Iced (1989) User Reviews

Ski resort massacre.

[HumanoidOfFlesh · 4/10 · 6 January 2010]

"Iced" is a low-budget and heavy on drama slasher flick about six young vacationers who check into a posh ski resort where they are systematically dispatched by the killer hidden behind the ski mask.It's apparently a retribution for the suicidal death of one of their friends years before."Iced" is a pretty damn bad.Almost nothing happens during the first hour of the film.The multiple conversations shared mostly by the women are dull,unconvincing and add nothing to the story.At least Lisa Loring of "Blood Frenzy" fame gets naked a lot.Fortunately the last half of the film features some creative death scenes via ski-pole and icicle.Still "Iced" is too boring and goreless to satisfy fans of early 80's slasher movies.4 out of 10.One to avoid.

Wow those 80's!!!

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 31 October 2019]

Sometimes, slashers go into the winter. This would be one of those times.

This was directed by Jeff Kwitny, who also directed Lightning In a Bottle, Illegal Alien and Beyond the Door III, which is also known as Death Train and has nothing to do with any of the other Beyond the Door films. I mean, that's par for the course. Bava's Shock was also sold as Beyond the Door II. If you want to see that one, Vinegar Syndrome has just released it.

We're here to talk about Iced.

A group of teens watch one of their friends die while skiing. Yeah, that was a crazy idea - Jeff and Cory were racing to see who would get Trina. Cory was in love with her, Jeff was a jerk, he catches the two of them in bed together and then, you know, he goes off the trails and crashes into the rocks.

Five years later, they have been invited to the opening of a ski resort, but there's someone in ski gear that starts to kill them one by one.

Normal people wouldn't recognize a single actor in this one, except that I'm not normal and can tell you that lead actress Debra De Liso was in Slumber Party Massacre. Janette is played by Lisa Loring, who in addition to being married to adult star Jerry Butler, was Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family. Rodney Montague, who played Biff, went on to be a visual effects artist. And that's pretty much it.

If you're wistful for 80's movies with bad interior design and worse hair, good news. This movie has all of that and a Casio synth soundtrack that is at odds with every single scene that it plays behind. That's pretty much a good review around here.

Ice Ice Baby, oh-oh! Mmmm, Vanilla!

[Coventry · 4/10 · 30 June 2010]

Sigh … I suppose I'll never be able to claim that I've seen all 80's slashers ever made, because here's yet another one I never even heard or read about before today. Oh well, "Iced" certainly isn't a great loss and not at all worth tracking down unless you're an avid fan of the decade and/or the sub genre. The story takes place in a skiing resort – duh – where the usual crowd of teenage stereotypes gathered together for a holiday of fun, until of course a homicidal maniac decides to pick them off one by one. I wouldn't exactly call this original, but since most 80's slashers took place either on high school grounds or in sunny summer camps, I'll reward this movie with half a point extra for its setting. A couple years ago during a previous ski trip in the same resort, the popular girl of the bunch had to choose between two admirers. Her resolute choice for the hunky guy drove the loser to commit suicide and now it looks like he's back from the dead with a vengeance. I know, that's not very groundbreaking either. Like sadly too often the case in this sort of movies, the murders only begin to occur in the third act of the film. The first hour only features false scares, juvenile pranks, dull flashbacks and some welcome nudity. Lisa Loring plays one of the girls who gets topless quite frequently. I mainly know her as little Wednesday from the original "The Addams Family", so I hope it doesn't sound too perverted to mention her naked chest as one of the film's only highlights.

If you're in the mood for an eighties revival!

[RareSlashersReviewed · 1 February 2004]

A lot of people presume that the golden age of slasher movie ended in 1986. Admittedly censorship was beginning to have it's own devastating effect on the once thriving theme. But if truth be known, in 1988 the love it or leave it category was still alive and thriving. In that year alone, we had the impressive entries: Maniac Cop Intruder, Evil Dead Trap and they were only the really good ones! Perhaps less successful, but still as alluring was the rarely themed attempt - Iced! I say ‘rarely themed' because, as the name incautiously describes it's set on a snowy ski result with a killer that doesn't don a clown or hockey mask, but instead an orange visor and a snow suit! The only other movie I can think of that has almost exactly the same setting is Shredder, the recently released ski and slash film that's almost an unofficial remake! Totally coincidental, of course!

