Horror fans have had plenty of frights to choose from this summer, from the surprise box office hits Obsession and Backrooms, which followed well-received titles like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Hokum and more. One upcoming horror movie, however, may be notable for the opposite reason: Reviews are out for Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, and could this be one of the year’s worst scares?
The killer kid aspect of Ice Cream Man has drawn comparisons to Weapons, one of CinemaBlend’s favorite movies of 2025, but it doesn't sound like there are too many similarities. The plot involves a mysterious ice cream man whose treats turn the idyllic suburban town's children into murder machines. William Bibianni of The Wrap says in his Ice Cream Man review that the slasher runs out of shock value almost immediately:
