Being Film #29 for Hooptober 2021

Back when I was a teenager there were these things called video stores. But I didn’t live in the most urban of areas so instead we would rent our VHS tapes from pharmacies and gas stations. Sometimes these places didn’t have the most popular movies, especially in the horror genre so I would up finding a lot of shoe-string budget films that took advantage of videotape as a cheap alternative to film. These films weren’t too good, and that trend seems to have continued into the digital age with Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman, which looks like a slightly higher res version of those dumpster films. With a title like that I think you can guess what this film is about and, more importantly, how it goes about it. Cheap, silly, a few laughs…but there’s only so far you can go with a wise cracking killer snowman – although every time I see a crawling talking carrot the movie bumps up a minute.