‘Ice Cream Man’ The Horror Section 2026Appropriately, Steven Spielberg’s 1998 war epic was one of the influences Roth turned to when figuring out how to execute his sequence. “ Roth approached “Ice Cream Man” similarly, building the sequence one step at a time as he walked around the location and thought about what could happen where, and why. ‘Ice Cream Man’ The Horror Section 2026“That builds to another thing, which builds to another, and you just slowly build one gag at a time,” Roth said. Going without a rating is just one way in which “Ice Cream Man” represents Roth making the most truly independent movie of his career. “ “Ice Cream Man” opens in theaters on August 7.