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  Review by Hexagore ★½ 6

  A character in this film: "Don't be a slog!" Yeah, movie, don't be a slog!

  Watched the Vinegar Syndrome/Degausser Video Blu-ray.

  Originally titled "Blizzard of Blood", it's almost unbelievable that this shot-on-video ski resort slasher was directed by Jeff Kwitny—the same guy who made the schlocky yet highly entertaining Italian horror flick "Amok Train" (a.k.a. "Beyond the Door III (1989)", depending on where you saw it). That film was a blast… but this? This is its icy, joyless polar opposite. One of the dullest slashers to crawl out of the '80s. Even the similarly themed "Blood Tracks (1985)" suddenly doesn't seem so forgettable in comparison.

  It kicks off with an unfriendly bit of ski slope rivalry over a girl’s affection,…

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  Review by Jesse ★★

  I’ve been waiting a long time to see Iced. For the longest time only available on VHS, this slasher on the slopes has finally gotten a good physical media release.

  The film itself is just ok. The biggest issues being that it takes forever to set everything up and you look at the runtime and realize there is only like 20 minutes left. The final girl circuit at the very end is decent with a killer reveal that made me ask, “Who is that again?” Some decent death scenes, sex scenes, and has a passable soundtrack. 

  Stick with the far superior Shredder which I watched a few weeks ago. Still glad this has had some attention put to it instead of going the route of VHS obscurity.

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  Review by SpOoky Lukey Video 👻📼🎃 ★★★★½

  Iced was everything I wanted from Blood Tracks and more.

  Gorgeous snow-covered landscapes, cozy mountain cabin weekend getaway, hysterical soap-opera drama. sleazy slasher mystery, unique winter themed kills, broken ski goggle POV, the looming threat of a ghostly killer and a real mind-warp of an ending.

  All wrapped up, frozen in time, in my beloved VHS aesthetic courtesy of Degausser Video.

  New lo-fi snow day staple.

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  Review by Lexxx ★★★½ 15

  I love 80s snow sleaze!!!!! The killer’s POV shots through broken ski goggles was my favorite part, but this had some really fun kills (frozen hot tub honey was my #1) 
  Still laughing at the ending, and i’d say it’s an absolute must watch for the ending alone. 
  I paired this with Shredder for a slut4shredding double feature. 

  PS- i’m finally in the ✨patron✨ club and you have no idea how happy it makes me that i can now have Isabelle Adjani getting fucked by a tentacle creature as my profile backdrop!! & i uploaded my first backdrop for this flick. woooo!!!!!! 🖤

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  Review by Tony the Terror ★★★½ 3

  This was so damn cheesy. And. I. Loved. It.

  Slasher at a ski resort gets points for an original location and some pretty fun kills. The acting is atrocious but of course it is. The lovable Joseph Alan Johnson of Slumber Party Massacre, Sodoma’s Ghost, and House of Lost Souls wrote and stars in this and he’s obviously a horror fan with at least a modicum of talent unlike say...Dustin Ferguson...or any number of other fans turned filmmakers who should really just stay the former.

  You’ll figure out who the killer is pretty early on but it’s not like the bar is set really high with this type of movie. There’s a slight Friday the 13th Part VII vibe happening with the whole rental cabin thing and since that’s possibly my favorite Friday that just made this all the more enjoyable. The ending is so damn ridiculous and beautiful it left a smile plastered across my face. This needs some special treatment fo’ sho’.

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  Review by Bleeding Skull ★★★★ 5

  Just when you thought it was safe to snort cocaine and go back to the ski slopes . . . you get ICED! Easily the finest movie about skiing, killing, and humping that you’ll see this week, ICED is the soap-opera-slasher of your demented dreams. From the synth-funk soundtrack to the miraculous freeze frame ending, this movie is a force to be reckoned with. The sex is nasty, the gore is ridiculous, and a couple gets killed with an icicle. Also, someone wears a “Rockadiles” shirt that features a crocodile shredding on an electric guitar. (Joseph A. Ziemba)

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★

  much goofier, and hornier, than expected — basically a slasher version of Hot Dog: The Movie, with people getting killed while, or shortly after being, naked; reinforces my fear of ski poles

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  Review by Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★★ 4

  "Iced" is a 1988 regional slasher directed by Jeff Kwitny. Completely full of schlock and camp, the film has a masked killer taking out a group of ski-bound yuppie personalities as they spend the night in a cabin. It's easily a goofy rendition playing off all of the teen ski movies of the 1980's playing directly to the narrative of its low budget nature in all its glory. I will easily say that I have seen dirtier and grimier films when it comes to the regional horror genre, but where "Iced" wins in particular is its ability to be tongue and cheek with everything. There is some perspective downtime like all these films have, but the kills play out to…

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  Review by Kaleb ★★ 14

  Trina & Cori didn't age a day over the course of nine years.

  
  I could talk about Jeff's mental illness, Trina's ambiguity towards wether she was staying with Jeff on the trip and wether this ski retreat was a good idea to begin with. I'd rather talk about the fact that after Jeff yelled "Fuckers!" at them I was certain he was gonna ski jump through their window into their sex scene. This is why people need to hire me to make movies. You'll get that as well as mediocre music & editing... if my cats would cooperate they'd be the actors.

  
  It was more entertaining than I expected but the only way I'm watching this again is if someone finds the 16mm footage.

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★★ 2

  "I would love... to have the blood pulse hard in your veins again..."

  Iced is a non stop freight train powered by cocaine, sleaze and pure 80s tom foolery. One of those nonsensical slashers that exists in its own unique universe of the absurd. The cheese is dialed up to 11 and the vibrant snowsuits dialed up to 12. The stupid dialogue and plot made by aliens? Well that's dialed up to 13. Stick around if you enjoy 80s skiing montages, gory kills, deadly love triangles and ludacris low budget lunacy that will become your fantasy.

  Iced may seem like your typical 80s slasher but there's something uniquely magical here. The perfect balance of everything unconventional and unintentional yet unrelentlessy…

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  Review by ⊹ . ݁ ྐ❤︎ Jade Slaughter ྐ❤︎ ⊹ . ݁ ★★★ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Kevin_Robbins ★½

  I recently watched Iced (1989) on Shudder. The story follows a group of friends who receive an invitation to the grand opening of a new ski resort. However, the person who sent the invitation has their own sinister plans, and their getaway may not be the good time they anticipated.

  Directed by Jeff Kwitny (Beyond the Door III), the film stars Debra De Liso (The Slumber Party Massacre), Ron Kologie (Betting on the Bride), Lisa Loring (The Addams Family), and Elizabeth Gorcey (Footloose).

  The film has a strong ’80s vibe in terms of characters, setting, and plot—it’s essentially a ski resort version of the classic “cabin in the woods” slasher. Unfortunately, the horror elements are weak, with lackluster kills, minimal…