Ice Cream Man

Ice Cream Man (1995)

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the...

Young Gregory Tudor sees his local ice cream man murdered and later grows up to inherit his business, opting to inject gruesome ingredients—including human body parts—into his frozen confections. When one of the neighborhood boys goes missing, the local kids suspect Gregory and band together to get to the bottom of things.

Date of release
1995-05-09
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (164)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Comedy, Horror
Director
Paul Norman

Casting

Interesting facts

Ice Cream Man is a 1995 American direct-to-video black comedy slasher film produced and directed by Paul Norman, a director of pornographic films, and written by Sven Davison and David Dobkin. The film stars Clint Howard, Olivia Hussey, Jan-Michael Vincent, David Warner and David Naughton. The film's plot follows a deranged man who was recently released from a psychiatric institution and opens up an ice cream factory where he begins using human flesh in his recipes. The film had an estimated $2 million budget. It was released at Chicago's Brew and View for the Clint Howard Film Festival in 1995, on DVD on October 19, 2004, and on Blu-ray and DVD by Vinegar Syndrome in 2017.

Production

Inspired by films such as The Goonies and The Monster Squad and the miniseries It, Paul Norman decided to create a horror film aimed at children, in his first and only attempt at mainstream filmmaking. The idea for the film came through an ill-advised call for scripts. Sven Davison and David Dobkin were hired to write the film's screenplay. The first draft of the script was written in three days.

Clint Howard was cast in the lead role of Gregory Tudor. For his performance, Howard drew inspiration from an ice cream man that swore at children in his hometown. He screamed and yelled at the top of his lungs while driving every day to the set, in order to portray Gregory with a more gravelly, raspy voice.

The film was shot on a $2 million budget in California in March 1994, with the locations including Norman's own neighborhood and house, Canoga Park (the playground), Chatsworth (the opening scene), San Gabriel (the Langley, Spodak and Cassera families' and Wanda's houses), Valley Glen (the print shop), Topanga Canyon (the ice cream plant), and the La Vina Respiratory Hospital in Altadena (the Wishing Well Sanatorium).

The film was initially set to have a PG-13 rating, but was given an R rating instead due to the heavy amount of blood, gore and gross-out imagery.

The makeup effects were done by David P. Barton, Bryan Blair, Alan C. Bosshardt, Denise Dillion, Mark Garbarino, Terese Heddon, Gary Pawlowski and Shauna Giesbrecht. Mashed potatoes were used as a substitute for ice cream in many shots.

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