Six teenagers are mysteriously invited to a mountainous snow bound resort for a weekend of sex, drugs and cheesiness! It's the first time that they've been skiing since their friend, well; acquaintance was killed in an accident four years earlier. Jeff died after he had sworn vengeance on Cory for stealing the woman he had eyes for, Trina. Even before they all arrive, a psycho wearing the snowsuit and ski mask that Jeff died in viciously murders one of them. Hmmm! We've already learned that he was an eccentric character, he spent time in an asylum and he's partial to throwing violent bouts if things don't exactly go his way. Now it looks as if he's come back from the dead to make good on his last words to those who tormented him in life!

Iced sits comfortably along with Evil Laugh, Fatal Pulse, Killer Workout et al, as yet another ‘horror' movie that'll bring a smile to your lips more often than it'll ever send a shiver up your spine! Thankfully, they usually always manage to redeem their utter incompetence with the unmistakeable comedy of outright ineptness! Joseph Alan Johnson, the ‘star' of the 1986 bore-a-thon Berserker penned the story and he also plays a key role. Quite why anyone would let him loose in front of a camera again is a mystery; he must've struck some kind of deal when he sold his screenplay! But his lack of any talent fits in nicely with the rest of the brain-starved cast that also includes slasher reprobates Debra Deliso (Slumber Party Massacre) and Lisa Loring (Blood Frenzy - the 1987 one, not Mario Bava's)!

Jeff Kwitny doesn't make any use of the potentially intriguing set locations, you'd think that he could have staged a few remarkable set pieces and made good use of the snow coated mountains. But he instead decides to kill off everyone in and around the cabin, but to be fair; some of the methods of murder are fairly unique. It's amusing, because I never thought that an icicle could be used as a murder weapon! Oh well, you learn something-new everyday, don't you!

The film's real merits lie in the total plot ineptness that can only be found to this standard in slasher movies from the eighties. First off isn't it just amazing how in four years, no-one's appearance has changed at all! Each character is inimitably cheesy; especially Carl who at one point pours out enough cocaine to sniff that even Tony Montana would question his nasal capacity! Eddie's car breaks down conveniently where the killer has a snowplough parked so that he can rearrange his body parts and they all must be stone deaf, because they never hear the dieing screams of their friends as they're massacred only a few yards away! As well as suffering from hearing difficulties, Trina is also particularly dumb. If the ‘victims' from Nail Gun Massacre took the biscuit for being a little slow off the mark, then she runs off with the whole packet. She finds Cory lying in the kitchen with a knife sticking out of his chest, he asks her to get some help and after the obligatory fumble for the keys to a car that wont start, she eventually decides to use the telephone (doh)! Instead of ringing the local law enforcement or a paramedic for her Husband who's probably bleeding to death, she calls Alex the resort manager that she shared dinner with the night before! Good thinking brains! When the killer is finally unmasked after a particularly leisurely paced showdown, his motives are thinner than Lisa Loring's ‘comeback' career… and just as baffling!

If you are one of those that's riding the eighties revival and your favourite song is still ‘it's the final countdown', then Iced will rock your world! It was released in the years when slasher directors no longer had gore to rely on to obscure their lack of talent, so instead they used lame nudity and – deliberately or not – unintentional humour. It shines only because it excels in being a woefully bad movie that thinks it's extremely good! I'm in my early twenties, but it makes me feel old when I have to say that they just don't make them like this anymore

In the top ten....WORST!

[Lucianivision · 1/10 · 8 April 2001]

I would love to write a thorough analysis of this slasher opus, but the time it has taken me to write this sentence alone, is worth more of your time then sitting through this pile of "insert censored word here".

TRUST ME, having your eyes gouged out by plastic spoons is more enjoyable then watching the pathetic actors bench press spices, ski supposedly downhill on a flat terrain, and die rather bloodlessly and ridiculously.

Oh yeah, a plot twist is thrown in...but you won't care, I didn't. "Iced" is not even funny on a so bad it's good level. A miserable experience.

not iced, but hosed; really bad slasher movie set at a ski resort

[FieCrier · 2/10 · 11 March 2005]

I start to watch this in earnest, but eventually had to go for the forward-scan button, and used it pretty generously.

