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Sixteen years passed from the time Eli Roth made a slasher faux trailer called Thanksgiving for the Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino double feature Grindhouse to the day when a feature version of Thanksgiving (read our review Here) finally made its way into theatres – and soon after that movie was released in 2023, it was announced that a sequel would be coming along in 2025. Five months ago, we heard that Thanksgiving 2 would start filming in March… but that didn’t happen. To be ready for a Thanksgiving 2025 release, the slasher sequel would need to start filming any day now. But apparently we’re not getting Thanksgiving 2 this year, because it has just been announced that Roth will be making a different horror movie called Ice Cream Man in Canada this summer!

Media Capital Technologies (McT) and The Horror Section are fully financing Ice Cream Man, which follows an idyllic summer...

Media Capital Technologies (McT) and The Horror Section will fully finance and produce “Ice Cream Man,” Eli Roth’s new horror film.

Roth, a master of the genre whose work includes the “Hostel” and “Cabin Fever” franchise, returns with the story of an idyllic summer town descending into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results. Beyond that sparse teaser, the plot details are being kept under wraps.

Roth wrote the script and will direct from an original idea he has had for over twenty years. He says that the delay is because studios got antsy about financing it. The filmmaker launched The Horror Section earlier this year with the goal of making the kind of independent scary movies that made him famous.

Roth will also produce “Ice Cream Man” alongside McT’s Christopher Woodrow and Raj Singh and Cream’s Kate Harrison. Executive producers...

There is very little about Riff Raff,the latest from director Dito Montiel and screenwriter John Pollono, to commend it. The film is bleak, mean-spirited, and simply not good. This cast is very malleable to comedy; many have contributed to some hilarious movies, but the script offers them nothing but one shameful joke after another.

Riff Raff

Director Dito MontielRelease Date December 12, 2024Writers John PollonoCast Bob Leszczak, Lucinda Carr, Miles J. Harvey, Derrick Simmons, Sage Spielman, Eli Massillon, Tom Johnson, Craig Castaldo, Angelic Zambrana, Emanuela Postacchini, Scott Michael Campbell, Ed Harris, Bill Murray, Michael Angelo Covino, Lewis Pullman, P.J. Byrne, Gabrielle Union, Pete Davidson, Jennifer CoolidgeGenres Comedy, Crime

Riff Raff follows a former criminal, Vincent (Ed Harris), on his blissful New Year's vacation with his new wife, Sandy (Gabrielle Union), and stepson DJ (Miles J. Harvey). His vacation is thwarted by the presence of his biological son Rocco (Lewis Pullman...