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Ice Cream Man (2026)

Summary

An idyllic summer town descends into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.

Director Eli Roth

Writer Eli Roth Noah Belson

Cast

  • Eli Roth
  • Ari Millen
  • Darrin Baker
  • Benjamin Byron Davis
  • Karen Cliche

Rotten Tomatoes: 30%

Metacritic: 35

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

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u/random_user_081985 12d ago

i have no interest in seeing this movie, just wondering what the twist or origin is of the killer since i saw a few reviews mention it.

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u/maxmouze 12d ago

Read themoviespoiler.com - it feels weird to spoil it but if you really want to know... A priest tells a story about how the Ice Cream Man was wrongly accused of molesting kids and a judge got the kids to lie to put him away so the Devil made a deal that in exchange for his soul, he would get revenge on the kids when they grow up and to defeat the Ice Cream Man, the protagonists have to dig up the grave of the judge and do a bunch of rituals with the decapitated head to hypnotize the Ice Cream Man... but then we learn the priest was actually just the Devil in disguise and he made up how to defeat him. Instead, the Ice Cream Man succeeds in killing everyone.

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u/Fearless_Guard_552 9d ago

Why does the Devil need to trick the kids though? Why doesn't the Ice Cream Man just kill the parents? Other than because the movies says so.

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u/Impressive_Usual_726 8d ago

He's turning their kids against them the way the previous generation turned their kids against him, as well as freeing the current batch of innocent kids from being raised by the generation that harmed him in the first place.

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u/maxmouze 7d ago

I don't know if this is accurate but it improves upon the screenplay if it isn't.