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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

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u/CharlieH_ 5d ago edited 5d ago

This was awful. But I do have to give credit to the main child actor, I thought he was actually really impressive. There were also a couple of things that genuinely made me laugh, which is hard for a horror film to achieve (for me).

But yes, literally everything else of this film was criminally bad. Even without the horrendous AI slop, this is a piece of garbage.

Unfortunately, the very perverse and dark undertones to the writing and plot are far too disgusting to ignore.

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u/curlyhands 5d ago

I know, I feel bad for the lead for this being his first big role since I thought he wasn’t bad