A group of college students are at a ski resort where people are night skiing with flares. Two of the guys get into an argument over one of the women. They settle their differences with a race without flares. The winner has sex with the women, and the angry loser goes skiing again on his own, again without a flare. He takes a bad jump, and lands on some rocks and apparently dies.

Four years later, everyone in the group has been invited to try out a new ski resort as a promotion. One of them is killed before he gets to the resort by a guy in a blue ski outfit with broken orange-tinted ski goggles (with some shots from his POV through the broken goggles). There are lots of boring talky scenes that don't serve the plot or character development. The rest of the deaths don't occur until much later in the movie. Some atypical weapons, but poorly handled.

One odd scene has the women in the kitchen, preparing food. One of them is cutting carrots. She does so in the oddest way I've ever seen. She holds the knife straight up in the air, and pushes the carrots against the stationary knife to cut them lengthwise. Dumb! And it's not a lead-up to her cutting herself, either, just some random thing.

The killer is more or less obvious through Ebert's Law of Character Economy, although he seems to be in more than one place at once. The final scene is set five years later, and is pretty stupid. The only other ski resort horror movie I'm aware of (but haven't seen), Shredder (2003) (V), has to be better than this.

These are the kind of movies that killed the slasher film

[loomis78-815-989034 · 1/10 · 23 February 2014]

A group of college friends reunite at a ski resort years later after one of their friends was killed on the slopes. Before you can say 'predictable' the believed to be dead member of the group is seen stalking the group. But that doesn't happen until deep into the picture. Director Jeff Kwitney delivers poor melodrama for his characters that wouldn't even please a die hard soap opera fan. Most of the cast is nude doing drugs and you want to see them die for being so obnoxious. Eventually this plays like the bottom of the Slasher barrel that it is, and quickly reminds us why slasher films got a bad name by the time the late 1980's came around. Kwitney is clueless on how to get a slasher scare or build suspense so you're left with are the deaths themselves. When all else fails, this is what a slasher fan can fall back on to get himself through it. Unfortunately 'Iced' has uninspired death scenes including electrocution, bear trap and of course ski pole. One woman is killed with a large icicle for God's sake. Dull and stupid with poor acting and a terrible electronic score that was even bad for 1988. Fans of the original "Addams Family" TV show will get an eyeful from a totally nude and all grown up Lisa Loring who played Wednesday Addams on the show. Unless that holds some interest for you, avoid at all

More like lukewarm, but still entertaining slasher trash

[Bloodwank · 5/10 · 21 May 2011]

There's something tremendously appealing to me about snowbound horror. Great white isolation, nature itself a menace in cold immensity, and of course the beauty of red blood on fleece white snow. Iced regrettably does next to nothing with its potential, but for the bad slasher aficionado it has its merits all the same. Its set up is promising, first shot a freeze frame of skier atop a mountain, stark image, arms outstretched, poles like chill antennae against the sky. Then we have a race, defeat, romantic rejection and rage. One poorly planned night skiing excursion later and there's the back story. Then its a case of various related parties heading up to the mountains to snag a free holiday out of a condo timeshare pitch, then accosted by a ski masked maniac. Its more or less an absolute textbook example of a bad slasher, nudity, very little gore (just a couple of workable gore shots here) and delicious slices of cheese. It works on vivid characters and amusing dialogue, managing a fair level of general amusement despite having little to offer for the most part. There's John, a doctor with an off key attitude and lovely heroine Trina. There's Carl, twitchy and sarcastic cokehead (scarfs up an impressive load of the stuff at one point) who serves up a fun dream sequence and wired paranoia. Best of all is Jeanette, essayed in lively fashion by Lisa Loring, giving her all for the piece like it counts for something, nicely sexual stuff (that's a carrot in your mouth, not a dick! !). Dialogue is for the most part pleasing, especially in a spell of bad date reminiscence (drive in tissue boob fiasco!) and the actors have good chemistry, there's a nice sense of disparate friends uniting and trying to make a holiday work. Things are regrettably a good deal too slow though, most of the deaths are crammed into the final block and the few sex scenes and occasional boobs don't quite hold the weight of maintaining interest, moreover the direction is generally style free (though director Jeff Kwitny did later make a rocking trashfest by the name of Death Train) and the plotting lacks suspense. Things do perk up fairly nicely in the final twenty minutes or so, with tension, fair kills and the odd giggle from continuity errors, culminating in one of the gnarliest lunatic freeze frame closers I've ever seen. Oh, and the music packs some nice daftoid tunage if memory serves. Little here to recommend to anyone that isn't already a devotee of crappy slashers, but to those that are this one is just about worth tapping for a one time watch.

