This movie is inexplicably bad...and not in any sort of good way.
It tells the story of a family that has inherited a curse relating to Jack Frost- who is apparently one of Santa's children, turned demonic entity.
This curse has something to do with a guy refusing to bury a piece of Jack's body, after he was forced to endure an Osirian fate...or something.
Either way...what ensues is an a criminal travesty of filmmaking.
Which is a shame, because the quality really is quite decent (when compared to a lot of the other Christmas horror films out there).
It has a professional feel to it, in regards to picture quality, but it's really quite amateur on every other level.
Particularly in regards to the writing, the plot, the special effects...and quite annoyingly, the audio balancing.
The Jack Frost character, himself, is palatable from a creature-effects perspective...being somewhat reminiscent of the joker character from the 90's film Funny Man.
But the effects they use on his voice are ridiculous...and rather unnecessary.
As it sounds like he is using the voice changer from the Scream films.
Even worse, however, are the effects...which amount to some really bad CGI, and an attempt at gore that isn't even PG.
Every time you think something sweet is going to happen...dude just clicks his fingers and people just disappear amidst some really bad CGI snow effects.
It keeps building up your expectations...and then disappointing you every single time.
So, it seems like they didn't even try.
An observation further evidenced by the horrible soundtrack- which kicks in every time Jack is about to make an appearance- consisting of incredibly generic (and rather out of place) chugga-chugga metal riffs.
On top of all this...it has one of the most poorly conceived plots I've ever had the displeasure of witnessing (the worst I've seen since the awful Netflix film Slayers).
To be fair, they do make an attempt to insert lore (including redundant efforts to remind you about it, after forcing you to sit through a tedious amount of filler, that nearly puts you to sleep)...however, it's not good lore.
Thus, it doesn't have the desired effect needed, to drive the action forward, in any sort of enjoyable way.
Worst of all, though, has got to be the audio balancing.
The audio capture is so bad, that characters on the periphery of the scenes are so low...that you find yourself constantly needing to adjust the audio levels just to hear them...only for other characters to end up being too loud as a result.
This is particularly a problem with the insufferable mother character- who persistently mumbles in almost a whisper- which left me wishing for her death, pretty much, from the get-go.
In all honesty, there really is nothing good to say about this film at all.
Because, plot structure aside, even the character development is bad.
With you caring so little about the characters they do make an attempt at developing...that you are simply unconcerned with what happens to them one way or the other.
Which is a cardinal sin, when it comes to filmmaking.
At barely over an hour...it's all a very cinemasochistic experience.
Coming off as a chore to watch.
So I can't say that I recommend it.
But I can definitely recommend passing it by.
As it's another bottom of the barrel Christmas horror...that fits right in alongside the other trash that surrounds it on TubiTV.
I give it a 1.5 out of 10 (but that's being more than extremely generous).
