i have be try to find this movie for over the last 20yrs . back in 1985 and i saw the trailer for it on t. v. and it start out with an ice cream truck drive down the street . some kid and adult gather around the truck while the announcer state that the stuff be here . it creamy and yummy and you can not get enough of it . then it show a man who have eat about half his ice cream cone and the announcer change his tone and say and it will take you over and eat you and kill you . and the camera zoom up on the guy mouth and and you can see the creamy white stuff eat away the inside of his mouth . bleah . it be pretty gross and freak me out back then . something like this would have 4 10yrs old run from their t. v. set . talk about set up kid for nightmare . i try google parasite eat ice cream to no avail and until one day on imdb and i be look up info on an old snuff film from the 70 and saw the stuff come up . immediately and i know this be the film . so i ran to the video store and be able to rent it . not only be this movie and not scary and but the acting and the comedic nature be even bad . to make a long story short and here be the premise . two guy work at a petroleum factory stumble across a pool of white creamy stuff in the ground . one of the guy stick his finger in it and taste it . now i do not know about you and buy any normal person would never taste anything come out of the ground unless it be water from a spring pool . anyway and the guy who taste it say it taste real good . so good in fact and that they decide to market it a a new kind of ice cream treat and even though it not ice cream . before you know it and it the best thing since the hot dog and everyone be eat the stuff in gallon . people who try it and can not stop eat it . this cause other tasty treat on the market to lose profit . several snack food manufacturer come together and hire an investigator to find out where and how this stuff be make . in come david mo rutherford and the private detective who will investigate this tasty treat mystery . he soon find out that the stuff be cause people to become uncontrollable zombie . the stuff take over their body and when it do use them and it eat their inside and leaf through their mouth . it alive . he also eventually find out where this stuff be be store . the special effect of this stuff be average at best . the movie the blob ( steve mcqueen ) do a good job and that come out many year before this . the acting be pretty back . only michael moriarty seem to be enjoy himself . paul sorvino and danny aiello be completely waste in this film . garrett morris make a short appearance and but he be actually well in car wash then in this campy horror flick . actually and his scene be the only scary part in the film . you will see . the whole movie be pretty far fetch and if this stuff be at retailer everywhere and wouldn not there be other investigator and even fbi agent investigate this problem . i think larry cohen be basically try to send a message to consumer who constantly eat and drink the same bad food day after day ( starbucks coffee and donut and burger and french fry and of course ice cream ) . he say do not eat this crap a it can eventually kill you and just like the stuff . we get it and but it still doesn not make the movie any good . i also think some of the scene be remove from the film as well . besides the ice cream truck scene in the trailer and i think the poster scene with jason family in the kitchen on the floor be eat by the stuff be in the movie as well . it do not show up on the dvd and so either it be cut or it never exist and i be imagine thing . a sequel to this movie could be interested if do right . the story of how the stuff be discover would need to be change of course and but an adequate sequel could be accomplish . similar to how the blobl be remake . this movie be not really worth a look . if you must see it and just rent it . it not even a horror cult classic like the cube and phantasm and the howling or donnie darko . i give it a 4/10 and that be probably be generous . if youre go to make a comical horror film and watch evil dead and evil dead 2 and take lot of note . the stuff isn not funny or scary . it mostly a waste of time .