Ice Cream Ants - Review

Ice Cream Ants was recently reviewed by Isabel Pinedo, who saw the film at the 2006 NYC Horror Film Festival. Professor Pinedo is the author of "Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing," and she teaches in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College.

Here's some of what she said:

"Its surreal narrative draws on the time travel loop of Chris Marker's short film, La Jetee (1962), the vision of heaven in After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1998), and the philosophical musings of a television episode of The Sixth Sense (1972) that posed the question: What if what we think of as dream life is the reality, and what we think of as waking life is but a dream? Ice Cream Ants pulls together some of the philosophical veins that first intrigued me about sci-fi and horror: What is reality? What is hell? I'm not sure the film works without engagement with these questions, but works well as a piece of existential horror."

The complete article can be found here:

http://theword.hunter.cuny.edu/culture/horror.html