{"id":7998986,"date":"2026-04-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/?p=7998986"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:45:12","slug":"ice-cream-man-trailer-eli-roth-horror-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/ice-cream-man-trailer-eli-roth-horror-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Roth\u2019s \u2018Ice Cream Man\u2019 Trailer Offers Stone Cold Thrills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Eli Roth\u2019s \u201cIce Cream Man\u201d is on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest from the horror auteur and his The Horror Section shingle, concerns a mysterious ice cream man (Ari Millen), who rolls into a small town and starts serving the kids of the community sweet treats with deadly side effects. It arrives in theaters on Aug. 7 (because what isn\u2019t better than a frosty cone in the dog days of summer?) but you can watch the brand-new trailer below right now<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While very much a teaser, \u201cIce Cream Man\u201d appears to deliver some demented thrills, with shades of the finale of \u201cWeapons,\u201d featuring kids murderously chasing adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roth has previously said that \u201cIce Cream Man\u201d reflects his experience of becoming a father and the anxieties associated with that new stage of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin Byron Davis, Roth, Karen Cliche, Dylan Hawco, Sarah Abbott, Shiloh O\u2019Reilly, Kiori Mirza Waldman, Charlie Zeltzer and Charlie Storey also star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roth co-wrote \u201cIce Cream Man\u201d with Noah Belson and also produced and directed the film. The movie features music from Snoop Dogg and Emmy-winning composer Brandon Roberts. Christopher Woodrow, Raj Singh and Kate Harrison produced alongside Roth. Rapper Nas serves as an executive producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Horror Section, Roth\u2019s studio, will produce and help distribute the film, partnering with Iconic Events Releasing for its Aug. 7 launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roth\u2019s last film as a director was 2024\u2019s notorious \u201cBorderlands,\u201d based on the popular video game series, which suffered from a delayed release and reshoots overseen by a different director (\u201cDeadpool\u201d filmmaker Tim Miller). Before that, he helmed the hit slasher \u201cThanksgiving\u201d (and is still working on a sequel), the shark advocacy documentary \u201cFin\u201d and Amblin\u2019s \u201cThe House with a Clock in Its Walls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIce Cream Man\u201d arrives in theaters Aug. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The horror auteur\u2019s latest arrives in August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10069,"featured_media":7998989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"byline":{"profiles":[{"type":"byline_id","atts":{"term_id":504657,"post_id":7303200}}]},"_links_to":"","_links_to_type":0,"nb_breaking_email_type":"","nb_breaking_template":"","nb_breaking_from_name":"","nb_breaking_subject":"","nb_breaking_preview":"","nb_breaking_list":[],"nb_breaking_header_img":0,"nb_breaking_should_send":false,"nb_breaking_content":"","nb_newsletter_sent_breaking_post_id":[],"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-04-13T18:00:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"8f2804ce-baa2-484e-af05-e34eadae8c60","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-04-13T18:00:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AjygEzrqiSE6vBeNOra6MYA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"hide_featured_image":false,"the_wrap_post_enable_full_width_featured_image":false,"the_wrap_post_enable_featured_video":false,"the_wrap_post_featured_video":"","the_wrap_post_disable_read_more":false,"wp_curate_deduplication":false,"wp_curate_unique_pinned_posts":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2044,515562,515563],"tw_data_partners":[],"columns":[],"byline":[504657],"class_list":["post-7998986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","tag-eli_roth","tag-ice-cream-man","tag-the-horror-section"],"newsletter_builder_byline":"Drew Taylor","is_pro_article":false,"apple_news_notices":[],"eyebrow":{"link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/","text":"Movies"},"tw_schema_org_review":{"name":"","type":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7998986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999024,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998986\/revisions\/7999024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7998989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7998986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7998986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7998986"},{"taxonomy":"tw_data_partners","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tw_data_partners?post=7998986"},{"taxonomy":"tw_column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/columns?post=7998986"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7998986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}