Powerful

Good concept, poorly executed.

Best movie ever!

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Were season one delivered what horror buffs want season two is coming to an end and so far only a few were good but most of the entries missed out what it should be. But this episode luckily delivers what I expected from Masters Of Horrors. A good story with some creepy atmosphere's and here and there some nice effects done by Berger and Nicotero.But this episode really stands on the performance of Buster the clown by William Forsythe. The story itself is as simple as it can get. Youngsters having a prank with an ice cream delivery man dressed as a clown. But the prank is disastrous by the fact that Buster is being killed. Now all adults and having kids they are remembered by the prank due an ice cream car coming back in their lives with a revengeful spirit.From shot one I could tell that this was right. The ice cream van coming out of the mist in slow motion with a creepy add already set the tone for this episode. It takes a bit before it really starts because you have to go into the characters of the youngsters and we do need the flashback to see what went wrong but after that it's a pure delight. It takes you back to flicks like Body Melt (1993) or The Stuff (1985). We do actually see body melt like ice cream all done in-camera and it looked very nice. One of the better episodes together with Pelts. Kids and clowns are working it out in an icy atmosphere.Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 4/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Buster the Clown(William Forsythe), a tragic victim of a prank gone awry, returns from the grave to murder those kids behind his death, now grown, by giving the men's children voodoo ice cream cones..when each child bites into these voodoo ice cream bars their fathers melt into ice cream! No, I'm not kidding you.I think fans of director Tom Holland("Child's Play", "Fright Night","Thinner")might like this silly little installment of Masters of Horror. Forsythe as a zombie clown in the present and as a stuttering mentally handicapped(..but, kind and wonderful to the little kids on his block)clown in the 70's, who becomes a victim of smart-ass kids who decide to poke fun at him and eventually pull a prank using his parked ice-cream truck that ends badly, is always fun to watch. This episode doesn't hold up to close scrutiny(For instance, how does Buster actually return from the grave? Or, how is he able to hypnotize the children of those behind his death in the 70's?)so you'll have to look over it's story flaws or it will not work for you. But, if anything, you have to see how the men melt from humans into ice cream..it's a gas.Lee Tergesen(the biker in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre-The Beginning") stars as Layne, the protagonist who followed the order of bully Virgil when he was a boy to cause the unfortunate demise of Buster.David J Schow(Leatherface:Texas Chainsaw Massacre III;Critters 3 & 4)wrote the teleplay which might explain the film's lapses in logic, and the profane characters(..and, like "Stand by Me", the kids spout off curse words as well in the 70's)that inhabit the film.Holland and Schow use cold as an important tool in the story-telling.

My wife and I did enjoy this episode, for the acting and direction were excellent, as is usually the case with this series, but we are both consumed by the inconsistency and incompleteness of the story. I will list our objections in no particular order.1) Buster seemed more emotionally disabled as presented than retarded. After all, he could drive, make change, put on his makeup, juggle, etc.2) Why did Buster have no nose and why wasn't this mentioned more than once?3) If Buster died when run over by his own truck, why did he have a corporeal body and why was he able to be killed again when Layne made his own effigy out of presumably inferior ice cream and bit off its head?4) If the other members of the "club" were killed by transformation into the best ice cream in the world, why couldn't their ghosts come back to battle Buster's ghost?These are questions which scream for answers. Does anyone have any ideas? Is this just a matter of proper exposition being left on the cutting room floor? Regards, Jeff & Barb

So as I suffer from insomnia and was perfectly willing to be subjected to the normal Sunday night/Monday morning line up B-rated porn on my local movie channel, imagine my surprise to a bunch zombie-ish children standing outside waiting an ice cream man, who couldn't be just some normal evil character, no, heaven forbid we do normal, it had to be a FROGGIN STUPID SCARY PSYCHO FLIPPIN CLOWN! Which then prompted and almost asleep insomniac to be awake for the next 4 hrs. F a bunch of this bull crap little episode. Stupid clowns need to rot in hell! It's not as if things such as IT aren't scary enough but you have make the ice cream a clown, seriously can we not think of something more standard, no we have strike fear into the heart of kids, by making something that should be nice and sweet into this psychopathic thing that eats kids! UNACCEPTABLE! Frickin Hate Clowns!