Jack Frost 2 : Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman

Alternate titles : Maniac Snowman 2

Tagline : "He's Icin' and Slicin'!"

Set 1 year after the events of the first film, Sheriff Sam Tiler (Christopher Allport) is still traumatised by the events of Jack Frost's killing spree last Christmas, so decides to take his psychiatrists advice and go away on Holiday Christmas.

Deciding a trip to a tropical island would be the best place to get away from the snow, Sheriff Tiler, along with his wife and friends, Deputy Joe and Marla (from the first film) head on over to the Caribbean for some winter sun.

Unfortunately, Jack manages to escape from the bottles of anti-freeze he was sealed up in and has followed the Sheriff to his holiday destination looking for revenge, as he can now freeze himself regardless of the temperature. So it isn't too long before the tropical resort becomes a "winter wonderland" and, much to Sheriff Tiler's horror, the bodies are starting to pile up once more.

To make matters worse, Jack starts coughing up snow balls which hatch into miniature snowmen, so soon there's a whole army of killer snowballs on the march, which are impervious to heat and anti-freeze. But whilst Hell might have frozen over, it seems Jack has a Banana allergy, which being in the Caribbean, may prove to be his undoing, as long as they have enough super-soakers and alcohol to mix up enough banana cocktails.

Featuring more corny humour and gory killings, this is another laugh riot that just has to be seen to be believed. If you enjoyed the first, then you should get an equally good kick out of this one. Recommended!

Overall Marks : 6/10.

Terrifying Trivia

• Set in the Carribean, this was actually filmed in Santa Carla, California. Unfortunately, it rained during the entire 4 week shoot, forcing them to erect a huge tent over the exteriors for them to film under. Which is why many of the external shots don't look particularly sunny for what was supposed to be a tropical island.
• Christopher Allport, Eileen Seeley, Chip Heller, Marsha Clark, Bret Boydstun and Scott MacDonald all reprised their roles from the first film. The only original cast member not to return was Stephen Mendel as Agent manners, as he was working on another film at the time, so his part was recast with David Allen Brooks.
• Colonel Pickering was played by the Director's father, Ray Cooney, who's actually a well known English playwrite. The Director made his character a colonel as a homage to one of his first acting roles.
• The Greek release was titled "Maniakos Hionanthropos 2: Pagomeni Ekdikisi", which translates as "Maniac Snowman 2 : Icy Revenge".
• One of the shipwrecked teens in the liferaft scene was played by Doug Jones, who went on to play the Silver Surfer in the 2007 "Fastastic 4" sequel , as well as Abe in "Hellboy" (2004) and it's 2008 sequel and Cmdr Saru in TV's "Star Trek : Discovery".
• For the scene where the resort is hit with a heavy snowfall, they covered the grass with sand, placed plastic sheeting over it then covered that with fake snow. Unfortunately, the worms in the soil crawled up and suffocated under the plastic, which produced the most awful stench. After each scene, the cast and crew would run away gagging.
• Though Scott MacDonald provided the voice, the actual Jack snowman was performed by one of the special effects men, Matt Faletta.
• The original US VHS release was very heavily cut in order to get an R rating, these shortened, or toned down using alternate footage, virtually every single death scene in the film. As well as cutting out some of the nudity and most of the profanity. Though the film was issued uncut on US DVD. When MVD released a US Blu-Ray in 2021, they accidentally used the cut R-rated version for the release, forcing them to issue replacement discs with the uncut version on the following year.
• The UK and German FSK DVD releases were of the heavily cut US R-rated version

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