Bad acting, predictable plot, and 80's cheese

[cheesius · 3/10 · 17 February 2005]

Really, the 80's cheese is the only thing this movie has going for it. I won't give anything away, but it's really predictable. The acting is terrible, the camera work is terrible, the script is terrible, the editing is terrible. The MOVIE is terrible.

I highly recommend watching this movie only if:

(a) you enjoy making fun of terrible movies (b) you watch it with several other people who like making fun of terrible movies (c) you are not entirely sober (d) you enjoy suffering from boredom and bad acting (e) all of the above.

This movie is terrible. Am I repeating myself? Trust me, it's worth repeating. I've seen worse, but still... Whoof. Not good.

Perfect viewing for connoisseurs of bad movies

[Stevieboy666 · 6/10 · 18 April 2020]

A group of friends accept an invite to stay as a ski lodge but there's a crazy skier out in the snow who is intent on killing them all, one by one. This late entry in the 1980's slasher cycle has bad acting, bad script, bad plot, bad fashions and bad kill scenes. Pretty much everything about Iced is bad, with the exception of the Utah, snow covered scenery and the plentiful sex and nudity. Most of the killings only take place in the last half hour. When the Final Girl realises that there's a killer outside instead of phoning the police she instead rings the chalet manager! Hilarious! Probably the only noteworthy thing here is Lisa Loring, of the original Addams Family, now all grown up and very naked. For me Iced is a difficult film to score. To be brutally honest it is terrible, deserving a 3/10 at best. However, I found it to be of the so bad it's good variety, this slice of cheese often had me laughing, hence my 6/10.

Film needs to be de-iced

[videorama-759-859391 · 4/10 · 22 March 2016]

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.

One of my favorites slices of cheese, served up ice cold

[Jim-D · 8/10 · 31 December 2007]

Maybe it was the beer talking, but Iced was a perpetual favorite amongst my friends and I during our college days. A poorly-made skiing-themed slasher with virtually no gore, the film somehow managed to entertain time and time again.

From the Rockadiles t-shirt to Debra Deliso's workout using a rolling pin, this baby is is pure, unfettered bad fun. We've got the most painfully inept man on Earth trying to escape a snowplow. There's some hilariously unintentional homo-erotic moments between two male friends as they lie in the snow together. We've got piles of cocaine you could go sledding on, a killer who leaves messages in puffy paint, and gratuitous Wednesday Addams nudity.

The score, which I find myself humming at least a few times a year, is so bad, its great... and the ending? Wooo baby. If you haven't seen how this delicious piece of cheese ends, then you haven't seen jack.

Iced is a wonderful film. Sure, its wonderfully bad, but that won't stop be from loving every last moment of it.

Now where's my DVD?!

Ski Slasher...

[acidburn-10 · 6/10 · 25 November 2009]

I always like Slasher movies that takes a different setting than the usual woods, campsite, college, houses etc like this one on a Ski resort, although there is nothing different about this movie from any other movie of this kind and doesn't set apart from them in any way, "Iced" is basically a run of the mill slasher movie. Not that it's a bad thing oh no, I actually enjoyed this and plus I loved the snowy location.

"Iced" is about a group of friends who are mysteriously invited to spend a weekend at a winter cabin, four years after a terrible accident that resulted in one of they're friends dying, and then the friends come to realize that something is amiss when there are reminders around of what happened and they find out from the estate agent that the one who died invited them, (but how can he when he's dead), then the group of friends start getting picked off one by one.

Okay the plot line is as old as time and I can think of loads of movies with this kind of plot line. There are both good points and bad points to this movie, like the good points are that this movie is fun, the first Ski slasher I've enjoyed from the last one I was "Blood Tracks" which was bloody awful, "Iced" is much better. There's also a lot of nudity from the ladies which always pleases me and there's even a bit of male nudity (something u don't see in these kind of movies that often) which I didn't mind and plus it's always nice to see a familiar face in slasher movies as well Debra Deliso from Slumber Party Massacre, plays Trina the final girl in this and she was pretty good and I also loved the fact that she spends her chase scenes in her underwear and snow boots. And the bad points now, for me I found this movie pretty slow in getting to the killings and when we do the killings were disappointing and no gore whatsoever, (although there was one scene where a girl had an icepick in her eye) but we didn't get to see it and plus this movie doesn't make the most of it's beautiful locations having most of murders indoors. Technically, it's a bit of a mess with horrible editing, slow pacing and overtly misguided dialog (with only okay acting at times). But Iced is still enjoyable and worth watching.

