deus ex machina just to get on the rails. The acting is also terrible, and I'm not sure whether the actors are doing it on purpose on not. Scott Macdonald's over-acting is clearly intentional, but all the other actors probably can't do any better than this. You know you're doing something wrong when Shannon Elizabeth (who, granted, looks totally hot in this one) is among your best performers. The greatest source of entertainment are the one-liners though. Many filmmakers believe in the age-old "quality over quantity"-idea, but Michael Cooney wants none of that and just has Jack Frost firing wisecracks with every chance he gets. Some of these are funny ("I only axed you for a cigarette!"), some fall flat (pretty much all the other ones), but it gives the Jack Frost character sort of a Freddie Krueger-like quality that is really fitting here. "Jack Frost" is an awful movie, but somehow I just can't grade it accordingly.