"ICED" - 1988 Slasher Movie

There were a lot of good slasher movies released in the 1980's. Iced was also released in the 1980's, but that doesn't mean it's good. It just gets a few bonus points for that fact. Iced came out in 1988 and I saw it ages ago on VHS and recently took the time to view it one more time and see how it was. What a bad movie.
Basically what we have is a group of friends are at a ski resort and two of the dudes are playing a game to see which one of them gets to pursue one of the gals in their group, because they both are interested in her. The guy that lost the game got pissed and he went on a late night ski run down a hill on a path that ran through the woods. He ends up falling onto a pile of rocks and impaling himself and dying.
Flash forward five or so years and the remaining six members of the friends group all receive invitations for a free weekend stay at that same ski resort. Evidently it had closed down soon after the guy died on the rocks, but now was reopening under new ownership. Included amongst the six friends are the guy and girl that got together after the tragedy that killed their friend and they are now married.
As you can probably guess, people start getting picked off one by one over the course of the weekend. This all leads up to a shocking climax that really isn't very shocking or effective at all and you end like feeling very indifferent altogether with the entire ordeal.
The only cast member of any note is Lisa Loring, who of course played Wednesday Addams on the Addams family and later played Cricket Montgomery on As The World Turns. She is actually a pretty good actress and turns in a decent performance in Iced. She also ends up naked quite a bit.
There was another similarly themed slasher that came out in 2003 titled Shredder that is damn near the same movie as Iced, only definitely a better version.
There are worse slashers out there than Iced, although not that many. This one is for sure on the lower end of the spectrum in this genre. I could only recommend Iced to serious slasher movie fans and hardcore 80's B horror weirdos.
Without any exaggeration, I could sit down with a few friends and some refreshments and come up with a better script over the course of an afternoon. Oh well, that's what makes watching movies like this fun, you never know exactly what you are gonna get when you press play.