How can you take two of my favorite things, Clint Howard and ice cream, and combine them to make such a terrible movie?

Veteran screen geek Howard lands a showcase role as a sort of Bad Humor man. Alas, a tasty concept -- a fright fable based on kids' natural paranoia re their local ice cream vendor -- quickly turns sour in what degenerates into an aimless parade of B-star cameos. Howard, replete with outsized orthodontic prosthetics, tackles his role with obvious relish, but the pic, like _Monster Squad_ and _Parents_, lacks the wit and focus to put it over as a dark modern 'burb fairy tale.

NOT great and as cheesy as hell, but still better than anything brother RON Howard will eve do

You know you are in trouble when the first name that appears on the screen is CLINT HOWARD. That's right, Clint is the titular character: we find out early that someone injected green goo into his head and within the first 15 minutes that he is in fact the killer. Kids get a lot of screen time in this, but strangely none of them bugged me. When it comes down to it, I think I kinda enjoyed this.

campy, the good kind of campy

Cheesy as hell. Bad...everything. Yet bad in a funny sort of way. Great late-night-when-you-can't-sleep-but-too-tired-to-care-what-you-watch flick. I guess that's why I only ever see it televised on cable at 2am.

So terrible. So very, very terrible. I can honestly say there's not one convincing acting moment in the entire film, although Clint Howard's acting is hilariously bad. The script is terrible. The story is mind bendingly terrible. The music is straight out of an 80's pornographic film (aka. terrible). The production values and special effects are terrible. The only redeeming quality is that it's occasionally so bad it's funny (mostly it's just so bad it's bad though).

A brilliant Clint Howard masterpiece