Rating: 
Summary: Not Quite
Review: This guy Eric Stanze has potential. There are some very good scenes in this movie. There are also some very bad ones. He needed to clean this up quite a bit. The biggest problem is that the premise is just down-right hokey. Stanze wants to get to a nightmare world where he can create some truly frightening imagery. That is what the movie is really about. However, the way he decides to get there is just plain wrong. Following a long, sporadic but pleasing intro/credits, Stanze launches into an even longer, tedious exposition that is poorly written and edited. Four friends are partying, waiting on a fifth and yammering on about different ways to die; a girl lies in a bath of bloodstained water and is visited by some other-worldly creature that gives her the lowdown. The lowdown is as follows: Long ago, there were wizards and crap on earth, and one of them was really powerful and he had an apprentice and the apprentice got even more powerful but trapped himself in a layer of ice but then he screams really loud and it destroys the wizard and he is free but he has to kill people and lives in a dimension that consists of many layers of glass. Sorry for the rambling but that was for effect. That's what it feels like as Stanze sets up his Dungeons and Dragons-like premise. All of our characters end up in the nightmare world and from there things get much better. However, it seems that whenever there is dialogue or story, the whole thing falls apart. This would have been a much better movie with less dialogue and less story. I believe Stanze could have found his nightmare scenario with more grace and fluidity. All that aside, there are some phenomenal sequences in this film that, taken by themselves, are really pretty unsettling. Maybe Scrapbook is better, although from what I have heard, that one is even talkier. I don't know who wrote Ice From the Sun, (probably Stanze) but the script sucks and the acting is weak. Try and see it if you are into underground horror. Just don't expect a masterpiece.
Rating:
Summary: Not Quite
Review: This guy Eric Stanze has potential. There are some very good scenes in this movie. There are also some very bad ones. He needed to clean this up quite a bit. The biggest problem is that the premise is just down-right hokey. Stanze wants to get to a nightmare world where he can create some truly frightening imagery. That is what the movie is really about. However, the way he decides to get there is just plain wrong. Following a long, sporadic but pleasing intro/credits, Stanze launches into an even longer, tedious exposition that is poorly written and edited. Four friends are partying, waiting on a fifth and yammering on about different ways to die; a girl lies in a bath of bloodstained water and is visited by some other-worldly creature that gives her the lowdown. The lowdown is as follows: Long ago, there were wizards and crap on earth, and one of them was really powerful and he had an apprentice and the apprentice got even more powerful but trapped himself in a layer of ice but then he screams really loud and it destroys the wizard and he is free but he has to kill people and lives in a dimension that consists of many layers of glass. Sorry for the rambling but that was for effect. That's what it feels like as Stanze sets up his Dungeons and Dragons-like premise. All of our characters end up in the nightmare world and from there things get much better. However, it seems that whenever there is dialogue or story, the whole thing falls apart. This would have been a much better movie with less dialogue and less story. I believe Stanze could have found his nightmare scenario with more grace and fluidity. All that aside, there are some phenomenal sequences in this film that, taken by themselves, are really pretty unsettling. Maybe Scrapbook is better, although from what I have heard, that one is even talkier. I don't know who wrote Ice From the Sun, (probably Stanze) but the script sucks and the acting is weak. Try and see it if you are into underground horror. Just don't expect a masterpiece.
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Summary: experimental brilliance
Review: This is a film that was made with heart and soul. If you want to see a gutsy film with the knowledge of how to break commerecial conventions, this film would be for you. It contains its own sense of perameters, not ones set by a corporate society. This is experimental filmmaking with excellent juxtaposition between sound and visual, black&white and color photography, and marred footage. It all makes for a very cutting edge experience like no other I have ever witnessed before. Excellent film, but one should be warned that this is not for the timid.
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Summary: What it attempts to do it does!
