Good start, but then it gets ruined

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

After getting killed in a freak accident, the sheriff of a small- town community finds the series of strange deaths to be the work of a reanimated serial killer able to transform into the shape of a killer snowman and sets out to stop his rampage before it includes his family.This here was quite the fun and enjoyable cheesy slasher effort. One of the better features here is the fact that this one really plays well with those cheesy antics which are spread throughout here, giving this a lot to like. The opening accident starts this off with that kind of silly nature as the idea that this one goes for in setting up the killers' motivation to return which as an idea is just so goofy that the film manages to hold onto its intense tone quite well here even after asking us to buy this moment. Likewise, there's a lot to like here with the cheesy nature of dealing with the different citizens of the town and getting to utilize the cheesiness of the fact along the way. Though obviously cheesy, these stalking scenes are quite a bit of fun here where there's the first big sequence that the family's house where he gets both parents in great individual scenes which not only feature the suspenseful stalking, the really creative deaths and plenty of cheesy attitudes here while also putting on some great fun here wit the start of the ultra-cheesy one-liners he spits out. This culmination of antics is carried out throughout here in other great stalking scenes against the town, from the roadside encounter of him clearing out the leftover members in the sheriff's house including a nice exploitation element found in the attack on the daughter as well as the fine battle at the end where they confront him in the police station and leads through the church next door in the basement where the try several incredibly chilling stalking scenes trying to get him into their trap which is a solid action scene along with the rather cheesy antics along throughout. This full-on cheese, along with the rather unique kills including the method for defeating the killer is what makes this one so much fun. Along with the fine effects work for the main snowman featured throughout here, this one here really didn't have that many flaws. All of the flaws from this one come from its cheesiness and the fact that it could be taken as something that can turn off some out there. It's got an incredibly high level of cheese, with all the mentioned features turning up in really high amounts and giving this one a total that will turn off some. There's also the possibility that there are cheese-lovers who might find this one too much due to how high it is, and that's something that can make a viewing like this incredibly unpleasant to get through or even finish, and it's really the only thing wrong as the problems all stem from it.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and a Rape scene.

Ever since slasher flicks became popular with the release of films like John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), many films have been produced that have been influenced from ones of the past. But then there came another wave of slasher films that occurred during the holiday season. The one's that viewers thought that no one would ever desecrate. This movie is apart of that family and it was released at a peculiar time as well. The title is the exact same as the Michael Keaton family holiday film a year later. However, this is the exact opposite of a family film.This horror slasher film is about a serial killer named Jack Frost who is caught by a town sheriff and sent off to death row where his transport crashes into a chemical truck. The chemicals are then absorbed by Frost and his surroundings (the snow) and become a mutant killer snowman, ergo his moniker. Is this the least bit scary? If you don't like evil looking snowmen I guess. Its genre is in horror but there truly isn't anything to be terrified of. Unfortunately, the film suffers from an over the top villain and too much campiness. I feel like director/writer Michael Cooney had intended this but think about it, who could take a killer snowman seriously? And Cooney has made better works, Identity (2003) is his best.However, this isn't to say that the villain isn't good. The actor who is originally on screen and then voices his evil counterpart, Scott MacDonald, is enjoyable as the antagonist. MacDonald's voice is dark, gruff and can sound very sinister and it makes that much more enjoyable when it comes out of an evil snowman. Sad to say, this is the only redeeming character of the cast. Christopher Allport as the troubled sheriff takes second place, but after him is hard to tell. The rest of the characters are so flat in dimension that it will be difficult for the viewers to feel anything for them.The violence and gore would also be more appreciated if it wasn't so quickly edited. That's not to say it was bad, and I understand the budget was low, but some of the kills were off screen and only the aftermath was shown which will disappoint the gore hounds. Also, the continuity isn't great - sometimes even the sounds are not properly aligned with the movements of the characters. For shame. The music on the other hand was good. Chris Anderson and Carl Schurtz produced a well-rounded creepy Christmas score that at least helped make this horror slasher film feel a bit better than its other average production elements. It's an OK film, just don't expect any bit of brilliance.The slasher version of Michael Keaton's family friendly film is fun trash thanks to the actor playing the villain, some good violence and appropriate music. Everything else however could have been improved upon greatly.

A straight-to-video release, this tale of a reincarnated death row inmate turns up the trash, and, with it, the laughs. People die in comically calamitous way, prompting some of the most hilarious support cast underreactions committed to home video ("I didn't do it!"). Our eponymous villain protagonist signs off each of his kills with an appropriately punny line, and the townsfolk he terrorises run and scurry around in half-clued-up Mystery Inc. fashion. One infamous scene, featuring American Pie eye candy Shannon Elizabeth, may just be THE most inappropriately side-splitting sequence of rape-and-murder committed to camera.If you're watching this, try not to take anything seriously - it's readily apparent none of the cast and crew did! Loud, dumb, brainless fun.

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.