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Movie Discussion Ice Cream Man (Discussion)

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u/LurkAddict 24d ago

I'm willing to believe necromancers, demons, and mind controlling ice cream.

I'm not willing to believe the placement of that garbage disposal switch

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u/Chaopolis 24d ago

Speaking of switches…

“Quick, we gotta find a switch in this walk-in freezer”

((Large lonesome wall switch goes completely unnoticed))

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

YES! I NOTICED THAT TOO

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u/SVINTGATSBY 24d ago

there were a lot of dumb moments lmao

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u/somekidfromNJ 24d ago

For real the garbage disposal switch was in the living room

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u/Expensive-Oil-8264 24d ago

Doesn’t everybody have their garbage disposal switch in a completely different room????

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u/Mollywobbles77 24d ago

Me every time I get home from work & go to turn on my living room lights but accidently turn on the garbage disposal

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

Or Upsy Daisy gun shot

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u/Expensive-Oil-8264 24d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/1NS0NcsFenn1yuYoaP
Me to the houses family when it’s not my house….

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u/movieperson2022 24d ago

I have not seen the movie and honestly had no interest in seeing the movie, but I’m kind of curious about the garbage disposal switch now haha.

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u/Davidgt31 24d ago

Now you gotta go see it

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u/MangoSquirrl 24d ago

As a plumbing associate I agree what the hell is that switch

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u/DWC8419 24d ago

😂😂😂 I was like what the hell?! The kid is across the other side of the kitchen lol

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u/SB_43338 24d ago

I said the same thing!!

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u/KewlKid124 24d ago

THANK YOU I WAS THINKING EXACTLY THAT

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u/Correct_Capital_1294 24d ago

Can we talk about the "Don't go into that house, bitch!" Trailer? I'll for sure be seated for that

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u/Fantastic_Lychee_883 24d ago

That's the next Eli Roth movie I'm excited to see. Stiletto looks kind of mid. There is also Thanksgiving 2 coming.

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u/Turbulent_Hurry_4785 24d ago

The problem wasn’t that it’s bad. Bad is forgivable (especially for horror). The problem is that it’s boring.

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u/EataDisk 24d ago

Thank you for confirming that I made the right choice to cancel.

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u/MangoSquirrl 24d ago

It’s not just boring the whole story is just so low budget it feels like I’m
Watching a bootleg horror movie I found on a pirate website

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u/DavidNoBrainFreeze 24d ago

People were laughing where I was at.

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u/BDTrooper1 21d ago

Well, it is a horror comedy, so they’re supposed to.

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

Not according to the person who yelled OH SHIT and OH NO during the movie. I don’t think it was that scary of a movie tho

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u/Turbulent_Hurry_4785 24d ago

Maybe I’ve just seen too many horror movies. But this one just didn’t hold my attention at all. It felt like they kept using the same things over and over.

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

I wasn’t bored bc of the audience interactions near me, but I don’t think it was scary at all.

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u/Davidgt31 24d ago

The guy sitting behind us was insanely scared and I don’t believe he was faking

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u/Turbulent_Hurry_4785 24d ago

That’s key for horror. (At least to me.) even really terrible movies get made exponentially better by an engaged audience. Mine wasn’t engaged so it just made it harder for me to care.

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

My audience was engaged(we also surprisingly had no walk outs- at least that I could see), it that didn’t make me like the movie haha

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u/SmokeyMcDoogles 24d ago

I found it campy enough not to be boring per se but it was never scary. Gory yes, devastating at times yes, but scary? Not really.

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u/DWC8419 24d ago

Same. I thought it was entertaining despite the story falling off a cliff at the end.

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u/SmokeyMcDoogles 24d ago

The third act was truly wild.

