How does one end up the Director of Photography on a low-budget horror movie about a snowman who kills people?

Dean Lent: The producers of Jack Frost produced a very small, low budget commercial that I shot. Thats how I got the job. I read the script, I thought it was stupid and awful and I was like "oh my god I don't want to do this but what the hell, I need money."

Creatively, did you phone it in?

DL: I definitely embraced it, and it was fun as fuck to shoot. It was a like a big party, everyone was laughing the whole time, the director was just the nicest guy, he would make everything move incredibly fast because he would just make an effect happen by sticking his hand under a snow blanket move it around and that would be like Jack transforming. It was like 10 seconds to do an effect shot.