They sharpen the edges and tweak the settings for a fluid look almost every time. The folks at Vinegar Syndrome are truly tapped into the craft of restoring the film. The movie is presented in high definition (1080p) in a 1:78:1 aspect ratio. MVD Rewind Collection likely didn’t have to do a new restoration of Jack Frost and simply used Vinegar Syndrome’s 2016 scanning and restoration in 2K from the 35mm vault elements. But you’ll discover a nice nostalgic touch of the disc itself looking like a VHS tape. Unfortunately, no digital code or DVD is included. The Blu-ray case includes reversible artwork, including the new design (like the sleeve) and the more standard artwork (a simple image of a smiling Jack Frost in red and blue tones). And speaking of the art being frame-worthy, inside the Blu-ray case is a folded mini-poster. It also has an animated style that captures the spirit of classic holiday cartoons. It features Jack Frost wielding a bloody knife in a snow-covered backdrop. The frame-worthy sleeve artwork is an original design by illustrator Alí Hdz/Brutal Child. Keeping with the consistency of the other 34 titles in the Rewind Collection, this chillin’-and-killin’ movie is housed inside a hard, plastic case with a cardboard sleeve, resembling the VHS-aesthetic of Media Home Entertainment. Jack Frost creeps its way onto Blu-ray from the MVD Rewind Collection, a release line that features cult movies and forgotten gems. ![]() "Looks like Christmas came a little early this year." You just may have to slip a little rum in your eggnog to elevate your enjoyment. (You know those annoying types?) It’s a solidly built snowman massacre. It doesn’t dip too far in its lunacy where it becomes too desperate for your laughs. However, it takes them several minutes to get all their layers off because it's so cold outside.Īnd that’s Jack Frost in a nutshell. Also, look out for a comical sex scene involving two teens (one of whom is played by a young Shannon Elizabeth) undressing. ![]() It’s got all the eye-rolling you could ever expect from a movie about a killer snowman, but you’ll be tickled by Jack’s Freddy Krueger-like one-liners. "Looks like Deep Fried Jack's off the menu for tonight, huh?"Ĭooney’s film is humorously clever amid all its idiotic shenanigans. So, if you spot a snowman around town with a crooked smile, and it gives you the heebie-jeebies, go ahead and plan for a dirt nap. But like some Spider-Man villain, the mysterious chemical alters his DNA to become a snowman?- one that can change from liquid to solid at will. (You know, that classic accident.) Jack is doused with an acidic solution that painfully dissolves him into the snow. On a snowy December night, a state execution transfer vehicle carrying Jack collides with a genetic research tanker truck. This is when fate twists in Jack's favor, but not how he expected. Jack happens to be a prolific psychopathic killer, who, by a stroke of misfortune, finds himself captured by Sam Tyler (a terrific Christopher Allport of To Live and Die in L.A. fame), the sheriff of a rustic area known as (*wink*wink*) Snowmonton County. After Jack is found guilty and sentenced to die, he vows to get revenge by killing the sheriff, his family, and every other poor soul in Snowmonton. Like Chucky, good ol’ Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald) was a human before he took the form of something that usually brings about joy. Plotwise, expect something quite similar to the story of the original Child’s Play, but with more of the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the sequels. It’s like watching Larry Cohen ( It’s Alive) at work, running and gunning it. Pasadena, Calif.) But director Michael Cooney figuratively covers our ears from noticing the budget’s light pocket jingles by intimately centering the frame and focusing on character reactions instead of the money shots. ![]() (Hey, John Carpenter made Halloween work by planting fake leaves around Haddonfield, a.k.a. You’ll quickly notice fake snow spread across a warmer, out-of-season setting. Jack Frost definitely has that straight-to-video, ‘90s stank on it, but it’s all the more amusing because of it.
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