Ice Cream Man teaser trailer: Eli Roth is serving up a bloody new treat this August
Sixteen years passed from the time Eli Roth made a slasher faux trailer called Thanksgiving for the Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino double feature Grindhouse to the day when a feature version of Thanksgiving (read our review HERE) finally made its way into theatres – and soon after that movie was released in 2023, it was announced that a sequel would be coming along in 2025. Thanksgiving 2 was supposed to start filming last March… but that didn’t happen. Filming had to be delayed (hopefully not cancelled completely). And rather than mope about not being able to make that sequel this year, Roth shot a different horror movie called Ice Cream Man last summer! Filming wrapped in September, and the film will have a theatrical run in North America on over 2000 screens, courtesy of Iconic Events Releasing. The release date: August 7th. To start building the hype, a teaser trailer has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.
What is Ice Cream Man about?
Media Capital Technologies (MCT) and The Horror Section are fully financing Ice Cream Man, which follows an idyllic summer town descending into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.
Roth directed the film from a screenplay he wrote with Noah Belson, based on “an original idea he has had for over twenty years, but studios were too nervous to finance.”
Media Capital Technologies’ Christopher Woodrow and Raj Singh are producing alongside Cream Productions’ Kate Harrison. Executive producers include MCT’s Kevin Frakes, Connor DiGregorio, Eli Massillon, and Lorenzo Antonucci, and The Horror Section’s Jon Schnaars and Holly Adams. The score is being composed by Brandon Roberts, with additional music by Snoop Dogg. Steve Newburn and Adrien Morot handle the special effects.
Who is in the Ice Cream Man cast?
Ari Millen (Orphan Black) stars as the titular character and is joined in the cast by Benjamin Byron Davis (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), Karen Cliche (Thanksgiving), Dylan Hawco (Heartland), Sarah Abbott (Black Mirror), Shiloh O’Reilly (Thanksgiving), Kiori Mirza Waldman (Small Achievable Goals), Charlie Zeltzer (The Handmaid’s Tale), and Charlie Storey (Thanksgiving). Roth is also in the cast.
The August 7th release date puts Ice Cream Man in direct competition with the Universal comedy One Night Only, Searchlight’s Super Troopers 3, and the Lionsgate Premiere survival thriller Fall 2.
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