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| + | ''"Chop 'em to the left! Chop 'em to the right! Chop 'em every chance you get. Fright, fright, fright! All right, creeps. It's fourth and ghoul. They're probably expecting us to run a ghost pattern, so lets run a scream pass instead. Of course, I could pull out a few other surprises from my playbook, like tonight's tale. It's about a couple of brothers who are planning a little high scaring of their own in a nasty bit of offense I call People Who Live in Brass Hearses."'' |
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| + | ''"Shame about Billy and Virgil, but you know what they say, kiddies - 2 deads are better than one! And as for Byrd, he stayed in the ice cream business, and did very well. Everyone loves Ben and Scary's. Well, I gotta get back to my practice. Next week, we're playing the Washington Dreadskins. 45...22...33...Hut! Hut! Hut!"'' |
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Revision as of 07:31, 14 May 2018
"I scream, you scream. Think twice before trying to rip off ice cream vendor Mr. Byrd."
-- DVD description for the episode
Plot
A hot-tempered convict with a butter addiction tries to get revenge, with the help of his mentally challenged brother, on the ice cream trucker who was responsible for his arrest, unaware the driver also has a dark secret too.
Opening Segment
"Chop 'em to the left! Chop 'em to the right! Chop 'em every chance you get. Fright, fright, fright! All right, creeps. It's fourth and ghoul. They're probably expecting us to run a ghost pattern, so lets run a scream pass instead. Of course, I could pull out a few other surprises from my playbook, like tonight's tale. It's about a couple of brothers who are planning a little high scaring of their own in a nasty bit of offense I call People Who Live in Brass Hearses."
Closing Segment
"Shame about Billy and Virgil, but you know what they say, kiddies - 2 deads are better than one! And as for Byrd, he stayed in the ice cream business, and did very well. Everyone loves Ben and Scary's. Well, I gotta get back to my practice. Next week, we're playing the Washington Dreadskins. 45...22...33...Hut! Hut! Hut!"
[players hand falls off]
"You idiot. I didn't call for a hand-off."
Trivia
- This episode is available on the Tales from the Crypt: The Complete Fifth Season DVD collection.
- In the beginning of the episode, Brad Dourif is reading a comic book, "Jesse James vs Predator". Bill Paxton had faced off with a Predator in 1990's Predator 2, and one year after "People in Brass Hearses" (1993) would air, would play Jesse James' brother, Frank in Frank & Jesse.
- Second episode of the series directed by Russell Mulcahy. Russell also directs "Split Second", "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" and "Horror in the Night".
- Cinematography for this episode was provided by Rick Bota. Bota is DP on 21 episodes of the series and will go on to direct the direct-to-video films Hellraiser: Hellseeker, Hellraiser: Deader and Hellraiser: Hellworld.
- Actor Brad Dourif, who plays the role of Virgil in this episode, is an icon of the horror genre, having appeared in dozens of films both mainstream and obscure.
He is best known however as the voice of Charles Lee Ray, aka, Chucky from the Child's Play film franchise.
- Cam Clarke, the voice of Mister Bryd's puppet, also starred in the animated Tales From the Crypt episode The Third Pig as the voice of Dudley.
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