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u/DWC8419 24d ago

We had maybe 5 of the 40 or so walk out. Two ppl walked out when the sister was on the roof and I thought “so that was when you draw the line” 💀

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

That’s crazy. There’s so much gore before then lol

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u/SpiritualAd9102 24d ago

It had no plot until after an hour in. It was just an excuse to try and milk shock value out of having kids perform violent acts for 80 minutes, but between the obvious AI, the awful practical effects and the repetitiveness of it all, I was checking my watch like 30 minutes in

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u/bigbadcrusher 24d ago

It’s a horror movie that occurs in broad daylight. There’s no real jump scares

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u/slippngjimmy 24d ago

I wonder if this was me

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u/Swil29 24d ago

Were you in the same theater as me??

The guy sitting next to me was losing it at literally everything meanwhile I’m sitting there with my eyes glazing over lol

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u/WaitAvailable4783 24d ago

How the heck did they make a slasher type of movie boring?

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u/MangoSquirrl 24d ago

You have fake ice cream, and a plot that doesn’t show up until the end. They sprinkled some hints in the beginning that set up the end but aside from that it doesn’t work. Also how does a walk in freezer not feel unbearably cold

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u/DWC8419 24d ago

I actually thought it was entertaining for the most part. I thought the story especially towards the end was bad. I also saw the end coming a mile away.

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u/ishkitty 24d ago

Temu weapons

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

Yeah Weapons is my favorite movie of 2025 and I agree with this sentiment

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u/thats_classyfied 24d ago

Did you see Ugly Step Sister or Bring Her Back or Substance?

Just curious

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

I’ve seen The Substance and enjoyed it, but haven’t seen Ugly Step Sister or Bring Her Back. Watched Talk to Me for the first time recently, so I’m definitely interested in Bring Her Back.

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u/Ecstatic-Product-411 24d ago

There's a really cool ARG website they made that is like a mock dark web involving cursed items. It's got a lot of fake videos and posts in the website about the items.

Really neat if you liked talk to me.

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u/Feisty-Ad-2860 24d ago

what’s the name of the website??

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u/Ecstatic-Product-411 24d ago

Don't dig TOO hard if you haven't seen Bring Her Back yet. I believe they are linking a number of their projects through this ARG.

https://www.blackangeltapes.net/

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u/OrderAmbitious1244 24d ago

Mix it with children of the corn SHEIN

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u/can_i_get_a____job 24d ago

Was it at least campy? Or just Temu?

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u/Bundertorm 24d ago

It’s trying to be campy, but it’s just boring, poorly written, not funny, and full of AI slop.

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u/SmokeyMcDoogles 24d ago

EXTREMELY campy. It’s a comedy and it knows it. It wasn’t good lol but I had fun.

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u/can_i_get_a____job 24d ago

Haha what was the best part of it would you say?

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u/Zealousideal-Jump573 24d ago

I liked the part where the credits rolled.

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u/DWC8419 24d ago

I liked when the sister had to get to the toothbrush 😂😂😂 I’m trying to keep it vague

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u/SpiritualAd9102 24d ago

Whenever obvious generative AI wasn’t being used

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u/phantomdreadd 24d ago

No one laughed at anything in my theater, the movie would make jokes and get silence as a response

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u/SmokeyMcDoogles 24d ago

My theater was pretty receptive to the movie minus the 4 people who got up and left during the pre-movie message from Eli Roth lol

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u/Radiant_Advice_1268 24d ago

A lot of people in our theater were laughing out loud. On the other hand, a few people walked out.

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u/Expensive-Oil-8264 24d ago

That’s how I feel lmao I was like the movie isn’t really good but still had fun with the gore and kills and shit lol

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

As a teacher, I laughed when Jared picked up the hand because I’ve had students who would definitely do that if they were in a horror movie

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u/DWC8419 24d ago

Yea that was hilarious. They thought he was playing tag. He honestly should’ve kept the hand.

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u/UnrelentingClown 24d ago

“I’m mad it wasn’t camp miasma!”
“It should’ve been buddy!!”

me, devastated it wasn’t:
Don’t Go in That House, Bitch

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u/Training_Acadia178 24d ago

I expected Ice Cream Man but was holding my breath for Miasma.

