Jack Frost

 

          Getting into the Christmas spirit at times takes a while to get into and especially since we're already into the Christmas season. Though there are movies in a strange, strange way, gets you ready for the Christmas spirit and this is one of those films that is sort of funny but also feels really, pathetic and especially when your main antagonist is a sort of Styrofoam, snowman killer? Either way the surprising factor is that this is American Pie alum, Shannon Elizabeth's first acting role. 

          As notorious killer Jack Frost (yes, his name is Jack Frost) is being driven to his execution, the truck carrying the murderer encounters a bizarre accident that transforms him into a mutant, Styrofoam, SNOWMAN.

          Granted the only reason, this film peaked my interest was because Shannon Elizabeth is in the movie and she's of course nude while taking a shower and the killer appears, from water to snow and for strange way of picturing it is either graping Elizabeth or bashing her brains in and yet, this was Shannon Elizabeth's first acting role so, deep down I can't make jokes about her appearing in this movie because you have to get into the film business somehow, sometimes you have to make the worst before you can make a hit, though I'm guessing the writers and director or whoever was in charge with casting at Universal, though obviously a dude, saw this movie and was like "YOU'RE HIRED" and the rest became history. The thing that makes this movie funny but more importantly pathetic, is that this Snowman that is supposed to be marketed as a scary movie monster, is an actual Styrofoam snowman with absolute no life like to the thing, moreover has now movement or anything to feel like a scary monster and the only times you see liveness to the monster is from his hands, upon which is somebody using gloves or when look of white cooking gloves and more importantly the mouth of the snowman, doesn't move at all and you only see the snowman with somebody's voice as the background sound. For which all those things for sure look and sound sad and pathetic at the same time, but also the budget of the entire movie was 500 grand, for which I would imagine they would at least use that money to improve the visual effects right? But no, and this is one of those films where I was curious as to where the money went to because the actors they picked we're sure as hell not the best actors and you could of paid them minimum wage at least and spend a good portion of the movie on the snowman to make it believable, considering the film was only shot in 18 days. Either way this film is a great example of video stores back then needing to fill their shelves with many Christmas movies as possible so people in the nineties can come back and rent more Christmas films. All and all the movie for sure gave me tons of moments to laugh about furthermore is one of those films I would consider pathetic to watch and I bet Shannon Elizabeth has wiped her memory clean of this movie. I’m not an American Pie fan and if you’re a fan of cringy, overrated coming of age, sex comedies and use to have a massive crush on Shannon Elizabeth, then this is the movie for you. Though if you’re looking for some unintentional horror comedies then this is the movie for you, and the best part is that the film is on Tubi so, you don't have to feel guilty in wasting your life savings on a sh*ty movie in terms renting the movie on your phone for a price and again that's one of the many reasons why I prefer to use Tubi when it comes to bad B-movies.