{"id":7723,"date":"2026-08-10T00:31:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:31:59","slug":"ice-cream-man-by-eli-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/08\/10\/ice-cream-man-by-eli-roth\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Ice Cream Man<\/em> by Eli Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Knowing zilch about it except it was horror, I wasn\u2019t prepared for relentless splatter, but hey.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c No dramatic structure beyond or between the occasional plot point, and every set location overstays its welcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 The narrative is a concatenation of tropes, but kudos for making a stratospherically harebrained plot point work out in the end.<\/p>\n<p>It wants to be crude and unpleasant and there it succeeds. Also, \ud83d\udc4d for Super 8 and \ud83d\udc4e for animated cartoon slop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_Cream_Man_(2026_film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Ice Cream Man<\/em><\/a> by Eli Roth, 2026.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on August 9, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/08\/10\/ice-cream-man-by-eli-roth\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Ice Cream Man by Eli Roth\"><p>It\u2019s probably the movie it wants to be.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7727,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}