🍦🔪 Ice Cream Man (1995) — A Cold, Sticky, Direct‑to‑VHS Nightmare We Somehow Love Anyway
Let’s get this out of the way: I like Clint Howard. You like Clint Howard. Horror fans love Clint Howard. He’s the patron saint of “What the hell am I watching?” cinema — and Ice Cream Man is his Sistine Chapel of weird. It’s 1995. Blockbuster shelves are glowing blue. Direct‑to‑VHS horror is king. Full Moon Features is selling Puppet Master toys like they’re Beanie Babies. And someone, somewhere, said: “Let’s give Clint Howard two million dollars, a giant ice cream scoop, and a director who normally films porn. What could go wrong?” Everything. And nothing. And that’s why it’s perfect. 🍦 A Cast So Random It Feels Like a Fever Dream This movie has a cast that looks like someone spun a wheel labeled “People Who Happened To Be In Town That Week.” Clint Howard — our beloved, bug‑eyed ice cream slinger Olivia Hussey — yes, that Olivia Hussey, as good here as she was in Psycho IV Jan‑Michael Vincent — Airwolf himself, hiding his drinking better than the script hides ...