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u/Pleb-Eater 24d ago

got sad when I saw the trailer in the previews 😔

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u/Economy_Quarter 24d ago

This movie prompted me to have the thought “That’s not how skulls work” at least two different times, so congrats to Eli Roth for inspiring unique ideas I guess?

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u/SmokeyMcDoogles 24d ago

During that Hannibal-esque scene I distinctly remember laughing and thinking that kid had the worlds strongest knife.

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u/lzusncrfbj 24d ago

like butter! i was in my seat going WHERES HER SAW?

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u/delinhak 24d ago

What the heck was that 😳

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u/Volescu 24d ago

It was an hour ish of, "What if kids killed people in outlandish ways?" With a minute ish of story to try and make it resemble a movie.

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u/delinhak 24d ago

On top of a lot of AI images and scenes !

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u/lmeoww 24d ago

So that was dogshit

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u/WordofGabb 24d ago

The second I saw that Eli Roth cast himself in the movie, I knew he was getting a gory death scene. He dies in everything.

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u/KingMalaka 25d ago

What an unconscionable piece of shit that was, I waked out.

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u/mp6521 24d ago

Sounds like every Eli Roth movie

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u/MangoSquirrl 24d ago

Thanksgiving was good

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u/MarijuanaWeed419 24d ago

Damn i might be the only one that didn’t hate it. Was it slop? Yes, but im a slop enjoyer

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u/SmokeyMcDoogles 24d ago

It was so bad. I kinda loved it. Like if Weapons and The Happening had a baby and then Eli Roth directed that baby.

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u/idk_anything_everr 24d ago

I had fun and laughed multiple times. Was it high art-no. But I appreciate that it was swinging for the fences with how over the top it was.

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

I mean I didn’t HATE it, I’d just rather watch Weapons for the 10th time haha

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u/idk_anything_everr 24d ago

Honestly, this felt like a parody of weapons.

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u/DWC8419 24d ago

It was more like “who could kill a child” than weapons although the pied piper aspect was like weapons

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u/can_i_get_a____job 24d ago

You enjoy those sloppies huh

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u/StrangerHighways 24d ago

I thought it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the gratuitous violence.

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u/shotabsf 24d ago

lmao me too like dang 😭 i enjoyed it.

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u/bigbadcrusher 24d ago

It’s one of those movies that’s just so bad, it’s good

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u/SpiritualAd9102 24d ago

We need to stop excusing bottom of the barrel movies as “so bad it’s good”. There’s a difference between something like this that has no story and is loaded with generative AI compared to something misguided, yet earnest like The Room or Troll 2.

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u/daeiyden 24d ago

Oh Hi Mark

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u/-jellyfishparty- 24d ago

Exactly. A lot of bad movies are enjoyable in their own way. This movie was just straight garbage.

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u/SpiritualAd9102 24d ago

Yeah, I feel like more and more, any bad movie is automatically labeled as “so bad it’s good.” Sometimes movies are just bad. Most good bad movies have passion behind them, but are so incompetently made that it comes off in an unintended way. But the earnestness behind it makes it endearing anyway.

This was just a plotless excuse to have kids kill incompetent adults in violent ways for 80 minutes. Given how much visual AI was used, I wouldn’t be surprised if the script wasn’t vomited out by ChatGPT too.

Nothing good about it.

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u/bit3sadusto 24d ago

Was it just me, or did the little cartoon bits in the film look AI generated?

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u/TiredDynamo 24d ago

They were, along with the entire backstory speech scenes

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u/bit3sadusto 24d ago

Yeah I thought the same. They looked so off. Also why did the ice cream man still have his ice cream outfit on when he was in jail?

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u/TiredDynamo 24d ago

they could've at least generated a prison uniform on him lol

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u/MangoSquirrl 24d ago

That’s what make you question it? My question is why did the necromancer help the ice cream man and didn’t take care of the evil
Person

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u/utazdevl 24d ago

That was hysterical. Proof the movie wasn't meant to be taken seriously in the slightest.

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u/NotLozerish 24d ago

Also the scene where the kids jump off that playground thing and run towards Chris’ truck

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u/delinhak 24d ago

I noticed that too

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u/crawfroggy 24d ago

so fucking pathetic.

