Ice Cream Man is Not Going to Win Any Awards
| Tweet | |
|
|
Ice Cream Man is undoubtedly a crappy movie, but I love it anyway. Where else can you see Ron Howard’s less-successful brother, king fu mental patients and Butter Brickel?
Written by The B-Movie Specialist Ronnie Angel
September 30, 2007
Release: 1995
Directed by: Norman Apstein
Written by: David Dobkin and Richard Lyons
Starring:
Clint Howard as Ice Cream Man
Justin Isfeld as Johnny Spodak
Anndi McAfee as Heather Langley
JoJo Adams as Tuna Cassera
Mikey LeBeau as Small Paul
Okay, okay, I'll be fair here. Not every review I do will be totally positive. I guess I have to throw in a bad one every now and then just to even things out…but this is not it. Some are definitely worse than others, but damn if I have to say it...the terrible horror movies can still be entertaining as hell. Such is the case with The Ice Cream Man.
Ice Cream Man is one of those crappy movies that has a special place in my heart.
Sure, the acting sucks. A lot of what goes on in this one doesn’t make a damn bit of
sense, and if you watch it for too long without a break you will get a
major headache. Still, there is something about it that has the strange effect of drawing
you in nonetheless…like Blues Clues I guess, or Tab Cola.
This extravaganza of gore features, in all his glory, the immortal (and outshined by his brother) Clint Howard as Gregory, the evil local ice cream man/former mental patient (that looks good on a resume), complete with one of the best voices and walks I have ever seen. Howard’s character really made me crack up and now I know where the idea for Little Nicky's voice and walk came from!
Anyway, Gregory spends his days driving around in his ice cream truck, serving the local kids
an assortment of treats laden with bugs and pieces of corpses. He spends his nights either
sleeping in the front yard of his old nurse's house or chasing kids.
A local gang of kids called the Rocket-somethings (I didn’t pay that much attention LOL) catch on to the strangeness of Gregory after seeing him kidnap one of their own. The Cops get on Gregory’s tail and he goes after the gang to get revenge after the police raid his shop. There is a scene in the grocery store that is particularly funny / sad / senseless / ridiculous, so watch for it.
To make a long story short, this movie has lots of cheese, lots of gore and lots of people that
die. That along with Clint Howard being creepy, Kids and adults who need acting
lessons, "cop puppets", kung fu mental patients and lots of ice cream (Butter Brickel!!) make
this crazy flick a fun, ultra cheesy piece of Hollywood (TN, maybe?) back alley filmdom.
I recommend that you experience Ice Cream Man for yourself…Just take frequent breaks when you watch it, for your brains sake please. Questions or comments about Ice Cream Man? Contact us!
Take me to Horror Movie Reviews!
Horror Movie Freaks is the FREE eZine from Best-Horror-Movies.com that will give you the new horror releases, the new horror news and the new horror reviews that you CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT!!
Subscribing is easy, painless and free.
Do it NOW!!
