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Plot summary
A prison transport enters the small town of Snomonton on a snowy December night. Its prisoner is Jack Frost, a serial killer who evaded police for years and left thirty-eight bodies across eleven states before Sheriff Sam Tiler finally caught him. Jack is due to be executed at midnight, but he attacks the guard and the van collides with a genetic research truck. The chemicals cause Jack to dissolve and merge with the snow, turning him into a living snowman. Although reports announce his death, Sam cannot forget Jack's threats of vengeance. Soon the snowman returns and begins hunting the residents of Snomonton.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jack Frost (1997)
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- The killer-snowman film was shot during a severe winter drought with barely any snow on the ground and temperatures reaching 70 °F (21 °C), so, according to star Scott MacDonald, the crew had to use foam and cotton as substitutes for snow.
- For the bathtub scene, Shannon Elizabeth and a stunt performer inside the snowman costume were strapped together on a scissor lift that raised them 12 feet through the fake tub, and while Jack hit Jill against the wall the snowman's carrot nose struck Elizabeth in the eye; medics flushed it with saline.
- Michael Cooney, Jeremy Paige and Vicki Slotnick spent $50,000 at a company that was supposed to make several versions of Jack Frost, but it delivered only one immobile 8-foot-tall snowman, built from three balls of foam.
- Director Michael Cooney said the Campbell Soup "Let it Snow" commercial, which also features a living snowman, had a budget "three times" that of his film, and that Identity, another film he wrote, cost $30 million while Jack Frost was made for "the cost of its catering budget".
- Prism Entertainment went bankrupt three weeks before principal photography began, leaving its banker Lou Horowitz to oversee the film, which was shot in January 1994 over 18 days on short ends, discarded 100- to 300-foot leftovers of film rolls.
- Michael Cooney got the idea in 1989 when he, co-writer Jeremy Paige and producer Vicki Slotnick stayed at a cabin on Big Bear Lake and built a snowman in the backyard; Slotnick found it so creepy outside her window at night that she could not sleep, and the pair began talking about a killer-snowman film.
- The snowman costume's movements were very limited: the only time Jack is actually seen moving is in a scene where he explodes and puts himself back together, which was shot in time lapse.
- After filming the scene where the police station blows up, the crew doused the "grubby" snowman prop in gasoline and burned it so they would never need it again.
