Directed by: Norman Apstein
Written by: David Dobkin and Sven Davison
Starring: Clint Howard, Justin Isfeld, Anndi McAfee
As usual with this series, I’m not really sure how to go about explaining the whackadoodle plot, but I’m going to give it a shot. Because at the end of the day, I love The Ice Cream Man, and it deserves my minimal efforts.
A young boy sees an ice cream man get gunned down. That same boy grows up to be an ice cream man himself. But he spent the intervening years between witnessing the ice cream man’s death and his own transformation into a (still alive) ice cream man in the Wishing Well Sanatorium where he is expected to have nothing but happy, happy, happy days!
But he’s…not well…He kills a bunch of people and mixes bits of them in with his ice cream. Why? I don’t know, honestly.
“The ice cream man is like the pied piper, only evil.”
My favorite characters are Small Paul (because that name, I mean – come on. He’s like proto-Regular Sized Rudy), and Tuna. Tuna is the “fat” kid. But here’s the thing – the boy playing Tuna is a skinny kid with a pillow under his shirt. We’re supposed to just pretend that we don’t notice that, but…it’s pretty fucking obvious. And after looking it up on IMDB, I’ve discovered that Tuna’s full name is Tuna Cassera. And…I can’t. You guys, I just fucking can’t. I mean, I guess that explains why they call him Tuna then. Cuz I’m assuming that isn’t his government name.
This movie is peak 90s cult horror-comedy. It’s incredibly stupid, but it’s also a super fun watch. If you’ve never seen it, you really should! Also, it turns out it was sponsored by Converse. You’ll never believe you didn’t notice.
You can find it streaming for free on Tubi or Prime.
What?! That looks glorious, haha.
Its ridiculous, but yeah – a lot of fun if you dont mind a light plot/barely coherent back story. And Clint Howard is wonderful, of course!
Well, I watched it and it was glorious, lmao.
“He kills a bunch of people and mixes bits of them in with his ice cream. Why? ”
Honestly, why not! hahahaha