jillannellis84 Let me start off by saying this is my very first review on IMDB. But after watching the ice cream truck, I felt compelled to leave my thoughts. The movie has everything right, on a technical aspect. Beautiful cinematography. An amazing 80s synth style score. Characters we get to know and care about. Set in a small town suburbia, which gives it that classic Halloween 1978 feel. It has great kills, but this movie isn't about the gore. It relies on tension and dread and our main character. Before I get into spoilers, I just wanted to say that I highly recommend this movie. I think most of the negative reviews you'll see on here, are simply because the viewer did not grasp the writing, or what the director was trying to portray. This movie digs deeper into the psyche, while still remaining a very fun and entertaining watch. See it!! Own it! *SPOILERS* AHEAD.... The whole point was that Mary made up the ice cream Truck Killer to facilitate her fantasies of reliving her youth and living on the edge, making it seem somewhat innocent cause its all in her head. Only for it to be revealed there was a REAL threat all along. There are several scenes where creepy things happen to Mary. Someone being in the house, someone knocking on the door, screaming somewhere in the distance. These things were not linked to the ice cream truck killings and the end reveal shows that those things really did happen and it was actually the moving truck guy. She completely missed that threat because she was so absorbed in her fantasy. The whole point of the ice cream man kills not being very realistic as to drive home that he wasn't actually real. He was a figment of Mary's imagination. He would "kill off" characters around max that served no purpose in her fantasy of reliving her youth. The ice cream truck is a metaphor for Mary's overactive imagination which ultimately led her to oversee the real threat. Which was the moving truck guy. He was ACTUALLY stalking her while she was busy fantasizing about reliving her youth, after becoming a mother at a young age.

lumpnboy An interesting low-budget film with, as I mentioned, a notably good and well-written central character/performance, beyond those of most horror of whatever budget, and generally good acting. Continues concerns in the writer-director's previous REBOUND, though with less of the quasi-Pinteresque awkwardness in interactions which was so prominent in giving that film its particular quality, and notable way of portraying a particular woman's perception of men.'The Ice Cream Truck' also has a particularly nice and effective retro-'Halloween' feel to the opening titles (most reminiscent of the final neighborhood shots of 'Halloween', but this time setting up our entry into the suburb). This somewhat homage-y feel works for the film, though, rather than just being placed there to copy a previous movie. This particular invocation is repeated in some later scenes and in the score for those scenes, and this too works, especially in the context of (sort-of SPOILER but not really) a conclusion that re- frames the narrative if one is willing to think about it a little, making the film still coherent and still creepy in actually more plausible and less generic ways. Retrospectively giving a different meaning to the shift to now-conventional generic tropes.I've seen a couple of people say they didn't understand the conclusion, but that seems like people being really lazy about thinking about the film, or prisoner of particular generic expectations.I've given it a 7. Maybe a six and a half would better reflect its quality, or at worst a six, but some people seem determined to underrate this film when far crappier movies are given so much more lee-way, so I am very slightly upping my rating to very moderately make up for their absurdly low scores.

shawnblackman A woman has to wait a few days at the new house for the rest of her family to arrive as they finish up school. To keep herself occupied she starts smoking pot, has an affair and then kills somebody. She may have been better off watching films on her laptop.This a weird film for sure. It doesn't follow any slasher format that I know of. In fact the film is more about boredom and having a midlife crisis than it is about a psychotic ice cream guy. It almost felt like a way watered down American Beauty meets Ice Cream Man (1995). Horror fans should avoid this one. The ending will annoy you as well.4 holes drilled in the head from a milkshake machine out of 10.

hybrdsgma From the opening, the score and the cinematography tell you this is not going to be your typical low budget paint-by-numbers film. The pacing is not great, but easily forgotten as you take in each awkward scene. The awkwardness is really what makes this film so creepy. The score grates on your nerves and the pregnant pauses punctuating the labored dialogue give yous a sense of being disconnected from reality. It's a clever and really original way of creating the ominous horror undertones your seeking in a scary movie. The ending twist came as a surprise - but if you stop and think about it, there were quite a few hints. In all, I really liked this film. There are so many crappy horror movies out there that rely and cheep jump scenes and a twist that is wholly irrelevant to the plot. If you're looking for something a little different, give this movie a try.