Eli Roth’s Gruesome ‘Ice Cream Man’ Melts Before Your Eyes [Review]I scream. I cannot, however, say the same for Eli Roth’s latest, Ice Cream Man. Ice Cream Man wants to be a ludicrous carnival of over-the-top bloodshed that would make Herschell Gordon Lewis blush. Most lines in Ice Cream Man are delivered with as much energy as an ice cream cone baking in the sun. Ice Cream Man 1.5 Summary Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man has all the gruesome toppings you’ve come to expect with the filmmaker’s work, but no amount of bloody syrup can stop it from melting into a sticky mess before your eyes.