Jack Frost (1997)

“Bah humbug.”  26 October 2019

Riding in the back of a prison transport, the van carrying prisoner Jack Frost is involved in an accident on a snowy road.  During the accident, Jack is thrown from the vehicle, doused with experimental genetic material, and disintegrates into the snow.  But as the residents of Snowmonton come to learn, Jack’s not dead. His DNA has somehow bonded with the genetic material and the snow.  Jack’s back and looking for revenge as a killer snowman.     

I’m determined to keep this short, because I think I could write a book on the many problems I have with Jack Frost.  I have a friend whose opinion on movies I generally trust. He loves Jack Frost. Well, different strokes and all that, but I found Jack Frost to be one of the most infuriatingly bad movies I’ve ever seen.  It’s not funny (at no time did I as much as smile), it’s not creepy, and it’s not interesting in any way at all. Instead, it’s full of lame one-liners spit out by the most ridiculous looking snowman imaginable.  I guess that one of my biggest issues is that it tries too hard to be a “so bad it’s good” movie. It’s “cheesiness” doesn’t feel organic. Instead, it feels forced. The “best” bad movies are those that are bad without trying.  There’s charm to the ineptitude. Instead, Jack Frost is just an annoying dumpster fire of a movie.

2/10