Terrifier 3 actor Clint Howard previously revealed that pre-production is underway on a follow-up to the 1995 cult film Ice Cream Man, and the actor recently teased new plot details.
Those familiar with Ice Cream Man may wonder how a sequel may be possible, considering Howard’s character, Gregory Tudor, was dismembered by his own ice cream mixer. It sounds as though the planned follow-up won’t be a direct continuation.
Speaking with Bloody FM’s Dead Meat at Halloween Horror Nights in celebration of the new Terrifier house, Howard teased that he’d be playing a new Ice Cream Man. “This ice cream man is different; there’s not a lot of children in it. And by about page 60, you’re going to start to understand why a man would put body parts in his ice cream,” Howard teases. Watch the full clip below.
Howard, who’s developing the sequel with wife Katherine Cruz and original director Norman Apstein, previously divulged to Bloody Disgusting while on the set of Terrifier 3, “It has no similarity to the first one, except that I’m getting hired to play an ice cream man. We’re going to make the movie at a modest level, so on this particular trip, Kat and I are really keeping our eyes open and seeing how the [Terrifier 3] crew is doing everything. They may not realize it, but they’re sharing information with us.”
In the original 1995 film starring David Naughton, Olivia Hussey, and Jan Michael Vincent, “Gregory (Clint Howard), the local ice cream man, just wants people to be nice to him and to sell the neighborhood children his ice cream treats. Unfortunately, the adults disrespect him, and the kids fear him, so, as any recently released mental patient would do, Gregory begins brutally murdering anyone who prevents him from having a happy, happy, happy day.”
It’s also worth noting that there’s another Ice Cream Man movie on the way, but one unconnected to Howard’s feature. Eli Roth is also writing and directing an Ice Cream Man horror movie, said to be “the story of an idyllic summer town descending into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.”
