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ICE FROM THE SUN's pre-production time spanned 7 months (November 1995 through May 1996)
ICE FROM THE SUN was filmed in 54 shooting days spanning 8 months (June 1996 through January 1997)
In the 8 months of ICE FROM THE SUN's production, the highest concentration of consecutive shooting dates
was 16 days (July 13, 1996 through July 28, 1996).
ICE FROM THE SUN was shot on 193 rolls of Super 8 film. This equals 9,650 feet of film!
4 cameras were purposely destroyed to achieve specific shots for the film.
In director Eric Stanze's last movie, SAVAGE HARVEST, 13 people made up the entire cast. ICE FROM THE
SUN utilizes a cast of 69 people, 21 of which participated on both the cast and crew.
The following actors in the cast of ICE FROM THE SUN have acted in previous Eric Stanze movies: DJ Vivona,
Ramona Midgett, Tommy Biondo, Jessica Wyman, Michael Bradley, Jerry Bates, David Berliner, Jeremy
Wallace, William Clifton, and Lisa Morrison.
The four-and-a-half minute long opening credit sequence of the film has 431 edits in it.
It cost approximately $500 for the ingredients used in making the gallons of fake blood for this film.
85% of ICE FROM THE SUN's main production crew were 19 to 25 years old.
ICE FROM THE SUN was shot on 74 different interior and exterior sets (at 27 different locations).
In the first draft of the ICE FROM THE SUN screenplay, Alison's name was Alice, named after ALICE IN
WONDERLAND.
The filming of Scene 56/58 (The Medical Room) involved 3 actors with sync dialogue, a set that had to be
dressed from scratch on the day of the shoot, several on-set special effects gags, constant security problems,
and electricity run from the production's power generator because the set was in an abandoned school building.
Even with these time-consuming elements, the production crew accomplished 49 camera set-ups in the one
night of shooting this scene. This is the record number of set-ups in one night for the entire shoot.
Scene 62 (The Alleyway) necessitated the crew showing up on location at 1:30pm on a Saturday for set dressing.
Because the scene took place at night, the set couldn't be torn down till the following morning. The crew did not
leave the location until 9:00am the following Sunday. Of the entire shooting schedule, this scene took the longest
to set up, shoot, and tear down.
Jeff Bergeron's Eye Boy design stolen
by national toy company, Toy Biz.
In the middle of ICE FROM THE SUN's shooting schedule, FX creator Jeff Bergeron wore his Eye Boy costume
(which he designed and wore in two ICE FROM THE SUN scenes) to a Halloween costume party.
The party was a giant toy company bash, an event Jeff attended due to his employment with St. Louis toy
company, Trendmasters. At the party Jeff won first prize in a costume contest with his
ICE star creature. However, employees from other toy companies were in attendance, eye-balling
Eye Boy... Three months later, an action figure named Cyclops, of the product line X-Men Monster Armor, was
released by Toy Biz, a company who's employee's attended the same party as Jeff. And Cyclops looks a HELL of
a lot like Jeff's stunning Eye Boy design. Coincidence? or evil Toy Biz robbing a costume design from
innocent Jeff Bergeron? You be the judge...and boycott Toy Biz!
Click on Cyclops to see full packaging of the toy.
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