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