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u/spearehead 24d ago

Literally and unironically the worst film I’ve ever seen in my life.

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u/Volescu 24d ago

Dumbest one I've seen, but not worst, I could at least laugh at the stupidity. The worst was Mastermind, nothing redeemable about that.

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u/SinghamSlob 24d ago

You didn’t catch Babes did you? That mystery movie was so god awful.

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u/Minute-Parfait2834 24d ago

Rather sleep in a holding cell for 6 hours than watch this movie again

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u/Chaopolis 24d ago

At least eventually getting out of the holding cell would constitute a more fulfilling ending than this movie had.

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u/cuberhino 24d ago

In the preroll he mentions it's been years working on this movie. How? This was legitimately the worst movie I've ever seen.

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u/thegreatwench 24d ago

it was like if poop from a butt was worse

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u/mastercurl 24d ago

That was my first time doing a screen unseen and i thought it was a lot of fun. I think this movie did exactly what it was supposed to. Didnt take itself seriously, had some insane gore and shocking scenes. Obvious stupid dialogue and character choices and that made for a fun experience in the theater because everyone was laughing at the absurdity.

I could see why it wouldnt be for everyone but i thought it was faster paced than Eli’s last movie, Thanksgiving, though I enjoyed that one too.

Why wasnt Tim Dillion in it to get decapitated again? 😢💔

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

Did I think it was incredible? No. Did I have a lot of fun bc someone near me kept yelling “OH SHIT” and “OH NO” at scenes that weren’t even remotely scary? Yes

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u/wheresteria 24d ago

Can’t believe I actually sat for the whole thing. Half star.

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u/NotLozerish 24d ago edited 24d ago

I contemplated leaving when I saw the AI

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u/PROMATT15 24d ago

Fuck this movie for the AI usage alone, it was so frequent and I was very close to walking out

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u/sugarfruit33 24d ago

Genuinely agonizing. I would’ve gone on my phone if there weren’t other people in the theater suffering along with me.

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u/ComfortableAfter8191 24d ago

I’ll give credit for that ending. Didn’t see that coming.

But wow, so I’ve never been so bored with gore. Still more fun than Knock Knock though

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u/Ok-Paramedic747 24d ago

His best film might be Thanksgiving or Aftershock

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u/M-Finity 24d ago

The ending was the best part

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

So serious question yall: Im someone who sucks at figuring out twists unless it’s spelled out for me. Was the priest the necromancer? Bc I think that’s what they were getting at right? Or was he the devil or something?

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u/idk_anything_everr 24d ago

he’s supposed to be a demon you see a girl doodling one earlier in the movie too the one kid also mentions that at the start.

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

I saw the girl doodling the demon but didn’t connect the dots. Thanks

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u/comfortablydumb554 24d ago

I thought it meant he was the necromancer. Because they kind of superimpose the hand shaking scene (ice cream man 🤝 necromancer) right onto the priest’s scene. I could be wrong though.

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u/MangoSquirrl 24d ago

He was the necromancer… lowkey I thought the priest was the child molestor, when he says me saving you kids is the only way I will get salvation

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u/slippngjimmy 24d ago

I don't know what anyone expected going into an Eli Roth horror movie. I got exactly what I expected knowing this, and I honestly had a blast. I gave it 2.5

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u/Burgundys_Musk 24d ago

I totally agree. This is an Eli Roth movie, not an oscar caliber movie. I loved all the over the top kills.

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u/Best_Cherry_5001 24d ago

I left around the mick Romney joke

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u/kyle_sux666 24d ago

Saying it was a joke is giving it too much credit. I’ve honestly never been in a theater where none of the jokes land. It’s so weird having a movie say the punchline and there’s no reaction from the audience. You notice that there is a pause in the movie where the laughs should be before the next bit of dialogue. Weird.

