No, it’s not the one with Michael Keaton.
The horror home video scene has absolutely blown up in recent years, so much so that countless cult gems have been given deluxe edition, often newly-restored Blu-ray releases that we honestly never expected them to get. It seems that all bets are off when it comes to which movies are going to be given that loving treatment by specialty labels, and that’s why it should come as no big surprise that Jack Frost is soon headed to Blu-ray for the very first time!
Okay, so this one is still a total surprise!
As revealed by the Cinema Arcana Facebook page, Vinegar Syndrome will be releasing the 1997 killer snowman flick on Blu-ray on December 13th, and they’re giving the oddball B-movie a 2K restoration. At this time we don’t yet have full release details, but a commentary track with director Michael Cooney has been recorded.
From the Facebook page:
Coming this December from Vinegar Syndrome – it’s the Blu debut of Michael Cooney’s JACK FROST (1997)! Suffering a mid-transport collision on his way to execution, serial killer Jack Frost gets doused with an experimental concoction that molecularly fuses his body with the freshly fallen snow – creating the world’s first wise-crackin’ killer snowman. Now no one is safe in the town of Snowmonton. Yes, indeedy. A completely indefensible late-‘90s slasher that thankfully plays its absurd concept totally straight-faced, JACK FROST was slagged off upon its initial release but has slowly gained a cult of devoted followers in the years since, won over by its constant stream of one-liners and imaginative deaths. Not to mention you get a pre-AMERICAN PIE Shannon Elizabeth showing up for a shower scene, so there’s that, too.
Has Hell frozen over? We’re thinking it has. And we’re thinking that’s a good thing.
