Ever since I was a little kid, I loved the experience of going to the now-defunct video store. Almost every weekend, my mom would trek us down to Video Galaxy, in Seymour, Conn., where we’d rent things like Serial Mom, Ladybugs, 3 Ninjas, and more, with the occasional Genesis game thrown in, for good measure. Nothing beats the video store experience: the leisurely browsing, the snack choices, the huge posters, and the surprise of a random find. (There were even the many covert missions of trying to weasel ourselves into the back room – the Adult section. But I digress…) Life was good, and it’s a shame that future generations won’t appreciate the video store feeling that made my childhood at least semi-interesting and bearable.

What the squeeze pop does this have to do with Ice Cream Man? As a (very) young child, I’d habitually wander over to the Horror section to freak myself out with quick glances at the bloody, ghastly genre covers. These sneak peaks were the closest I’d ever get to meeting Freddy, Jason or Mikey because I was like six and a wuss and oh, just shut up, you. But as I got older, perusing the Horror section was a delicious treat, as I tried to find the best scary movie that I had never seen week after week. This movie…was not one of them, but it was ALWAYS on the shelf:

Wedged in between Uncle Sam and Leprechaun, Clint Howard’s awkward-yet-hilarious mug would always stare back at me. Beckoning. Promising 85-minutes of pure D-movie level horror bliss. I must’ve seen this video cover a million times before I finally succumbed to the beauty that was Clint Howard’s maniacal, murderous Gregory Tudor. The Ice Cream Man.

Now, original director Norman Apstein and Howard himself are kickstarting a sequel entitled: Ice Cream Man 2: Sundae Bloody Sundae. Are you picking up what I’m throwing down? SUNDAES! What. A. Title. This movie is probably going to be terrible, but something deeply entrenched in my innards wants to see it SO BADLY! Here’s some info taken straight from the Kickstarter page:

It’s been twenty years since ICE CREAM MAN—an iconic spectacle of gore, blood, and mayhem—exploded onto the big screen. Audiences couldn’t get enough of Howard’s mental-patient-turned-sweet-treat-scooper Gregory, who laced his frozen creations with bugs and choice bits of corpses and served them up to unsuspecting, Converse-wearing kids out for summer fun. In fact, the original ICE CREAM MAN has become a classic in the B Movie canon, cheerfully terrorizing two decades of viewers with low-budget action, cheesy dialogue, and some of the most creative uses of severed heads ever seen on screen.

As the original ICE CREAM MAN’s popularity has skyrocketed among horror film and B movie aficionados, star Howard and producer Norman Apstein have considered a sequel that takes the story beyond the kid’s movie genre and ratchets the horror quotient up—notch by blood-soaked notch. ICE CREAM MAN 2: SUNDAE BLOODY SUNDAE won’t be a movie for children—it’s a tale of revenge, chock-full of murderous intent, laced with dripping entrails, and served up ice cold. The Rocketeers—Johnny, Heather, Tuna, and Small Paul—are all grown up now, and Gregory wants them to suffer. Really suffer. Torture and violence are on the menu, and it’s going to be sweet.

I don’t even know what to say. This is hilarious and amazing and look! For $15 you can get a signed 8 x 10 of Howard as The Ice Cream Man! SNAP, you guys! Something just tells me I need that.

Here’s the pitch video. For more information about the various rewards, hit up Kickstarter. And if you have not seen the glory that is Ice Cream Man, I strongly urge you to jump on it.