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The Ice Cream Truck

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When a local ice cream man who has a love for nostalgia starts to kill some of her neighbors, Mary is torn between her mature instincts that something is wrong and the distracting memories of her younger days.
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Noel Murray Los Angeles Times While writer-director Megan Freels Johnston makes some unusual choices that set her film apart from run-of-the-mill low-budget horror, too much of her movie feels warmed-over. Aug 17, 2017 Full Review Dennis Harvey Variety ''Ice Cream Truck" goes down rather easy, the clashing tactics holding a perverse charm when the pacing or story focus seems to drift for minutes at a time. Aug 11, 2017 Full Review John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter This truck never gets into gear, and will have a very hard time tempting moviegoers on either large or small screens. Aug 10, 2017 Full Review Emilie Black Cinema Crazed It has some scares, some blood, some complicated romance, and a few more things making it worth a watch. Rated: 3/5 Mar 8, 2021 Full Review Graeme Robertson Flickering Myth The Ice Cream Truck is just an incredibly bland film and quite frankly that is the worst thing a horror film can be because you can't hope to scare people when they're too bored to care. Mar 1, 2021 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com At times a fairly classic horror film and at other times a thought-provoking psychological thriller. Rated: 3.0/4.0 Sep 11, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member "Is it so wrong, to make it a bit special for the little kids?" A too-horny middle-aged woman moves to suburbs prior to her husband and children arriving to join her. Initially, the suburb appears normal enough, if even for the strangely-annoying neighbourhood wives. The presence of an old-timey ice cream truck which crawls the neighbourhood streets regularly is off-putting to the new resident, but little does she know the ice cream man ices the neighbours. Rather boring, with zero likable characters, I soon started rooting for the ice cream man. Just watch "Ice Cream Man" instead. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Good film until the disappointing ending. Great characters and fairly comedic. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Unfolds at a glacial pace, and then delivers an ending that might leave a lot of people wondering "is that it?". Perfectly watchable, though. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Marisma una de las peores películas que he visto en mi bida Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member May appeal to those with the critical faculties of a pot noodle. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm giving it one star for at least it's production quality. I'm not going to get into a lot of fine detail on this review, I just suggest you watch the movie yourself and see what you think. But, this is my take on it and no I don't like this movie at all. To me this was a guilty pleasure watch because of the odd gimmick of it being about a killer Ice Cream Man. If you want a better movie to watch, check out "Ice Cream Man" with Clint Howard. I initially decided to watch it because of not only the guilty pleasure side of it, but also the (at the time) 71% rating that it had. This was a real let down. So the movie focuses mainly around a writer/mother who decided to move back to the suburbs while her husband and children are with her husband wrapping up things at her previous home location/state. When I heard that my initial question was "Why were the kids not even with her?". It's different, I'll give it that but there is no real reason as to why she had to move back alone temporarily while waiting for the rest of her family to get there. Then she encounters her first neighbor and she comes odd, as well as the other women in this neighborhood that you will realize and nothing really comes of it. We are also introduced to the main antagonist of the film, the Ice Cream Man. There isn't really much to go on about his character, besides he is killing random people for no odd reason and it's three times throughout the film. There are various characters thrown in this, some that have no real development or purpose and one that does (surprise, it's the boy toy/love interest). It was laid down so thick throughout the film with the interaction between the protagonist and the love interest that the main character was going to cheat on her husband (as it was suggested oddly enough to her by one of the housewives). I would have been surprised if she didn't actually commit adultery on her husband, which for a moment I thought she wasn't. It kinda got annoying. I found myself at a point constantly saying "will you just get it over already". I wasn't quite sure what this film wanted to be, from the cover and the premise it seemed like a horror movie but it kept shifting tones. There were also a couple shots that lingered a lot longer than they should have as well, which disengaged me from the film. Wrapping this up, the ending to me was so...tacked on, possibly rushed. The set up was odd and the initial event of her meeting her love interest and having sex in a playground at night was hard to wrap my mind around. Some of the choices made by characters towards the climax were really confusing as there were clearly good decisions, yet the complete and utter opposite was made. This comes around to the the ending of the film where it's a twist and some characters that were presumed dead are not as well as her family arriving. This is where I'm sure all of us/most of us are going to get confused. I was taken back for a bit watching the ending and started realizing that her writing career and her trying to write a book may have been the answer for this ending. I understand probably what the director was going for about this, but if that's even the case it falls flat because there are then plot holes making the connection odd in my opinion. Ultimately, I didn't like this film. I feel if there was a singular direction given on this project it would have done better in my eyes or portrayed a solid plot. I was just in question about so many things once the film was done. Why were the neighbors acting so strange? What's up with the delivery guy who practically serves almost no purpose to this film whatsoever? Was this in her head? If so, why did it end like it did? What was the motivation for the killer? Why, the hell did you linger on a shot of him peeing in a toilet for what seemed like 5 minutes? Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis When a local ice cream man who has a love for nostalgia starts to kill some of her neighbors, Mary is torn between her mature instincts that something is wrong and the distracting memories of her younger days.
Director
Megan Freels Johnston
Producer
Megan Freels Johnston, Yumee Jang, Omid Shamsoddini
Screenwriter
Megan Freels Johnston
Distributor
Uncork'd Entertainment
Production Co
Look At Me Films
Genre
Comedy, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 18, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 18, 2017
Runtime
1h 36m
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