Ice Cream Man (1995) KILL COUNT

[Music] welcome to the killcount where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies I'm James Agee nice and I am all kinds of excited right now because today my friends today we are looking at the 1995 tour de force known as ice cream man this movie want a YouTube poll I made asking which older one-off you wanted to see on the killcam man fuck am I glad I did because this boy is a double scoop delight of hot fudge fuckery we're talking straight cookies and cray-cray here dawg it's got everything you want in a b-movie slasher so it's kind of like the antithesis of Jack Frost directed by a porn director and co-written by a pair of USC students one of them the future writer director of wedding crashers ice cream man sees Clint Howard as a deranged ice-cream man who tries to kill a bunch of kids and the kids are like actual kids which is great you know 20-somethings playing teenagers here just straight-up adolescents making this feel like The Goonies only with more decapitations and eyeballs plus Olivia Hussey of the original black Christmas and the don't you wanted it miniseries plays an elderly caretaker all made up as though she wasn't one of the most radiant women who ever lived that's crazy enough but thankfully the kills are somehow even crazier here I'll show you [Music] the movie begins with a drive-by wait what yeah dude right off the bat we've got an ice-cream man getting gunned down by some capone looking gangsters in black and white oh holy shit the opening credits aren't even through and we're already watching the greatest movie ever made is that good shit yo a young boy named Gregory takes a curbside seat next to the ice-cream man's corpse and asks his Freddie mother the real hard-hitting questions there's gonna be a scream oh hi you are young Gregory because this black and white cold-open is a goddamn origin story in the more saturated president a denim vested kid named Roger takes some money out of his mom's purse and runs outside to head the line at the ice cream shop where we meet an adult Gregory played with exquisite creepiness by Ron Howard's younger brother Clint Howard save me maybe worry less about manners and more about hygiene my ice cream do you because that pistachio is looking pretty pissed nasty Oh among his customers are our protagonists these Stephen King kid characters who call themselves the rocketeers they include generic boy Johnny generic girl Heather and generic nerd small Paul the fourth members a kid named no joke fucking tuna and is the best part of this movie because he's referred to as a fat kid even though it's clearly a kid with a pillow stuffed under his shirt gross tuna tuna you even sand kid what's wrong with you this movie ain't afraid of thieves either since small Paul tells the others about his latest literary dive the Pied Piper which is of course about a dude who got kids to follow him better than those weird creepy YouTube channels do you know what I'm talking about Rodger is also at this park but he ain't no Rocketeer the fucking loser so after the other kids all leave and a garbage picker in the park triggers some real painful memories and Gregory's fucked-up head we know that Rogers in trouble no matter what the ice-cream man says ice-cream man she's happy that sounds like some evil speak to me when Gregory gets home that night a dog named binky starts barking at him so he pulls out a pushpot blade and kills the poor pooch off screen though his whines are heard by his owner nurse Wharton hello nurse she has a window side chat with Gregory to a late motif that plays incessantly throughout this movie happy dangerous Wharton he says that he hasn't seen binky anywhere and when she asked us about the blood on his face he lays any suspicions with a quick little taste test its grenadine for my ice cream treats but you know Gregory is a fucking liar and you'd best look away if you don't want to see a dead dog because real quick Oh pinkies in a grinder of some sorts damn Gregory's fucked up and I ain't even showing all the shots of binky's ground-up corpse which expertly match dissolves to a family meatloaf dinner that's frigging heart right there that dinner is for Johnnie's family which includes his Dodgers dad mr. clean and his older brother Jacob wannabe cop who's a dick about his little bros friends jaqen better get used to the taste of tuna though cuz after their mom gets a call about how little Roger is missing she tells Johnny that he's not allowed out after dark and Jacob that he has to take his little bro to the movies tomorrow I'm definitely not going to a G film yeah movie that was a good time to fade to black why not Gregory is sleeping in a sand garden and having dreams about a clown who keeps chanting the word happy and a younger looking nurse Wharton who keeps feeding him instant mashed potato present day nurse Wharton wakes him up out of his midday nap and sniffs at his garden even though it's nothing but plastic flowers when she gives him an ice-cream order he's like you got it you got it and heads off through the neighborhood in his truck he gets stopped by some cops who ask him if he knows anything about the missing kid Roger he leaves it's classified ice cream it's classified yeah forget it ice cream man it's classified of course before the cops leave Gregory's got to give them some of his nasty hardpack ice cream that has a bunch of store-bought lab mice crawling around in it oh and eyeballs mmm delicious eyeballs oh wait a minute no oh oh I know Gregory ah gross man you freaking packs that eyeball scoop inside the ice cream and gives it to the cop to chow down on mmm what's in it who asked what's in ice cream why would he do that it's classified classifying oh that's why for a callback that works also might as well