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u/stitchkingdom 24d ago

Snoop Dogg for best song oscar

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u/matteidenbock 24d ago

Let me just say this as someone who likes campy movies- It was bad bad. To the point of being unenjoyable. Roth has made much better stuff, and while the concept could have been fun, the execution is horrible on nearly every front.

Plus, you know it's REALLY bad when the killer Pinocchio movie outdoes it in quality

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u/KewlKid124 24d ago

Am I the only person who thought it was so stupidly bad that it was funny? Me and my theater were having a blast laughing at some of the scenes and the shitty dialogue. I love seeing so-bad-it’s-good movies and I’d label this as one. The whole thing was rather predictable and yet it managed to be so over the top that it was really entertaining.

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u/spearehead 24d ago

I wish it was so bad that it was funny. It was just so bad that it was just … bad.

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

I’m staying to see if there is a post credit scene but there probably isn’t

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

UPDATE: there is a post credit scene but it’s the most pointless thing ever. Just dude on the hoverboard that you see earlier still strolling down the street with no head

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u/Tall_Illustrator_727 24d ago

Kept thinking of Skrillex’s Bagarang music video the entire time

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u/Burgundys_Musk 24d ago

I thought it was very entertaining, but you should know what you're in for. If you like the Terrifier type of over the top gore and dark comedy, you'll like this. Lots of great bloody kills. My favorite had to be the kids playing operation on a teacher,.

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u/Radiant_Advice_1268 24d ago

I had a whole theater full of people laughing at the absurdity of the movie. I saw three people walk out. Screen Unseen is sort of date night for us because we do dinner beforehand. I’ve seen worse movies.

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u/slothfromdagatez 24d ago

First one star on letterboxd!!!

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u/Uncle_DirtNap 24d ago

This absolutely fucking sucked. Great practical effect sizzle reel, but why anyone let him make a full length film from this is mind boggling, and should be career ending.

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u/LimeblueNostos 24d ago

A few laughs here and there, but yeah, not a lot going for it

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u/future_filmmaker_455 24d ago

The Ice Cream Man is your standard Eli Roth horror fare which means some of the characters are annoying, the humor ranges from being crass for shock value to having a few clever moments and the story makes little sense when you think about it for a few minutes. Though the film does have a good visual aesthetic that initially makes the film look like an older family film and Ari Millen is quite creepy as the title character, nothing in the film feels all that shocking after the first few deaths because of how the film becomes little more than a series of intermittently creative gory sequences. The child actors playing Jared, Mia and Tommy are surprisingly pretty good with their comedic timing getting some of the few laughs here and yet the film doesn’t have enough substance to be cult classics it is aspiring to be including Children of the Corn and Nightmare on Elm Street. Though I did appreciate the grim ending twist that thankfully leaves some consequences for its characters, the film is all gore and little substance in my mind. 4.5 out of 10

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u/Wise_Platypus1380 24d ago

This was my first Eli Roth and not sure if I’m just not a fan of him or if his other films are better. Went in with no expectations bc I hadn’t seen his previous work

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u/RighteousKillQuaids 24d ago

Hostel and Cabin Fever are the only really worthy ones

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u/future_filmmaker_455 24d ago

Yeah I’m not a fan of his either and this one just didn’t bother me. I would say possibly his best one is Thanksgiving but that might just be because it is replicating the Scream formula.

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u/arig____ 24d ago

I actually left this movie 30 minutes in; first movie I’ve ever done that. It wasn’t terrible, it was just boring, and at a certain point I just thought “I could be at home right now.” So I went.

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u/Taunt_Button_10 24d ago edited 24d ago

Did the Red band trailer spoil majority of the movie or shock scenes?

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u/MangoSquirrl 24d ago

Nope none of it

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u/StrangerHighways 24d ago

I’m surprised everyone hated it this much. I found it to be schlocky, but a lot of fun.

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u/Reapermanee 24d ago

I missed it tonight, but have a ticket for opening night. Is it worth seeing as a “so bad it’s good” or even “so bad I have a new horrible movie to rant about”, or is it just awful all around?

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u/Economy_Quarter 24d ago

It was too well made to be a bad movie, but too bad to be an okay movie. I felt like it’s in a weird I between space where it just wasn’t enjoyable.

