i must have seen a different film!!

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I'm surprised I didn't see the names Joseph Mehri and Richard Pepin associated with this one, as it seemed very, City Lights, handled. What's more, a horror in itself, is some of the stars who have turned up in this, like little Wednesday Addams, who's grown up into a real bombshell and Elizabeth Gorcey from Grandview U.S.A. Iced is a mess in a lot of ways. It hardly has any suspense, that gives way to a so awful predictability, where after our time in waiting, the victims are killed off quickly. The little shocker, for the sake of shocker end scene is cute, but stupid, which it could be imaginary, which is just another messy attribute. Essentially, it's a revenge story, where a score of friends are invited to this flash ski resort. They are cliché's of other characters in this sort of caper, like a responsible woman party and of course, the lone jerk dickhead, prankster, etc. One by one, they killed in gruesome ways, one party, not even making it to the cabin. The killer in the snow plough, just happening to be there, leaves a lot to be explained, as other things do in the movie too. Also, like one of the woman banging on the door, and not being heard inside by her friends, before she's struck in the neck by an icicle (wedge of ice). High points of the movie are of course, Wednesday Adams, the music score, Carl, and the killer identity revealed. Take that all away, apart from the decent acting, this is a slip shod film, where gore hound's patience may'be a little stretched, before the bloodletting ensues. The weak titled movie could of been much more better if more time and care went into it, where instead, we just fall to the weak, typical B, grade fare, where in this case, it's kind of disappointing.

I was surprised just how good this movie was. A group of friends reunite for a get together at a lodge in the snow. We get to know these people, whether grudge holders, wild girls, vain types, through a generous amount of screen time. One of them a real arsehole, forces himself on a girl. You know he's really gonna buy it bad as this group is picked off one by one in satisfying scenes of gore for the horror viewer. One of their late amigos got drunk crazy, one night, and challenged another guy to a race, where the friend died, years earlier. Did he really die and come back for revenge? The ones left, start to suspect other people in the group, and have good reason to, so in the thriller stakes, this is a nifty little chiller. They make friends with another skier who runs the place, and could be the key to the identity. The reasons for the killer's motives I truly bought. An after ending scene, that takes place years later, the surviving couple who now have a child, are watching him build a snow man, when you know. This too leaves the mind wandering, "Is our nut is still out there?". As a low budget cheapie, Iced is one you shouldn't write off. A pretty decent horror, with a pretty decent cast too.

Shot-on-video horror has enough diffused lighting and nudity to almost qualify as porn, albeit bad porn. There's a skiing race, the winner gets the girl. Guy is killed in accident, lamely, considering this is a horror movie. Five years later, a reunion draws them to another ski resort. It's a weekend of alcohol and sex, and, eventually, killings, in retaliation for the skiing death half a decade earlier.Unique, potentially interesting setting amongst skiers at a ski resort in the middle of winter adds little to the proceedings, the film amounts to little more than boring deaths filmed through a pair of smashed orange ski goggles, simulating the distorted POV of the killer. What could have been the film's most memorable scene, the death-by-icicle, is quickly edited away from, to an ice pick chopping into ice in a wine bucket. Die Hard 2 had a similar scene, but handled it far more effectively. Instead of that, the film's most memorable scene is probably the moron flailing about like a lubed-up squid in the snow, ever so slowly trying to escape from the path of the slowest moving snowplow on earth. Its "guess the killer" ending is negated by the fact that they pin the killings on a barely mentioned, minor character in the final scenes, with a contrived link between the killer and his victims, as he was barely acquainted with the initial dead skier. The film ends in one of the dumbest, most inane freeze-frame endings I can recall. I enjoyed the winter setting, but that was about it.

Group of college kids get together in a cabin for a vacation of drinking, sex, skiing, and more sex. And by the way, a masked killer is on the loose killing off all the kids and the killings seem connected to a fellow skiers death years earlier. Lots of sex and some nudity, but little else. Botched special effects, poor editing that takes away from the enjoyment of some the better scenes in the movie, and a lack of excitement ruin this slasher.Unrated; Frontal Nudity (male though), Strong Sexual Content, Graphic Violence, and Profanity.