Everyone absolutely loves this or completely despises it.

It's one of my mom's favorite movies of all time.

I have to wonder how many people who liked this movie lost a parent when they were a kid.

I did. My dad died when I was twelve, and movies like this are hollow cheats. Almost 40 years later, I still have nightmares where my dad has come back from the dead, but he's not quite himself, and he won't be around for long. Those are NIGHTMARES--not scary ones, but sad, disturbing ones--and so is the premise of this movie.

So what does Movie-Kid do? Pal around and have a snowball fight with his dead Snow-Dad. There's nothing cute or magical about it. This is a kid's dead father, returned in a very temporary and disturbing form. It's horrible.

Seriously, did anyone who liked this abomination ever lose anyone they loved when they were a kid? Or do they just... kinda imagine what that must be like? You don't get over the loss of a parent at that age, ever. It's shattering, like losing a part of yourself, being disfigured. This piece of garbage trivializes that.

The snow-ghoul was just wrong, and the kid's reaction to it...? If anything like that ever happened (as if!) a real kid would probably be spending the rest of his life in a padded cell, drooling and being fed through a chute in the door.