On Friday, 8 September 1995 08:00:00 UTC+1, Gareth Randall wrote:

I have a very specific memory of an entry to the Screen Test "Young
Filmmaker of the Year" competition which scared the crap out of me at
the time (I was about 7-8 years old) and has stayed with me, and I'd
be interested to know if anyone else remembers it :

It was basically an expanded and more menacing attempt at a public information film. From the POV of the driver, we see a car pulling up
to the side of a road next to a child crying. The driver asks why the
child is upset, and the kid says that the ice-cream van is coming, but his/her mummy is around the corner and he/she is worried that the van
will have gone before mummy gets back. The driver (who is always
unseen) says that he'll drive them round to find mummy...

The next scene I remember is the one that genuinely frightened me at
the time, and it still has the power to send a shiver down my spine.
We see a clearing in some woodland with two makeshift graves; two
children eating ice-creams dissolve in to stand on the grave sites,
then disappear again. A caption comes up, reading something like "And
all for the sake of an ice-cream"; as the word "cream" appears, we
hear a scream.

A friend of mine remembers this one too, and says it had/has just the
same effect on him! Anyone else remember it in more detail?

Gareth

Hi Gareth, no idea if you're still on here, but this came up when I Google-searched for the Screen Test Ice Scream film. I too remember it very well - around the same age as you - and it has remained with me for years. The parts you mention but also
the piece between those two scenes where they do drive to the ice-cream van, the care starts to slow, then speeds up really quickly leaving the van and children behind. An impressive film for a young filmmaker. Did you ever find anything else out? Was
it a teenage Tim Burton! Dan

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Ice scream ....yes our film group made that..as well as the two and a half p kid ..which won it one year .....

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I have just seen Ruby don't take your love to town by Charlie Rich, which I remember from Young Filmmakers.
I remember being overwhelmed at 'under ten' by the images.

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On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 1:49:01 AM UTC, mw92...@gmail.com wrote:

Ice scream ....yes our film group made that..as well as the two and a half p kid ..which won it one year .....

Hi there - I'm the co-author of a book called Scarred for Life, which looks at the dark pop culture of the 70s and 80s (public information films, scary kids telly, violent comics, etc). We're currently writing Vol 2: the 1980s, and there'll be a piece on
the scary Screen Test Young Film-Makers shorts.

Ice Scream absolutely terrified me at the time, I've never forgotten it! Would you happen to remember anything about the making of the film? Do you still have a copy (or are you able to get hold of one?). Do you know the name(s) of those involved?

Feel free to contact me at ste1bro@hotmail.co.uk

Many thanks in advance, and thanks for scaring the pants off me all those years ago! :)

Stephen Brotherstone

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Hi I was in this film group and would love to know is there any way of viewing any of the films we made? Cheers, Roger

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On Friday, 8 September 1995 08:00:00 UTC+1, Gareth Randall wrote:

I have a very specific memory of an entry to the Screen Test "Young
Filmmaker of the Year" competition which scared the crap out of me at
the time (I was about 7-8 years old) and has stayed with me, and I'd
be interested to know if anyone else remembers it :

It was basically an expanded and more menacing attempt at a public information film. From the POV of the driver, we see a car pulling up
to the side of a road next to a child crying. The driver asks why the
child is upset, and the kid says that the ice-cream van is coming, but his/her mummy is around the corner and he/she is worried that the van
will have gone before mummy gets back. The driver (who is always
unseen) says that he'll drive them round to find mummy...

The next scene I remember is the one that genuinely frightened me at
the time, and it still has the power to send a shiver down my spine.
We see a clearing in some woodland with two makeshift graves; two
children eating ice-creams dissolve in to stand on the grave sites,
then disappear again. A caption comes up, reading something like "And
all for the sake of an ice-cream"; as the word "cream" appears, we
hear a scream.

A friend of mine remembers this one too, and says it had/has just the
same effect on him! Anyone else remember it in more detail?

Gareth

I realise you posted this query a quarter of a century ago Gareth, but I've just come across this now....

I don't recall that film, but other entries from (I'd imagine) 71 or 72 included "Abandoned in a Ghost Town" & "Watcher Over the Threshold," which terrified me witless.

I also recall a film about 2 kids going back in time & being killed by arrows in the US Civil War - all of them still give me the shivers now as I stand on the cusp of 56

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