ICE FROM THE SUN Half a star

ERIC Stanze’s film seems to be a long spoof of the most juvenile and pretentious low-budget “avant-garde” filmmaking, though it’s mischievously billed as “a dangerously experimental punk art film.”

Every possible film student visual cliché (plus quite a few from the world of music video) gets a thorough workout.

The acting is hilariously bad, as is the complicated yet predictable story about devils, angels and an evil Presence who has created a dimension encased in ice.

The only things that make you wonder if “Ice” is seriously intended to be a “punk art” horror film are the gore and the sheer, relentless tedium of the whole thing.

Running time: 117 minutes. Not rated (nudity and gore). At the Den of Cin at Two Boots Pizza, Avenue A at Third Street.