All in all "Iced" is a fun waste of time, not to be taken too seriously, okay it's not brilliant but it's not a bad movie either.

Not even a promise of nudity,,,

[horrormb · 4/10 · 22 February 1999]

Whoa! How did they crap into plastic? This movie was good at the beginning and the concept seemed pretty good. Little did I realize that while many things get better with time, this just got... pardon the lame expression... "iced". I wasn't expecting top notch acting and the ending credits and beginning credits (just look at the way the title shows up) were shoddy. Maybe a little bit of overuse on the sex (unusual complaint, I'm sure) was possibly the downfall. I mean, just when the guy was flying down the hill, it flashed back and forth between him, and sex. Which would rather be seen? Some of the deaths were interesting (icicles used by HUMANS) but it fell apart towards the end, revealing the killer a bit too soon. A 4 out of 10 since it is worthy (to a point) and it's my kind of movie.

* out of 4.

[brandonsites1981 · 19 August 2002]

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.

Only good if you want to see fully grown Wednesday Addams topless

[Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki · 2/10 · 28 June 2012]

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.

Moronic slasher

[Maciste_Brother · 1/10 · 2 September 2003]

ICED is one of the most moronic slashers ever conceived. A guy in a ski suit and broken ski goggles kills people at a log cabin. Very scary...not. The whole thing is completely forgettable. And the killings don't start until the last part of the film. The characters and situations are not interesting enough to sustain one's interest all the way to when the action starts and when the killings do start, no one cares about anything or anyone. And there's a really stupid "surprise" ending. No wonder horror movies died in the 1980s.

A total waste of time.

"It's the kind of movie where you only watch the screen if someone is naked or getting killed".

[lost-in-limbo · 3/10 · 31 December 2021]

So after just watching the late 80s slasher 'Iced'. The flat and dull nature of it made made me appreciate the bizzaro style of the previous nights' hokey slasher; 'Open House'.

Virtually a cheaply produced, and straight-to-video drama-fused (consisting of sex, drugs, hijinks and relationship woes) slasher on a snowy remote mountain condo of former college friends getting together provided a few striking, and mercilessly staged murders saved for the backend. Especially the one involving an icicle. It does take a good hour of sluggish melodrama (think of a raunchy version of 'The Big Chill') and goggle POV shots of the stalking killer before this snowbound slasher hits its straps. And even then it's short-lived, in spite a few well shot moments.

The opening set-up of humiliation and something going wrong becomes the catalyst for the murders is very contrived for this sub-genre. But it was hard to take seriously after seeing other movies, and shows mock this certain plot device. As for the unknown killer decked out in ski gear. The reveal is obvious, however their motivation is so out-of-left-field. Like those unexplained visions/or are they fantasies/or maybe wet dreams... which just seem to pop out of nowhere. But I did like the final ridiculous last shot. It's been done to death... but it's one of only a few lively moments.

Eminently forgettable

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 18 October 2022]

Probably one of the most forgettable slashers you'll ever find yourself watching. This one has the usual group of bimbos and hunks staying at a ski chalet in the snowy mountains when a killer strikes. A muddled and cheesy motivation for the killer, ridiculous action scenes and laboured deaths are the order of the day here, complete with some extraordinarily wooden performances from the no-name cast. The biggest actor of note is Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday in THE ADDAMS FAMILY, who inevitably strips off with the rest of the female cast for all of the gratuitous nudity and sex scenes. Not the worst out there, just very cheap and very '80s.

Iced - More like ice water, a washout

[deathwishryo · 3/10 · 1 January 2020]

Iced (1989) Genre: Horror Sub Genre: Slasher

Iced is a late 1980's slasher movie with possibly, some of the worst acting ever to appear on screen in the genre. The plot is paper thin, unconvincing and even the kills are not good enough, nor are they shot well enough to truly satisfy.