have a close-up on this dude chewing on an eyeball crate after their day trip to the movies the kids all head to tunas dad's office his pops Martin is president of something judging by that placard of his but I think that's only by day I bet this dude's a lot more interesting when there's a full moon out huh also peep that last name yo Kucera Tunica sara tuna casserole anyway it looks like Martin is making it with the hussy in this movie that's not named Olivia yep he's having a secret affair with local home wrecker Wanda a character so saucy she gets her own conga drum theme music she senselessly flirts with Gregory even though like know until tuna makes a hilarious fart noise behind her that clears her out of the line so our rocketeers can put in an order when Gregory goes to get their order we finally see hardpack evidence that a murder did indeed take place right now it's kind of an indiscernible freezer-burned body but later we see that it's the dude who was picking up garbage in the park I think they left an ambiguous at her so you'd think it was poor little Roger but oh yeah spoiler it's not gregory ends his day by flashing back to his time at the wishing well sanitarium where a happy happy joy joy man tro was drilled into his brain there are no bad days Gregory only happy happy happy days that night Heather gets home and introduces a real weird side plot where her mom acts like she's possessed by an archangel yeah that's what an angel possession looks like sure at least Heather's dad the local Reverend think so he's played by David Warner who you may know from the omen or perhaps as Sydney's drama professor and screamed to producer David Goldstein worked really hard to get established character actors in the supporting cast thinking it would help make this movie a success at ton it didn't work small Paul winds up at the ice-cream truck by himself after dark where Gregory is what shadowboxing in a parking lot kind of weird but Gregory placates Paul by offering him a free scoop of his favorite flavor butter brickle but after he hands the cone over Gregory drops the bloody garbage picking spear on the ground and small Paul sees it oh don't worry about that little boy it's just my grenadine stick the two of them have a five-alarm stare down and the next thing you know tuna is washing ashore behind a dumpster and seeing small paul gets small hauled into the ice-cream truck zoinks gregory notices tuna his shoes but before he can cast another kid-sized gnat tuna swims away in a panic little charger can you can't run from the ice-cream man tuna winds up underneath the tree where he finds Roger the incredible missing kid who like I mentioned earlier isn't dead after all tuna heads home where his mom insists on a very plot driven house rule of taking your shoes off out on the porch small tuna tries to tell his parents about small Paul but their mouths are too busy having an argument about big tuna and that affair he's been having with a Fish Called Wanda from his window upstairs tuna sees that the ice-cream man has found out where he lives thanks to those porch shoes man oh man toon how you gonna get out of this well we're fading to black again great the next day while grocery shopping with his mom tuna is confronted by Gregory who's got nothing but smiles for oh and a dastardly turn from the shoulder swim tuna swim nothing like a grocery store chase scene where stunt doubles get metal racks to fall on them and your shirt pillow gets all bunched up against your chin and it wouldn't be complete without tuna making his getaway on the underside of a car smooth kid that lady push and it definitely didn't feel the additional weight of you and that shirt pillow in the stores office a tearful tuna is reunited with his mom and he finally tells her about the ice cream man curtain down on act 1 act 2 starts with Gregory powdering his plastic sunflowers when a whole squadron of police cars pay him a visit they've got a search warrant and an Appetite for Destruction so they go inside Gregory's paradise scream city and given anything goes approach as they tear the place up it's so easy when you're carrying around a bunch of fire axes you know they aren't able to find anything though so they leave Gregory alone in his melted soupy ice-cream mass sorry sweet ice-cream a no mine nurse Wharton comes outside to yell at the cops for their ice-cream an abuse servant protect my house yes ma'am we'd certainly like to on his way out detective Gifford complements the garden those daisies are magnificent how do you do that I what those are plastic flowers right I'm not the crazy one here am i back inside Gregory makes sure that check-offs giant nut chopper blade still works before heading into his secret kidnapping cubby and fetching small paw but he's not trying to hurt pequeno pablo here he just wants to give him more nasty melty ice cream Wow free ice cream you can just see the excitement on that kids face Heather's dad gives the town your standard sermon and afterward the kids talk to Roger pretty glibly about small Paula's potential demise there might be an opening in the rock tears tab dude rocket tears filled our empty seats faster than Congress had no wonder look how they roll they've got the whole damn deal going bass paint black berets freakin Rockets on their bikes all rocket tears I get it they're out Harriet the spying on ice-cream man since the adults in their life ain't worth shit again there's a very Stephen King feel to this movie and I think it works great they watched from behind some shrubbery as Gregory takes a large rapt object to a grave site and start stabbing at it with a kitchen knife but turns out it's just a bunch of icecream cones on a berry wastefully large serving tray that Gregory leaves out for butch brickle the ice-cream