Dec 16 2022
Snowman Special, Part 1: Jack Frost (1997)
"The Gospel of Jack Frost." You won't catch Matthew and Quinton humbugging around! We're full of the holiday spirit as much as snowmen are filled with the souls of the dead. For the first part of our Jack Frost special, we're looking at the 1997 cult slasher in which a chance accident, gallons of experimental acid, and a murderer on his way to execution combine for an essential 90s comedy horror. The episode covers a lot, as always, and this week we take on early versions of the Frost narrative, environmentalism in the 1990s, how to make a nonexistent budget work in your favor, and how Michael Cooney's is part of a discourse that also features, Toy Story, RoboCop, Small Soldiers, and Terminator. There's no cooler straight-to-home video in all of Snowmonton. So grab some hot cocoa, put away the hair dryers, and soul-search while we snow surf(what does that even mean?)