The location would be a perfect one for a horror film, an isolated snowy setting, with a killer on the loose. But miserably, not taken advantage of. Indeed, quite a few of the kills cut off and while not being a gore fan, this is poorly done.

Whereas the likes of New Year's Evil may be bad, they have redeeming qualities such as falling under the so bad its good tagline. They're also incredibly fun. Iced is not. Iced is bad with a capital B.

Worst is, it's hard to even recommend this film, since it's so slow moving and the main action takes place in the last half an hour. You're left waiting for something to happen for the majority of the film, not a good thing at all. To give Iced a small portion of credit, the last half an hour redeems itself a bit. It feels much more like a frenetic slasher in this part and you're left wondering what the hell happened with the rest of the film? But too little too late, as the great majority of the film is simply put, a waste of time.

Only worth a watch for the bizarre ending sequence.

Ranking: 3/10

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Iced Iced baby

[cashiesbigbird · 7/10 · 3 February 2020]

A lot of fun take it for what it is a fun night in with some cool kills this is more than worth a watch, I have seen alot worse from more well known horror icons

I really hate

[jgkelley-48797 · 10/10 · 1 February 2021]

That I can't stream this movie anywhere. Where is the USA up all night for the 80's children who grew up. I can't be alone in wanting it back or something close!!!!

Anyways, if you some how can get hold of this or it's available somehow it's so worth the watch. And u never know if it's gonna disappear into the ether again so I'd advise y'all to take advantage. You won't be disappointed. It's not the best, but it's pretty good & u won't be asking for the hour plus back u just wasted. Watch it late on a weekend night before bed or something & it will be satisfying enough

Unintentional comedy abounds

[OwlsWatch · 7/10 · 22 February 2017]

I saw this at a screening at my local Alamo Drafthouse, billed as a "so bad it's good" 80s cheesefest, and it did not disappoint. Make no mistake about it, this is a TERRIBLE movie. But it's so ridiculous it'll leave you entertained as hell as long as you know what you're getting into. It's a gem.

Iced is pretty cool, not hot

[PeterMitchell-506-564364 · 7/10 · 13 December 2012]

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.

'Snow joke, iced ski dead people!'

[Weirdling_Wolf · 9/10 · 1 April 2021]

At a bustling, whitely glistering ski resort we are boisterously introduced to a gaudy gaggle of morally despicable, self-absorbed ski-headed skells making Alpine whoopee and these duplicitous degenerates denigrate one of their number Jeff until an altercation breaks out over the perceived proprietary rights of the uber blonde-headed schmoe bunny Trina (Debra DeLiso) until meat-faced Cory (Doug Stevenson) and the neurasthenic Jeff throws down and much like the similarly snow-coned 'The Chill Factor' they must race to save alpha male face and win the additional grace from the not-exactly fair maiden. This fatefully frosty contest proceeds with a weirdly realized downhill race with the net result being the loser Jeff endures great shame thereby losing his capricious girl, the scrappy race and, perhaps even his mind!

4 years later these snow-seeking simps converge for a weekend of wintry high junks at 'Snowy Peaks' where they plan to do the same tired shizz as before and not long into their chilly shenanigans the serious matter of stalk and slash begins in deadly earnest, except Jeff Kwitney's 'Iced' takes the singular approach of playing his delightfully absurd horror movie out like a Hallmark Christmas special, cannily replacing the saccharine sentimentality with righteous B-movie excess, his fabulously frost-bitten freak show serves up delightfully amateur hour 'acting', hilariously crass love scenes, perfectly malodorous dialogue which along with its plethora of ice-cool ski slope slayings and savage ski lodge stabbings unexpectedly coalesces into a delirious miasma of cruddy death-dealing delights!

Composer Dan Milner's score has a tasty Richard Band quality, boisterously exaggerating 'Iced's suitably hysterical climax. The film's winning lack of sophistication and soft-core slap n' tickle aesthetic merely increases its bizarrely compelling nature; it's not great cinema but readily satisfies baser instincts as a cheap and trashy grot-fest! There's also a fragrant campiness to the cod-ball chatter and 'eclectic' acting talent that not infrequently increases its entirely welcome comedic element, and the harder it tries to be a serious slasher, the more wildly successful it becomes as a 'so-bad-its-good' delight, and you've got a snowball in hell's chance of chilling out to anything remotely like it made today!