We All Scream for Ice Cream (Masters of Horror episode)
| "We All Scream for Ice Cream" | |
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| Masters of Horror episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 10 |
| Directed by | Tom Holland |
| Written by | David Schow |
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Lee Tergesen
Colin Cunningham
William Forsythe
We All Scream for Ice Cream is an episode of the series Masters of Horror directed by Tom Holland. It was based on the story "You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream" by John Farris; the title evoking the famous song "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream.
The story starts off with a father named Kent (Brent Sheppard) pleading for his young son not to eat an ice cream cone, but to no avail--the ice cream is eaten and Kent shockingly dissolves into a puddle of melted ice cream. At Kent's funeral, one of his childhood friends Layne Banixter (Lee Tergesen), attends. While there, Layne observes a shaggy individual hiding back in the trees, smirking. While Layne is at a pub, his friend, Toot (Lyle St. Goddard), is drinking himself into a stupor. Toot argues that Kent was in a closed casket because there was nothing left of him but his clothes. He insists that Layne's moving back to town has created bad luck for everyone. Around midnight, Layne heads home and observes several children in a trance, standing outside, clutching coins with an eerie chant of "We all scream for ice cream...".
Worried, Layne goes to bed. His wife is concerned at his distanced behavior, and she urges him to tell her what's wrong. Layne tells his wife of his childhood, and the local ice-cream man named Buster (William Forsythe). He was a decent soul who drove an ice-cream truck and wore a clown suit. He was a friend to the kids. The neighborhood bully, Virgil Constance (Samuel Patrick Chu) began taunting him, pulling off his clown nose to reveal a burnt stub – Buster had no real nose. Layne ends the story there, stating that one day, Buster simply died. He gets a phone call and arrives at the scene of Toot's death – his clothes in a pile of something gooey. Layne's wife demands to know what part of the story he omitted. Distressed, Layne tells her that Virgil planned a prank on Buster that one of them would release the brake on his truck and make it roll down the hill. Virgil forced Layne to pull the brake, and the truck began rolling straight towards Buster. Too busy picking up fallen coins to notice, Buster was run over by the truck and killed.
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