Review: This is no academy award winner, but it sets out to be a low budget over the top combination of horror, surreal nightmare and extreme violence and effects and it does it all very well! The story line is solid and transfered to film nicely. While the acting is often bordering on bad, overall it doesn't distract the viewer and often adds to the feel of the movie. I would suggest this (as well as Scrapbook by Stanze) if you are looking for a solid low budget movie to offend your senses.
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Summary: A swift punch in the face.
Review: This is one movie that grabs you by the throat and continues to punch you in the face. Highly recommended!!! Get this title if you have the need to see something new, different and exciting. This is not your normal candy-coated Hollywood crap... this IS filmmaking.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This movie blew me away! ICE FROM THE SUN is about a creepy wizard's apprentice from the dark ages who now roams another universe, torturing and killing people he pulls up from Earth. This apprentice is so out of control, Heaven and Hell join forces to send in an assassin who is to eliminate the apprentice. The epic story of ICE FROM THE SUN is told through insane imagery, creative sound, and excellent music. This movie is extremely cool. It is very original, nothing like I have ever seen before. ICE FROM THE SUN contains many queasy, haunting sequences of nightmarish images. Warning: Some viewers may be offended by the full frontal nudity and the film's intense violence. For a very aggressive, chaotic, imaginative, and STRANGE film experience, check out ICE FROM THE SUN!
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Summary: please eric stanze, stop making movies...
Review: this movie is better then savage harvest (another eric stanze crapfest) but pretty much any movie is. The acting is so-so, seeing as it is a low budget film (extremely low budget). The story is beyond retarded. I'm pissed I bought this and savage harvest at once. Horrible movies by a horrible director.
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Summary: How do I say this???
Review: This movie sucked more than my hoover!!!!!
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Summary: Depravity. Hostility. Insanity. And other acts of God.
Review: To anyone here who hasn't seen it, I strongly recommend this Eric Stanze film. Even considering its several flaws [grainy image, very uneven acting, sometimes-awkward dialog], it's still one of the best, most entertaining and thought-provoking micobudget independent horrors out there. I've heard it described from a cross between The Matrix and Lost Highway [not sure what that means, exactly ] to a Clive Barker film as directed by Trent Reznor, which is closer to the mark. The story can be summed up thus: an evil wizard takes his apprentice into an alternate universe of his own creation, and every few years they kidnap six people and torture-kill them, then take their souls, until the apprentice, now ultra-powerful and re-named The Presence, overthrows the wizard and takes over, prompting Heaven and Hell to recruit a female suicide victim as a sort of astral-plane assassin to pass through the wall of ice and destroy this "abomination of space and time" Gore, nudity, and lots of just plain unsettling images and sounds follow. I never thought I'd say this, but Ice From The Sun is not just a movie to be watched; it's an experience to be had.
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Summary: a supremely frustrating film
Review: WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD Eric Stanze's Ice From the Sun, an 8mm hybrid of the experimental (think Stan Brakhage) and horror core (think Leif Jonker's "DArkness") is an immensely frustrating moviegoing experience. I say this because Stanze clearly has talent. He has an excellent eye - many of the scenes in this bizarre film look very much like those old Nine Inch Nails videos.
He is also an excellent editor - the opening montage set to punk music is superb and weird. There are also some excellent set pieces within the film that are eye catching and imaginative - the girl who becomes a freak show exhibit, the shaky cam car chase, the worms in the stomach torture scene, the run-through-the-forest-of-radios scene. All these are superior. the problem is (and this is a BIG problem) the narrative is impossibly muddled. It is VERY hard to figure out just WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON or WHY WE SHOULD CARE. The film has some basic screenplay problems that needed to be solved before it was shot. The basic plot seems to be something about a magician and his assistant who is evil and six people who are zapped into an alternate reality. But all of this is very hard to discern.
I would definintely recommend this to anyone who has an interest in fringe cinema or horror core. Stanze is a talented artist (and I use the word "artist", not the word filmmaker) - a filmmaker in my opinion is a traffic cop - someone who doesn't write his own stuff and directs according to the whims of executives. Check it out. I do look forward to Stanze's upcoming films.
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