THE FUSE

Eli Roth, the director of mediocre shlocker flicks like Hostel and Cabin Fever, as well as 2024’s colossal flop Borderlands, is back with a self-made, self-funded gory horror called Ice Cream Man. It’s about a guy who sells ice creams to children that turn them into killers. Sounds amazing. Anyway, in a recent interview with Polygon he was asked if he used any genAI when creating the movie’s animated sequences. Nope! he said, he’d hand-drawn it himself. But now this AI-free claim has rather been called into question, and he’s given a follow-up statement to Polygon admitting that he “misspoke.”