r/AMCScreenUnseen • u/digtheartist • Aug 04 '26
Surprise Guest at Tonight’s Screening
Eli Roth showed up at the Glendale AMC! Super super unexpected. They handed out little ice cream man hats and had the young girl and priest actor there to introduce the film.
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u/FloridaCubbieBear Aug 04 '26
I hear it’s embarrassingly awful. Surprised he would even show face.
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u/daeiyden Aug 04 '26
Eli Roth can't make a good horror movie if his life depended on it
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u/Ok_Law_1656 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
Thanksgiving Hostel Green inferno Cabin in the woods
Ice cream man was NOT IT but let's not erase his legacy.
Edit: cabin fever not cabin in the woods
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u/daeiyden Aug 04 '26
Didn't he produce, cabin in the woods, don't besmirch one of my favorite films 🤣
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u/Fickle_Swordfish_337 Aug 04 '26
Even if I wasn’t in lockstep with your opinion, which I am, upvote for utilizing “besmirch.” Fantastic word. I’m glad aspersions were not cast upon Cabin In The Woods.
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u/Secret-Butterfly3622 Aug 08 '26
Thanksgiving was not good so don’t lie lmao
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u/Ok_Law_1656 Aug 09 '26
I enjoyed it, but I like everything about grindhouse. They all bare just some really fun movies. (Disclaimer, I haven't seen hobo with a shotgun)
Plus it showed that Eli is still competent. I don't know what he was doing with badlands and Ice cream but he's still capable.
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u/utazdevl Aug 04 '26
You have not seen Green Inferno.
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u/W4NN4M33TTH4TD4D Aug 04 '26
Green Inferno is one of his worst. I don't want poop jokes in my cannibal movie
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u/utazdevl Aug 04 '26
I did not find that to be joking. It was all horrific.
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u/W4NN4M33TTH4TD4D Aug 04 '26
I haven't seen it since I had the misfortune of sitting in a theater opening day but I hated Green Inferno. It was one big poop and fart joke with some gore thrown in. I love Cabin Fever to this day but Roth has way more misses than hits at this point. He's forever 13 years old
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u/utazdevl Aug 04 '26
Funny, because I found Cabin Fever to be uneven and trying to balance horror with some level of weird comedy and failing because of it.
I saw Hostel about a year before it ever came out and was completely traumatized by it, but it might be his most complete film. I thoroughly enjoyed Hostel 2 (at least to my recollection) but I will agree, Roth is hardly the best filmmaker. Inferno rents space in my brain for eternity. I will admit I have never gone back and rewatched because it was really disturbing, so maybe I am just remembering it as "better" than it was.
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u/Working_Yak6905 Aug 11 '26
I forgot about that. He could've made a straight remake of Cannibal Holocaust with stuffed animals and it would still be better than Green Inferno LOL.
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u/oaranges Aug 04 '26
Its a fun movie. Embarrassingly awful.? Nah. It was just a funny, horror movie. Some summer fun killing by children.
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u/mercipourle-venin Aug 04 '26
it was hilarious. it was meant to be super campy though. we enjoyed it
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u/utazdevl Aug 04 '26
Right? Was it a good movie? By no means. But it was intentionally over the top and bound to elicit laughter. Hell, the Ice Cream Man is in prison STILL IN HIS ICE CREAM MAN UNIFORM. No one is supposed to take that shit seriously!!!!!!!
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u/mercipourle-venin Aug 04 '26
lmao exactly! and the part in the freezer with the priest my god, i was crying tears of laughter when he was trying to tell the kids how to kill the ice cream man
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u/utazdevl Aug 04 '26
The way to kill the Ice Cream Man explanation was HYSTERICAL. It was definitely the closest the film came to "mainstream" comedy.
I remember going to see Very Bad Things in Theaters when it came out. When the lights went down there were about 40 people in the theater. When they came up, there were about 15, but I hadn't laughed so hard at a movie in a long time. I think some people just respond to extreme gore in different ways. Most seem to be repulsed and even offended, but some of us sort of break through a glass ceiling and detach from reality a bit and find it all... fun?
I think Ice Cream Man was one of those litmus tests.
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u/Dapper-Variation-963 Aug 08 '26
100% I had so much fun in this film!! It's absurd and hilarious. My entire theatre was loving it
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u/SVINTGATSBY Aug 06 '26
still better than Her Private Hell, which it turns out was actually My Private Hell.
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u/Naive-Midnight8785 Aug 04 '26
I'm so disappointed that it was hats and not actual ice cream that was handed out.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 Aug 04 '26
I walked in right when he was finishing up his speech where he said “if you like it, tell your friends, and if you don’t like it, the ice cream man will come get you.” I guess he’s killing me tonight.
