Ice pick

An ice pick is a tool with a sharpened point used for the purposes of chipping and breaking away pieces from solid blocks of ice. It can also be used to describe an ice axe, which is a tool that mountaineers use to assist them in scaling steep inclines. Additionally, an ice pick may also be used as a weapon.

An ice pick is but one of literally dozens of weapons used by masked serial killer Jason Voorhees throughout the course of his camp counselor-killing career. In 1981's Friday the 13th Part 2, the character of Alice Hardy - the one responsible for killing Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees, in the first film, was in her home when she began getting a nervous feeling as if she were not alone in the house. Going into the kitchen, she picked up an ice pick and walked near the open window. As it turned out, it was just her pet cat climbing into the house. She put the ice pick down to feed the cat, but moments later, Jason Voorhees appeared behind her and drove the ice pick into her head, killing her.

In the 1992 suspense thriller Basic Instinct, a rock star named Johnny Box was murdered by a blonde woman wielding an ice pick while having sex. Detective Nick Curran investigated the case, which led him to crime novelist Catherine Tramell, who became his number one suspect. Part of what made Curran suspect Tramell was the fact that one of her books presented a murder with an ice pick of a wealthy celebrity in much the same manner that Boz had been killed. Adding to this was the fact that one of Catherine's college counselors, Noah Goldstein, was stabbed in his sleep with an ice pick when Catherine was attending UC Berkeley. During the course of the investigation, the murderer - donning a blonde wig and a San Francisco Police Department rain coat murdered detective Gus Moran with an ice pick as he was exiting an elevator. Curran's suspicions of Catherine proved to be true, but he had not means of proving it. While the two were making love, Catherine reached beneath her bed to pick up the ice pick, thought better of it, and left it alone so they could resume their love-making.