Iced
Iced
| 01 January 1988 (USA)
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A group of childhood friends are invited to the opening of a posh ski resort, unaware that an old nemesis has murderous plans in mind for them.

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loomis78-815-989034

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

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Coventry

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.

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acidburn-10

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.

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horrormb

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.

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