{"id":258137,"date":"2026-01-29T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258137\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:46:08","slug":"eli-roth-says-new-movie-ice-cream-man-will-be-crazier-than-cabin-fever-hostel-green-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258137\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Roth Says New Movie &#8216;Ice Cream Man&#8217; Will Be Crazier Than &#8216;Cabin Fever&#8217;, &#8216;Hostel&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Green Inferno&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Roth is conjuring up a brand new twisted horror movie with the upcoming Ice Cream Man, which (unfortunately) seems to have nothing to do with the same-titled Clint Howard star vehicle from back in the 1990s. And in a new chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/geekvibesnation.com\/gvn-interview-eli-roth-discusses-cabin-fever-on-4k-uhd-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Geek Vibes Nation<\/a> to kick off 2026, Roth promises that Ice Cream Man will go even harder on the insanity than his previous work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI want this to be the craziest film I\u2019ve ever made,\u201d Roth states. \u201cI mean, I want to outdo Hostel\u00a0and\u00a0Green Inferno\u00a0and\u00a0Cabin Fever in terms of bat shit crazy. And we just shot it. I\u2019m in post on it now. No release date yet, but thinking maybe late summer. But it\u2019s totally insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s Ice Cream Man about, you ask? The film\u00a0follows an idyllic summer town descending into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Roth teases, \u201cIt\u2019s like The Birds but with children. I filmed with a hundred kids going completely nuts with like axes and tools, and the kids just kill all the adults, but then they\u2019re playing jump rope with the guts and tetherball with a head. And I filmed with kids during the summer, and it was one of the funniest, most nuts\u2026 it was like Christmas morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou\u2019ve never seen children happier than when they\u2019re like covered in blood running around with a fake head and like jumping up and down on, like sitting on teeter totters with headless bodies, squirting blood,\u201d Roth continues in his chat with Geek Vibes Nation. \u201cIt was wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ari Millen (\u201cOrphan Black\u201d) stars in the title role of Eli Roth\u2019s new horror movie.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Byron Davis\u00a0(Red Dead Redemption),\u00a0Karen Cliche\u00a0(Thanksgiving),\u00a0Dylan Hawco,\u00a0Sarah Abbott,\u00a0Shiloh O\u2019Reilly,\u00a0Kiori Mirza Waldman,\u00a0Charlie Zeltzer\u00a0(\u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d), and\u00a0Charlie Storey also star in Ice Cream Man.<\/p>\n<p>Snoop Dogg\u00a0\u2014 who\u2019s also collaborating with Roth on the forthcoming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3929758\/snoop-dogg-to-star-in-eli-roths-dont-go-in-that-house-bitch-filming-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Don\u2019t Go in That House, Bitch<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is contributing music to the film, along with composer\u00a0Brandon Roberts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eli Roth is conjuring up a brand new twisted horror movie with the upcoming Ice Cream Man, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7391,156,90581,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-258137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eli-roth","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ice-cream-man","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}