‘Ice Cream Man’ Rotten Tomatoes Reviews Torch Eli Roth Horror Thriller
- Director Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, August 7, 2026, earning a 36% 'rotten' critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 early reviews.
- Roth founded The Horror Section in 2025 to produce independent horror films, financing Ice Cream Man's $5.5 million budget through foreign pre-sales and tax credits to preserve creative freedom.
- The film features a supernatural vendor distributing frozen treats that turn children into homicidal maniacs, with practical effects designed by prosthetics artists Steve Newburn and Adrien Morot.
- Early critical reviews are negative, with Jarrod Jones of AV Club writing that the film's 'creative zeal eventually sputters out' and others dismissing it as repetitive gags.
- The Horror Section will release Stiletto and Don't Go in That House, Bitch! this fall, maintaining its strategy to distribute two to four horror films annually in theaters.
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Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man first reviews unleashed as horror gets early Rotten Tomatoes score revealed
The review embargo has lifted on Eli Roth's latest horror film Ice Cream Man – and it looks like this might be one to avoid if the early critical response is anything to go by.At time of writing, the film – which stars Orphan Black's Ari Millen as the titular villain – currently sits on a score of just 31% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from 59 reviews, indicating an overwhelmingly negative reception.In our own Radio Times review of the fi…
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