Despite being critically panned, the film has developed a cult following[3] and was followed by a sequel in 2000, Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman.

[4] On a snowy December night, a state execution transfer vehicle crosses into the quiet backwater town of Snowmonton.

Inside is serial killer Jack Frost, who eluded police for years and left a trail of thirty-eight bodies across eleven states before finally being arrested by Sam Tiler, the sheriff of Snowmonton.

Old Man Harper is found murdered, and soon afterward a local bully named Billy is killed when he is pushed into the way of an oncoming sled, getting decapitated.

Billy's mother, Sally, is later killed when the snowman strangles her with Christmas lights, shoves her face into a box of glass ornaments, and slams a light-up snowflake into the top of her head.

FBI Agents Manners and Stone arrive in Snowmonton and convince the Sheriff to put the town on 24-hour curfew, sending his officers out to gather all the townspeople.

Billy's older sister Jill and her boyfriend Tommy sneak into the sheriff's home to steal his wine and have sex, as revenge for her brother's death.

Jack, then, re-solidifies with Jill in the tub, trapping her arms in his shoulders, and rapes her with a carrot on his crotch while repeatedly slamming her head against the wall killing her.

They attempt to destroy Jack by blowing him up by releasing aerosol cans in the police station and firing a bullet at him, but to no avail.

Cooney, along with co-writer Jeremy Paige and producer Vicki Slotnick, stayed in a cabin one time up in Big Bear Lake.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day had released at the time and had digital special effects, so Cooney thought about a killer that was made of all the elements of water, including snow, ice and steam.

The original script, inspired by The Abyss (with its Industrial Light & Magic-animated water creature) and Shocker (with its concept of an executed serial killer seeking vengeance by transformation), began with the action taking place in a small town and then in a skyscraper in Denver.

Cooney, Paige and Slotnick spent $50,000 at a company that was supposed to make multiple versions of Jack Frost, but they only made one immobile 8-foot-tall snowman, which the crew had to embrace.

[5][6][8] Cooney, Paige and Slotnick (along with Lisa Bankert) cast Christopher Allport in the lead role as Sam Tiler.

Other actors and actresses cast for the film included Shannon Elizabeth in her screen debut as Jill Metzner, Stephen Mendel as Agent Manners, F. William Parker as Paul Davrow, Eileen Seeley as Anne Tiler, Darren O. Campbell as Tommy Davrow, and Scott MacDonald as Jack Frost.

Rather than reshoot the whole scene, Cooney added a few shots of Jack making bad sex puns after Jill's death for continuity.

A third installment was planned with the tentative title of Jack Frost 3: Jackzilla, but hopes of the sequel being made are unlikely because of the death of Christopher Allport in 2008.