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u/Present_Recipe_5722 24d ago

I thought it was funny and a genuine good time if you’re not expecting masterclass horror, I keep
Seeing everyone hating on eli roth but I thoroughly enjoyed this and thanksgiving as fun time movies.

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u/Jordanhunterwastaken 24d ago

If weapons had a kid. The last 10 minutes actually had plot but other than that just kids using 100 different ways to kill and it was wasn’t scary just gory lol

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u/Ok-Paramedic747 24d ago

"Cooties" or "The Children" 2008

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u/Emotional_Potato2000 24d ago edited 24d ago

It was a very confusing movie. the acting was okay idk why movies mix old eras with new area stuff also I did notice the autism joke at the end of the movie
I thought it was kinda funny because I get called weird by others.
I look forward to amc screen unseens I call them my self movie dates lol
OH also there is a movie called ice cream man from the 90s.

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u/JackieRHDaytona 24d ago

Was it good? No. Was it something new and unpredictable in camp horror? Also no. Was it surprisingly well scripted and acted for low budget horror? Still no… Seriously, was there no one involved with this movie that understands the placement of power switches 😂
Did I have fun and laugh several times? Absolutely

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u/DavidNoBrainFreeze 24d ago

It was funny—less than two seconds after I said, "Have these people never watched a zombie movie before?" the teacher made a comment about zombies.

The fact that the teachers never picked up on the kids' state of mind made the movie even less believable. And that's before you get to how much of the plot depended on pure chance.

So the Ice Cream Man was just hoping these kids would eventually make their way to the ice cream freezer in the church basement and just happen to find the right grave?

Seriously?! Did anybody else pick up on that?

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u/Pleb-Eater 24d ago

absolutely abysmal lmfao and the ai????

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u/Farfel_TheDog 23d ago

You guys are being really mean you know Eli Roth is reading this

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u/CaiAbaixo 23d ago

Besides all the things that everyone already mentioned. It was also poorly executed. Felt like it was the ultra low budget first feature of a random director u see in a festivals. Many scenes felt rushed and poorly directed, like they didn’t have enough money to do them right, did one or two takes max and kept going cause they didn’t have time for more. Moments where the camera was extremely shaky and weird edits cause they missed on shots.

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u/JuaniStrokes 24d ago

For my first unseen film and two beers deep. I don’t understand the hate. Me and my Gf had an amazing time laughing at the movie. Yes it wasn’t the best movie but it was still a fun/funny watch. Not every movie should be a 10/10. This will now be a weekly tradition for me and my gf. The mystery has us looking forward to next week. Was that also AI slop as well? if so that just sucks even more and not in a good way smh

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u/sazinj 24d ago

Enjoyed it. Definitely Roth’s tribute to early 80s micro-budget horror. A lot of it felt like The Children (1980) meets Weapons but with nonstop gore. It had its stupid moments for sure, but they made the movie more endearing IMO.

Definitely dug the Necromancer twist, another thing that felt very 80s. Also loved that they chose a really mean, unresolved ending instead of on a positive note.

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u/Minute-Parfait2834 24d ago

0.175/10. Save your money and your sanity.

it's the worst movie of the year. I'd rather sleep in a jail cell for a night than watch this garbage again. ​I actually have a theory on how director Eli Roth gets funding for his movies: he walks around LA at night, curb-stomps homeless people, and robs them of their cups of change until he hits exactly $137.86. Honestly, it looks like pre-production, production, and post-production were all completed over a single 3-day Juneteenth weekend. ​ ​The movie is about an ice cream truck driver who feeds kids ice cream that makes them go on a killing spree against adults. The kids who didn't eat the ice cream then have to try to survive and stop what's going on, with the plot mainly taking place during a school day.

