I was looking for some short DVDs and I figured since it is getting close to Halloween, horror movies would be a good thing to check out. We All Scream For Ice Cream was another horror short from the second season of Masters of Horror. This one was directed by Tom Holland who did Child’s Play and Fright Night. I remember really enjoying Fright Night when I first saw it at the Keith Albee theater, so I had hopes for this one and for the most part it didn’t disappoint.
The plot involves a childhood prank gone horribly wrong that resulted in the death of ice cream selling clown Buster played by William Forsythe. When one of the kids moves back into town after growing up and having a family of his own, Buster shows back up and starts killing the ones responsible for his death using their own kids and a voodoo doll-like ice cream treat. When the kids bite into the ice cream which is shaped into a human likeness, their parent melts into a big puddle of runny melted ice cream.
I enjoyed We All Scream For Ice Cream, and like Valerie on the Stairs it has some decent making of featurettes. One deals with the making of the film while the other deals with how the make up effects were pulled off. Both are worth watching.
I give We All Scream For Ice Cream a 9 on the Night Flight scale as well. I remember reading that they wanted to concentrate more on monsters for season 2 of Masters of Horror, and with the demon in Valerie on the Stairs and the killer ice cream clown in We All Scream For Ice Cream, they have a couple of decent ones. Both of these episodes were much better than some of the season one episodes. I’m sorry they never produced a season 3 although Garris did work on Fear Itself for NBC and a Masters of Science Fiction series that I missed.
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