Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Jack Frost - 1997 * * *


This is one of the funniest and bizarrely scary films I have ever seen. There is a great combination of both genres so that if you start finding it too funny you get a nice amount of gore, and if you are starting to find it too scary to watch alone you find yourself having a chuckle.
A serial killer has gone berserk whilst being transported to his execution site and murdered the security who are watching out for him. He then dies in a car crash and a year later comes back as a killer snowman intent on revenge. What a funny idea for a movie! He creates havoc as he infiltrates himself back into the town he once lived in ( he can melt himself and solidify when it suits) and it is up to the inhabitants to fight him. I think as a character that he is priceless. One of my favourite lines is when Frost demands a cigarette off a guard, then kills him with an axe because he refused, manically shouting 'I only axed you for a smoke.' Some really hilarious lines here.

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