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Ice Cream Man (1995)

Ice Cream Man poster
Directed by
Norman Apstein
Genre
comedy horror, slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
R
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 142 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mentally unstable man gets out of a hospital and starts an ice cream business. He uses human body parts to make his frozen treats.

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What happens

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 (under the pseudonym "Norman Apstein"), 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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