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An alternate reality encased in ice, a woman who is turned into a dimension-hopping assassin, and a wizard's apprentice who is so evil he is a common enemy to the angels in heaven and the devils in hell.
Ice From the Sun
1999 Directed by Eric Stanze
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HOOPTOBER 2021 - Night 31, Film 40:
Ice from the Sun (1999, dir. Eric Stanze)
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Few films are this ugly, amateurish & thoroughly repellent.
Ice from the Sun has an odd and evocative title, and does throw around some almost interesting ideas, and it even features some solid effects work (two sequences in particular - one with a man digging live worms from his own stomach with his bare hand, and the other featuring a man melting down to a bloody mess, the skull then plucked from his spine - look especially good), but that’s all it has.
Its laggardly 2-hour run time is mostly made up of repetitive, monotonous flailing from loud, messy lo-fi edits to dull conversations featuring endless risible…
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Pointless rough edits, cheap looking, boring story, slow ass pace, mediocore violence. And yet it is a little bit ambitious
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Seit mehr als 5 Jahren stand diese Perle unberührt in meiner Sammlung während ich ahnte, dass etwas ganz, ganz Eigenes und Herausforderndes auf mich wartet.
Nun war es also soweit...Der Fairness halber muss gesagt werden: bei "Ice From The Sun" handelt es sich um einen Amateurstreifen. Eric Stanze führte Regie, kümmerte sich um den Schnitt und schrieb das Drehbuch selbst.
Bei aller Umtriebigkeit gelang es ihm jedoch leider nicht, auch nur einen ansatzweise talentierten Schauspieler aufzutreiben. Das fällt auch, auch wenn er knapp 3000 Meter(!!!) Super 8-Film für seinen ambitionierten Avantgarde-SciFi-Horror-Streifen aufgenommen hat. Brauchbare Aufnahmen seiner Darsteller*innen waren bei genauerer Betrachtung keine dabei.Eine mühselige Frage, welcher Storystrang sich als nervtötender erwies: die banalen Alltagssequenzen der (letztlich irrelevanten, weil,…
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Ich mag ja experimentelle Amateur-Kunstfilme schon sehr. Man denke nur an den großartigen Subconscious Cruelty.
Dieser hier hat leider das Problem dass die meiste Zeit des Filmes damit verschwendet werden die Handlung des Filmes zu erklären. Dies macht leider das ambitionierte Projekt des Regisseurs, Drehbuchschreibers und Cutters Eric Stanze kaputt. Es wäre wahrscheinlich ein extrem genialer Film aus dieser Energie entstanden, hätte man das Drehbuch deutlichen Änderungen unterzogen.
Was bleibt ist ein langatmiger, über weite Strecken langweiliger Film, der sich in seinem Drehbuch verliert. Aufgewertet mit einer tollen Kameraarbeit, extrem genialen, praktischen Filmverfremdungen und auch die Filmmusik und der Schnitt sind on top.
Ich werde mir wohl weitere Werke von Eric Stanze anschauen, in der Hoffnung er hatte mal ein gutes Drehbuch zur Hand.
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You have to love when a director is able to make a movie that makes the most of its budget. Yes, it still looks rough and gritty, there's a lot of filler that could have been cut, some of the acting leaves something to be desired...
But in all honesty, those things also work to this film's benefit. It may not be perfect, but you can see this movie in a lot of other bigger titles that followed. I wasn't even through the opening credits before HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES popped into mind a half dozen times. Worth a look!
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Good soundtrack! Is it just me..... or did that bridge look an awful lot like the one alec baldwin and geena davis died on in beetlejuice.....
also eric stanze is so creative with his torture methods and i may never LOVE one of his films but i will always respect his brain!
I feel like this storyline deserves a longer runtime to get its story across -
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Ice From the Sun is a surreal, inter-dimensional trip about a wizard apprentice who became so powerful that he is feared by angels and demons alike who brings people into his dimension to torture and kill for his own amusement. It is also about a woman who is chosen (after she commit suicide) to cross over into this dimension to battle to wizard apprentice.
After being amazed by Eric Stanze’s 2000 film Scrapbook, I decided to look back at his filmography to see what other films he directed, wrote and/or produced. After watching some remarkable trailers, I decided upon this film, one of Stanze’s earlier works. Although not nearly as amazing as Scrapbook, this was still a rather interesting film,…
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Way too ambitious for its budget but still manages to pull off a interesting film. Some many pointless scenes and it being nearly two hours made me lose focus so much. It felt like a music video for a industrial band at times. Worth seeing but don't expect too much.
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Bad plot, bad acting (except the side chars), badly shot but great concepts, awesome ideas, nice special effects, very mesmerising and rough, choppy editing. Some parts were better than the others and the music was a lot of hit or miss as well, generally the songs they used were distracting to me but when they just used ambient music and sound effects it was very effective.
All in all I was satisfied. Saw this movie years ago and didn't remember much of it besides it being batshit crazy. It was indeed pretty damn crazy but the story wasn't as hard to follow as I remember, it was just not well displayed. Especially the conversations, the story in general was okay. Another one of those 'great ideas, mediocre execution' movies, even tho it turned out good for the budget I assume they had.
Please give this a shot if you can handle rough, low budget, trippy horror.