Eli Roth Reveals How He Made the ‘Saving Private Ryan’ of Splatter Movies with ‘Ice Cream Man’
IndieWire • 8/3/2026
Summary
Eli Roth, the director of "Ice Cream Man," discusses how he modeled his film after Steven Spielberg's WWII epic "Saving Private Ryan." He describes "Ice Cream Man" as a gleeful onslaught of gory excess, likening it to a splatter movie.
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