Jack Frost
Short description
Jack Frost is a horror comedy about a serial killer whose transfer to his execution goes wrong when the vehicle carrying him collides with a truck hauling hazardous chemicals. The crash fuses the killer with the snow around him, and he rises again as a snowman with a taste for murder. He makes his way to the small town of Snomonton, where the sheriff who once captured him becomes a target, and the body count starts to climb.
Michael Cooney wrote the screenplay and directed the film, working with producers Jeremy Paige and Vicki Slotnick. Christopher Allport plays Sheriff Sam Tiler, with Shannon Elizabeth as Jill Metzner, Scott MacDonald as the killer Jack Frost, Stephen Mendel as Agent Manners, F. William Parker as Paul Davrow and Brian Leckner as Deputy Pullman. Twenty-two cast members and 129 crew are credited.
The film was released in November 1997 and runs 86 minutes. It mixes comedy, fantasy and horror. On IMDb it holds a rating of 4.7 out of 10 from around 12,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 5.1 out of 10 from 267 votes. A critics' rating of 3.9 out of 10 from 19 reviews places it below even the modest audience scores, indicating a film that drew little praise from reviewers while finding a small, persistent genre following.
What's left behind the scenes
- Throughout the film, the viewer hears the howling of the wind, although there are no visual signs of wind in the frame.
- Shannon Elizabeth's debut role.
- The film was shot during a drought year with a snowless winter, so foam and cotton wool were used instead of snow. According to actor Scott McDonald, the temperature during filming sometimes reached 21 degrees Celsius, so director Michael Kunze and producer Jeremy Page had to rack their brains to find a substitute for snow.
- The film was shot in January 1996.
- Initially, it was planned to make several rubber snowmen for filming in the movie.
- In many instances throughout the film, snow is shown close-up on screen, although in the distance you can also see green grass and trees with green leaves.
- At the end of the film, when Jack is hit by a car, cables are visible on the screen, used to 'yank' the actor out of the dangerous situation.
- Filming for the movie took 18 days.
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