Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man slammed in early reviews over AI and gore
Signal boosting this if any gorehound out there was as excited about this project as I was. I will be actively avoiding the film now. No thank you.
LSaddler (Xemnu Era)15The only Ice Cream Man movie I plan on watching is the one starring Clint Howard
Danielle Ryan7he's also a hardcore Zionist and has a very sketchy past so narp
Adorable Assassin Ace 🏴☠️5yup. we saw it last night as the local theater's mystery movie Monday and at first we loved it but now that we know this, all of us who went are anti-AI, and the more I learn of the director, the more I'm anti-Eli, too. waste of five bucks.
Gonza Gonzalez2Is it kinda sad that i'm not surprised? Like sure Eli Roth has a reputation but i thought he would at least have basic standards.
Walter2Stephen Chow using it for Kung Fu Soccer killed all my interest in seeing that too. Damn shame.
I'm gonna post stuff1Between him being a Zionist, and coming across as kinda a jerk a lot of the time - it's a bit unsurprisingly to see his awfulness finally be reflecting in his "creative" output We're definitely not short on great horror this year either (or this decade really)
HorrorSloth (Sometimes Eric)5And he’s a hardcore Zionist
CrossRaven4It really is the people you most expect
Javier Pérez Alarcón, ¡traductor de profesión!3Pues una que me ahorro.
Halloween is Forever2It's cool Roth keeps finding new ways of being annoying and unlikable. He probably thinks it makes him an iconoclast and not just a jagoff.
Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau2Yep, buh-bye Eli. Your work was getting derivative and boring as shock for the sake of shock, and now you’re openly being lazy. GTFO and off my screens
In my day evil ice cream men were made by hand… #fuckAI
Ed Joying Myself2Who ckuld have imagined the man behind GREEN INFERNO would be a tacky numbskull?
Chris Ruiz2What a fantastic way to discover that you're on Bluesky, and thanks for contributing to some of my fondest animation memories. Hey Arnold! was/is the best.
Jonathan Mitchell1“But he wants FIFTY for cookie dough!”
I really hope that all of the people in my feeds who rail against gen-AI flyer art (and rightfully so) and are also horror fans, don’t fall prey to Ice Cream Man now that the reviews are pointing to its abundance of AI effects. Don’t be a contradiction, speak with your wallets here.
Clord TC, illustration creaturo12eli roth? already don't need to put money anywhere near it
BlueHighwind Ver.BlueSky6Any excuse to not see an Eli Roth movie is a good one.
jimmiexxx.bsky.social1Movie looked awful to begin with,
Kevin1My profound lack of interest was already keeping me away, the use of AI will help me convince other folks I know who are interested in it away. Fuck that absolute loser.
Brian McCabe1I was previously unaware. Thanks for the alert
Eli Roth's 'ICE CREAM MAN' features AI-generated sequences. #IceCreamMan #EliRoth
Blaster136095Eli Roth and GenAI? To quote AVGN: "It's like puking on a pile of shit!"
Nacho López (Cheve) ナチョ·ロペズ (チェベ)62I'm sorry for the people working in that movie, but fuck that movie.
Not So Serious Nick41I’d be more depressed about it but it’s an Eli Roth joint it was probably gonna suck ass anyways lmao
Just a Guy Drawing Stuff26Oh. I thought it was an adaptation of the comic when I first heard about it, but now I know it's Eli Roth AND has GenAI? Yeah, fuck that noise.
Marianne Martin19Ready to keep my money!
Ellie18I’m almost impressed by his commitment to making every movie demonstrably worse than the last
The Other Happy Place93Every single aspect of this movie sounds bad
Mario39I can't imagine a single person alive is shocked to hear that Eli Roth continues to be a huge piece of shit.
barleybap24Eli Roth is an absolutely awful filmmaker, and I'm amazed he's built the career he has when nearly all of his movies are varying degrees of bad. This completely tracks.
Charles Moss - Commissions are Open22- Directed by a Zionist - Has ai Anyway, do watch Camp Miasma instead.
Big Jim Miller17I knew there was a reason I never liked Eli Roth. #fuckAI
Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie10How are we still letting Eli Roth make movies? Dude near single-handedly set the horror genre back a decade.
Rei_8Hacks gonna do hack shit, not surprised
Joe D.6So... I didn't want to say because I wasn't positive if it was genAI or just bad CGI made by a person not getting paid enough, but yeah, it shows and looks like shit.
Don Bones 6Trying to imagine a guy for whom this would be the final straw in his Roth fandom.
Salt M. Bank 🍉6if Eli Roth stopped being a disgusting hack he would simply cease to exist
Heads-up: the movie Ice Cream Man (2026) appears to have used AI. The film lists an “AI VFX company” in its credits called “Dark Half.”
Ice Cream Man (2026): Ari Millen's sweet treats turn kids into killers that attack their parents in Eli Roth's comedy horror, as nasty and mean-spirited as you'd expect from him. Mostly just a succession of poorly staged death scenes, bad taste jokes about autism and eating disorders, and AI effects
Mathew Buck26Trailers: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, The Dog Stars, Mutiny, Leviticus, Insidious: Out of the Further The AI is all over this in a number of effects shots. Sometimes it is whole insert shots (especially in the flashback origin), or animated sequences, or even fire effects. Fittingly lazy.
