Jack Frost (1997)

Not to be confused with the 1998 film starring Michael Keaton

Jack Frost is a 1997 American direct-to-video horror-comedy film directed by Michael Cooney. It is about a titular serial killer (Scott MacDonald) who is reincarnated into a snowman.

The film spawned a sequel entitled Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman, which was released in 2000.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) A really stupid premise about a serial killer reincarnating as an snowman as a means of continuing his killing spree.
 * 2) False advertising: The cover has a really creepy-looking snowman that looks like a demonic skull, which may lead people thinking that Jack looks like that in the actual film, however, Jack's physical appearance is actually cartoonish and not even scary.
 * 3) The acting is extremely bad.
 * 4) The infamous scene where Shannon Elizabeth's character gets raped by Jack in a bathtub.
 * 5) *On the topic of Shannon, she does not want to talk about that scene or her involvement in the film.
 * 6) Really poorly done special effects, especially when Billy's head gets cut off by a sleigh.
 * 7) Most characters are very poorly written, but most especially with the secondary ones like Ryan, who put anti-freeze in a bag of oatmeal in a well-meaning but short-sighted attempt to keep his father Sam from being cold (though granted it does contribute heavily to Jack's defeat).

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Jack Frost himself is a really entertaining and hilarious villain. His puns and antics, though extremely corny, are worth more than a few good laughs, but most especially the Picasso part ("Look ma', I'm a Picasso!").
 * 2) Even though the acting and dialogue is bad, it's bad in a really funny and deadpan sort of way, with a noteworthy example being Jack Frost calling himself the "World's most pissed off snowcone".
 * 3) The movie itself is a "So Bad, It's Good" guilty pleasure due to how hilariously insane and ridiculous it gets!

Trivia

 * The film has been infamously compared to the 1998 family film of the same name, which stars Michael Keaton, and it is mostly due to the fact that they are both named "Jack Frost" and they have a very similar premise about a man dying but reincarnating as a snowman, which has led to many occasional confusions like people accidentally renting one of them when they were trying to watch the other one, and there were even rumors that say that a film magazine mixed up the films by claiming George Clooney (who was gonna star in the 1998 film before getting replaced by Keaton) was gonna play a killer snowman in a then-upcoming movie, while another testimony claims that a channel accidentally aired this film when they were supposed to air the family one instead.
 * Christopher Allport, who played Sam Tiller, died in an avalanche on January 25, 2008.
 * I-Mockery has a webpage feature that discusses Jack Frost (and its sequel) in-depth as shown here!

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