king who we watch to get gunned down in that black and white cold open I guess he was Gregory's Idol the kids leave to follow ice-cream man but tutu ends up falling behind so Johnny doubles back to find him while Heather sneaks aboard the SS ice cream truck and starts taking pictures of everything inside including small Paul's glasses Johnny finds tuna and they race to get back to Heather but then they run into the cops and tuna freakin fighters off that rocket at man Wow kid you fucked up you have fucked up now this isn't a game boys yeah it's a das as in double scoop the next day Heather drops her film off to get developed which is something you used to have to do back in the day occasionally that could lead to embarrassing situations like the one you bout to see cuz that camera belonged to Johnny's brother Jacob and the pictures he had been taking with it weren't exactly safe for work as his girlfriend Janet sees through the photo places front window what that's one hell of a breach of privacy story Gregory peeps in on Wanda who he sees finishing up with tunas dad but don't worry Gregory big tuna was just the entree and she is ready for dessert BT goes to leave but finds that he's being blocked in by the ice cream truck and when he goes to kick some ice cream ass he gets a face full of waffle griddle that Sears his skin in a delicious gridlocked pattern I guess Gregory would not like to be a pepper to Martin as if the kill wasn't great enough already Gregory then delivers Martin's head to Wanda on a deluxe sized waffle cone man I love this stupid fucking movie Wanda screams at the sight of her dead paramours head and to quiet her down Gregory simply whacks her with what I think was the detached blade of an ice cream machine or something I don't know it's an off-screen death with a blood splash it's you know pretty standard back at the ice-cream Factory Gregory's teaching Stockholm Paul how to make ice cream having him stir one vat while he sips through another looking for body chunks in jewelry look at you Gregory you're a regular 49er ho also I love that he finds a diaphragm in there that's a fun little joke as a kid looking for more information on both Gregory and nurse Wharton the detectives head to the Wishing Well sanitarium where we finally get some acknowledgement of the synthetic flora Gregory keeps well the plastic flowers because we don't one's dying thank you I was seriously worried that I was losing it for a minute but no turns out I'm not the crazy one here at all this is not happy day yeah it's that dude definitely that one the detectives tried to leave the hospital to the corridors quickly turn into a terrifying maze instead they eventually come across that happy happy happy days guy from Gregory's memories getting his very own brain shot of happiness then a whole bunch of zombie looking patients come out of the Woodworks and start surrounding the detectives who begin a very meandering escape through the hallways [Music] for some reason they split up but honestly that might not have been in the script apparently actor Jan Michael Vincent here was constantly drunk during production he might have just wandered off by accident detective mauled when played by Lee Majors jr. witnesses his own bevy of weird sights on his way out like these poopin partners and his beard dude who's definitely rollin with his friend there he eventually gets attacked by a bunch of inmates who we asked to put down by throwing bows and after he does he manages to get outside where he calls in some backup Gifford comes out probably not remembering how he got there in the first place and the two of them drive away together man what the fuck was that whole sequence about evening the rocketeers are out on their bikes when Gregory surprises them in the ice cream truck Johnny and Heather get away but Gregory pulls up alongside tuna and spits out a halfway decent joke from women from children unfortunately after gankin the kid off his bicycle and sticking him in the truck's freezer he delivers a much less vague line your ice cream your ice cream what no he's not he's two enough Johnny and Heather get back to Johnny's place where his brother is now willing to help having seen the incriminating pictures from the ice cream truck he doesn't have a great idea of how police force recruitment works now I got the gun the badge will follow he's also still working on that whole sympathy thing let's just go help to the fat kid while there's still time I like to think he hesitated there because he almost said let's go help the kid with a pillow thing while there's still time they drive to the ice cream place we're inside Gregory is teaching small Paul the ways of the yellow king or ice cream cake when they hear Jacob coming it's back into the little cubby hole get in there we know how you love that chain link fence little Polly boy as Jacob walks through the darkened room with a flashlight we get a real classic pretending to be a framed picture gag so Gregory can get the jump on Jake and kill him off screen we never see what happens or any kind of body afterward but I think it's safe to say that Gregory killed it because Jacob has never heard from again also because the minute later Gregory comes outside it gets in the car wearing Jacobs clothes Janet screams and Gregory don't like that so he stabs her through the chin with an ice cream thing it's not the best effect you can see the top part doesn't move at all while it's ostensibly being driven in from the bottom but it's still a fun kill nonetheless Plus Gregory delivers a good brain freeze joke afterward that makes it all better the kids get out of the car and run away but when they get to a cop car that's been stationed there all they find inside is a headless corpse this turns out Gregory murdered