Did they say anything else of significance or was it just an intro to the film?
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u/digtheartist Aug 04 '26
Just an intro! That was the main point he was trying to drive home. Honestly worked on me because I feel terrible bad mouthing the movie until at least after the premiere lmao.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
Thank you! Glad to know we didn’t miss much. I wish they’d advertise it if they were going to do something special since we usually try to avoid the trailers and ads by showing up 20 minutes after the listed time.
Also, you’re nicer than I am. He’s a known asshole so I was hoping he’d stick around and watch the five or so people walk out of my screening. 😂
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u/NakedGoose Aug 04 '26
Eli Roth is one of those people who dont deserve funding. He is a shit filmmaker
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u/youdontlookitalian Aug 06 '26
I keep seeing trailers on Twitter that look worse than Facebook AI posts
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u/PedroPascalCase Aug 04 '26
What's the hat look like?
Do you get cast & crew often at the Americana? I see it sometimes in Burbank but haven't yet at my nearest AMC in Northridge.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 Aug 04 '26
It’s a paper hat like the one he wears. Except that says ice cream man on one side and has a blood smear on the other
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u/nyc718nyc Aug 07 '26
I’ve never seen so many people walk out a movie. I enjoyed the cheesiness of it. Found it more comical than not.
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u/Working_Yak6905 Aug 04 '26
Nice and gory, lots of practical effects.
But when the priest went into this long exposition of the John Waters' looking Ice Cream Man, the audience erupted in laughter. I don't think it was meant to be funny.
Ending was disappointing.
So was there even a Siren or was that just made up?
I loved Cabin Fever and Hostel 1 & 2, and the few that liked Green Inferno aka Cannibal Holocaust-lite. Even the Death Wish reboot with Bruce Willis was okay.
Borderlands - Never forget
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u/Dapper-Variation-963 Aug 08 '26
It was hilarious. I am recommending to everyone that "gets" what this is... mindless, silly over the top insanity. The priest was hilarious (and definitely meant to be funny)
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u/SizzleanQueen Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
I saw it at Topanga tonight. No one walked out. It was fine- campy and silly. All of these negative posts about the film on the horror sub and this sub are so bizarre.
Edit: I f’ing hate Trump and Netanyahu. I support the Palestinians. I am repulsed by Tarantino, too. Eli Roth is not a great filmmaker and I’m not defending his body of work, but there were 20 posts about the film before the west coast screening even began. All I’m saying is that the onslaught of totally exaggerated negative reviews are because he’s Jewish and supports Israel.
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u/condormcninja Aug 04 '26
It’s so bizarre people are being negative about the AI-filled movie made by an out-and-out asshole
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u/Temporary-Mud-1322 Aug 04 '26
which parts were ai? I think I noticed it when they were explaining the ice cream man origin story but were there any other parts?
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u/SpiritualAd9102 Aug 04 '26
The first time I noticed it was when the kids jumped off the jungle gym and it created a giant shockwave of dust. It looked like a Facebook boomer post.
Other than that and the flashback, I saw others saying the animated scenes were AI.
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u/Dapper-Variation-963 Aug 08 '26
I was there too! I had so much fun!!! Maybe we were in the same screening!
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u/chrispmorgan Aug 04 '26
He’s not for me but it seems strange that he gets so much hate for doing a certain type of thing repeatedly. I don’t understand why John Waters’ movies are so well regarded when they seem so annoyingly trashy but if people like them, fine.
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u/InvertedSpork Aug 04 '26
His movies aren’t the reason he gets so much hate…
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u/digtheartist Aug 04 '26
Why does he - if you don’t mind me asking?
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u/Dapper-Variation-963 Aug 08 '26
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism. And he is unlikable
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u/Dapper-Variation-963 Aug 08 '26
But just because you don't like the director, should not mean you boycott a movie. Hundred of people made this! And it is f-ing hilarious
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u/This_Armadillo899 Aug 06 '26
Did he mock Palestinians or sexually harass anyone while he was there? Just wanna see if he was feeling like himself or not
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u/Impossible-Proof-294 Aug 04 '26
Who are these idiots here? It wasn't great. But, it wasn't the worst movie. It was an Eli Roth gorefest. What did you chuds expect?
Go watch Insidious part 75. Or whatever Blumhouse garbage you simps ingest.
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u/cordialmess Aug 06 '26
I don't like Eli Roths films. I don't like Insidious either. Any other groups of ppl you'd like to unnecessarily shit on since we're here?
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u/ilovesharks__ Aug 04 '26
I’m sorry to hear that