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ICE FROM THE SUN is a nightmare ride from writer/director Eric Stanze's imagination!! Wicked Pixel Cinema delivers an artistic journey through chaos that only Stanze could deliver! This is a film to grab late at night and watch in the dark. It is hard edge and experimental, like nothing you've seen before. With that in mind, it is difficult to describe a plot, other than the premise of Alison's journey through this otherworld dominated by a being known as The Presence. Stephen is to pray to the being. On wounded knee and then his head explodes in a blanket or gore, then a killer credit sequence erupts on screen! Full of imagery and imagination!! Simply amazing work! Must see!! ICE is loaded with so much imagery and SOUND that a simple viewing will not do. You have to immense yourself into it and WATCH and LISTEN. It is one of the few artistic approaches to filmmaking we have loved! Perhaps it's the no holds barred barrage that Eric Stanze delivers that appeal to us or the beautiful experimentation of color and camera. The fact is that the camera is not a spectator, but a participant in the movie. No static, unmoving, boring images here! This grabs you and doesn't let go in that respect! As far as Alison's involvement with The Pressence and why she is there, is best told though watching the movie. Everything is critical to her and that she is the only one that can hunt down and kill the being. But the dimension it occupies is its own. Full of insanity and blood and horror and chaos and destruction, one wonders if she'll make it. If she'll accomplish her task. If she'll even survive. ICE FROM THE SUN is a movie you should watch for the experience and the art. It is not your ordinary narrative movie, but one of visual and editing importance. It stands as a testimony to everyone that you can make a non-traditional movie that kick ass! A movie that doesn't follow the Hollywood formulas or one that relies on hack em and slash em teen killers. This is a movie that packs a punch in it's own right and has made low-budget history. PRODUCTION NOTES All we can say is wow! Eric Stanze has made a movie unlike anything we have seen in the commercial world. This is an art film in many respects, full of imagery and imagination, and also a dark entertaining ride into a dark, sick, twisted realm of disease, torture and death. Shot on Super-8 film, transferred and edited by Eric Stanze well, indicates the level of dedication he has to his craft! We loved his movie SAVAGE HARVEST, but this one is tops! We cannot express how wild this movie is!! Kudos to Eric!!! Excellent and insane! As we watch, we cannot help but to realize the effort put into this movie by all. No way easy. Too much work. Too many shots. Simply amazing! Kudos to all involved. There is no way to pinpoint or lock down traditional photography techniques. The experimental nature of the imagery dictates that many tests and imaginative camera setups were employed and worked out to get the desired results. You have to check it out and come to your own conclusions as it defies to be categorized or classified. Killer soundtrack! Killer attitude! Killer Movie! ICE FROM THE SUN is worth the ride! Pick it up now and experience one hell of a trip!! Wicked Pixel Cinema Sub Rosa Studios | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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