Gus and Charlie the two cops who are watching over and is now using their severed heads as fucking hand puppets to torment the kids with it's like if pee-wee Herman was played by well by Clint Howard I didn't know you've got such a hearty say humor good [Music] he actually carries those heads around for way longer than you'd expect as he chases Johnny and Heather throughout the yard hell even effort he drops one of them he still carries the other one around for another solid minute of screen time he finally gets rid of it after nurse Wharton comes out and asks him what's going on he tells her that he's playing hide and seek with some neighborhood kids so later on when the kids get to nurse Wharton's and beg her for help she tells them to hide inside thinking it's part of the game [Music] there's Wharton ooh so wacky during all this tuna has somehow managed to fight his way out of the icebox and he nearly escapes from the truck before Gregory sees him and grabs him again that's when the detectives show up with her guns drawn but neither their firearms nor their skin tight jeans can stop Gregory from closing the truck door on tuna and then feeding him disgusting melty ice cream in the front seat odd so gross burger he finally gets rid of the cops by leaping from the top of his truck and knocking them both out with a couple of ice cream scoopers after nurse Wharton delivers the kids on to Gregory so he can win his game of hide and seek things are looking pretty dire for the rocketeers that is until small paul breaks out of his ice cream man infatuation and uses a flashlight and a photo of the ice cream king to take total control of Gregory Tudor he's playing dangerous but he gets Gregory to follow him and as he does the ice cream man has various flashbacks to his time at wishing well gotta love those memories of getting reanimate er serum plunged into your brain small paulie's Gregory's straight to that nut chopper machine and plugs it in it starts up and pulls Gregory inside killing the ice cream man with a very slow motion churn it's actually kind of disappointing as far as the kills in this movie go you think it'd be a lot gory but I guess production couldn't get the slow moving machine to look menacing enough at least small Paul gets a small jokin hi maybe now ice cream dick haha the kids are rescued and we see that the detectives survived their scuba do but sadly nurse Wharton is still clueless as to the whereabouts of her dog or binky an epilogue of sorts shows the kids sometime later tuna having finally getting rid of his pillow wait the gang initiates Roger in to the rocketeers but it's not all happy times cuz it sounds like small paul is in therapy churning an ice cream machine and ending the movie with a creepy smile into the camera that becomes a brain freeze frame Baskin Robbins has 31 flavors could Gregory Tudor get 31 kills let's find out and get to the numbers oh this [Music] it's grenadine for my ice cream treats only nine people died in ice cream man quite a soft serving for such a bloody slasher the victims included seven men and two women and maybe a little surprisingly given the cast none of them were kids go figure but the runtime of 86 minutes we wound up with a kill on average every nine point five six minutes I'll give the golden chainsaw four coolest kill two Martin kisara it's not the only decapitation but it's the first decapitation and it's got that waffle iron to the face as a lead-in I just think this is the most iconic image from this movie to almost ready for lamest kill could go to the off-screen stuff but y'all get tired of that so I'll give it to Gregory a horror movie villain should have a much more exciting kill than this especially one is creepy as the ice-cream man and that's it ice-cream man came out in 1995 and it quickly became one of my favorite B movies after I discovered it at a video store based on its cover that's what we used to have to do with horror movies it was pretty great next time this series is the Evil Dead but until then I'm James a Jenice this has been the khao kheow thanks a lot for watching this extra kill cat I want to thank a couple of patrons like Brett grouchy sweet Gabe and Tyler Stankiewicz hope you guys have been enjoying the extra videos lately just so you know this isn't going to become like a regular thing I just like to put extra stuff out in October because more people happen to be watching the channel in November we're gonna be back to one killcount a week I just I need some sleep you know there will however be one more Sunday killcount next week be good people

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Views: 12,987,168

Rating: 4.8726559 out of 5

Keywords: kills, jaj, scary, pine commander boogie, norman apstein, olivia hussey, 90s, slasher, clint howard, movies, james a. janisse, body count, lee majors, joe bob briggs, david warner, kill count, ice cream, comedy, horror, b movie, sandahl bergman, films, tuna, ice cream man, david naughton, kids, DMKC, doug llewelyn, jan michael-vincent, dead meat, steve garvey, killer, david dobkin

Id: U9K_YEg5_mk

Length: 18min 27sec (1107 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 28 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/saustin007]

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[u/KevinD2000]

Great video again!

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10/10 my man

[u/Khalbrae]

I will see what I can find. Check back here later. This movie is hard to find streaming links for.

Edit:

Damn... all that there is are super rare DVDs and Blu-rays that are very pricey.

https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Cream-Man-Clint-Howard/dp/B0002T7YNA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540754083&sr=8-1&keywords=ice+cream+man+1995