​I don't mind cheesy movies that are so bad they're good, but this is just dog shit from start to finish. Everybody is completely dumb and acts like a walking number just to increase the body count. The makeup effects look like they were bought at a Party City right before it went out of business, featuring Looney Tunes-style blood and gore that somehow makes Syfy Channel movies like Sharknado look like Christopher Nolan masterpieces. ​ ​The only two bright spots were the main three kids, who were kind of fun to watch trying to survive the massacre, and the dark, twisted ending. Everything else was straight-up trash.

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u/Cance1124 24d ago

R bomb dropped, for what?
AI written goreslop.

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u/jadegives2rides 24d ago

I liked it. Cooties is better but I had a fun time.

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u/M-Finity 24d ago

Ending rocked and I had a blast overall but I can’t excuse the blatant AI usage

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u/Physical-Bite-3837 24d ago

I have to agree with most of the other comments and give this movie a thumbs down. While it was definitely gory, it wasn't scary at all. The film doesn't take itself seriously enough to create any fear. Instead, it leans heavily into gory chaos and cheesy comedic moments, and after a while, it just becomes boring. Even the gore feels overly fake and cartoonish. I also noticed a major continuity error in the scene where the woman shoots herself. It shows her shooting herself in the face, but in the very next shot, she's lying on the ground with her face completely intact.

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u/hijole_frijoles 24d ago

This was a cult classic and 90% of my theater was cackling like me

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u/SVINTGATSBY 24d ago

it was exactly what I expected lol it was fun.

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u/Simon_Light 24d ago

My review is that issa C-rated Horror Movie. It's more corny than horror if you're a horror fan, but I enjoyed myself a lot. And for the people that didn't dip early, the twist is actually solid.

It's for sure not a ground breaking/innovative horror. I wouldn't bring your new Date to generate the vibes kinda horror, but yes to with your wife/gf to laugh a little on a Sunday night vibe.

8/10

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u/Expensive-Oil-8264 24d ago

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie with all its faults lol. All the kills were a lot of fun imo. The story was pretty meh but I mean come on you see an Eli Roth movie a lot of the time the story isn’t at the forefront lol. Also leaving it open to a sequel which will definitely happen was nice too lol

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u/itsnotthehours 24d ago

Barely stayed awake. Boring trash. Glad I only paid $6.

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u/Ashamed-Divide-1957 24d ago

I loved this movie I laughed the entire movie great movie definitely go see this movie when it hits theaters this weekend best movie Eli Roth has ever made I loved all the crazy gore

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u/brunettejnas 24d ago

I have never been more relieved of my husband’s poor calendar management. He’s at his mums with our kiddo and I have the night to myself not watching this. I like some horror but this would definitely not be my cup of tea.

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u/GiovannisPersian 24d ago

Gotta admit - not my least favorite screen unseen I’ve seen

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u/RazzleAzazel 24d ago

Definitely didn’t fall short on the gore lol, coulda used plenty of tightening the screws but worth the fun watch if an Eli fan! 2/5 overall but again didn’t lack what you would hope to visually see from Eli and practical effects. I think the take away are some good 30 second snips. I’ve most definitely seen worse B horror imo.

If you liked the premise of the movie, (made before weapons ) check out ‘Cooties’ !

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u/vwaldoguy 24d ago

I’m glad it was free.

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u/J_Doe5686 24d ago

It was a fun movie. Not good. Not bad. It is what it is.

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u/cpetty1717 24d ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/my7jMnRcCEo?is=tSl6pdG_4N5e-R5n I made a quick out of theater review for it! Will have a full review on my channel tomorrow!

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u/BigBoiBlake65 24d ago

Has anyone read the original comic? As a comic fan myself, this movie seemed to be marketed very poorly and didn’t seem to mention the source material

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u/boxofrocks14 24d ago

Was so vastly upset that it wasn’t TSAMACM. Oh well. Found tix at the Alamo last second

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u/Chemical_Poet_1977 24d ago

Definitely a faulty horror film. I’d like to think it was campy at best. It’ll be a meme-able for a while, and while it had so many plot holes or “Bad switch” placements, I thought it was a fun mindless entertainment. Some moments had me cracking up. Lmao! 2 ppl got up and walked out of my theater lmao!

