{"id":377799,"date":"2026-04-13T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:41:09","slug":"is-eli-roths-ice-cream-man-related-to-the-image-comic-or-clint-howard-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377799\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Eli Roth\u2019s Ice Cream Man Related to the Image Comic or Clint Howard Movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even more surprising is the fact that Roth\u2019s movie isn\u2019t related to the series that Image Comics<\/a> has been publishing since 2018. Each issue of Ice Cream Man brings the reader introduces the reader to a new town, where at least one deeply disturbed oddball lives. At some point, the odd-ball meets Rick, a smiling, affable treat peddler who also might be an eldritch horror toying with the pathetic mortals who surround them.<\/p>\n

With its bright setting and killer kids, Roth\u2019s Ice Cream Man looks like one of the stories from that series. And given that an adaptation of the comic has long been in the works, first as a Quibi<\/a> series and currently as a more traditional project produced by Smallville<\/a> creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the confusion is understandable.<\/p>\n

However, Roth said that he\u2019s had the idea for this story for over two decades<\/a>, making his Ice Cream Man an original work.<\/p>\n

Eli Roth\u2019s Ice Cream Man Trailer<\/p>\n

So what is Roth\u2019s Ice Cream Man all about? The trailer gives us basically everything we need to know.<\/p>\n

Everything seems peaceful in the town of Bayleen Bay, until the ice cream man arrives. Baseball players and playground kids all rush to his truck to get the treats, and he hands them out with a smile. However, something in those cones makes the children murderous.<\/p>\n

The trailer only gives us little glimpses at the havoc: a girl stands over her mother with a hacksaw, a child makes snow angels in blood, a kid pops a utility blade while walking from the truck, and a boy brings an axe down on a teen. But given that Roth is hyping the film as his most \u201cinsane film to date,\u201d the full scenes are sure to make you feel worse than a lactose-intolerant person with a half-gallon of butter pecan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even more surprising is the fact that Roth\u2019s movie isn\u2019t related to the series that Image Comics has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-377799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377799","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=377799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}