31 Years Later, One of the Most Disturbing Thrillers Ever Made Is Officially Free on Streaming
Released in 1995, Ice Cream Man is the type of so-bad-it's-good horror movie that rarely gets made in the post- Get Out era where the genre is taken much more seriously. Directed by pornographer Paul Norman, who hoped this was his pivot to kid-friendly horror flicks, Ice Cream Man is a movie where a deranged killer mixes up bugs, human remains, and ice cream and feeds it to children. It's also a movie that spends a remarkable amount of time showing us what shoes everyone is wearing, as per a sponsorship agreement with Converse that probably cost some poor sneaker executive his job. Norman may have wanted to escape X-rated film, but he wound up making one of the creepiest stories ever put on film.
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