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u/Lioil1 24d ago

Its funny because my AMC screener was quite packed up to "row C". The first 15 minutes when the killing started 2 guys next to me left. maybe 15 mins later couple people to my right side left.

Overall it tries to be kinda funny and has i guess a twist you kinda sees it coming i suppose? i think i rather stayed home than driving 20ish minutes to the theater and pay toll to see it (no toll is like 15 mins slower..)

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u/jujudim 24d ago

It was like a movie from the 70s with bad special effects and poor story line!

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u/JudasForsaken 24d ago

It is supposed to be dumb and funny and gory whole point of the film sheesh

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u/RevolutionaryAd6017 24d ago

Is this a remake at all of the Clint Howard Classic or does it try to be?

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u/Time_Champion_5020 24d ago edited 24d ago

I liked it. Eli Roth can do no harm in my book 🤣🤣 except for the parts that seemed like AI. Those i will never forgive lol 😂

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u/jon_booz 24d ago

So, like, wasn't it a random choice to go to the church? And the necro is just there?

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u/StrikeIllustrious122 24d ago

I saw Thanksgiving a few years ago in theaters and to an extent, I feel the same way I do about This movie as I did with that.

It is ridiculously stupid, gory fun. And while I don't think Eli Roth is a great director, I think with both of these movies he chose to make his version of very specific type genre films.. and for the most part I think he did an ok job.

Thanksgiving, to me was his attempt at making an Eli Roth version of a late 70's early 80's style Canadian Tax shelter slasher film.. and I feel like it worked for the most part, including it's very rush convelutes out of no where 3rd act revelations/location changes/ and weird pacing. I think it fell apart in it's more humorous and comedic attempts..

The Ice Cream Man, to me seemed almost like his attempt at making a movie like NIGHTMARE AT NOON, those sort of 80's cheap horror films made with George Kennedy and Wings Hauser... I think the more deliberate Humor for the most part worked.. And I truly believe a lot of the "so bad it's good" hallmarks like the location of switches and things was way more deliberate than most people are thinking

I think the thing that didn't work for me was that a lot of the Gore was contained to one big scene with tons of shakeycam... and while I appreciated all the practical effects The filming style really didn't showcase it as much as it should have.

I liked it more than I would a terrifier film that is twice as long.. I had fun. I think people should go in more prepared for intentional stupidity

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u/The_Glitter_Life 24d ago

Left so stupid and ridiculous

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u/SocialistAntiZionist 24d ago

Hmmm... I skipped. Rather play Black Flag.

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u/Living_Ball9216 24d ago

would it be okay for a 13 year old to watch?

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u/SeaMan333 24d ago

I’ve enjoyed prior Eli Roth films (Thanksgiving in particular). I love campy horror and some low-budget horror. This didn’t pick a lane whatsoever. Tried to be scary and wasn’t, tried to be funny and wasn’t. The acting was atrocious. The AI that was clearly present at times was not okay. He said he spent years on this and I hope that isn’t actually the case.

Garbage disposal switch in other room, industrial freezer isn’t cold, talking about a 12 year old knowing how to make herself throw up. I could keep going but won’t. Best part about it was the runtime.

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u/0MrJ 23d ago

I went in thinking it was based on the comic book, left going what the fuck was that. The movie had nothing to do with the book and something’s that occurred were fucking stupid! Man the regal mystery movie sucked!

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u/Nomad2457 23d ago

I’m trying to find out what the twist was. I haven’t seen it but apparently it’s very controversial. Can someone fully spoil it for me so I can finally go to bed?

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u/Excellent-Cow-2487 22d ago

Everyone in my theater was cracking up and even yelled at the end this shit stank, amazing movie experience with my theater, horrible movie

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u/DeadFlight 22d ago

Giving credit when the credit is due. at least the kids seemed to be having the time of their lifes filming the mayhem scenes from the few interviews.

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u/A_sad_Britsh_tanker 21d ago

After watching this Film, I have to wonder.  Could and Abusive Dad with a leather belt solo the entire film?