Scott Harrison6last sentence turns it from "might be fun" to "just skip it."
gateguardian.bsky.social2You know I was curious to see how Eli Roth would remake the Clint Howard version of the same name but hearing about the AI usage I'm probably not gonna bother.
Hardcore Dude1Slop upon slop. What a pairing.
I love how Eli Roth always needs to prove that he's the hackier Tarantino.
Possum A-ko26It's so funny that there's a person out there who has Quentin Tarantino's general off-putting personality but none of his talent or respect for the artform of cinema.
🟪 Pixel!4What strikes me is that he's too cowardly to ask "Whjat if kids did murders" so he asks "What if some guy gave ice cream that makes you murder to kids". Yeah, i've got beef with the murder ice cream here.
Daniel O'Connell3As a long time Eli Roth hater, I feel deeply, deeply vindicated. I always thought he was an obnoxiously edgy douche and a complete hack.
Mako3Ever since Cabin Fever in 2002, Eli Roth has been getting worse, to the point of absolute dogshit. His films aren't even fucking watchable anymore lmao
OtakuNoRico 🇺🇦🇵🇸2Eli Roth's films were always dumb and juvenile, and I always thought they kinda sucked but people liked them. Then his films started having hard right themes (Death Wish remake) and when he went full on Genocide apologist I just felt relieved that I always felt his movies were just absolute garbage.
Eli Roth confirms that generative AI was used in his new horror film ‘ICE CREAM MAN’. “It was an opportunity where technology and creativity came together to help bring my vision for the film to life.” (Source: www.polygon.com/eli-roth-ice...)
with an “i”51gotta be up there with the least surprising people to use gen AI
T'nt'cl Space Bear7please, you already had me disinterested at Eli Roth, you didn't have to mention his use of AI
Alt7Easiest skip of my life then.
Lynnbo3I'm just one person but I'm skipping. Plenty of big kids can make art without their computer to do it for them, I'll go watch their stuff.
Karate Dentist2This movie already exists; it stars Clint Howard. Plus, there is a Rifftrax of it and it is amazing.
tomwritesnow.bsky.social2It’s nice when a movie does me the favor of removing itself from my watchlist
Bertoni29Well his "vision" has always been kinda crap so its a match made in hell of sorts
weinberg13it was an opportunity to fuck other filmmakers out of a paycheck. I regret ever defending this guy over the years.
Carly Gay Stepson5"My vision" it's a sloppy racist remake
AKASHA 🩸4oh ok cool skipping this thank you!
Adler, The Phoenix of Grunvale3AI bros are like Cleveland steamers. They roll around in their own shit.
Scott Nye3It’s funny that people say that gen AI can bring their vision to life but gen AI is so aesthetically repulsive that you then have to go…….so WAS that your vision or….
Thompson Toboggan3Awww isn’t that sweet…still could’ve fulfilled that vision without resorting to AI dickhead
Chris Mello2on the bright side at least some of the movie wasn’t made by Eli Roth
Veleho - comms open2They always use the same type of corpo language when they're explaining what cheap thieving cunts they are.
TylerOnTheInternet2guy who created one of the most racist films since 'Birth of a Nation' has some opinions on vidgen software. let's see what he has to say!!! oh, it sucks
ICE CREAM MAN is hot (er, frozen) garbage; a pitiful gore-first midnighter with amateurish execution. Go watch Cooties or The Children instead if you want your "kids murdering adults" fix, two movies Eli Roth so desperately wants to be in conversation with.
Matt Donato22Also, there are animated bits thrown in that I cannot 100% confirm are created by AI ... but ... I'd go to Vegas and throw $1k down on them being AI.
Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate4Roth is a hardcore zionist, which gave me cause to reassess what I thought Green Inferno was actually about, which was bolstered by coming across a quote where he said he wanted to see Greta Thunberg eaten by cannibals. I can't see myself paying to watch another one of his movies.
Humanist Son of a Preacher Man4I don’t spend money on that person. I don’t know if I’d even spend my time (which is far from precious) on this. You take the arrows for us.
Bisho2You can tell I think even from the trailer that it isn't hitting anything it's shooting for.
humanityplague.bsky.social2Was "The Children" the late 2000's movie that was British, had evil kids, and the main girl was 17, running around in a short skirt in winter? Or was it another "the kids turn evil" thing, that I don't know about?
Untitled Colonel Sanders Biopic2Me hearing that Eli Roth has made an amateurish film
"I had this image of the kids killing their parents and teachers and then eating more and more ice cream." 🤡
weinberg34if Reddit is to believed, this movie is full of genAi slop. I used to be a fan of this filmmaker too.
Michelle Swope7"studies just become more risk averse." Too bad this guy lacks the self-awareness to know that he's the problem.
snowman882.bsky.social3Despite starting from a spec script by Craig Mazin, I knew the Borderlands film was cooked the instant they hired this bozo...
Dr. Dan Challis3I really like his movie Thanksgiving. I guess that’s where his career is ending for me
Garon Cockrell2I’m guessing that was the AI prompt he used.
Jim Tatro1The early word is that this movie sucks….. I wanted to see it but I think I will catch it on streaming
