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Masters of Horror: We All Scream for Ice Cream | 
 enlarge | Directors: Jennifer Peterson, Tom Holland
Actors: William Forsythe, Colin Cunningham, Tim Henry, Ingrid Tesch, Spencer Achtymichuk
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 61460
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 57
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: ANBDN9907D
UPC: 013138990785
EAN: 0013138990785
ASIN: B000RL21PO
Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 2007
Release Date: August 14, 2007
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Product Description
Buster the clown is a mentally challenged man who sells ice cream from his cheery tyme truck until a cruel prank by a bunch of neighborhood boys goes horrifically wrong. A generation later buster & his truck have returned for sweet revenge & every frozen treat will bring its onw taste of hell. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 08/14/2007 Starring: William Forsythe Colin Cunningham Run time: 60 minutes
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 More funny than frightening, but still enjoyable December 21, 2008
Directed by Tom Holland (Fright Night, Child's Play), We All Scream for Ice Cream is a more funny than frightening episode from the second season of Showtime's Masters of Horror, but it still manages to entertain regardless. Lee Tergesen (HBO's Oz) stars as a family man whose old pals start dying off, which leads him to believe that a clown-clad ice cream man (William Forsythe) accidentally killed years before is back from the dead and looking for revenge. While there's some bad dialogue and occasional crud acting, We All Scream for Ice Cream delivers a good amount of laughs and shocks, and Forsythe is a treat (no pun intended) as Buster the clown. All in all, We All Scream for Ice Cream isn't anything special, but it isn't as bad as other reviews here may lead you to believe, and it isn't half as bad as some of the other episodes you'll come across in the Masters of Horror series (Chocolate or Valerie on the Stairs anyone?).
 ice scream, you scream we all scream for a refund December 9, 2008
The best part of this movie is the picture on the cover, it makes the film look scary, i mean how can you go wrong with a killer clown?
Easy, you make this film. This movie is not in the slightest way scary and I would find it hard for someone to tell me it's anything but a kids PG rated goosebumps episode.
Masters Of Horror? pffftt... There is nothing scary about a direct knock off of Stephen Kings IT.... the only plot change is that years ago the kids picked on the clown and un-intentionally killed him, now the clowns back for revenge by giving there kids ice creams that when they eat them there parents melt into a puddle of ice cream.
I don't even wanna think about the things that did not make sense, just avoid the movie, it is 55 minutes of boredom and not one single scare.
You have to be kidding me. October 20, 2008
A half-retarded clown gets killed accidentally by some kids. The kids grow up and the clown comes back from the grave. He feeds THEIR kids ice cream voodoo dolls that he made and once the kid takes a bite his/her parent suddenly turns into ice cream.
Need I tell you more? Worthless.
One of the very worst of the series November 21, 2007
Neither scary nor fun. What a waste of my time. This is a pretty darn pitiful entry into the series. Probably one of the main reasons that Showtime did not pick it up for a third season. If you rent this, make sure it's cheap.
Mommy, my Ice Cream tastes like Cheese. November 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We All Scream for Ice Cream is a campy revenge tale bordering around a childhood secret, with an ice cream seller turned ghoulish burning bridges in the midst of the night because of something that went wrong once upon an ago. It all starts to fall into place when a group of the old crew, now a grown man, moves back into the neighborhood of his youth and brings his family back with him, discovering in the process that something else has returned and is bringing revenge with it.
It was funny, to say the least.
One of the flaws in the Masters of Horror series is that they rely on old stories, older storytellers, and on small budgets that would beguile the world of horror if they had to revolve on such strict guidelines. Some of them are intentional laughs, making the mind laugh and play, and some are too gimmicky and don't do the idea justice. We All Scream for Ice Cream could have been a lot better if it wouldn't have taken the gimmick too far, but the end product reminds me of something from the 80s when "Stephen King adaptation" all over it. Despite that I still thought that this part of the show was good, with the kids all seemingly hateful in their own ways. Equally as good were some of the campy special effects when revenge is taken; you have people turning into little blobettes because of revenge and the blobettes - they look pretty nasty. They were pretty funny, and the campiness of the movie reflects the turn that the series has taken.
The problem is that the ending was a bit too long, the "We all scream for ice cream" mantra was a bit too unbridled for the brain to handle, and some of the motions seem forced and contrived. Of the adult actors only one of them was entertainingly bizarre, and the kids in the middle of the night seemed more like they were missing acting lessons than missing out on sleep.
If only...
If you want campy and maybe a small amount of creepy, then you might enjoy this. I can't say I didn't enjoy it myself at any level but I can say that this was more of a Sci-Fi channel film than a Masters of Horror outing. Perhaps that was the point of it, wanting to laugh a bit and mock the staples that tormented the genre for such a long time. Regardless, I have to say "steer clear unless you want it campy."
If only the Titanic would have had such sound advice.
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