Eli Roth turns a summer town's favorite treat truck into the source of its nightmares in Ice Cream Man, a 2026 horror comedy that leans hard into splatter and dark laughs.
What is Ice Cream Man about?
A postcard-perfect town is gearing up for another lazy summer when a familiar jingle starts drawing kids toward a truck selling more than sundaes. As the treats turn strange and the town's calm curdles into panic, neighbors are forced to reckon with just how little they know about the man behind the window. The chaos escalates from mischief to outright terror, pulling in a cast of locals who each react to the unraveling in their own way — some trying to warn others, some refusing to believe anything is wrong until it's far too late.
About the cast
The ensemble is led by Ari Millen and Charlie Zeltzer, with Shiloh O'Reilly, Kiori Mirza Waldman, Sarah Abbott, Benjamin Byron Davis, Karen Cliche and Dylan Hawco rounding out the town's residents. Roth, known for pushing genre conventions past their comfort zone, directs the production.
Context & significance
Ice Cream Man is a co-production spanning the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Japan, the kind of international backing increasingly common for genre titles aiming at a global horror-comedy audience. Its blend of comedy, horror and thriller beats places it alongside a run of recent films that treat small-town Americana as fertile ground for scares, using a familiar, nostalgic image — the neighborhood ice cream truck — as the trigger for dread.
Watching Ice Cream Man on Ktime
Ice Cream Man streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles, so viewers can choose whichever suits them, all through the platform's Farsi-language interface built for Persian-speaking audiences. Reading about the film here is free and open to everyone; watching it just needs a K-Time account login.